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April 1, 2012, 3:15 PM

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Scott Austin / Digits:

‘Girls Around Me’ Developer Defends App After Foursquare Dismissal — The developer of a controversial mobile app that used data from Facebook and Foursquare to reveal the location of nearby women defended its intentions Saturday after drawing a firestorm of criticism over privacy concerns.

More: Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, CNET, AllThingsD, iPhone Hacks, TechNewsDaily.com, Charlie's Diary, Digits, MacNN, PC World, textually.org, Pulse2 Technology … and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @pkafka

John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:

Creepy Girl-Stalking App Girls Around Me Has Been Yanked From The App Store [Update]

More: Business Insider, Appolicious Advisor, TechCrunch, Electronista, Pulp Tech Blog, PC Magazine and The Next Web. Thanks:@cultofmac

Amit Runchal / Interactioned:

Whom Do We Blame? — This story by Nick Bilton in the New York Times …

More: Online Dating Insider, Business Insider, Appolicious Advisor, The Verge and Cult of Mac

VentureBeat:

OMGPOP CEO tweets that only employee not to transition to Zynga was the “weakest” one — As reported last week, Shay Pierce was the only OMGPOP employee to decline a position with Zynga after it bought the Draw Something developer for $180 million. Pierce wrote an editorial for Gamasutra …

More: Boing Boing and Epeus' epigone. Tweets: @tfadp, @tfadp, @dickc, @notch, @tomcoates, @helloandy, @tziegmann and @tapbot_paul

Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat:

OMGPOP CEO responds to criticisim of his tweets about former employee — Early this morning, GamesBeat reported that Dan Porter, chief executive officer of OMGPOP (developer of the Pictrionary-clone Draw Something), publicly called out the only employee not to join Zynga after the $210 million buyout.

More: AllThingsD. Tweets: @tfadp and @thekevindent

Zee / The Next Web:

A Round Up of ALL of Google's April Fools Jokes. Fair play, they really make an effort... If there's one thing Google clearly does better than its competing tech giants, it's April Fools. We were honestly having difficulty writing up pieces on each of Google's announcements as they flew …

More: GeekWire, Gmail Blog, StevenLevy.com, CNET, The Next Web, 9to5Google, The Official Google Blog, GSMArena Blog, Pulse2 Technology …, Techie Buzz, Google Analytics Blog, Google+ and Gotta Be Mobile

Conan O'Brien / Mashable!:

Conan O'Brien Buys Mashable, Ousts Pete Cashmore as CEO — Hello, fellow Mashables. It's Conan O'Brien, and I've got big news. Two hours ago, I purchased Mashable.com. I've taken it over. Why did I take it over? Very simple reason. — I'm sick and tired of scanning the Internet looking …

More: Mashable!, bub.blicio.us, WebProNews, Techi.com and iPhone Hacks

Tweets: @penenberg, @lanceulanoff and @mashable

Tom Cook / Quora:

What are some of the best 2012 April Fools Day jokes? — Tom Cook's answer: * Virgin and Richard Branson announced a expedition to the center of the earth: Virgin Volcanic. http://virginvolcanic.com/ — * Google Maps announced a new 8-bit version for the NES/Famicom, usable in a beta form at http://maps.google.com under “Quest”

More: TechCrunch, PC World, Engadget, The Windows Blog and Lifehacker

Zack Whittaker / London Calling Blog:

UK ‘to announce’ real-time phone, email, Web traffic monitoring — Editors note: Despite this being April 1, or ‘April Fools Day’, this story is not a fabrication nor a joke. For background to this story, head this way. — Under new UK legislation, Internet service and broadband providers …

More: The Verge, BBC, The Independent, WebProNews and ZDNet. Thanks:@zackwhittaker

Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:

Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool — WASHINGTON — Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials, with hundreds of departments, large and small …

More: ACLU. Tweets: @jeffjarvis

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple activates increase in share of iAd revenue to developers from 60% to 70% — Apple has sent out a notice to participants in its iAd program that it will now be giving 70% of the revenue earned from an ad displayed in an app to the developer. This is an increase from the previous 60%.

More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac and App Advice. Thanks:@abracarioca

David Kravets / Wired:

Megaupload User Demands Return of Seized Content — An Ohio man is asking a federal judge to preserve data of the 66.6 million users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that was shuttered in January following federal criminal copyright-infringement indictments that targeted its operators.

More: The Verge, Ars Technica and Electronic Frontier Foundation

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

French ‘Three Strikes’ Law Slashes Piracy, But Fails to Boost Sales — It's a cheerful day for the copyright industry. In France the controversial “graduated response” law (Hadopi) has evaporated unauthorized file-sharing. — A new report from the Hadopi office, conveniently written …

More: Techi.com and gHacks Technology News

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

OMGPOP Draws Zynga's Daily User Traffic Up By 25% — As the dust settles after Zynga's purchase of New York mobile social game developer OMGPOP, the company is visibly taking on a new shape. A 25% larger and more mobile one. That's the percentage growth of its total daily active user base …

More: PhoneArena

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