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Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Exclusive: Google CEO Larry Page completes major reorganization of Internet search giant — Larry Page, who returned as chief executive of Google on Monday, put his stamp on how he will run the Internet giant with a major reorganization of his management team on Thursday.
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CNET News, Between the Lines Blog, The Register, BBC, Understanding Google …, paidContent and Mashable!
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Here's The Memo Telling ALL Google Employees Their 2011 Pay Depends On Google Sucking Less At Social — Last Friday, new Google CEO Larry Page announced that all Google employees will have their 2011 bonuses either go up or go down as much as 25% depending on how well Google “perform[s] …
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Inquirer, Search Engine Land, broadstuff and The Business Insider, more at Mediagazer »
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
The Larry Page Reorg: Top Lieutenants Promoted to SVP — Google on Thursday formally promoted the six executives new CEO Larry Page has put in charge of its new business units. Sundar Pichai is now senior vice president of Chrome, Vic Gundotra is SVP of social, Andy Rubin SVP of mobile …
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Mashable!
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
PageYank: As New SVPs Are Born at Google in CEO Reorg, What Happens to the Old Ones? — Things are sure shaking over at Google, since the sudden departure on Monday of Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's head of product management and one of its most senior executives.
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Larry Page Just Tied ALL Employees' Bonuses To The Success Of Google's Social Strategy
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Digital Trends, Google Watch, ITworld.com, The Business Insider, Marketing Pilgrim, Fortune, Slashdot, Pulse2, @tedr, SlashGear, The Register and Fast Company
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
Rumor: iPad 2 Mishandling Gets Best Buy Blacklisted By Apple — A reader who works at Best Buy just told us that there's been a bit of a misunderstanding between the electronics retailer and Apple. Apparently, Best Buy was holding off on selling the iPad 2s it had in stock …
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Blows us Away with Smart Bezel Details! — Apple has been teasing us with various smart bezel patents over the last year but a new patent application revealed by the USPTO today, provides us with how they're intending to implement this feature and the details will blow you away.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Facebook Open Sources Its Servers and Data Centers — Facebook has shared the nitty-gritty details of its server and data center design, taking its commitment to openness to a new level for the industry by sharing its infrastructure secrets much like it has shared its software code.
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Between the Lines Blog, Computerworld, O'Reilly Radar, Inquirer, Data Central, PC Magazine, Shelly Palmer Digital Living, SAI, Pulse2, FM Blog, Neowin.net, TechCrunch, Data Center Knowledge, Associated Press, All Facebook, Virtually Speaking Blog, CNET News, CNET News, Electronista, @facebook, GeekWire, lalawag, @hpnews, NBC Bay Area, PR Newswire, ReadWriteWeb and Data Center Knowledge
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Jonathan Heiliger / Facebook:
Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project
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Bloomberg:
Intel Said to Lead $30 Million Funding of Education Startup Kno — Intel Corp.'s venture capital arm is investing in digital textbook and tablet maker Kno Inc., the companies plan to announce in the next week, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Intel Capital, Condé Nast Owner Invest $30 Million in Kno; Intel Licenses Student Tablet Hardware Design
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Fast Company, SAI, TechEye, Engadget, VentureBeat, SlashGear and Electronista
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Google has developed speech-recognition technology that actually works. — If you've got an Android phone, try this: Hit the microphone icon on the home screen, then ask, “How many angstroms in a mile?” Use your normal speaking voice—don't speak slowly or strain to over-pronounce “angstrom.”
Jeff Simmermon / Time Warner Cable Untangled:
We Filed A Request For Declaratory Judgment With Viacom This Afternoon — Last week, we pulled a number of channels from our iPad app. The Internet - not exactly a haven for measured discourse or patience for complex ideas - lit up with verbiage more commonly found in war movies and interviews with professional wrestlers.
