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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Eric Schmidt Tells Charlie Rose Google Is “Unlikely” To Buy Twitter And Wants To Turn Phones Into TVs — It must be Google Week on Charlie Rose. Thursday, Rose interviewed product chief Marissa Mayer, and last night he had an hour-long conversation with CEO Eric Schmidt (embedded here, with a full transcript below).
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Privacy Blunder Shares Your Docs Without Permission — In a privacy error that underscores some of the biggest problems surrounding cloud-based services, Google has sent a notice to a number of users of its Document and Spreadsheets products stating that it may have inadvertently shared …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter To Start Serving Local News To Users? — Germany's Der Spiegel published an interview with Twitter CEO Evan Williams yesterday on its website, and Williams had a couple of interesting things to say. You can find a poorly Google-translated version of the interview here …
Mike Elgan / Computerworld:
Why global is the new ‘local’ — The real reason newspapers and radio stations are hurting — and how they can thrive — Computerworld) If you have an iPhone, tap the App Store button, and search for “radio.” Choose “iHeart radio” and then click on the Clear Channel Broadcasting app called “iHeart radio.”
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Another AOL Layoff This Week? — An ex-AOLer says there are rumors in Dulles that AOL is planning another layoff this week. The d-date is rumored to be Tuesday. AOL apparently likes to whack people on Tuesdays. — The ex-AOLer forwards the following memo, which updates AOL's policies …
Tim Green / mobile-ent.biz:
Acer mulling its own app store — Acer could launch an app store to complement its forthcoming new smartphone range. — At a London press event yesterday, Acer's senior corporate VP and smart handheld president Aymar de Lencquesaing told ME that Acer is examining the viability of an app store …
Paul Graham:
How to Be an Angel Investor — When we sold our startup in 1998 I thought one day I'd do some angel investing. Seven years later I still hadn't started. I put it off because it seemed mysterious and complicated. It turns out to be easier than I expected, and also more interesting.
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Julie Jacobson / CE Pro:
CableCard Diagnostics Comes to Windows Media Center at EHX — Media Center Integrator Alliance has developed a utility that runs on Media Center to help installers diagnose and fix issues with digital cable tuners. The utility launches at EHX, March 11-14. — RSS Feed
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Try before you buy? Zuckerberg has a public Twitter account? — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been using the microblogging service he's been trying to buy - Twitter — since last May. But he's kept his account on the site (@zuck) private and basically unused.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Cybersecurity official quits, blasts NSA power grab — A top federal cybersecurity official resigned this week in a letter sharply critical of what he described as a power grab by the National Security Agency. — Rod Beckström, director of Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity Center …
Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon Wireless HTC Touch Diamond gets pictured — We got our hands on some pictures of a test model of the Verizon Wireless Touch Diamond rocking its sleek, black and shiny casing. Unlike Verizon's Touch Pro, the Diamond has retained the characteristic faceted back.
Fred / A VC:
Hacking Education (continued) — Last fall I wrote a post on this blog titled Hacking Education. In it, I outlined my thoughts on why the education system (broadly speaking) is failing our society and why hacking it seems like both an important and profitable endeavor.
