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Mike Swift / Mercury News:
Google: Product chief, Silicon Valley veteran Jonathan Rosenberg to step down — Larry Page's retaking the reins as Google's (GOOG) CEO Monday came with the most significant change in years in the makeup of the company's tight-knit senior management core: Jonathan Rosenberg …
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Departing Product Chief Rosenberg Will Write A Book With Eric Schmidt
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Google bids $900M for Nortel patents, but Microsoft already has them in the bag — [Post updated at 1:45 p.m. with clarification of Microsoft's rights to these patents under a previous licensing deal with Nortel.] — An executive with bankrupt Nortel Networks calls its intellectual property holdings …
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Kent Walker / The Official Google Blog:
Patents and innovation — The tech world has recently seen an explosion in patent litigation, often involving low-quality software patents, which threatens to stifle innovation. Some of these lawsuits have been filed by people or companies that have never actually created anything …
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Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Apple Wins Reversal of $625.5 Million Mirror Worlds Verdict — Apple Inc. (AAPL) won a court ruling that throws out a $625.5 million patent-infringement verdict over how documents are displayed on a computer screen. — A federal judge in Tyler, Texas, today said Apple didn't infringe …
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Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
In Race With Groupon, LivingSocial Raises $400 Million — Last summer, Tim O'Shaughnessy drafted a fictional article, entitled “How LivingSocial Won the Local Commerce Space.” — In 1,500 words, the chief executive of LivingSocial spun a tale about how his site had fiercely battled its rival Groupon and emerged the victor.
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Tricia Duryee / eMoney:
LivingSocial Expects $1 Billion in Revenues in 2011; Adds Former CBS Exec Neil Ashe to Board
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SuperSite for Windows:
Windows 8 Secrets: Modern Reader — Part four in a series of co-posts by Windows 8 Secrets co-authors Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott. — There are two big pieces of news in today's revelation. First, Microsoft will apparently be including its own PDF reader in Windows 8.
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Bloomberg:
Google Said to Be Possible Target of U.S. FTC Antitrust Probe — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering a broad antitrust investigation of Google Inc. (GOOG)'s dominance of the Internet-search industry, two people familiar with the matter said. — Before proceeding with any probe …
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Wall Street Journal:
Mobile-App Makers Face U.S. Privacy Investigation — Federal prosecutors in New Jersey are investigating whether numerous smartphone applications illegally obtained or transmitted information about their users without proper disclosures, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Pandora Discloses Privacy-Related Grand Jury Probe of Apps
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Kenneth Leftin / Google Mobile Blog:
See your location history dashboard and more with Google Maps 5.3 for Android — Today, we're happy to announce Google Maps 5.3 for Android, which lets you see your Google Location History dashboard, check in at “home,” and add your own aspects for places when rating them. — Location History dashboard
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Tom Lauricella / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Crunched in Nasdaq Rebalance — Nasdaq is taking a bite out of Apple. — In a move likely to ripple across the stock market, Nasdaq OMX plans to announce Tuesday a rare rebalancing of its Nasdaq-100 index, which will reduce the big weighting of Apple Inc. The company currently makes up more than 20% of the index.
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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Verizon iPhone Owners Don't Have As Many Dropped Calls As AT&T iPhone Owners — When Apple's iPhone was exclusively on AT&T it was the butt of endless jokes that went something like, “It's a great phone unless you want to make a phone call.” — Now that it's on Verizon it looks like those jokes are moot.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter Announces Fire Hose Marketplace: Up to 10k Keyword Filters for 30 Cents! — Like a prism to a ray of sunlight, stream-hacking startup Mediasift CEO Nick Halstead took the stage today with Twitter's Ryan Sarver at the Data 2.0 conference to announce Twitter's second data resales channel partnership.
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Stephen Lawson / Computerworld:
Wozniak: Tablet is the PC for ‘normal people’ — IDG News Service - Tablets are the culmination of what Steve Jobs wanted to create at Apple from the beginning, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said Monday. — During a keynote session at Storage Networking World in Santa Clara, California …
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Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
Discover new accounts and search like a pro — We've made it easier to find and follow Twitter accounts based on your interests. When you search for a topic, you can now discover accounts that are relevant to that particular subject. (Previously, you would have seen accounts that have the specific term in their name or username. )
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Twitter Improves “Who To Follow” Results & Gains Advanced Search Page
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Venessa Miemis / emergent by design:
The Bank of Facebook: Currency, Identity, Reputation — design by ericaglasier.com - @EricaGlasier — How will Facebook and the global economy interact in the future? — There has been much speculation recently about the role Facebook Credits could play in becoming a global virtual currency …
Agence France Presse:
Google, Facebook take France to court over privacy — PARIS — Internet heavyweights including Google and Facebook are to file a complaint with France's highest judicial body against a decree obliging them to keep web users' personal data for a year. — More than 20 Internet companies active …
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Open Source Blog:
The new Ubuntu Desktop: Unity — When Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu announced that the next version of the popular Linux, Ubuntu 11.04, would use Unity, instead of GNOME as its default desktop interface he shocked the Linux desktop community. Now, with the release of the Ubuntu 11.04 beta, we can get a real look at Unity.
Business Insider:
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH NETFLIX CEO REED HASTINGS: Netflix's Market Opportunity Is A Lot Bigger Than You Think — Our INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK this week is with one of the most successful Founder-CEOs in the history of the online industry: Reed Hastings of Netflix.
Michelle Ruhfass / MobileBurn.com:
Sprint Nexus S 4G Android smartphone shipping April 6 for $199.99 — News by Michelle Ruhfass on Monday April 04, 2011. — Sponsored links, if any, appear in green. — Best Buy has updated its website to reflect that April 6 will be the ship date for its Nexus S 4G smartphone for Sprint.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
US Government's ‘Pirate’ Domain Seizures Failed Miserably — Over the past several months a series of domain name seizures by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made headlines across the Internet. — Under the flag of “Operation In Our Sites” …
Edible Apple:
MLB.com CEO Bob Bowman says iOS users are more likely to purchase content than Android owners — Android may have surpassed both Apple and RIM in smartphone marketshare, but app monetization on the Android platform is still not as easy as it is for Apple's lineup of iOS devices.
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
iPad 2 tops Consumer Reports tablet rankings — Apple's iPad 2 has topped Consumer Reports' tablet ratings according to a press release issued on Tuesday. Consumer Reports has taken an odd stance on Apple's mobile products in recent history, particularly where the iPhone is concerned.
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