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5:05 AM ET, April 27, 2011

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Patrick Seybold / PlayStation Blog:

Update on PlayStation Network and Qriocity — Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the current outage of PlayStation Network & Qriocity services. We are currently working to send a similar message to the one below via email to all of our registered account holders regarding …

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Brian Crecente / Kotaku:

Sony Comes Clean: PlayStation Network Hackers Have Stolen Personal Data — Sony Comes Clean: PlayStation Network Hackers Have Stolen Personal Data A security breach in the Playstation Network by still unidentified hackers resulted in stolen personal information, Sony confirmed today.

Discussion: Geek.com

Fahmida Y. Rashid / eWeek:
Sony PlayStation Network Data Breach Compromises 77 Million User Accounts

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Mike Snider / USA Today:
PlayStation Network: Credit card data may have been stolen; outage to last up to another week

Discussion: The Register, PC Magazine and Ars Technica

Nielsen Wire:

U.S. Smartphone Market: Who's the Most Wanted? — Things change quickly in the U.S. smartphone market. — According to The Nielsen Company's monthly surveys of U.S. mobile consumers from July-September 2010, consumers planning on getting a new smartphone had a very clear preference: A third (33%) wanted an Apple iPhone.

Don Reisinger / CNET News:
Nielsen: Desire for iPhone slips as Android gains

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and The Digital Home

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names — Kevin Rose has completed a hefty $1.5 million angel round for his new mobile development lab, which we first reported in March, Milk. Rose went for the more-is-more approach, pulling in a wide-syndicate of Valley elites, including TechCrunch's Michael Arrington.

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Dai Pham / Google Mobile Ads Blog:

Smartphone user study shows mobile movement under way — 71% of smartphone users search because of an ad they've seen either online or offline; 82% of smartphone users notice mobile ads, 74% of smartphone shoppers make a purchase as a result of using their smartphones to help with shopping …

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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google: 50 Percent Of Those Exposed To Mobile Ads Took Action

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Signal vs. Noise:

Exit interview: Jaiku's Jyri Engeström — “Jaiku was not much more than a year old when we were acquired. It was like hitching a ride on a firecracker!” says Jyri Engeström, co-founder of Jaiku. — “I poured my heart and soul into designing the service with our small team,” …

Discussion: @loic

Amazon.com:

Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Sales up 38% to $9.86 Billion; Introduced Kindle with Special Offers for $114 — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2011. — Operating cash flow increased 9% to $3.03 billion …

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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Apple's ‘iPhone 6’ to employ Sharp's next-gen p-Si LCDs in spring 2012 — Apple has reportedly selected Sharp to create next-generation low-temperature poly-silicon LCD displays, which will allow a thinner and lighter design for the anticipated sixth-generation iPhone in 2012.

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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:

Why Fox, Paramount, Disney Are Holding Out on the YouTube Deal — A divide has opened among Hollywood's major studios over whether to join YouTube's initiative to rent movies on demand - which is holding up the launch of the service, TheWrap has learned. — Fox and Paramount have both confirmed …

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Cade Metz / The Register:

Amazon: Some data won't be recovered after cloud outage — Post mortem wait — Amazon says that about 0.07 per cent of the EBS storage volumes in the East Region of its infrastructure cloud are not “fully recoverable” following the extended outage that hit the service last Thursday.

Discussion: ITProPortal

Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo Mulls Spin-off for Hadoop Software Unit — Yahoo Inc., which generates $6 billion in annual revenue by selling online ads, is considering a new strategy to exploit what analysts say could be another billion-dollar business: Hadoop. — Over the past six years, the Internet pioneer helped …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and paidContent

Glenn Peoples / Billboard.Biz:

Netflix: A Subscription Model the Music Business Should Aspire To — If the record industry wants music subscription services to become mainstream products, it should pay close attention to the factors behind growth at Netflix. In the first quarter of 2011, the online video rental service …

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

AOL's Patch Adding 8,000 Bloggers in ‘Full-On Course Correction’ — Ah, memories. Image via Wikipedia — Arianna Huffington must not be taking that class action lawsuit against her too seriously. Not only is AOL's new content chief not cutting down on the use of unpaid bloggers, she's doubling down — literally.

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Bonnie Eslinger / Mercury News:

Facebook's plans for Menlo Park HQ: 9,400 workers in next 6 years — Facebook wants to redevelop the former Sun Microsystems campus in Menlo Park and two adjacent parcels to eventually accommodate 9,400 employees, according to city documents. — The fast-growing social networking company …

Greg Sandoval / CNET News:

Expect Apple to charge for music cloud — Apple could offer a cloud music service for free initially, but consumers are eventually going to have to pay for access, sources said. More — Share — 2 HOURS AGO — A back-to-the-future tube amplifier? — ANALYSIS Steve Guttenberg

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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Nokia To Cut 4,000 Jobs Worldwide, Transfers 3,000 Symbian Jobs To Accenture — It was inevitable. Nokia this morning announced plans to ‘align its global workforce and consolidate site operations’. That means significant layoffs and reorganizations across the board, of course, so here are the details:

Discussion: Nokia, Engadget, SlashGear and Nokia Conversations

Nicholas Carlson / SAI:

Ex-Facebook CFO, Khosla VC Gideon Yu Goes To...The San Francisco 49ers — Ex-Facebook CFO, YouTube CFO, and Khosla Ventures partner Gideon Yu, will, in the next few weeks, join the NFL's San Francisco 49ers as Chief Strategy Officer, a source familiar with the hire tells us.

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Business Insider, Pulse2 and NetworkEffect

Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal:

Silicon Valley Office Market Booms — When San Francisco developer Jay Paul left town for a Pacific Ocean yacht voyage about 10 weeks ago, his shiny new office complex in Sunnyvale, Calif., had been sitting mostly empty since it was completed in late 2008. — But by the time Mr. Paul returned …

Discussion: @amir_efrati

Sam Gustin / Epicenter:

Wired.com Q&A: New MIT Media Lab Director Joichi Ito on ‘Context and Connection’ — Joichi Ito, tapped as only the fourth director of the MIT Media Lab, says having a bio that seems “scatterbrained” will make the 25-year-old institution — already famous for its unorthodox research approach — seem just like home.

Jason Calacanis / Launch:

L016: Facebook Sandbagging, 2011 Revs Really $12B Not $4B — While the chattering class wonders if there's an upper limit to Facebook's valuation (and throws around that “bubble” word again) our LAUNCH analysis suggests the company is holding back on the throttle.

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Chris Ziegler / This is my next:

AT&T and T-Mobile USA: the case against a merger — In his support of AT&T's $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom, my colleague Nilay Patel makes an interesting case: though he acknowledges that AT&T's public interest filing with the FCC is as much smoke and mirrors …

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Chris / cdixon.org:

There are two kinds of people in the world — You've either started a company or you haven't. “Started” doesn't mean joining as an early employee, or investing or advising or helping out. It means starting with no money, no help, no one who believes in you (except perhaps your closest friends and family) …

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