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March 22, 2012, 4:15 PM

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Jessi Hempel / Fortune:

Is Pinterest the next Facebook? — An exclusive look inside CEO Ben Silbermann's social media sensation. — FORTUNE — Ben Silbermann can't stop staring at the refrigerators. The Pinterest co-founder and CEO and I are standing in the break room of his company's garage-size Palo Alto office.

More: TechCrunch, BuzzFeed, The Verge, Fast Company, Digiday, StartupStats, Beet.TV and Poynter

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Pinterest Has Hired The Man Who Came Up With The ‘Blueprint’ For Facebook's Monetization

Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:

BlackBerry Loses Top Spot to Apple at Home: Corporate Canada — Canada's love affair with the BlackBerry is waning. — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) has been ousted from the top spot for smartphone shipments in its home market for the first time, trailing Apple (AAPL) Inc.'s iPhone.

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Why is RIM Hiring iOS App Developers? — First, Research In Motion opened its highly secure Enterprise servers to Apple's iPhone. Then it unveiled BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, a enterprise device-management software for it. — And now, it appears the company plans to build apps for the iPhone as well.

More: BGR, CNET and iDownloadBlog.com

Richard Barley / Tweetdeck Blog:

TweetDeck Updated: Lists, Activity, Media and more — Today, we're releasing a new version of TweetDeck. This update introduces some great new features as well as a host of smaller improvements and bug fixes. Check out this video for a quick tour of the updates, and read on for more information.

More: LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Lifehacker, Engadget, Mashable!, WebProNews, The Next Web, Pocket-lint and SlashGear

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

MegaUpload's host pleads for cash to preserve user files — The cost of hosting 25 petabytes of data belonging to MegaUpload's users is too much for Carpathia Hosting to support on its own. — Carpathia said in court filings on Tuesday that the company is dedicating 1,100 servers …

More: Ars Technica and Associated Press

Edward Gay / New Zealand Herald:

Dotcom gets extra $60k, Mercedes

More: CNET and Media Decoder

Brian Womack / Bloomberg:

Facebook Is Said to Buy 750 IBM Patents to Boost Defenses — Facebook Inc. (FB) acquired 750 patents from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), adding intellectual property that may help it counter allegations of patent infringement, a person with knowledge of the transaction said.

More: CNET, Mashable!, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Business Insider

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Senate Passes Crowdfunding Bill With Added Protections for Non-Accredited Investors — The U.S. Senate today approved 73-26 an amended version of legislation that will legalize “crowdfunding,” or equity investments in start-ups by the general public. — The CROWDFUND Act adds requirements …

More: SiliconBeat, Betabeat, TechCrunch, The Verge, VentureBeat, Fortune, Politico, CBS News, Mashable!, Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding and StartupStats

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Facebook takes photos high-def and full screen — Today, Facebook is announcing a few big updates to its photo viewer: it will now display photos in high resolution by default, and will allow you to enter a full screen gallery mode by clicking arrows in the top right corner of a photo.

More: AllThingsD, Techland, Facebook Newsroom, Friending Facebook Blog, Gizmodo, All Facebook, TechCrunch, Facebook, Photography Blog, msnbc.com, SlashGear and Softpedia News

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Teases us with a Peek at an Advanced TV Remote — As rumors swirl and dance about in the blogosphere about Apple's coming HDTV, an Apple patent application pops up just in time to tease us about some of the possible new features that their TV remote may offer.

More: AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors and Business Insider

David Pierce / The Verge:

Acer Iconia Tab A510 announced for US: Tegra 3 and Android 4.0 for $449.99 — We first got a look at the Acer Iconia Tab A510 back at CES, courtesy of Nvidia, but at that point Acer was mum on the details. Now it's ready to talk, announcing that its first quad-core tablet is heading to the US and Canada.

More: Computerworld, Engadget, IntoMobile, AndroidGuys, LAPTOP Magazine, PhoneArena, CNET, Gizmodo, ABCNEWS and Electronista

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Sony Tablets to get Android 4.0 update in April; Wi-Fi-only Tablet P announced

More: 9to5Google, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, MobileSyrup.com, WebProNews, MobileBurn.com, TechnoBuffalo, Liliputing, CNET and Android Phone Fans

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

On These Rumors of a 4.6-Inch iPhone Display — Reuters: … Lots of attention on this rumor, but no one seems to be pointing out that if it's true, this new iPhone would need way more pixels than the current 960 × 640 iPhone display. (If they increased the size …

More: Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Computerworld, CNET, ITProPortal, AppleInsider, Mobile Magazine, App Advice and The Loop

Kathleen De Vere / Inside Mobile Apps:

Angry Birds Space rockets to the top of the App Store charts in over 28 countries — Only a few hours after its debut, Rovio's Angry Birds Space has hit the top of the App Store charts in more than 28 countries. Released last night at 1:00 am PST, or 10:00 am Helsinki time …

