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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple to Announce iPad 3 First Week in March  —  Apple's not holding an event in February.  But it is holding one in March — to launch its next iPad.  —  Sources say the company has chosen the first week in March to debut the successor to the iPad 2 and will do so at one of its trademark special events.
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google Near Launch of Cloud Storage Service  —  Google Inc. is close to launching a cloud-storage service that would rival one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups, cloud-storage provider Dropbox Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.  —  Like Dropbox, Google's storage service …
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:
Google Drive: Dropbox killer or mediocre also-ran?  —  It's one of Silicon Valley's greatest pink elephants: Why doesn't Google offer a cloud storage service to rival Dropbox, Box.net, or Microsoft's SkyDrive?  Google has the most internet-connected servers in the world …
Killian Bell / Cult of Mac:
Leaked iPad 3 Components Reveal New Internals, But No New Design [Exclusive]  —  Images of leaked iPad 3 components hot off the factory floor have been provided to Cult of Mac.  They reveal that the internal components of Apple's third-generation iPad are significantly different to those features …
Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:
Alleged iPad 3 casing photo appears, sources say coming soon with improved GPU but no quad-core, thicker profile  —  Today the Apple rumor mill is fixated on a photo doing the rounds which allegedly shows the back housing of the next iPad (the iPad 3, or iPad HD, depending on who you talk to).
John Cook / Gawker:
Steve Jobs' FBI File Released  —  The FBI has released, and posted on its web site, Steve Jobs' 191-page FBI file.  Read it here.  The file consists of a 1991 background investigation conducted when Jobs was being considered for an appointment to the President's Export Council in the Bush I White House …
Evelyn M. Rusli / New York Times:
Zuckerberg Takes Control, You Get $100  —  Mark Zuckerberg must be one persuasive deal maker.  —  After eight years, Mr. Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, has an ironclad grip on the social networking giant.  He owns 28.4 percent of all class B shares …
Elliot Telford / Compete Pulse:
Google Social is Exploding Online!  —  Now that the dust has settled from the initial launch of Google+ it is time for some analysis of the social network's functionality and popularity.  No doubt people are extremely excited with the new release of Google's social platform …
Joe Mullin / Wired:
Patent Troll Claims Ownership of Interactive Web - And Might Win  —  The mother of all patent troll trials unfolds in Texas where Google, Amazon and Adobe are fighting a patent claiming ownership over online video, image rotation and search auto-complete.  We explain and start a series.
More: CNET and TechEye.  Thanks:@rsingel
Mark Lee / Bloomberg:
Alibaba Suspended as Buyback of Yahoo Stake Looms With Loan  —  Alibaba.com Ltd. (1688) suspended its shares from trading in Hong Kong as the company prepares a statement about a transaction involving its parent, which is raising about $3 billion to buy back stock held by Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO)
Don Reisinger / CNET:
End of an era: Kodak discontinues camera business  —  Eastman Kodak has shocked the world today, announcing that it has put an end to its camera business.  —  By the end of June, Kodak expects to phase out its digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames, the company announced today.
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
Foxconn hacked by group called SwaggSec, here's what they are looking at...  Hacker group SwaggSec just released a dump of Foxconn internal information, including a mail server login/password dump and logins to various online procurement sites and Intranets.  The hack seems to be a retaliation …
DeepField Networks:
File Sharing in the Post MegaUpload Era  —  On January 18, 2012 global file sharing traffic collapsed.  In a series of coordinate raids, US and New Zealand authorities seized thousands of MegaUpload servers and arrested its founder (at his own birthday party, no less).
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
No New Mail?  Try Google+  —  What's the message displayed by Gmail when there's no message in your inbox?  If you answered “No new mail!  Want to read updates from your favorite sites?  Try Google Reader”, you are right.  It was Google's subtle way to promote Google Reader.
More: 9to5Google
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Inside Yahoo: Less Show, More Sell  —  New CEO Aims to Reduce Emphasis on Ads, Boost Commission Revenue  —  New Chief Executive Scott Thompson's plan for turning around Yahoo Inc. is beginning to take shape: He wants to push the Internet company away from its advertising roots …
More: SplatF and Beet.TV
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Why Techmeme now lists events, and how to get your event listed  —  Events have always played an important role in the tech industry.  Knowledge exchange and networking opportunities have long been a key draw, as Apple's history attests.  The motivations for meeting have certainly expanded since the 1970s.
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Lytro Teardown Shows Potential Wireless Capability, Smallish Sensor  —  It's been a while since we've heard anything about Lytro (other than nearly grabbing a Crunchie (I voted for them)), the camera where you shoot now and focus later.  And the latest news comes not from the company itself …
Neil Callanan / Bloomberg:
Google May Open Retail Store at European Headquarters in Dublin  —  Google Inc. (GOOG) may open its first stand- alone retail store at its European headquarters in Dublin, according to a filing by the world's most popular search engine.  —  The Google Store would be open to the public and sell unspecified …
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Skimlinks is the real story behind Pinterest's success  —  I love it when a startup I've been covering for literally years suddenly finds itself in the spotlight, and for the right reasons.  In this case, Skimlinks, originally from London but now with a growing US base …
More: Techland and Forbes
Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:
Building Windows for the ARM processor architecture  —  One of the notable aspects of Microsoft Windows has been the flexibility the architecture has shown through shifts in technology and expansion of customer usage over time.  What started out as an operating system for one person working solo …
More: AllThingsD, ZDNet and ZDNet.  Thanks:@jpaulellis
Erica Ogg / GigaOM:
Protests against iPhone factory conditions planned Thursday for Apple Stores  —  Still unhappy with Apple's response to the New York Times' series on labor conditions in Chinese factories that make iPhones and iPads, two organizations are planning a globally coordinated protest on Thursday.
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Glam Media launches social network for food lovers  —  (Reuters) - There are magazines, television shows and books about food.  So why not a social network?  —  That's the thinking behind online lifestyle publisher Glam Media's newest offering.  On Thursday, the company launched Foodie.com …
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
If Silicon Valley Costs a Lot Now, Wait Until the Facebook Update  —  PALO ALTO, Calif. — Imagine looking for a house in San Francisco or one of the nicer parts of Silicon Valley, which are already among the most expensive parts of the country.  Now imagine having to bid against a legion of newly minted Facebook millionaires.

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