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11:45 PM ET, February 25, 2010

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Inside Apple's shareholders meeting  —  The press, as usual, was barred from bringing communication devices into the Apple (AAPL) shareholders meeting that began at 1 p.m. EST (10 a.m. PST) Thursday.  —  But, as often happens, word is leaking out despite the blackout thanks to iPhones in the hands of shareholders who shall go unnamed.
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Bloomberg:
Apple Chief Jobs Prefers Holding Cash to Dividends  —  Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs said he prefers having cash for investments to paying dividends or doing stock buybacks.  —  Apple is holding onto cash to take “big, bold” risks, Jobs said at the company's shareholder meeting today.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Planning to Open 25 Retail Stores in China [Updated]
Discussion: VatorNews and The Next Web
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Patents The News Feed (Updated)  —  On Tuesday, Facebook was awarded a major patent for “Dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network”.  This is a huge deal for a number of reasons, most significantly that it grants Facebook the opportunity to pursue …
Yukari Iwatani Kane / Digits:
Palm CEO's Letter to Employees  —  Palm said on Thursday that its phones aren't selling as well as it had hoped and that revenues for its fiscal year would be “well below” its forecasts.  In an internal company-wide email, Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein elaborated further about the reasons behind …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Tits and Apps  —  So with this whole thing where Apple has removed and banned like 5,000 “sexy apps” from the App Store, I think I've figured out the reason why, including why they're granting exceptions to established names like Sports Illustrated, Playboy, and Victoria's Secret.  It's about branding.
Discussion: The Loop
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
IPad Apps Could Put Apple in Charge of the News  —  Publishers should think twice before worshipping the iPad as the future platform for magazines and newspapers.  That is, if they value their independence from an often-capricious corporate gatekeeper.  —  The past week's controversy …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Apple Removes Explicit Option From iTunes
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Pandora spurs music sales; Spotify not so much  —  NEW YORK—Free on-demand music sites haven't fared very well when it comes to driving song sales.  —  Russ Crupnick, an analyst with market researcher NPD Group, told a crowd of music and tech executives here Wednesday that free streaming-music sites …
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Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Chatroulette: 71% Boys, 15% Girls, 14% Perverts  —  Chatroulette has become all the rage among folks in the online video and social media scene, prompting coverage in the NY Times, CNN and other major national news outlets.  Well if you've ever wanted to learn more about Chatroulette …
Business Week:
And Google Begat...  The search giant's former employees are seeding tech startups—and shaping another wave of innovation  —  During the holidays last year, Aydin Senkut and Elad Gil gathered 50 of their friends at a health-food restaurant in Palo Alto.  Over turkey burgers and tofu wraps …
Thanks:atul
Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
Is Google Stealing Authors' Copyright With Buzz?  —  2 years ago I shared about a blogger and follower/friend of mine, Ali Akbar, who purchased the domain, googleappsengine.com (he still owns it) in order to create an AppEngine-related blog (since Google apparently forgot to purchase the domain).
Discussion: louisgray.com and CloudAve, Thanks:atul
Tom Perkins / Wall Street Journal:
Silicon Valley Is Not Wall Street  —  Too often, there is confusion between investment banking and venture capital.  This isn't helped by investment bankers' occasional assertions that they too do venture capital.  They don't.  In light of the attention both of these activities …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
LG's first Windows Phone 7 handset shipping as early as September  —  Our buds over at Engadget Chinese are just reporting back from a sitdown it had with LG Mobile in Hong Kong at a Chinese New Year event.  The most tantalizing bit of truth is confirmation of that September launch date rumor …
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Amit Singhal / European Public Policy Blog:
This stuff is tough  —  Yesterday's news that the European Commission has opened a preliminary inquiry into competition complaints from three companies has generated a lot of questions about how Google's ranking works.  Here, Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow responsible for ranking …
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Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Define ‘monopoly:’ Foundem's argument against Google linking to Google
Thanks:atul
Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Discloses How Much Money It Makes From Facebook Credits  —  Over the past several months, Facebook has been testing and rolling out new features for Facebook Credits - a virtual currency that collected and exchanged users' real-world money for on-site credits that could be used …
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Opera 10.50 for Mac brings HTML5 video support, Multitouch gestures, crazy speed  —  Update: Whoa!  Opera just beat stock Safari in its own Webkit Javascript benchmarking tests.  —  Frankly, we mostly use Opera for its in-line (legal!)  Torrent downloading ability, but it is always …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Microsoft to Withdraw Copyright Complaint, Cryptome Coming Back Online  —  Great news from Web hosting company Network Solutions this morning.  A company representative tells us that Microsoft will withdraw the copyright complaint against long-time watchdog website Cryptome.org, and the site will be back online later today.
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Online Music Service Mog Raises About $10 Million; UK Expansion Planned  —  Berkeley, CA-based music service Mog.com, which recently launched its subscription music service with good review, is taking a new VC round to finance an entry to the UK market, promising to undercut the much-hyped Spotify …
Discussion: MediaMemo
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Time for Apple to get serious about video  —  Netflix is cruising.  The cable guys are catching on.  Wal-Mart just rumbled in.  —  The Web's video-on-demand sector is filling up fast with some serious heavyweights.  If Apple wants to make a mark in digital video that even vaguely resembles …
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Facebook Glitch Sends Messages to Wrong People  —  Last night, in an embarrassing glitch for Facebook that raises questions about privacy on the site, some users of the social-networking service began getting hundreds of personal messages that weren't intended for them.
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
TiVo Premiere, XL DVRs show up in Best Buy systems for $299, $499; due March 27  —  It's not March 2 yet, but we do have another early indication of what TiVo's big announcement will be as a tipster spotted two new DVRs in Best Buy's intranet.  Other than the shocking revelation that the two SKUs …
Discussion: Obsessable, Electronista and Gizmodo
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google News Tries Sharing With Facebook, But Where's The Buzz Button?  —  Google News is testing out a new design, as I reported earlier this month.  It includes trending topics on the left and new personalization options.  But today someone in the bucket test noticed something different.
Marc Braunstein / Forbes:
How Colorado Defeated The Internet Tax  —  What the state's victory means for online businesses across the U.S.  —  In 1986 I started my company, ShopAtHome.com, in my living room with my wife Claudia.  Through hard work and persistence, we've grown the company to over 50 people …
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Verizon wields Myhrvold patent in dispute with TiVo over DVR tech  —  TiVo made headlines last year for suing Verizon and AT&T for patent infringement over time-shifting DVR technology.  Now Verizon is fighting back — with help from a patent from former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold's firm.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Guy Who Makes Simple Caller ID App For Android Forced To Shut Down Due To Patent Threat  —  You may recall that, a couple years ago, Apple was sued over its implementation of caller ID technology on the iPhone.  Some company claimed to hold a patent on the basic caller ID display technology from 1990.
 
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Heather Dougherty / Hitwise Intelligence:
Social networks displacing e-cards
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
Google Street View Images May Break European Union Law, Privacy Group Says
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Yammer Communities Open The Door To B2B Microblog Collaboration And Much More
Discussion: VentureBeat and eWeek, Thanks:mdoeff
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
RIAA CEO Tries To Connect China Google Hack With Google's Attitude Towards Copyright
Mark Hachman / Gearlog:
Radio Shack Details iPhone Rollout Plans
 Earlier Items: 
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Location Data Sensitive Like Medical Information, Says Congressional Witness
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Left at the Altar by AOL, Associated Content Hires Allen
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Boxee returns to Apple TV
Discussion: Boxee Blog and Mashable!
Victor Keegan / Guardian:
Is copyright getting in the way of us preserving our history?
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Skype comes to Samsung TVs
Discussion: Obsessable and Crave, Thanks:stuartmiles
 

 
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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