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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Eric Schmidt Tried To Get Google To Hide His Political Donation In Search Results — Departing Google CEO Eric Schmidt was known for some of his bumbling public statements — like saying that privacy didn't matter — but apparently he made some internal blunders as well.
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Communications … and Daring Fireball
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
New Book on Google Shows Gaffes in China — When Google opened for business in China in 2006, Eric E. Schmidt, its chief executive, said, “Google has 5,000 years of patience in China.” But its divorce from the country just four years later was inevitable because operations there were troubled from the start.
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Search Engine Land, CNET News, SAI, Telegraph, Venture Capital Dispatch, Boing Boing and Inquirer
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Exclusive: Snafus forced Twitter data center move: sources — (Reuters) - An ambitious plan to prevent “Fail Whales,” the cartoon icon that greets frustrated Twitter users during network outages, has turned into a fail whale of its own. — A new, custom-built facility in Utah meant …
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AllTwitter
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
April Fools 2011: The Big List — Yes, folks, that's right. That special, special time of year is upon us. It's April Fools 2011! We take April Fools pretty seriously around here, so we'll be constantly updating this post with the best April Fools jokes and pranks the World Wide Interwebernets has to offer.
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InfoWorld, SAI, The Microsoft Blog, Cult of Mac, Google LatLong, The Huffington Post, Music Ally, Bryce Dot VC, The Pirate Bay, PC World, Digital Trends, Virgin, TechCrunch, F-Secure Antivirus …, Network World, GigaOM, Technologizer, WebProNews, What Mobile, Mashable!, Internet Evolution, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, ReadWriteWeb, Pocket-lint, TechCrunch Europe, Techie Buzz, USA Today, GottaBeMobile, Gearlog, The Blog Herald, AllTwitter, GeekWire, Digits, TechFlash, MobileCrunch, The Next Web, Telegraph, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Geekosystem, Evolver.fm, Gear Live, Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Roundtable, Electricpig.co.uk, VatorNews, Beth's Blog, InfoWorld, ZDNet Australia, Betabeat, Softpedia News, Amazon Web Services Blog, Atlassian News, @joshuatopolsky, @methodshop, Roughly Drafted, Tom Foremski, Screenwerk, InfoQ, Gizmodo, TechCrunch and TechCrunch, more at Mediagazer »
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google April Fools' Day 2011 — This year, Google's hoaxes are less inspired and some of them aren't original either, but they're still funny. Here are some of them: — 1. Google China invented teleportation. “Through the search is to let Google take you through time and space …
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VatorNews, Google Research Blog, Blogger Buzz, Google Voice Blog, Inside AdWords, Google Mobile Blog, Google, IntoMobile, Google Chrome Blog, Google Enterprise Blog, Chromium Blog, Search Engine Land, Engadget, NBC Bay Area, CNN, eWeek, FM Blog, The Huffington Post, Digital Trends, Silicon Republic, Gmail Blog, YouTube Blog, Docs Blog, ConceivablyTech, Search Engine Land and SAI
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Onion, America's Finest News Source, Picks Finest Day To Debut iPad App — This is not a joke. The Onion, “America's Finest News Source” (TM), released its iPad app fittingly enough on April Fools Day. IPad apps are serious stuff. This one delivers fake news stories, videos …
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Bits, App Advice, MacStories, Mashable!, The Next Web and dailywireless.org
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple's success contributes to departure of Acer, Nokia, LG CEOs — The success of Apple's iPad has had a major impact on the netbook market, forcing the CEO of low-cost notebook maker Acer to resign. That follows the departures of top brass from two other Apple competitors, Nokia and LG.
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DigiTimes, GigaOM, MacDailyNews, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, Softpedia News and The Tech Report
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
It's No Joke. IPOs Are Back, Baby — Fourteen venture-backed companies went public in the first quarter of 2011, raising $1.4 billion in the process, according to the National Venture Capital Association. That's the highest number to go public in a quarter since 2007.
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IBD Click
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
M&A Activity Down 22 Percent in Q1, But IPOs And Acquisition Amounts On The Rise
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VentureBeat, Digital Daily, Dow Jones, GeekWire and PE Hub Blog
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Verizon 4G LTE ‘blows away’ Sprint's WiMAX in 1,000 speed tests — Sprint is no longer the “4G king,” BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk proclaimed on Friday following a massive speed test that pitted Sprint's HTC EVO 4G against Verizon Wireless' HTC ThunderBolt.
