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March 15, 2012, 10:15 PM

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iFixit:
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 …
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
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” …
David Marcus / The PayPal Blog:
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 …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
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 …
Business Week:
Anarchy in the App Store  —  Path bills itself as a social network that cares about privacy.  For a while it was also an App Store outlaw.  When iPhone users downloaded it through Apple's popular storefront, the software surreptitiously sent a user's entire contacts list—including e-mail addresses …
Cade Metz / Wired:
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?
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Kindle 3.0 for iOS Released with New Library Design, Retina Graphics  —  Amazon's official Kindle app for iOS reached version 3.0 today, adding a number of improvements for the new iPad, as well as a new design for the eBook library.  —  The new view of Kindle for iOS is organized in two separate Cloud and Device tabs.
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Hulu refreshes its website UI: 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 …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Ashton Kutcher, Founders Fund Go In For $775K On ‘OpenTable For Stylists’ StyleSeat  —  OpenTable for hair stylists and other salon professionals StyleSeat is announcing a raise of $775K this morning, from enviable angel investors Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary's A-Grade, Founders Fund (!) and actress Sophia Bush.
Thanks:@melodymcc
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Aol Snaps Up Hyper-Local Photosharing App Hipster  —  Breaking: Aol (who is my employer somehow) has picked up local photosharing app Hipster for a low seven figures we're hearing.  The Hipster team of five will be working for the Aol mobile team out of Palo Alto, under badass Sol Lipman.  —  Updating.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Britney Spears Gets On Path, Which Is Raising Up To $30M At A $250M Valuation  —  So rumor (and Twitter) has it that singer Britney Spears was at Path yesterday, hanging with founder Dave Morin and rockstars Danny Trinh and Matt Van Horn in their spacious offices — and actually sitting at their boardroom table.
Paul Graham / Y Combinator:
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.
Ben Worthen / Digits:
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.
Kevin Lee / PC World:
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.
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
Lame hacker tool or trojan delivery device?  Hands on with Anonymous-OS  —  On March 13, an anonymous benefactor announced the availability of Anonymous-OS, a new live-bootable Linux distribution tailored for a... particular class of user.  The package was posted on Sourceforge and downloaded …
Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
New commission aims to connect classrooms to the Internet  —  Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will advise a commission launched Thursday to connect more classrooms to the Internet.  —  The Leading Education by Advancing Digital …
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
Survey says 90% of people want their next phone to have a larger screen  —  When Google announced the Samsung Galaxy Nexus back in October of last year we were taken aback by their decision to equip it with a 4.65 inch display.  Then last month at Mobile World Congress we saw HTC announce …

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