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10:50 PM ET, April 5, 2011

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ChangeWave Research:
ChangeWave Survey Results: AT&T iPhone 4 Owners vs. Verizon iPhone 4 Owners  —  A new ChangeWave survey of 4,068 consumers has taken a close up look at key comparisons between Verizon iPhone 4 owners and AT&T iPhone 4 owners - including customer satisfaction and dropped call rates.
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Google's new cloud-based Android Music app leaks out  —  Wondering what Google's answer to Amazon's cloud music player for Android will look like?  Then it would seem you now have your answer —the Tech From 10 website somehow managed to receive a developer version of the Android Market …
Discussion: SAI and FierceMobileContent
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Tim Schiesser / Tech From 10:
The Android Test Market...?
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Google Restructuring: Engineers, Not Managers, In Charge  —  Jonathan Rosenberg said his resignation from Google yesterday was precipitated by Larry Page's return as CEO, but unrelated to Page's effort to restore the urgency of innovation and nimbleness that was once the company's hallmark.
John Casasanta / tap tap tap:
Camera+ hits 2 million sales / Revealing details about upgrade numbers and in-app purchase sales  —  Fresh off the heals of the Camera+ 2.2 release including our killer feature, Clarity, I'm happy to announce that this weekend we've sold our 2 millionth copy of Camera+.
Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:
Motorola Mobility: Xoom, Atrix Both Duds, Pacific Crest Says  —  Xoom: No boom, just gloom.  —  Motorola Mobility (MMI) isn't seeing much love for its current cornerstone smart phone and tablet products, Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette asserts in a research note this morning.
Jon Brodkin / Network World:
Bashing Microsoft ‘like kicking a puppy,’ says Linux Foundation chief  —  Linux has already defeated Microsoft, Linux Foundation chief says  —  Two decades after Linus Torvalds developed his famous operating system kernel, the battle between Linux and Microsoft is over and Linux has won …
Discussion: WinRumors
Sebastian Moss / PlayStation LifeStyle:
Anonymous Gets Serious, Attacks Sony Employees [Updated]  —  Infamous hacking group, Anonymous, began a series of attacks against Sony earlier today, bringing down several Sony sites and the PlayStation Network.  However, a radical offshoot of the main group believe that the attacks aren't enough …
Fred A. Bernstein / New York Times:
A Corporate Campus Made to Mirror Facebook  —  MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook, which started out in a dormitory at Harvard, transferred to a rented house in Silicon Valley and now occupies a cluster of office buildings in Palo Alto, Calif., is about to make its biggest move yet …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Accidentally Shows Users Someone Else's Timeline, Disables #NewTwitter To Fix  —  Twitter has been acting mightly strange for the past hour or so, with people reporting seeing random chunks of other users tweets in their timelines, including retweets while using the Twitter web client and browsing.
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
The Vote Is in and Twitter Gets its Tax Breaks.  Now, What about Everyone Else?  —  We just got word that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted 8-to-3 to approve the Mid-Market incentive plan that would give Twitter- and other companies- a six year payroll tax deferral for net …
Sarah Shearman / Marketing Magazine:
Twitter to offer brands Facebook-style pages  —  Twitter is considering creating Facebook-style branded pages as part of its drive to increase its revenue from advertising.  —  Twitter: considering Facebook-style branded pages  —  Branded pages, through which advertisers could deliver tailored messages …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Decline, plateau, decline: New data on The Daily suggests a social media decline and a tough road ahead  —  While the news industry looks at smartphone and tablet apps as a chance to build more engaged readers — and maybe even get people to pay! — for those of us who watch the business, apps are frustratingly opaque.
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Twitter unveils a new homepage, with a focus on interests  —  Reports around Twitter are telling us that some people are starting to see a new homepage on Twitter.com.  In fact, we've now seen a screenshot of it ourselves, so here you go.  —  Before:  —  After:
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Obama and Zuckerberg to Field Questions From Users at Facebook Live Town Hall  —  President Barack Obama, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will answer questions from users as part of a Facebook Live townhall to be held at the Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto.
The Silverlight Blog:
Standards-based web, plug-ins, and Silverlight  —  As we drive toward MIX, we wanted to share our thoughts on the role of plug-ins in general, and Silverlight in particular, in the context of HTML5 and the future of the web.  As we have been more vocal about our commitment to and investment …
Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Dell Aims To Boost Innovation With Silicon Valley R&D Center  —  Dell plans to employ as many as 1500 people at a new Dell Silicon Valley Research and Development Center and consolidate its N. California operations.  —  The company also wants to use the facility to tap into local talent …
Discussion: Forbes
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Brix, a New Google Docs App  —  Google Docs code includes references to a new application code-named Brix.  The files created using this application are called “Brix documents”, so Brix can't be a photo editor or a video editor.  —  Here's an icon that could be used for Brix documents: it shows some Lego bricks.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Why Nasdaq is giving Apple less weight, and Microsoft more  —  Nasdaq this morning sent a wave through the stock market with the announcement that that it will “rebalance” its closely followed and largely tech-oriented Nasdaq 100 Index to reduce the influence of Apple and boost the impact of Microsoft …
Discussion: BetaNews, Bloomberg, TUAW, CNET News and Techland
Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Toyota Pulls Out From Cydia - Struck By Apple's Lightning  —  We hear from time to time about apps that avoided Apple's approval process by going to Cydia.  Those apps can then be sold to jailbroken users.  If you're a big company like Toyota, it might not be that simple to do, not to mention naive to even try.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Marin Software Raises $16 Million For Paid Search Management Platform  —  Marin Software, a startup that creates search engine management software for advertisers and agencies, has raised $16 million in Series E funding led by Crosslink Capital with DAG Ventures, with Focus Ventures …
Discussion: Pulse2
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple to Introduce New Final Cut Pro on April 12th?  —  ProVideoCoalition claims to have heard rumors that Apple is planning to use the Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet to announce the next version of Final Cut Pro. … The post goes on to talk about other sponsors including Avid …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
House moves to overturn FCC on Net neutrality  —  Correction 4:50 p.m. PT: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said the House adopted a resolution blocking Net neutrality regulations.  It approved procedures for voting on the resolution.  The headline and story have been changed to reflect that.
Discussion: Electronista and Ars Technica
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Google Chrome to warn of malicious Windows executables  —  Social engineering put on notice  —  Google says it's expanding its blacklist of malicious websites to include those that use deceptive claims to push harmful Windows programs.  —  The addition to Google's Safe Browsing API …
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget:
Nokia announces Symbian smartphone event for April 12  —  It looks like Nokia is planning a little get together in London next Tuesday.  That is, at least according to the invite posted at Mad For Tech — and verified ourselves, after a quick call to the company (it seems …
Michael Kinsley / The Politico:
How Microsoft learned ABCs of D.C.  —  My first day of work at Microsoft, 15 years ago, I wore a DOJ baseball cap that a friend had given me when she heard I was going to work in Redmond, Wash. “DOJ” stood for Department of Justice, which is where my friend worked.
David Meyer / ZDNet:
Google loses autocomplete defamation case in Italy  —  Google has lost a case in Italy over the defamatory nature of autocomplete suggestions, according to a lawyer for the complainant.  —  On Tuesday, lead counsel Carlo Piana wrote on his blog that the Court of Milan has upheld …
 
