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February 9, 2012, 8:05 AM

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Dave Morin / Path Blog:

We are sorry. — We made a mistake. Over the last couple of days users brought to light an issue concerning how we handle your personal information on Path, specifically the transmission and storage of your phone contacts. — As our mission is to build the world's first personal network …

More: Computerworld, TechCrunch, Uncrunched, Pulse2, Mashable, bub.blicio.us, Neowin.net, Social Markets, PC Magazine, IntoMobile, GigaOM and ZDNet

Tweets: @davewiner and @ethank

Dustin Curtis / dcurt.is:

Stealing Your Address Book — It's not really a secret, per se, but there's a quiet understanding among many iOS app developers that it is acceptable to send a user's entire address book, without their permission, to remote servers and then store it for future reference.

More: Guardian, Marco.org, kottke.org, Tweetage Wasteland, ZDNet, parislemon and Gizmodo

Tweets: @arpit and @hunter

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

FYI. Dave Morin Didn't Lie To Gawker About Path Storing User Data

Tweets: @parislemon and @mathewi

Mike Isaac / Wired.com:

Path CEO: ‘We Thought We Were Doing This Right’

More: PandoDaily and ZDNet. Thanks:@efors

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

Don't Forgive Path, the Creepy iPhone Company that Misled Us Once Already

More: Scripting News and VentureBeat. Tweets: @parislemon, @mathewi, @mat, @davewiner and @nickbilton

Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Google Near Launch of Cloud Storage Service — Google Inc. is close to launching a cloud-storage service that would rival one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups, cloud-storage provider Dropbox Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. — Like Dropbox, Google's storage service …

Evelyn M. Rusli / New York Times:

Zuckerberg Takes Control, You Get $100 — Mark Zuckerberg must be one persuasive deal maker. — After eight years, Mr. Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, has an ironclad grip on the social networking giant. He owns 28.4 percent of all class B shares …

More: Business Insider and Gizmodo

Bloomberg:

Facebook's Saverin Agreed to Sell Shares to Digital Sky in 2010

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Facebook Details Bonuses for Top Executives

Joe Mullin / Wired:

Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free — The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, testified in a courtroom Tuesday for the first time in his life. The web pioneer flew down from Boston, where he teaches at M.I.T., to an eastern Texas federal court to speak to a jury …

More: Betabeat and Daily Patricia

Joe Mullin / Wired:

Patent Troll Claims Ownership of Interactive Web - And Might Win — The mother of all patent troll trials unfolds in Texas where Google, Amazon and Adobe are fighting a patent claiming ownership over online video, image rotation and search auto-complete. We explain and start a series.

More: TechEye and The Register. Thanks:@rsingel

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Chutzpah: Google also wants 2.25% of every iPhone sale — It's not enough that Google borrowed the phone's look and feel to make Android? — From Google's IEEE letter. Source: FOSS Patents. Click to enlarge. — It took a Techmeme news cycle for the import of Google's (GOOG) …

More: FOSS Patents, Gizmodo and Ars Technica

Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:

Microsoft Joins Apple, Calls for Reasonable Patent Rules

More: Inquirer, TechNet Blogs, TG Daily, Bloomberg, CNET, Computerworld and Seattle Times

Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:

Alleged iPad 3 casing photo appears, sources say coming soon with improved GPU but no quad-core, thicker profile — Today the Apple rumor mill is fixated on a photo doing the rounds which allegedly shows the back housing of the next iPad (the iPad 3, or iPad HD, depending on who you talk to).

Wall Street Journal:

Justice Department Poised to Clear Google-Motorola Deal — WASHINGTON—The U.S. Justice Department is poised to clear Google Inc.'s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, giving Google a powerful armory …

More: BGR, The Verge, Business Insider, PhoneArena, CNET, Electronista, Pulse2, AllThingsD and 9to5Google

Groupon, Inc.:

Groupon Announces Fourth Quarter 2011 Results — Revenue of $506.5 million, up 194% year-over-year Free Cash Flow of $155.1 million, up 258% year-over-year Operating Income of $15.0 million, up from $336.1 million loss Non-GAAP EPS of negative $0.02, including $0.07 of tax from international operations …