Electronista:
AMD said hiring to add Android support, no threat to iPad — A slip detailing Computex show launch plans may have given away AMD's plans to get into Android in earnest. Industry contacts claimed AMD has been recruiting engineers to write Android drivers. The move is likely the first step …
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DigiTimes, TechEye, Android Phone Fans and Android Community
Myriam Joire / Engadget:
White Nexus S with AT&T 3G bands hands-on! (video) — Well, what do we have here? Sure enough, it's that coveted white Nexus S with AT&T-compatible 3G that we mentioned yesterday, and we just got our dirty little paws on it thanks to a friendly tipster. This particular handset was purchased …
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Android Phone Fans, Engadget Mobile, PhoneArena, Phones Review and SAI
Phil Nickinson / Android Central:
New Verizon Incredible 2 pics show it booted up, ready to rock Froyo — Well, well, what have we here? An all-new, hot-off-the-press, get-it-while-it's-hot look at the upcoming (and still not actually announced) Incredible 2 on Verizon. From what we can tell, the body's exactly the same …
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pocketnow.com, Electronista, Softpedia News, SlashPhone, Know Your Cell, Engadget, Electronista, Android Phone Fans, GottaBeMobile, Droid Life, IntoMobile and Ubergizmo
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Acer Iconia Tab A500 Features Honeycomb, 1GHz Processor, $450 Price — Another day, another Honeycomb tablet. This one comes to us courtesy of Acer and looks nearly identical to its European cousin, the Acer-made Packard Bell Liberty Tab. The Iconia costs an acceptable $449.99 complete with 16GB memory and a microSD card reader.
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LAPTOP Magazine, Laptops and Desktops Blog, The Toybox Blog, Engadget and Electronista
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Mounting Evidence Shows Potential of Social Ecommerce, Contradicting Recent Reports — A new report by Forrester Research and another by the World Federation of Advertisers and research firm Millward Brown proclaim that Facebook will not play a signficant role in the future of ecommerce.
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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple controlling 60% of available touch panel capacity, analyst says — Apple has exerted strong control over the touch panel supply chain to prevent shipping delays of the iPad 2, booking as much as 60 percent of the total available capacity, says one analyst.
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Digital Daily, Tech Trader Daily, SlashGear, PhoneArena, IntoMobile and Electronista
John Markoff / Bits:
Augmented Reality Comes Closer to Reality — Last week I wrote about how cyber politics and crime on the Internet had been foreseen with eerie accuracy by science fiction writers. For example, the computer scientist Vernor Vinge's classic 1981 novella “True Names” described the impact …
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Beyond Search and New York Times
Eileen Sullivan / Associated Press:
US to use Facebook, Twitter to issue terror alerts — WASHINGTON - The government's color-coded warning system is being replaced with a more specific and informative plan that would offer two levels of alerts — elevated and imminent. — According to a draft Homeland Security Department plan obtained …
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Pulse2, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, All Facebook, CNET News, Engadget and Neowin.net
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
Six states use nearly half of all pirated software in the U.S. — Six U.S. states are responsible for nearly half of all the suspected cases of corporate software piracy, the Business Software Alliance reported on Wednesday. — The BSA, which collects piracy tips from its online reporting …
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Techland and The Atlantic Online
John Cook / GeekWire:
Breaking: Expedia to split into two companies, separating out TripAdvisor — Expedia announced today that it plans to separate into two publicly-traded companies, one which will operate the more traditional online travel business and the other around the travel review site TripAdvisor.
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eMoney, VatorNews, TechCrunch, eMoney, The Digital Home, paidContent, Pulse2, The Tech Trade, @rafat, SAI, WebProNews and Tech Trader Daily, Thanks:toddbishop
Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:
StumbleUpon just crossed 1 billion stumbles per month — In January, we reported that StumbleUpon had broken a new record with 27.5 million stumbles in one day. At the beginning of this month, we interviewed Marc Leibowitz, StumbleUpon's VP of Marketing and Business Development who told us that since 2009 …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
New York Times Paywall Cost: More Like $25 Million — Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. insists a $40 million estimate for building New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co.'s pay scheme is “vastly wrong”. But that's where the NYTCo chairman stopped in a Q&A at Columbia University earlier this week.
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PC Magazine and MediaPost, more at Mediagazer »
PhysOrg.com:
World's information consumption: 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes per year — Three scientists at UC San Diego have rigorously estimated the annual amount of business-related information processed by the world's computer servers in terms that Guttenberg and Galileo would have appreciated …
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Trends in the Living Networks and Engadget
Steve Kovach / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Uh Oh, Now Verizon iPad 2 Owners Can't Connect To 3G — So much for all the excitement that the iPad 2 is available for a carrier other than AT&T. — Verizon iPad 2 owners are flocking to this discussion forum on Apple.com saying they can't connect to 3G.
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BGR, The Atlantic Online and Crave
Lawrence Coburn / The Next Web:
The Unlit Social Graph — A few years ago, it was not uncommon to hear search people talk about The Dark Web (also known as Dark Net or the Deep Web). Basically, the Dark Web is made up pages or files that are unreachable by search engines. Examples of this sort of content include information …
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