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
One-Third Of Teens Plan To Buy An iPhone Soon
Discussion: AppleInsider
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Key music industry lawyer now EU copyright chief
Kunur Patel / AdAge:
New iAd Targeting Tactic Helps Marketers Hunt for Clues About Consumers
Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:
Report: Huawei in running for U.S. Cellular LTE deal
Sheerly Avni / Open Culture:
The Onion: Fake News Site Launches Real Archive
Phil Milford / Bloomberg:
Mark Hurd Appeals Letter Release to Delaware Supreme Court
Discussion: SAI and NewEnterprise
Jessica Dolcourt / The Download Blog:
Fring for Android, iPhone getting group video chats
 Earlier Items: 
Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
FounderLY: An Open Platform for Sharing Startup Stories
Discussion: TechCrunch
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Tenenbaum Appeal Heard: Is It Okay To Make Someone Pay $675,000 For Downloading 30 Songs?
Alyson Shontell / SAI:
Amazon Is The Most Reputable Company In The U.S.
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Likely Fake iPod 5th gen photos floating around, capacitive home button
 

 
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Filing: Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav's 2023 compensation package was worth $49.7M, up 26.5% from the year prior, with $23.1M in stock awards

Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Interviews with over a dozen current and former WAMU staffers and contractors show management's contradictory, unclear messaging about its closure of DCist

 
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