More: AllThingsD, Bloomberg, VatorNews, Pulse2, ReadWriteWeb, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, Reuters, Screenwerk and WebProNews

Tweets: @rakeshlobster and @cnetnews

Paulo Santos / Seeking Alpha:

Groupon: A Business That Does Not Easily Scale

More: The New Persuaders and Business Insider

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

Foxconn hacked by group called SwaggSec, here's what they are looking at... Hacker group SwaggSec just released a dump of Foxconn internal information, including a mail server login/password dump and logins to various online procurement sites and Intranets. The hack seems to be a retaliation …

More: AppleInsider, Business Insider, The Firewall, SlashGear, The Register, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Kotaku, Electronista, iClarified, The Verge and Softpedia News

Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:

Why Techmeme now lists events, and how to get your event listed — Events have always played an important role in the tech industry. Knowledge exchange and networking opportunities have long been a key draw, as Apple's history attests. The motivations for meeting have certainly expanded since the 1970s.

More: TechCrunch, bub.blicio.us and The Next Web

Tweets: @ross, @mparekh, @yannr, @dsilverman, @kessler, @anildash, @arnoldkim, @mittix, @sacca, @jlgolson, @fromedome, @om, @jspepper, @alexia, @eldon and @efeng

TuneCorner Music Blog:

Apple's iTunes Match (aka iMatch): The First Royalties Are In — The first royalty payments from iMatch are in, and they got me excited - the total amount is over $10,000 for the first two months. — This is magic money that Apple made exist out of thin air for copyright holders. — Let me explain:

More: The Verge, MacStories, Computerworld, Media Decoder, RazorianFly, iDownloadBlog.com and 9to5Mac

Reuters:

Lenovo beats Q3 net forecasts by raising market share — (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group Ltd beat market forecasts on Thursday with its third-quarter net profit thanks to its fast expanding market share. — Lenovo's shares rose sharply to their highest level in more than three and a half years after it reported its results.

More: Between the Lines Blog, Computerworld, Engadget and Wall Street Journal

Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:

Apple Loses Bid to Ban German Sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N — Apple Inc. (AAPL), maker of the iPad and iPhone, for the second time failed to win a ban on sales of Samsung Electronics (005930) Co.'s Galaxy 10.1N from a German court. — The Dusseldorf Regional Court rejected the bid today …

More: London Calling Blog, FOSS Patents and Electronista

Erica Ogg / GigaOM:

Protests against iPhone factory conditions planned Thursday for Apple Stores — Still unhappy with Apple's response to the New York Times' series on labor conditions in Chinese factories that make iPhones and iPads, two organizations are planning a globally coordinated protest on Thursday.

More: Computerworld, CNNMoney.com, Gizmodo, NYConvergence.com, BGR, 9to5Mac, The Register, Washington Post, The Verge, Business Insider, Latest from Crain's …, TUAW, PC Magazine and MacNN

Neil Callanan / Bloomberg:

Google May Open Retail Store at European Headquarters in Dublin — Google Inc. (GOOG) may open its first stand- alone retail store at its European headquarters in Dublin, according to a filing by the world's most popular search engine. — The Google Store would be open to the public and sell unspecified …

More: The Next Web

Michael Cooper / New York Times:

If Silicon Valley Costs a Lot Now, Wait Until the Facebook Update — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Imagine looking for a house in San Francisco or one of the nicer parts of Silicon Valley, which are already among the most expensive parts of the country. Now imagine having to bid against a legion of newly minted Facebook millionaires.

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:

Skimlinks is the real story behind Pinterest's success — I love it when a startup I've been covering for literally years suddenly finds itself in the spotlight, and for the right reasons. In this case, Skimlinks, originally from London but now with a growing US base …

More: The Next Web, ZDNet, Search Engine Journal and Marketing Land

Elliot Telford / Compete Pulse:

Google Social is Exploding Online! — Now that the dust has settled from the initial launch of Google+ it is time for some analysis of the social network's functionality and popularity. No doubt people are extremely excited with the new release of Google's social platform …

More: The Next Web

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