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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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comScore, Inc., AppleInsider, TechFlash, GottaBeMobile, Search Engine Land, Electronic Pulp, Mobile Marketing Watch and GeekWire
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Verizon iPhone Was February's Most Popular Phone Model, comScore Says
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The Tech Trade, BGR, Between the Lines Blog, App Advice and Tech Trader Daily
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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Wall Street Journal, Times of India, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and New York Times
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
IDG-Accel raises $1.3B for China, riding buzz from Facebook and IPOs — IDG-Accel, a joint venture between media giant IDG and venture capital firm Accel Partners, has finished raising two new China funds totaling $1.3 billion. — The warchest is significantly larger than the joint venture …
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
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
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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Digits, 9 to 5 Mac and MacRumors
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
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?
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TechCrunch and Mashable!
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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VentureBeat, wirelessgoodness.com, Computerworld, Gadget Lab, Droid Life and PhoneArena
Owen Thomas / The Wire:
My Plan To Build The Next Great Media Brand — As many of you know, today I leave my post as executive editor of VentureBeat for a new opportunity. I've joined the Daily Dot, a media startup, as its founding editor. — What's that, you ask? The Daily Dot is a bold experiment …
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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Chip Chick, The Huffington Post, Google LatLong, Bryce Dot VC, GigaOM, Cult of Mac, Technologizer, Music Ally, TeleRead, WebProNews, TechCrunch, Internet Evolution, The Microsoft Blog, Android Phone Fans, F-Secure Antivirus …, Digital Trends, Techie Buzz, MobileCrunch, Gear Live, Beth's Blog, The Blog Herald, SAI, NBC Bay Area, Quick Online Tips, Network World, The Pirate Bay, The Next Web, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNN, TechFlash, GeekWire, Digits, Evolver.fm, 9 to 5 Mac, GottaBeMobile, PC World, Gearlog, USA Today, Telegraph, TechCrunch Europe, Pocket-lint, What Mobile, VatorNews, InfoWorld, Softpedia News, MacRumors, Amazon Web Services Blog, Atlassian News, @joshuatopolsky, @methodshop, Roughly Drafted, Tom Foremski, ReadWriteWeb, Geekosystem, ZDNet Australia, InfoQ, Search Engine Roundtable, Betabeat, Screenwerk and TechCrunch, more at Mediagazer »
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google April Fools' Day 2011
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Google Mobile Blog, Blogger Buzz, Google Research Blog, Google, Inside AdWords, Google Voice Blog, Google Enterprise Blog, IntoMobile, Examiner, PC World, VatorNews, Chromium Blog, Google Chrome Blog, Engadget, The Huffington Post, Gmail Blog, YouTube Blog, Docs Blog, Digital Trends, ConceivablyTech, Search Engine Land, FM Blog and NBC Bay Area
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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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
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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Mashable!, Gizmodo, TUAW, Gadgetell, Bits, App Advice, dailywireless.org and MacNN
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Facebook Fires Employee for Insider Trading — Updated Adding comment from Michael Brown and revisions throughout. — Facebook fired a senior employee who bought Facebook shares through secondary markets in violation of the company's policy on insider trading, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
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Digits, PE Hub Blog, Neowin.net, CNBC, NBC Bay Area and The Huffington Post
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, TUAW, The Tech Report, MacDailyNews, GigaOM, 9 to 5 Mac and Softpedia News
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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
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
