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February 12, 2012, 9:55 PM

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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Anger for Path Social Network After Privacy Breach  —  Last week, Arun Thampi, a programmer in Singapore, discovered that the mobile social network Path was surreptitiously copying address book information from users' iPhones without notifying them.  —  David Morin, Path's voluble chief executive …
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
I'm So, So Sorry.  Here's My Belly.  Now Please Move On.  —  Don't get mad at companies because they apologize so quickly.  It's the only way to survive in the Internet.  —  “All this social media nonsense is destroying our community,” a prominent venture capitalist told me on the phone a couple of weeks ago.
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Google planning massive “Experience Center” and secret test labs at Googleplex  —  There are big changes ahead at the Googleplex, Google's Mountain View headquarters  —  The company is developing a huge 120,000 square foot “Google Experience Center,” which will serve as a sort of private museum …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
The Age of Big Data  —  GOOD with numbers?  Fascinated by data?  The sound you hear is opportunity knocking.  —  Mo Zhou was snapped up by I.B.M. last summer, as a freshly minted Yale M.B.A., to join the technology company's fast-growing ranks of data consultants.
Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:
‘Saturday Night Live’ accurately skewers Verizon 4G advertising  —  Leave it to the writers of NBC's Saturday Night Live to sum up the confusion for average customers over 4G and 3G speeds with this hilarious send-up of Verizon advertising.  It's not clear what the pitch is here, but it sounds pretty good to us.
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
Apple TVs are disappearing from shelves, could see an update next month as well  —  Last year, we learned that the new iPad is codenamed 'J2′ in the iOS 5.1Beta software and last week, we learned that it will likely be announced at the beginning of next month.
Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:
MySpace to Announce One Million New Users  —  When MySpace changed ownership last June, it was in free fall.  MySpace, the pioneering social media and music site, which at its peak in 2008 was attracting 75.9 million unique visitors a month, was down to about 33 million, according to comScore, and it was bleeding users every month.
Graham Cluley / Naked Security:
VIDEO: Boston Police hits back at Anonymous with sarcasm  —  Is it possible to fight Anonymous?  —  The movement is proud of saying that an idea can't be arrested or killed, but it seems like the Boston Police Department has thought of one way of fighting back: sarcasm.
AppleInsider:
Steve Jobs wins posthumous Grammy, accepted by Apple iTunes chief Eddy Cue  —  Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was awarded a Grammy Trustees Award on Saturday, and Apple senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue, accepted the award on his behalf.

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