iPad 3 4G Teardown  —  Our CXO flew to the Telstra store in Melbourne, Australia and was first in line to get the iPad 3 for our deconstructive pleasure.  A big thanks to Macfixit Australia for letting us use their facility for the teardown!  Tech Specs: Dual-core Apple A5X processor 9.7 inch LED backlit …

Exclusive: Kevin Rose Will Join Google  —  Digg founder Kevin Rose has been hired by Google, according to sources close to the situation.  —  Rose's mobile app incubator Milk yesterday announced it was shutting down its only product, Oink.  —  Google is not outright buying or “acqhiring” …

Introducing PayPal Here: The Future of Commerce for Small Business  —  PayPal has a long history of helping small businesses.  For 14 years we've provided the tools and services that have allowed millions of small businesses to grow by solving the complex and critical task of processing payments securely …

Tim Cook Dragged Path's Dave Morin Into His Office And Grilled Him  —  After Path was caught storing contacts from your address book on its servers, Tim Cook called its CEO Dave Morin into his office.  —  There, Cook and other Apple executives grilled him over the infraction …

The Retina iPad Apps To Test Tonight And Tomorrow  —  The new iPad nears.  Apparently Walmart will be selling them in just a few short hours, well before Apple itself does tomorrow morning.  Meanwhile, the first direct-to-consumer shipments should be hitting anytime now.

Microsoft Office 15 Preview  —  Forget the rumors.  Here's what it's really like to use the Office 15 Technical Preview, which Microsoft recently made available only to a select group of customers under non-disclosure agreement.  I was able to get my hands on a copy, and while it's …

Walmart to begin selling new iPad at 12:01AM tomorrow [updated]  —  Anxious Apple fans who weren't quick enough to place a pre-order before Apple sold out of pre-sales iPad inventory may end up getting their hands on the company's highly anticipated new tablet well before their fellow buyers.

Lenovo will be ‘first to market’ with a Windows 8 tablet, says source  —  Michael Dell said that he would offer an enterprise tablet “on the exact day” that Windows 8 ships to customers, but his company may have some competition right out of the gate: We've learned that Lenovo is internally planning …

IPO Candidate Apptio Raising $50 Million  —  Business-software maker Apptio Inc. is raising $50 million as it moves towards an initial public offering, the latest such start-up to attract a big funding round as investors turn their attention to companies targeting corporate tech buyers.

Super-Secret Google Builds Servers in the Dark  —  Inside the massive data centers run by Equinix, the lights are on in some cages, but off in others.  Photo: Peter McCollough/Wired.com  —  Just how far will Google go to hide its custom-built data-center hardware from the rest of the world?

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Hulu refreshes its website with a 55% larger video player  —  Hulu rolled out a huge update to its website user interface today, increasing the size of its video player by 55 percent.  —  The updated look makes a lot of sense since Hulu's number one draw is current season TV shows …

How Y Combinator Started  —  Y Combinator's 7th birthday was March 11.  As usual we were so busy we didn't notice till a few days after.  I don't think we've ever managed to remember our birthday on our birthday.  —  On March 11 2005, Jessica and I were walking home from dinner in Harvard Square.

Sprint to End Contract With LightSquared  —  Sprint Nextel Corp. will terminate a 15-year contract with billionaire Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. Friday and return $65 million in prepayments to the wireless start-up, according to people familiar with the plans.

Cambridge Sets Lasers to Vaporize, Removes Toner From Paper  —  We've already got laser printers that bake up fresh sheets of inked paper in seconds.  Now, the University of Cambridge is hard at work developing a laser “unprinter” that literally vaporizes toner without damaging the paper it's printed on.