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11:20 AM ET, June 6, 2009

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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Goodbye Old Friend.  R.I.P. Rajeev Motwani  —  Updated: Rajeev Motwani, one of the savviest angel investors in Silicon Valley, a Stanford professor and most importantly a close and personal friend passed away earlier today.  —  It is hard for me to write this post — this morning the news …
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Sergey Brin / too:
Remembering Rajeev  —  It has been a long time since I have updated this blog.  In fact, I have been doing some research for what I thought would be my next post.  —  Unfortunately, life does not always give you the luxury to plan what may be close to your heart next.
Ginny Mies / PC World:
Palm Pre Apps and Palm's App Catalog: A Closer Look  —  The WebOS's App Catalog is a bit sparse at the moment, but it has a lot of potential.  —  Recommends  —  The Palm Pre might have a slick OS and stylish hardware, but when it comes to apps, it has a long road ahead of it.
Discussion: Beet.TV and PalmAddicts
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Sascha Segan / Gearlog:
Palm Exec: Pre's SDK is Coming Soon
Discussion: all things Pre and Phone Scoop
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Apple Gets Pwned, SF Store Is Now Advertising DVD Jon's doubleTwist  —  Apple may be known for its advertising prowess, but this little marketing coup is going to go down as one of the most hilarious ad placements in recent history. doubleTwist, the company co-founded by renowned software …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Gawker and PalmAddicts, Thanks:atul
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
How Twitter's Staff Uses Twitter (And Why It Could Cause Problems)  —  Twitter has captured peoples' imaginations like nothing else on the web in years.  It's growing fast, gets talked about all the time in other media, has fostered a huge developer community and gets used in more ways than anyone could have thought possible.
Discussion: Shooting at Bubbles, Thanks:atul
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Hacker named to Homeland Security Advisory Council  —  Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon hacker and security conferences, was among 16 people sworn in on Friday to the Homeland Security Advisory Council.  —  The HSAC members will provide recommendations and advice directly …
Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
The Mercury News Interview: Sequioa's Michael Moritz on long shots and how he picks companies  —  One of the world's pre-eminent venture capitalists, Michael Moritz of Sequioa Capital, has picked winners like Flextronics, Cisco, Yahoo, PayPal and Google by focusing on small teams or individuals …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Ditches New Playa Vista Offices  —  A year ago MySpace and Fox Interactive Media were trumpeting an upcoming office move to Playa Vista in Los Angeles.  Peter Levinsohn (former) President of the no longer existing Fox Interactive Media, justified the move to the 300,000 square foot space based on the …
Raman Roy / Wall Street Journal:
India's Tech Industry Must Reinvent Itself  —  Editor's Note: Raman Roy, chairman and managing director of Gurgaon-based Quatrro, is widely regarded as the pioneer of the Indian outsourcing industry.  With more than 16 years in the business, he shares his thoughts on the future and what India needs …
Derrick Goold / Bird Land:
Tony La Russa and Twitter settle trademark infringement suit  —  ST. LOUIS — Tony La Russa's beef with the Tweets has been settled.  —  The St. Louis Cardinals manager said this afternoon that his lawsuit against the San Francisco-based social media site, Twitter.com, has been settled out of court.
Discussion: Softpedia News and Mashable!, Thanks:atul
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Did Bing Leapfrog Yahoo?  Not Exactly  —  We saw the same headline, based on data issued by StatCounter from Thursday.  These data reportedly show that yesterday the share of searches went like this:  — Google: 71.47 percent  — Bing: 16.28 percent  — Yahoo: 10.22 percent
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Candy.com Sells For A Sweet $3 Million  —  Just yesterday, we reported how .com domain registrations were starting to turn around again after a lackluster 2008.  Today brings further proof as the domain candy.com has just sold for $3 million to G&J Holdings.
Brian Prince / eWeek Security Watch:
Sears Settles FTC Spyware Charges  —  The Sears Holdings Corporation has agreed to settle charges made by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging the corporation was not upfront about its use of spyware.  —  According to the FTC's administrative complaint, while Sears told consumers …
Russell Garland / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Ranks Of Active VCs Dwindling By Any Measure  —  How big is the U.S. venture industry?  —  The National Venture Capital Association says that in 2008 there were 882 firms that had raised at least one fund in the last eight years, a substantial drop from 2007 when there were 1,019 fitting that definition.
Dancho Danchev / Zero Day:
Microsoft study debunks profitability of the underground economy  —  Cybercrime, what cybercrime and millions of dollars in profits?!  —  A newly released paper presented by Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio at this year's Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2009 entitled …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Yes, We Know: Online Ads Are Down  —  Noting this just because it feels like the right thing to do: Online ads declined 5% in the first quarter of the year, says an industry trade group.  —  Of course, anyone who's remotely interested in online ads knows that the first 3 months of the year were miserable …
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Ellen Messmer / Network World:
Web-hosting firm Pricewert objects to FTC shutdown
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Full specs of the BlackBerry Tour leak out
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Venture Capital's Elders Say Think Small
Anupreeta Das / Reuters:
In downturns, Internet cos look to sell start-ups
Brian Morrissey / Adweek:
Get Ready for Pay per Tweet
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, 901am and Mashable!
Melinda Deslatte / Associated Press:
La. House backs 15-cent charge on Internet access
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Copyright chief: The Emperor Has No Clothes
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