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Electronista:
comScore: Android now 33% of US smartphones, iPhone still up — Android is continuing its rise upwards but has yet to take any share away from the iPhone, comScore found on Friday. February, the first month of the Verizon iPhone's availability, saw Android climb up to exactly 33 percent …
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@eric_andersen
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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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A VC, The Tech Trade, BGR and Between the Lines Blog
comScore, Inc.:
comScore Reports February 2011 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share — Android Platform Now Accounts for 1 in 3 Smartphone Users — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The funding and failures of Color, Silicon Valley's $41 million startup (wrapup of the week of hype and hate) — As you know I didn't like Color's launch a week ago. I thought the app just wasn't very good. Turns out I wasn't the only one. It still has a two-star review on iTunes.
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SiliconValley.com and @bill_gross
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Can Color beat the backlash with an improved interface? — Mobile startup Color had one of the most spectacular launches in recent months — and not necessarily in a good way. Because of its lineup of co-founders (including chief executive Bill Nguyen, who previously founded music service Lala) …
Discussion:
TechCrunch and Mashable!
Electronista:
Sony chief Stringer slips plans for 8MP iPhone 5 camera — Sony chief Sir Howard Stringer may have unintentionally given away plans for an eight-megapixel camera in the iPhone 5. During an interview with the WSJ's Walt Mossberg, he claimed that the company's camera sensor plant in Sendai …
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AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, Softpedia News, Digits, Apple Bitch and MacHackPC
Chris / cdixon.org:
App store shenanigans — I've downloaded and tested a few hundred iPhone and iPad apps. One thing that I've noticed is that many of the top rated and ranked apps are pretty scammy. Take for example “Night Vision.” — It's a top app in under Utilities for both paid and free iPhone apps.
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@cdixon
John Carney / CNBC:
Does Silicon Valley Have an Insider Trading Problem? — Don't be surprised if people connected with some of the hottest new tech companies find themselves hauled into court on insider trading charges. — Many in Silicon Valley apparently believe that insider trading rules don't apply …
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CNBC and All Facebook
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Facebook Fires Employee for Insider Trading
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CNBC, Digits, Neowin.net, PE Hub Blog, MediaPost, NBC Bay Area and The Huffington Post
Nicole Perlroth / Everything Ventured:
The New Normal: Bessemer and Accel Both Close Billion Dollar Funds — “A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars.” — Bessemer Venture Partners and Accel Partners each closed oversubscribed mega-funds today. It took Bessemer only ten weeks to raise its new $1.6 billion fund.
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Times of India, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and VentureBeat
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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
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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VentureBeat
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
New Book on Google Shows Gaffes in China
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Simon & Schuster, Search Engine Land, The Digital Home, SAI, Telegraph, Boing Boing, Inquirer and Venture Capital Dispatch
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, PhoneDog.com, VentureBeat, Droid Life, wirelessgoodness.com, PhoneArena and Gadget Lab
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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Dow Jones, VentureBeat, Digital Daily, GeekWire and PE Hub Blog
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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Google Mobile Blog, Blogger Buzz, Google Research Blog, Google, Examiner, Inside AdWords, Gadgetell, IntoMobile, PC World, VatorNews, Google Voice Blog, Chromium Blog, The Huffington Post, Engadget, Google Chrome Blog, Gmail Blog, YouTube Blog, Docs Blog, ConceivablyTech, Digital Trends, FM Blog, Search Engine Land and NBC Bay Area
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Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
April Fools 2011: The Big List
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SFGate, WePay, IBD Click, The Huffington Post, Google LatLong, Globe and Mail, Chip Chick, Bryce Dot VC, InfoWorld, Pocket-lint, GigaOM, Cult of Mac, Technologizer, WebProNews, Internet Evolution, ITProPortal, The Microsoft Blog, Android Phone Fans, TechCrunch, Music Ally, Digital Trends, Techie Buzz, MobileCrunch, Beth's Blog, Gear Live, The Blog Herald, SAI, F-Secure Antivirus …, NBC Bay Area, Quick Online Tips, The Next Web, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNN, TechFlash, GeekWire, Evolver.fm, GottaBeMobile, Digits, Network World, Gearlog, USA Today, Telegraph, The Pirate Bay, Pocket-lint, Search Engine Roundtable, InfoWorld, VatorNews, Softpedia News, Amazon Web Services Blog, Atlassian News, @joshuatopolsky, @methodshop, Roughly Drafted, Tom Foremski, 9 to 5 Mac, What Mobile, TechCrunch Europe, Geekosystem, InfoQ, ReadWriteWeb, ZDNet Australia, MacRumors, Betabeat, TechCrunch and Screenwerk, more at Mediagazer »
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, WebProNews and techPresident
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion After Not Removing A Page Fast Enough
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Standard Newswire, Examiner and Switched
