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Wall Street Journal:
Google to Revamp YouTube With ‘Channels’ — Google Inc.'s YouTube video website is working on a major site overhaul to organize its content around “channels” as it positions itself for the rise of Internet-connected televisions that allow people to watch online video in their living rooms, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Daniel Miller / Hollywood Reporter:
Google to Open Office in Beverly Hills … Furthering its Southern California expansion, Google has inked a deal with the city of Beverly Hills to open a 13,465-square-foot office for the company's entertainment division in a city-owned property. — The 11-year lease agreement …
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Fortune, L.A. Times Tech Blog and NBC Bay Area
Andy Rubin / Android Developers Blog:
I think I'm having a Gene Amdahl moment — [This post is by Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering —Tim Bray] — Recently, there's been a lot of misinformation in the press about Android and Google's role in supporting the ecosystem. I'm writing in the spirit of transparency and in an attempt to set the record straight.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Android Chief Andy Rubin: Nothing's Changed (Except The Deals They Don't Talk About...) — Last week, Bloomberg Businessweek published an article titled Do Not Anger the Alpha Android, in which it detailed the decreasing level of openness and increasing restrictions Google is placing …
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Daring Fireball, @markmilian, GigaOM and Edible Apple
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Said To Have High Level Mole At Twitter, Makes Massive Counteroffers To Retain Employees — Google may have paid as much as $150 million in stock grants to retain key product employees Sundar Pichai and Neal Mohan, say multiple sources. Both were offered the chief product role …
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Electronista, Yahoo! News and Beyond Search
Forbes:
The Midas List — 2011's Top Tech Investors — 1 Jim Breyer Accel Partners Technology — 2 Michael Moritz Sequoia Capital Technology — 3 Reid Hoffman Greylock Partners Technology
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Nitpicking the Forbes Midas List
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Venture Capital Dispatch and Deadline.com
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
HTC Climbs Past Nokia in Market Cap — HTC just passed a stunning financial milestone, surpassing yet another formidable rival. Having recently roared past Research in Motion in market cap, the company has soared on past Nokia as well. — HTC's market cap today sits at about $33.8 billion …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Google: don't give private “trolls” Web censorship power — The House and Senate are both drafting “rogue sites” legislation that will likely support website blocking at the domain name level and will require online ad networks and credit card companies to stop working with sites on the blacklist.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
If Google Was New York City & Online Piracy Was Knock-Off Handbags...
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Lawmakers tell Google to do more on antipiracy
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Techdirt, PC Magazine, Google Watch, paidContent, NationalJournal.com, Hillicon Valley and Media Maverick
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Samsung Tablet Prices Cut Again in Rising Challenge to IPad — Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Wireless cut the price of the Galaxy Tab tablet computer for the second time this year, signaling more competition for Apple Inc.'s iPad. — The Tab, made by Samsung Electronics Co. …
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The Apple Core Blog and TG Daily
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Todd Haselton / BGR:
Samsung Galaxy Tab Wi-Fi edition landing April 10th for $349.99
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BetaNews, IntoMobile, wirelessgoodness.com, Electronista, Mobilized, PC World, eWeek, The Seattle Times, Between the Lines Blog, Gadgetell, Crave and The Tech Herald …
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Executives In A Heated Battle Over Opening More Retail Stores — An internal battle is raging at Microsoft over whether and how fast the company should open more retail stores. — According to sources close to the company, CEO Steve Ballmer and COO Kevin Turner are both hot …
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Edible Apple, Electronista and The Business Insider
Pat Fox / Office For Mac:
Coming Soon: Office for Mac 2011 SP1 — Next week, we will release Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 1 (SP1) which will provide increased stability, security, and some new features to the suite - including improved Outlook syncing support - as well as some performance enhancements.