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Computerworld, Gadget Lab and PhoneArena
THE DRUM:
Facebook ‘sued for $1 billion’ over Intifada page said to threaten Jewish lives — The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook itself are being sued for a billion dollars over their alleged role in furthering a radical Palestinian page called “Third Intifada,” which threatened Jews in particular with death.
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www.thehostingnews.com, WorldNetDaily, EarnedMedia.org, techPresident and WebProNews
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion After Not Removing A Page Fast Enough
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Switched
Ben Laurie / Google Online Security Blog:
Improving SSL certificate security — In the wake of the recent Comodo fraud incident, there has been a great deal of speculation about how to improve the public key infrastructure, on which the security of the Internet rests. Unfortunately, this isn't a problem that will be fixed overnight.
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WebProNews
TechCrunch:
Facebook Terminated Corporate Development Employee Over Insider Trading Scandal — Facebook corporate development manager Michael Brown (pictured left in happier days) recently and abruptly left Facebook, and the company then hired a senior Google employee to replace him.
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Peter Yared's Musings, Digits, Bits, MediaPost, PE Hub Blog, SAI, All Facebook, SAI, Tech Trader Daily, @dianneisnor and NBC Bay Area
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Microsoft removes Imagewind from Marketplace, WP7 gets first bitter taste of rejection — Oh, sure, it was easy to pick on Apple for all those frustrating App Store rejections over the years, but Google's had its own run-ins with apps being pulled under unfortunate circumstances, and now it's time for WP7 users to get a taste.
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Computerworld, Neowin.net and MobileCrunch
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple may build its own external battery pack for recharging on the go — Apple has shown interest in integrating a rechargeable external battery pack into its standard charging cable, providing extra power for devices like a MacBook or iPhone when a power outlet isn't available.
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Engadget, Apple Bitch, O'Grady's PowerPage, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, Crave, The Next Web and iClarified
Dan Frommer / The Wire:
Just Like That, Time Warner Cable Adds A Bunch More Channels To Its iPad App — Give Time Warner Cable some credit for bouncing back quickly. — A day after announcing that it was getting rid of a bunch of channels from its streaming iPad app, pressured by network lawyers …
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GigaOM, Time Warner Cable Untangled, Engadget, BGR, Light Reading and App Advice, more at Mediagazer »
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Patent Shows that Apple is Bringing “Spaces” to the iPad — In an Apple Discussions forum on Spaces for iPad, Robb Manning stating back in 2010 that having “the ability to touch one button and switch spaces to where I have safari up to do some research would be awesome.” Well, today we move closer to that reality.
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Ars Technica, Fast Company, CNET News, PC World, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, paidContent:UK, OS X Daily, TUAW and MacStories
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Google Answers Viacom in YouTube Appeal (Exclusive) … Google has filed its brief to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the closely-watched $1 billion lawsuit brought by Viacom over alleged copyright infringement on YouTube. — In the 94-page document, Google outlines why it believes it qualifies for …
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Techdirt and WebProNews, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:richdemuro
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Verizon iPhone Was February's Most Popular Phone Model, comScore Says — Riding a strong launch of the Verizon iPhone, Apple saw its share of the phone market rise nearly a percentage point between November and February, according to a report from comScore.
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App Advice, Tech Trader Daily, Mobile Marketing Watch, Between the Lines Blog, GeekWire, comScore, Inc., MacNN and The Tech Trade
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Social browser RockMelt makes its first big upgrade — RockMelt, the Web browser that launched last fall with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, is releasing some improvements today that co-founder and chief executive Eric Vishria told me will tackle the two biggest requests from users.
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GigaOM, Download Squad, Inside Facebook, Mashable! and WebProNews
Haaretz:
Israeli startup Conduit with more users than Twitter negotiating billion-dollar exit — The company has 230 million users of its products, half the number of Facebook users, and more than LinkedIn and Twitter; if the deal comes off, it would be the biggest sale of an Internet firm in Israeli history.
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paidContent and NetworkEffect