More: GeekWire, VentureBeat, Forbes, Gotta Be Mobile and WebProNews

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Rovio launches Angry Birds Space, crashes on to iOS, Android, PC and Mac from 99¢

More: IntoMobile, Geekosystem, Business Insider, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, CNET, Computerworld, Inquirer, BGR, VG247, Mashable!, Redmond Pie, Softpedia News, iPodNN, Apps blog and Quintura blog. Thanks:@jonrussell

Dan Rowinski / ReadWriteWeb:

Lookout Predicts Americans Lose $30 Billion in Smartphones a Year — We've all done it. You step out on the street after paying for your coffee at Starbucks or handing the cab driver a tip. Your first natural inclination is to reach in to your pocket, dig out your cellphone and call somebody and say, “hey, I'm on my way.”

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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Nvidia reclaims title of world's fastest graphics chip with Kepler launch — With the debut of its code-named Kepler project, Nvidia is retaking the crown today as the creator of the world's fastest graphics chip. Most people may not care about that, but hardcore gamers who play the latest games will be happy.

More: Shiny Objects, eWeek, Inquirer, Engadget, AnandTech, GeForce, Engadget, The Register, Computerworld, Softpedia News, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, WebProNews, Electronista, TechPinions, SlashGear, PC Magazine, dailywireless.org, Joystiq and MacNN. Thanks:@deantak

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

I can't stop reading this analysis of Gawker's editorial strategy — In January, newly minted Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio announced an experiment: Each day for two weeks, a single staff writer would be assigned “traffic-whoring duty.” [Language alert.]

More: Online Journalism Blog

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Nokia takes Apple to task over nano-SIM proposal: ‘does not meet all of the pre-agreed requirements’ — You might recall Financial Times' report that Apple is seeking to get its nano-SIM proposal approved by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) over a competing proposal from Nokia …

More: Engadget, TUAW, iClarified, MobileBurn.com, SlashGear, The Next Web, The Register, iDownloadBlog.com and MacNN

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Path's Round Is At A $250 Million Pre-Money Valuation Led By Redpoint Ventures — We've confirmed rumors from sources close to the company that Path's new round of financing will be at a $250 million pre-money valuation led by Redpoint Ventures. We're hearing the actual funding amount is about $20 million.

More: VentureBeat and StartupStats

ACLU:

Your Facebook Password Should Be None of Your Boss' Business — Today, the Associated Press reports that some employers are asking applicants for their Facebook usernames and passwords. According to the article: … Responding to the news, ACLU attorney Catherine Crump said:

More: CNN, Law Blog, Hillicon Valley and WebProNews

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

Have The Samwers Gone Too Far With Their Blatant Amazon Clone Lazada? — Try as they might the poor innovative startups of Germany - we're talking guys like Soundcloud, Amen and 6wunderkinder to name just three - still have to deal with their industry's most famous exports being out-and-out cloners.

More: GigaOM. Tweets: @nero

Marc Chacksfield / Tech Radar:

Sony Music Unlimited app coming to iOS ‘in weeks’ — COO reveals big move to the land of Apple — Coming soon to App Store — The COO of the Sony Entertainment Network, Shawn Layden, has revealed that its Music Unlimited service will be coming to iOS devices in the coming weeks.

More: MacRumors, Macgasm, TUAW and App Advice

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Amazon, Eucalyptus team up for just don't call it a hybrid cloud — On paper it looks like one of those strategic agreements that large companies sign-up with small startups. But if you look close enough, you will find that by forging a partnership with Santa Barbara …

More: Computerworld, Forbes, tecosystems, ReadWriteWeb, Wired, eWeek and Between the Lines Blog. Thanks:@om

The Verge:

Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta hands-on — Adobe has been dropping preview links to its upcoming version of Photoshop CS6 for months now, even hyping it up with a Rainn Wilson cameo at MAX 2011. Photoshop CS6 marks one of the app's most drastic visual changes, with a darker visual redesign …

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

U.S. Congress grills 33 iOS developers on compliance with Apple's app privacy policies in official letter — The U.S. Congress has begun requesting more information about how iOS developers comply with Apple's privacy policies regarding apps, how they gather information from users and what they do with it afterwards.

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, Committee on Energy … and BostInno

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Address Bar Security Issue Found in iOS 5.1 Safari — A security firm has discovered a security issue in the iOS 5.1 version of MobileSafari, the most recent version of the operating system that runs on millions of Apple mobile devices. The behavior was discovered and detailed by David Vieira-Kurz of MajorSecurity.net.

More: The Next Web and iLounge

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Firefox To Use Google Secure Search By Default; Expect More “Not Provided” Keywords To Follow — The popular Firefox browser is on track to use a secure method of searching Google by default, a change that will help prevent potential “eavesdropping” of what people are searching for.

More: WebProNews, Softpedia News, Search Engine Roundtable, Help Net Security, slight paranoia and Computerworld

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