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March 11, 2012, 11:30 AM
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Zee / The Next Web:
Well that's that.  Gowalla shuts down.  —  Three months after the acquisition of Gowalla by Facebook, the company has officially closed it doors.  The screenshot below can be found on the location startup turned travel guide's homepage.  —  The termination is a timely one.
Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily:
Amazon's brilliant plan to pay you crazy money for your iPad 2  —  It's been three days since Tim Cook unveiled the new iPad, but you're still stuck with your trusty old iPad 2.  You're keen to get rid of it so you can buy the new one, but you forgot to log in to one of those buy-back sites before Wednesday's launch.
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Review: iPhoto for iOS out-does Adobe for mobile image editing  —  Apple released the final piece of its iLife suite for iOS on March 7, delivering a universal version of iPhoto for iPad and iPhone (sorry, iPod touch users).  We spent some quality time with the app using an iPad 2 and iPhone 4 …
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
How Frictionless Sharing Could Undermine Your Legal Right to Privacy  —  You might not think about the Fourth Amendment while you're using Facebook and other online tools, but you probably should.  —  You are no doubt familiar, now, with Facebook's concept of “frictionless sharing.”
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Eric Chu Steps Away From Overseeing Android's App Store, Jamie Rosenberg Expands Role  —  There was more than meets the eye with this week's rebranding of Android Market as Google Play.  —  Accompanying the new name and look is a shift in how the store is being managed.
Paul Graham:
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas  —  One of the more surprising things I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are.  In this essay I'm going to demonstrate this phenomenon by describing some.  Any one of them could make you a billionaire.
Mike Isaac / Wired:
With Schemer, Google Plots to Bolster Its Social Efforts  —  AUSTIN, Texas — Google's official party line is “Don't be evil.”  Scheming while twirling a nefarious handlebar mustache, however, seems to be a different story.  —  The data giant isn't going all Snidely Whiplash on us.
Bloomberg:
Apple Drives Silicon Valley's Biggest Leasing Boom Since 2000  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) is leading the biggest leasing surge in California's Silicon Valley since the dot-com boom, as the company scours the region for space before building a futuristic new headquarters.
Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
YouTube Finds a Way Off Schools' Banned List  —  Educators are giving YouTube — long dismissed as a storehouse of whimsical, time-wasting and occasionally distasteful videos — another look.  As Google, YouTube's parent company, fine-tunes a portal that lets schools limit students' access …
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Loopt's Sam Altman on Why He Sold to Green Dot for $43.4M  —  Mobile location start-up Loopt will be acquired by the banking company Green Dot, best-known for its prepaid cards.  —  The deal is worth $43.4 million in cash, though that includes $9.8 million set aside in retention payments for key Loopt employees.
Robert McMillan / Wired:
After Megaupload Bust, Putlocker and RapidShare Pick Up Slack  —  The Feds shut down Megaupload two months ago, but browser-based filesharing hasn't slowed down.  It has just moved to other websites.  Before the takedown, Megaupload was the most popular web-based filesharing service — by far.

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Eli Stokols / Politico:
A look at the tense relationship between Biden and The NYT, beset by misunderstandings, grudges, lack of trust, and his refusal to give the paper an interview

Michael Sisak / Associated Press:
A US appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, finding the trial judge let women testify about allegations that were not part of the case

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount and Skydance move closer to a deal, but Paramount's renewal agreement with Charter, which has an April 30 deadline, is a significant hurdle

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