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5:00 PM ET, April 25, 2011

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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs on iOS Location Issue: 'We Don't Track Anyone'  —  There has obviously been a lot of discussion about last week's disclosure that iOS devices are maintaining an easily-accessible database tracking the movements of users dating back to the introduction of iOS 4 a year ago.
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Andrew Harris / Bloomberg:
Apple, Google Privacy Meeting Sought by Illinois Attorney General Madigan
Discussion: CNET News and Mobilized
Jennifer Valentino-Devries / Wall Street Journal:
IPhone Stored Location in Test Even if Disabled
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Moves Fast — Real Fast — To Scoop Up IntoNow For $20 - $30 Million  —  This past January, upon seeing a demo of IntoNow, we noted that the media check-in game just changed.  Apparently, Yahoo agreed — they've just acquired the company for something in the range of $20 to $30 million, sources with knowledge of the deal tell us.
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Yahoo acquires TV check-in app IntoNow
Discussion: The Next Web
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Launches ‘Send’ Button For More Selective Sharing, Announces 50 Million ‘Groups’  —  Facebook's increasingly ubiquitous ‘Like’ button is getting a new friend: the Send button.  Click on a webpage that has the Send button integrated, and you'll be prompted to share …
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Elliot Lynde / Facebook Blog:
Sharing with Small Groups  —  It's always been easy to share with all your friends on Facebook, but until we introduced Groups last October, there wasn't a simple way to share with just a few people.  Much of what we share in our daily lives is only meaningful to smaller groups of people, like our family, roommates, or co-workers.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
SurveyMonkey Buys Online Forms Start-Up Wufoo for $35 Million  —  SurveyMonkey, the quiet but profitable and fast-growing Web survey company, is buying online forms start-up Wufoo.  —  While the terms of the transaction for the Tampa, Fla.-based Infinity Box-makers of Wufoo-were not disclosed …
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Wufoo:
Holy Donkey Kong! SurveyMonkey Acquires Wufoo!
Discussion: ReadWriteBiz
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
With Update, Barnes & Noble's Nook Color Gets More Tablet-Like  —  Starting on Monday, Barnes & Noble is delivering a promised software update for the Nook Color that will further tilt the device from being a multi-purpose e-reader into a full-fledged Android tablet.
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Rachel King / The Toybox Blog:
Barnes & Noble treats Nook Color to Froyo; unveils Nook Apps
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Netflix Earnings Up 88 Percent, Adds 3.3 Million U.S. Subscribers  —  Netflix just released its first quarter earnings.  Earnings per share were $1.11, up 88 percent (3 cents above the consensus estimate of $1.08).  Revenues came in at $719 million.  And Netflix added 3.3 million U.S. subscribers …
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Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
Michael Dell Looks Beyond PC Business  —  Michael Dell doesn't want to talk about personal computers anymore.  —  As Dell Inc.'s chief executive works to turn around the once high-flying PC maker, he has bet on diversifying away from the company's best-known product.
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
AT&T starts selling ‘cell tower in a suitcase’  —  NEW YORK - For the first time, AT&T is selling small, portable cellular antennas that will allow corporate and government customers to provide their own wireless coverage in remote or disaster-struck areas.  —  Usually, cellphone companies …
Discussion: AT&T, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear and Engadget
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Possible iPhone 5 pictures revealed  —  Gadget enthusiast blog M.I.C. Gadget has posted images of what it claims may be Apple's next iPhone.  The site itself seems skeptical as to the authenticity of the images — and we are as well — but they reveal what appears to be a thinner iPhone model …
Don MacAskill / SmugMug's Don MacAskill:
How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse  —  tl;dr: Amazon had a major outage last week, which took down some popular websites.  Despite using a lot of Amazon services, SmugMug didn't go down because we spread across availability zones and designed for failure to begin with, among other things.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Amazon Web Services outage: ‘Detailed post mortem’ coming
John Cook / GeekWire:
Ex-Microsoft and Yahoo research guru Gary Flake starts stealthy Clipboard  —  Gary Flake, a former technical fellow at Microsoft who up until last fall ran the company's Live Labs research group, has emerged at the helm of a new Bellevue startup company called Clipboard.
Discussion: TechCrunch, Thanks:toddbishop
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Nintendo confirms Wii replacement in 2012; Preview at E3 2011  —  Nintendo has announced [pdf link] it will release its next games console, the successor to the Wii, in 2012, with the first preview of the new hardware at E3 2011 in early June.  Confirmed in a new investor note, the unnamed console …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Storify Collects Strands of News on the Social Web  —  SAN FRANCISCO — News events as varied as the commercial jet landing in the Hudson River and the uprisings in Egypt have demonstrated that people armed with cellphones — not professional reporters — are often the first source of breaking news …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Beyond the browser: Microsoft's ‘C3’ next-gen platform for HTML-based applications  —  Must a traditional Web browser be the primary way to interact with and navigate a Web application?  —  Microsoft researchers think the answer is no. They are building another option — ‘C3,’ an extensible platform for HTML-based applications.
Robert Lee Hotz / Wall Street Journal:
The Really Smart Phone  —  Researchers are harvesting a wealth of intimate detail from our cellphone data, uncovering the hidden patterns of our social lives, travels, risk of disease—even our political views.  —  ‘Phones can know,’ says an MIT researcher.  'People can get this god's-eye view of human behavior.'
Discussion: msnbc.com, IntoMobile, I4U News and Betabeat
Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Exclusive: Lenovo 7-inch Honeycomb tablet coming later this year  —  Sure, we know all about Lenovo's ThinkPad Tablet (or Think Slate) now, but it appears there's yet another Honeycomb tablet in store from the Chinese computer manufacturer.  Included in the rather hefty PowerPoint deck we got …
Matt Frost / The WebM Open Media Project Blog:
Introducing the WebM Community Cross-License Initiative  —  It's been almost a year since Mozilla, Opera, Xiph.Org, Matroska, Google and over 40 other partners launched the WebM Project with the goal of developing a world-class, open source media format for the web.
Discussion: CNET News, GigaOM and Electronista
 
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Google Traffic to Demand Media Sites Down 40 Percent
Discussion: SEO Book.com
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Abandons their Efforts to Secure the “POD” Trademark
Discussion: TUAW, MacStories and Unwired Loop
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Google Not Serious About Online Gaming? This Job Offer Suggests Otherwise
Discussion: SAI
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple delays iMac orders ahead of next week's refresh with Thunderbolt I/O and Sandy Bridge processors
Discussion: MacRumors, Gizmodo and MacStories, Thanks:goog247
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
The Travel Channel Invests $7.5 Million in Oyster.com
Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
Venture Capital Firm Greycroft Partners Expands Team
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Takes Overstock.com Out Of The Penalty Box Over Gaming Search Results
Discussion: ITworld.com, WebProNews and Adotas
 Earlier Items: 
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Alleged Windows 8 App Store screenshot is fake: third-party app “Appmarts”
Discussion: Techland, WMPoweruser.com and SlashGear
Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
After Goldman Deal, Large Investors Still Busy Buying Facebook Stock
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Yes Facebook Developers, There Will Be An f8 This Year
Discussion: VatorNews
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Google, a Giant in Mobile Search, Seeks New Ways to Make It Pay
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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