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March 5, 2012, 6:05 PM

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo's New CEO Preps Major Restructuring, Including Significant Layoffs  —  According to multiple sources both inside and outside the Silicon Valley Internet giant, Yahoo's CEO Scott Thompson is preparing a massive restructuring of the company, including layoffs that are likely to number in the thousands.
Rene Ritchie / iMore:
iPad 3 will have 4G LTE networking  —  The same source that originally told iMore Apple would be holding their iPad 3 event on March 7 has now let us know that the announcement will include 4G LTE networking.  We'd heard previously that 4G LTE would be coming to iOS in 2012 …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Apple's iOS runs HTML5 games three times faster than Android  —  HTML5 is the new lingua franca of the internet, but games that are written in the format tend to run too slow.  —  The platforms that run HTML5 faster are likely to have an advantage in running a whole new wave of applications and games.
Josh Kopelman / Redeye VC:
Video Pre-Roll Advertising: SOLVED  —  We've all had the experience — we want to watch a video online, but have to watch some useless pre-roll video beforehand.  This often frustrates the user, doesn't deliver value to the brand, and reduces the consumer's perception of the publisher.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Have Arrington and Conway screwed up big time with their investment in Highlight?  —  Tonight I'm getting message after message that friend after friend has joined Highlight (the photo above is of Paul Davison showing it off to some of its first users back in December on the day it launched into a closed beta).
Rob Malda / Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda:
Rolling Up My Sleeves  —  6 months ago I walked away from what might be the greatest job ever.  I had meaningful work at a place i truly called home.  It was a scary decision, but the right one: 14 years had managed to grind me down.  I needed to shake things up, but thats easier typed than done with a wife and two kids.
Sam Byford / The Verge:
Samsung denies April launch for Galaxy S III, will tell us on Twitter when the time is right  —  We recently heard from ZDNet Korea that Samsung's much sought-after Galaxy S III was on track for an April launch, but the company itself has taken to Twitter to refute these claims.
Wall Street Journal:
Plans for ‘TV Everywhere’ Bog Down in Tangled Pacts  —  It was dubbed “TV Everywhere.”  But for many TV viewers, it has had trouble going anywhere.  —  Nearly three years after Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corp. kicked off a drive to make cable programming available online for cable subscribers …
Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
Google Wallet app now notifies rooted users that they're not supported  —  It looks like Google is closing the book on the security concerns surrounding Google Wallet.  The search giant released a software update a couple of weeks ago that patched the hole that made prepaid funds vulnerable to theft …
Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed:
FWD: FWD: FWD: HELLO  —  Welcome to BuzzFeed FWD .  Tech, for humans.  —  Forward.  That's where technology is supposed to take us.  It took us to the moon!  It connected the world.  It brought us... Pinterest.  —  Tech used to be a discrete thing in our lives …
More: TPM Idea Lab and BetabeatThanks:@fwd
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Targeting Merchants, Square Debuts Register iPad App And Analytics; Now Processing $4B In Payments Per Year  —  As we reported earlier this year, mobile payments company Square revealed that it was planning to add a number of new operational capabilities and data analysis to the register, including in-depth analytics.
Janet I. Tu / Seattle Times:
Cloud computing to generate 14 million jobs, according to Microsoft-commissioned study  —  Research firm IDC, in a study paid for by Microsoft, predicts that cloud computing will generate nearly 14 million jobs globally by 2015 — based on the premise that companies that move to the cloud …
Adam Kmiec / The Kmiec Ramblings:
Walgreens And foursquare Make It Simple To Check In And Save  —  Check In, Scan and Save...Amazing!  —  In keeping with our concept of Return On Amazing, I'm excited and proud that today for the first time EVER when you check in at a Walgreens on foursquare, you'll receive a scannable coupon …
Erica Ogg / GigaOM:
Proview fights for iPad trademark all the way to bankruptcy  —  It's a lot harder to pursue a trademark case when you're bankrupt.  And that could soon be the scenario faced by Proview, the Taiwanese company that is asserting that it — and not Apple — owns the iPad trademark in China.
Jacqueline Palank / Wall Street Journal:
Kodak Fights Apple Bid to Restart Patent Litigation  —  Eastman Kodak Co. is asking a bankruptcy judge to block Apple Inc. from restarting patent litigation that would interfere with Kodak's planned sale of up to $2.6 billion of digital-imaging patents.  —  Kodak said it agrees with Apple …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
TVGuide.com Acquires Fav.Tv To Expand Mobile App Team  —  TVGuide.com has acquired social TV startup Fav.Tv in what executive vice president and general manager Christy Tanner says is a straightforward talent acquisition.  —  Plenty of startups are trying to reinvent the tv guide …

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