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.

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 …

Apple's iPad 3 Launch Putting Squeeze on Freight Shipments from China  —  While rumors of iPad 3 shipments already being en route having been circulating for some time now, we're now hearing from shipping representatives at other companies who are having a difficult time even getting …

Introducing a new local search experience across your devices  —  (Cross-posted on the Google Mobile Blog)  —  How often are you doing a Google search from your computer to find information about a place before going there?  Now, next time you go to Google.com on your Android phone or iPhone …

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Burstly Quietly Acquires TestFlight and Secretly Builds TestFlight Live  —  Towards the end of last year, I reached out to the guys behind TestFlight to see if they were interested in talking about their funding situation.  You can't blame me.  It seems that nearly every popular iPhone app …

Ovi Share to be discontinued  —  GLOBAL - We have made the decision to discontinue the Ovi Share service as of May 30, 2012.  Naturally, we are committed to helping you download all of your content and make the experience as seamless as possible.  —  If you are an Ovi Share user …

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 …

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 …

The Search For A New Business Model  —  HOW NEWSPAPERS ARE FARING TRYING TO BUILD DIGITAL REVENUE  —  By Tom Rosenstiel and Mark Jurkowitz of PEJ  —  A new study, which combines detailed proprietary data from individual newspapers with in- depth interviews at more than a dozen major media companies …

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.

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 …

Numecent makes any app a Web app  —  “Memory manager in the network” improves performance, bandwidth efficiency for Web apps and makes it possible to stream virtual machines.  —  Neat trick: Numecent runs memory paging through the Internet.  —  Numecent is rolling out its “cloud paging” technology today.

Facebook Messenger For Windows Desktop Chat Client Launches After Leaking  —  You might spend more time using Facebook if you didn't have to leave a browser window open, so today Facebook officially launches its Messenger for Windows free downloadable desktop client.

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 …

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 …

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.

16GB Galaxy Nexus Headed to Verizon April 5, DROID Incredible 4G on April 26  —  Back in mid-February, our sources told us to expect both a white and dark version of the Galaxy Nexus on Verizon with 16GB of storage in the coming months.  We weren't given a specific date at that time, however …

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 …