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Softpedia News, MacStories, Download Squad, GeekWire, BGR, The Loop, Pocket-lint, PC World, Neowin.net, Ars Technica, iClarified, Ubergizmo, SAI, WinRumors, TUAW, Macworld, AppleInsider, Apple, eWeek, The Next Web, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, iPodNN, The Download Blog, 9 to 5 Mac and Between the Lines Blog
Jackie Cohen / All Facebook:
First Official Facebook Phone, INQ Cloud Touch, Debuts — U.K. stores are seeing the debut of the INQ Cloud Touch, the closest thing there is to a first official Facebook phone. — Executives at the social media company have alternated between saying there is no official Facebook phone …
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Samsung's Series 9 Makes a Statement — I am writing these words on an extremely thin and stylish, but very light, laptop made of metal. Despite its slender body, it has a full-size screen and keyboard, good performance and claims strong battery life. Like a tablet, it uses solid-sate memory instead …
Blake Patterson / Touch Arcade:
Atari Brings 100 Retro Titles to iOS in “Atari's Greatest Hits”! [Out Now] — Retro gaming junkies, you may want to sit down for this. In a launch that's sending pixellated shockwaves across the App Store, Atari has just released Atari's Greatest Hits [NZ App Store], a Universal app that brings 100 …
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Technologizer, SlashGear, MacStories, Ars Technica, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, VG247, Joystiq, PadGadget, TiPb, TUAW, everythingiCafe and SocialTimes.com
Richard Barley / The TweetDeck Blog:
Testing The Future - Introducing TweetDeck Web Beta — As Whitney Houston sang, “We believe that web apps are our future”... (well, near enough...). And today we're launching a beta of a web app that you're going to really love*. — Since its launch in December last year …
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
100,000 Motorola XOOMs sold isn't bad, it's good — I'm puzzled by reaction to estimates of Motorola XOOM tablet sales. Deutsche Bank estimates 100,000 units over the first two months, which is much better than I would have expected. Of course, those people pooping all over XOOM are comparing to iPad 2 …
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Computerworld, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Gizmodo, Digits, InformationWeek, PhoneArena, Electronista, BGR, SocialTimes.com, VentureBeat, Fortune, Inc.com, Gadgetell, Guardian, parislemon and SAI
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
How Google Instant's Autocomplete Suggestions Work — It's a well known feature of Google. Start typing in a search, and Google offers suggestions before you've even finished typing. But how does Google come up with those suggestions? When does Google remove some suggestions?
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Computerworld and Search Engine Roundtable
Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
webOS 3.0 screenshots: Bing Maps, Music, and more [Exclusive] — While we're sitting around waiting for webOS 3.0 and the HP TouchPad to land in our laps, we couldn't help but wonder about some of the details of that tablet operating system. Well fret not, dear reader …
Samuel Gibbs / Download Squad:
Gmail Contacts auto-save can now be disabled plus myriad of small updates — The Gmail team has been busy behind the scenes of late addressing a plentiful supply of little niggles. First up on the chopping block is the annoying (or amazing, depending on how you look at it) auto-save contacts feature …
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Gmail Blog and Digital Inspiration …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: AOL Fires Moviefone Editor Who Offered Fired Freelancers the Chance to Work for, Um, Free — Yesterday, AOL's Huffington Post Media Group got into hot water after the top editor at its Moviefone unit sent a memo to freelancers it was in the midst of firing, offering them an opportunity to …
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Krishna Gade / Twitter Engineering:
Twitter Search is Now 3x Faster — In the spring of 2010, the search team at Twitter started to rewrite our search engine in order to serve our ever-growing traffic, improve the end-user latency and availability of our service, and enable rapid development of new search features.
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Techland, TechSpot and WebProNews
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch Europe:
Google invests $5 million in German solar power plant — Google has just announced its very first clean energy project investment in Europe, and hopefully not its last. The Internet giant is pumping 3.5 million euros (roughly $5 million) in a solar photovoltaic power plant in a town near Berlin, Germany.
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European Public Policy Blog and The Next Web
Chris Nerney / ITworld.com:
Is Dish taking on Netflix with Blockbuster purchase? — Satellite TV network buys assets of bankrupt video distributor for $321 million — In winning a bankruptcy auction for the assets of former video rental giant Blockbuster, satellite TV provider Dish Networks may be positioning itself to challenge Netflix.
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Wall Street Journal, DISH Network Press Center, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat and DSLreports
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
500 Startups Sends 22 of Them Into the World — 500 Startups-Dave McClure's seed fund, accelerator program, communal office and yes, he dares call it an “incubator"-today held its first open house to show off 22 young companies. — In attendance were many of the same angelic faces that showed …
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