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Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
Why I Started PandoDaily — Several months ago I became obsessed with a colony of trees in Utah called Pando Trees. Measuring 43 hectares and weighing 6,000 tons, they're pretty impressive above ground. But what really matters is what is happening below. The interconnected root system is the oldest living organism in the world.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sarah Lacy's PandoDaily launches with $2.5 million in funding — Sarah Lacy, an author and veteran journalist (most recently with TechCrunch) is launching PandoDaily, a daily technology news blog focused on startups and the startup ecosystem. The name for the site comes from a colony of trees in Utah called, Pando Trees.
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat and AdAge, more at Mediagazer »
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Wikipedia's anti-SOPA blackout will go ahead on Wednedsay — Wikipedia is planning an online “blackout” on Wednesday, in protest against proposed US legislation intended to stem web piracy. — The free, user-written encyclopaedia is one of the world's top five most popular websites …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Google calls Murdoch's piracy allegations ‘nonsense’ — News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is talking nonsense, according to Google. — Murdoch, a Twitter user for only the past several weeks, used the service to unleash a barrage of accusations Saturday night against President Barrack Obama and Google.
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@fieldproducer, DSLreports, SiliconANGLE, BBC, ZDNet, @rafat, AllThingsD, VentureBeat and Forbes, more at Mediagazer »
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
A TV Debate on Antipiracy
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Techdirt, msnbc.com and Business Insider
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Is Facebook IPO on Track for Late May? — According to multiple sources, the long anticipated public offering of Facebook is now likely to come in the third week of May. — That means that the company must file its IPO documents within the next month, given the review by the Securities …
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Samsung and Apple looking at new waterproof smartphone tech — A new technology that could save your phone from getting water damaged could be included the next wave of smartphones about to be made by Samsung and Apple. — Called HZO, the technology creates a nano-scale film barrier …
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MacRumors, The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog, Redmond Pie, TUAW, GigaOM, Macgasm, WebProNews, The Next Web, PhoneArena and iClarified, Thanks:stuartmiles
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Why the video pros are moving away from Apple — Six months after the launch of Final Cut Pro X (FCPX), Apple's major overhaul to its professional video editing software Final Cut Pro, video pros find themselves increasingly looking at other software options.
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Wintel tablet PCs may be priced from US$599-899 — Wintel-based tablet PCs may see their prices go as high as US$599-899 due to Intel and Microsoft both being unwilling to drop their related hardware and software quotes, and as a result, it could push consumers from wanting to purchase the devices …
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Digital Trends, Electronista, Macgasm, BGR, Techie Buzz, Engadget, TG Daily, SlashGear, TechEye, PhoneArena, Fudzilla, dailywireless.org and T3 News
Charlie Kindel / cek.log:
Fragmentation Is Not The End of Android — The fragmentation of Android is very real and very problematic for end users, developers, mobile operators, device manufacturers, and Google. However fragmentation does not mean Android is going to “die” or “fail” as some seem to think.
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Reuters:
Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday — (Reuters) - A hacker who goes by the name of ‘Yama Tough’ threatened Saturday to release next week the full source code for Symantec Corp's flagship Norton Antivirus software. “This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton Antivirus 1,7Gb src …
Barb Darrow / GigaOM:
AWS offers free Windows on EC2 (kind of) — Amazon will let customers run free micro-instances of Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 on its EC2 service starting now, according to a new post to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog. — Such try-before-you-buy tactics have helped Amazon win converts …
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Amazon Web Services Blog, PC World, GeekWire, The Register, CNET, Datamation.com and WebProNews
Daniel Edward Rosen / The New York Observer:
Exclusive: foursquare Celebrates New Office Space, Elbow Room — It's Christmas day for foursquare! Except in place of being visited by Ol' St. Nick, the location-based social networking phenom was visited by a fast-working team of architects and builders, leaving them with their brand new office space at 586 Broadway.
Steve Clayton / TechNet Blogs:
Surface 2.0 now shipping — I spent a lot of time with Surface 2.0 last week and from this morning onwards, other can begin to have the same pleasure - the SUR 40 is now shipping and available through Samsung channel and reseller partners. Samsung announced the news this morning …
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Engadget, Electronista and MSDN Blogs
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Former U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra Joins Salesforce As EVP Of Emerging Markets — CRM and cloud giant Salesforce has announced a key hire today—former U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra. Kundra has joined the company as executive vice president of emerging markets.
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Bits, VentureBeat, The Register, AllThingsD, PR Newswire, ReadWriteWeb, Social Media and Fedline
Nanette Asimov / San Francisco Chronicle:
Viruses stole City College of S.F. data for years — Personal banking information and other data from perhaps tens of thousands of students, faculty and administrators at City College of San Francisco have been stolen in what is being called “an infestation” of computer viruses with origins …
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blog.chron.com, Help Net Security and Liquidmatrix Security Digest
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Design Sets Tone at Square, a Mobile Payments Start-Up — The headquarters of the start-up Square would be the absolute worst place to play hide-and-seek. There are no offices. Executives sit in open cubicles. All of the conference rooms, large and small, are surrounded by walls of clear glass.
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Dan Lyons / The Daily Beast:
Even Woz Thinks the Android Bests the iPhone — Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak still loves his iPhone, but says in some ways, Android has leapt ahead. Wow. — Apple CEO Steve Jobs hated the Android smartphone operating system so much that he vowed he would spend his last dying breath …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Launches Promo Platform For Artists — For many independent artists obscurity is a bigger problem than piracy, but it's a problem that The Pirate Bay hopes to solve. — Today the largest torrent site on the Internet rolled out a new promotion platform for filmmakers, musicians, writers and all other artists alike.
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Inquirer and The Next Web
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Symantec Buys Cloud-Based Email Archiving Company LiveOffice For $115M — Security and storage giant Symantec has announced the acquisition of cloud email archiving company LiveOffice. The acquisition price was $115 million. — LiveOffice is a SaaS provider of email archiving, compliance and hosting.
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VentureBeat, VatorNews, Computerworld, MarketWatch, WebProNews and socalTECH.com
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Comcast is the fastest broadband provider in the U.S. — Comcast, the Philadelphia-based cable company, was the fastest broadband service provider in the U.S. during 2011, according to Ookla, a broadband speed test company. Comcast recently announced that it had completed the upgrade …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Ex-Firefox exec Shaver has plans for Facebook's Android app — Mike Shaver already announced last year he was moving to Facebook after resigning as vice president of technical strategy for Firefox. — And now we know what he'll be doing there: engineering manager for Android app development.
