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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Zynga launches Zynga.com as it expands beyond Facebook in a big way  —  In a gigantic strategic step, Zynga announced today that it is launching a new Zynga.com destination web site where users can play its social games without going directly through Facebook.
Mark Pincus / Zynga Blog:
A Platform for Play  —  Today, we're proud to share a new platform for play.  The Zynga Platform is designed with two simple goals: more access to the best social games and more people to play with.  In a few days we're turning on a beta of Zynga.com which will feature our most popular games …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Zynga's John Schappert explains strategy behind the move beyond Facebook (interview)  —  John Schappert is the chief operating officer at Zynga.  Today, the company is releasing one of his team's big projects, formerly code-named Project Z, also known as Zynga.com for consumers and Zynga Platform for third parties.
More: AllThingsD
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Rumor Mill Ramps Up Production of Cheaper and Smaller iPads  —  The Apple rumor mill has kicked into overdrive in advance of next week's iPad event, pushing out a pair of speculative reports this morning about what lies in the company's product pipeline.  —  The most plausible …
Aaron Lee / DigiTimes:
Apple expected to unveil 16GB and 32GB iPad 3 as well as 8GB iPad 2 on March 7
Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
AT&T relents on unlimited data throttling, increases cap to 3GB for HSPA+ and 5GB for LTE  —  AT&T has announced today that it is retooling the throttling policy on its unlimited smartphone data plan, a legacy offering still in use by many customers — largely because it was long the standard-issue package sold alongside the iPhone.
Bits:
Et Tu, Google?  Android Apps Can Also Secretly Copy Photos  —  It's not just Apple.  Photos are vulnerable on Android phones too.  —  As Bits reported earlier this week, developers who make applications for Apple iOS devices have access to a person's entire photo library, as long as that person allows the app to use location data.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Android allows every app access to your photos, Google considering fix  —  Two days ago, the New York Times reported on an issue in iOS that allows third-party apps to access your photos if you them grant permission to access your location.  That's a bit of a hole in Apple's walled-garden approach …
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Readability for iOS Review  —  The official Readability app for iOS, available today on the App Store, had a complicated history with Apple and its approval process.  Since Readability relaunched last year with an ambitious focus on publishers and “read anywhere”, the service struggled …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Shutterfly To Buy Kodak's Online Photo Sharing Platform For $23.8M  —  After filing for bankruptcy, Kodak is announcing that it will be selling off parts of its online photo services business Kodak Gallery for $23.8 million.  The buyer?  Online photo sharing platform Shutterfly.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Keeping Google From Watching Your Searches  —  Worried about Google collecting data about your online searches?  —  An online privacy start-up called Abine is rolling out a tool Thursday that promises to help people keep their search information secret.  The tool, called Protected Search …
Alistair Barr / Reuters:
Exclusive: Facebook seeking bigger credit line: sources  —  (Reuters) - Facebook Inc plans to increase its $2.5 billion credit line to help cover a major tax hit when employee stock awards vest shortly after it goes public, according to two sources familiar with the company's plans.
Thing Labs “the blog”:
Brizzly is shutting the cave door  —  It's never easy to be the bearer of bad news.  Luckily, there's plenty of good news along with it.  —  First: Brizzly is shutting down at the end of this month  —  I know this stands in stark contrast to the last post I wrote, wherein I said that …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
For Impatient Web Users, an Eye Blink Is Just Too Long to Wait  —  Wait a second.  —  No, that's too long.  —  Remember when you were willing to wait a few seconds for a computer to respond to a click on a Web site or a tap on a keyboard?  These days, even 400 milliseconds …
Tradigital:
The Credit Card Is The New App Platform  —  This is a guest post written by Reid Hoffman, Ali Rosenthal and James Slavet from Greylock Partners.  —  Credit and debit cards are ubiquitous, but they're mostly pretty dumb.  That's about to change.  Over 170 million people in the U.S. have credit cards …
Thanks:@erikashaffer
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Delicious Founder Creates New People Search Engine, Skills.to  —  Joshua Schachter and his team of star developers at TastyLabs have begun work on a second project, an endorsement and people search engine called Skills.to.  The site lets you endorse people for their skills in various fields …
Estelle Shirbon / Reuters:
EU agencies say Google breaking data laws: commissioner  —  (Reuters) - EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said on Thursday that data protection agencies in countries across the European Union had come to the conclusion that Google's new privacy policy was in breach of EU law.
David Kravets / Wired:
Constitutional Showdown Voided: Feds Decrypt Laptop Without Defendant's Help  —  Colorado federal authorities have decrypted a laptop seized from a bank-fraud defendant, mooting a judge's order that the defendant unlock the hard drive so the government could use its contents as evidence against her.
Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal:
Google Grows in New York City  —  Google Inc. has dramatically expanded its presence in Manhattan in the past year, adding roughly 750 people to its outpost in 2011 in the most prominent example of a technology company shifting its focus toward New York.  —  After acquiring four New York companies …

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