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8:50 AM ET, April 2, 2011

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Electronista:
comScore: Android now 33% of US smartphones, iPhone still up  —  Android is continuing its rise upwards but has yet to take any share away from the iPhone, comScore found on Friday.  February, the first month of the Verizon iPhone's availability, saw Android climb up to exactly 33 percent …
Discussion: @eric_andersen
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Verizon iPhone Was February's Most Popular Phone Model, comScore Says  —  Riding a strong launch of the Verizon iPhone, Apple saw its share of the phone market rise nearly a percentage point between November and February, according to a report from comScore.
comScore, Inc.:
comScore Reports February 2011 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share  —  Android Platform Now Accounts for 1 in 3 Smartphone Users  —  comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The funding and failures of Color, Silicon Valley's $41 million startup (wrapup of the week of hype and hate)  —  As you know I didn't like Color's launch a week ago.  I thought the app just wasn't very good.  Turns out I wasn't the only one.  It still has a two-star review on iTunes.
Discussion: SiliconValley.com and @bill_gross
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Can Color beat the backlash with an improved interface?  —  Mobile startup Color had one of the most spectacular launches in recent months — and not necessarily in a good way.  Because of its lineup of co-founders (including chief executive Bill Nguyen, who previously founded music service Lala) …
Discussion: TechCrunch and Mashable!
Electronista:
Sony chief Stringer slips plans for 8MP iPhone 5 camera  —  Sony chief Sir Howard Stringer may have unintentionally given away plans for an eight-megapixel camera in the iPhone 5.  During an interview with the WSJ's Walt Mossberg, he claimed that the company's camera sensor plant in Sendai …
Chris / cdixon.org:
App store shenanigans  —  I've downloaded and tested a few hundred iPhone and iPad apps.  One thing that I've noticed is that many of the top rated and ranked apps are pretty scammy.  Take for example “Night Vision.”  —  It's a top app in under Utilities for both paid and free iPhone apps.
Discussion: @cdixon
John Carney / CNBC:
Does Silicon Valley Have an Insider Trading Problem?  —  Don't be surprised if people connected with some of the hottest new tech companies find themselves hauled into court on insider trading charges.  —  Many in Silicon Valley apparently believe that insider trading rules don't apply …
Discussion: CNBC and All Facebook
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Nicole Perlroth / Everything Ventured:
The New Normal: Bessemer and Accel Both Close Billion Dollar Funds  —  “A million dollars isn't cool.  You know what's cool?  A billion dollars.”  —  Bessemer Venture Partners and Accel Partners each closed oversubscribed mega-funds today.  It took Bessemer only ten weeks to raise its new $1.6 billion fund.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:   IDG-Accel raises $1.3B for China, riding buzz from Facebook and IPOs
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Exclusive: Snafus forced Twitter data center move: sources  —  (Reuters) - An ambitious plan to prevent “Fail Whales,” the cartoon icon that greets frustrated Twitter users during network outages, has turned into a fail whale of its own.  —  A new, custom-built facility in Utah meant …
Discussion: AllTwitter
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Eric Schmidt Tried To Get Google To Hide His Political Donation In Search Results  —  Departing Google CEO Eric Schmidt was known for some of his bumbling public statements — like saying that privacy didn't matter — but apparently he made some internal blunders as well.
Discussion: VentureBeat
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Verizon 4G LTE ‘blows away’ Sprint's WiMAX in 1,000 speed tests  —  Sprint is no longer the “4G king,” BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk proclaimed on Friday following a massive speed test that pitted Sprint's HTC EVO 4G against Verizon Wireless' HTC ThunderBolt.
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
It's No Joke.  IPOs Are Back, Baby  —  Fourteen venture-backed companies went public in the first quarter of 2011, raising $1.4 billion in the process, according to the National Venture Capital Association.  That's the highest number to go public in a quarter since 2007.
Discussion: IBD Click
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google April Fools' Day 2011  —  This year, Google's hoaxes are less inspired and some of them aren't original either, but they're still funny.  Here are some of them:  —  1. Google China invented teleportation.  “Through the search is to let Google take you through time and space …
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Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
April Fools 2011: The Big List
THE DRUM:
Facebook ‘sued for $1 billion’ over Intifada page said to threaten Jewish lives  —  The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook itself are being sued for a billion dollars over their alleged role in furthering a radical Palestinian page called “Third Intifada,” which threatened Jews in particular with death.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion After Not Removing A Page Fast Enough
 
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Owen Thomas / The Wire:
My Plan To Build The Next Great Media Brand
Discussion: Poynter and GigaOM
Robert McMillan / Network World:
UberSocial fixes direct-message privacy bug
Discussion: IntoMobile
Ben Laurie / Google Online Security Blog:
Improving SSL certificate security
Discussion: WebProNews
Robert Lemos / InfoWorld:
VeriSign DNS fix paves way for safer Internet
 Earlier Items: 
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
MTV Loves Facebook, and Facebook Likes MTV a Lot (Video)
Discussion: All Facebook
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Google Answers Viacom in YouTube Appeal (Exclusive)
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Microsoft removes Imagewind from Marketplace, WP7 gets first bitter taste of rejection
Discussion: PC World, MobileCrunch and Neowin.net
Michael Kan / PC World:
China's Baidu to Compensate Songwriters for Music Downloads
Discussion: Electronista
Haaretz:
Israeli startup Conduit with more users than Twitter negotiating billion-dollar exit
Discussion: NetworkEffect and paidContent