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March 29, 2012, 4:10 PM

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Paul M. Barrett / Business Week:

Apple's War on Android — In her black robe and strand of white pearls, Lucy Koh projects the serious, deliberate demeanor befitting a U.S. District Court judge. The Harvard-educated former federal prosecutor has served on the California state bench and as a partner in a Silicon Valley law firm …

More: The Verge, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, iPhone Hacks, Between the Lines Blog, Fortune, 9to5Mac and iDownloadBlog.com

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Tim Cook Might Abandon Steve Jobs' ‘Thermonuclear War’ On Android — Top Apple executives have met with top Samsung executives about settling their patent fights, Paul Barrett at Bloomberg Businessweek reports. — Barrett writes, “Apple CEO Tim Cook does not seem to share his predecessor's passion about laying all foes to waste.

More: CNET and MacDailyNews

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Paper: the next great iPad app, from the brains behind Courier — Georg Petschnigg throws his hands into the air as he traces thousands of years of human evolution that led us to develop the fragile wrists we need to use tools. Petschnigg locks his wrist into place and pretends to scribble …

More: CNET, BGR, Betabeat, iDownloadBlog.com, MobileBurn.com, Pulse2 Technology …, MacNN, Gizmodo UK, I4U News, App Advice, everythingiCafe, Appolicious Advisor, T3 News and Lifehacker. Tweets: @jonfingas

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

The (Semi)Skeuomorphism — Last night's release of Paper …

More: 9to5Mac

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Google's Android has generated just $550m since 2008, figures suggest — Data provided in response to Oracle claim suggests iPhone generated four times more revenue than Google's own handsets — Android generated less than $550m in revenues for Google between 2008 and the end of 2011 …

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

No, Google Doesn't Make Four Times More Off The iPhone Vs. Android

More: The Verge and SiliconBeat

Chris Gallagher / Reuters:

Star-struck Japan PM befriends Facebook's Zuckerberg — (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda frequently entertains dignitaries from all over the world, but he was a touch star-struck on Thursday when he hosted a young billionaire with a whiff of celebrity: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.

More: Asiajin, Tech in Asia and ZDNet. Tweets: @davemcclure

Mark McDonald / IHT Rendezvous:

Zuckerberg in China: Let the Rumors Begin

More: All Facebook, VentureBeat and Agence France Presse

Matth / Nielsen Wire:

Smartphones Account for Half of all Mobile Phones, Dominate New Phone Purchases in the US — Almost half (49.7%) of U.S. mobile subscribers now own smartphones, as of February 2012. According to Nielsen, this marks an increase of 38 percent over last year; in February 2011, only 36 percent of mobile subscribers owned smartphones.

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Millennial Media Shares Pop 100 Percent In First Trade; Valued At Nearly $2B — Mobile ad network Millennial Media just debuted on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “MM,” and saw shares pop 97 percent in the first trade of $25. The company initially priced its IPO at $13 per share last night …

More: Digits, GigaOM, paidContent, mocoNews, Mercury News, VatorNews, PE Hub Blog, Pulse2 Technology …, The Tech Trade, The Next Web, MarketingVox News & Trends and VentureBeat

Christopher Mims / Technology Review:

Google's New ‘Account Activity’ Is a Sham — When it comes to privacy, Google wants to be the good guy . Too bad that's not enough. — Google Account Activity is Google's fairly transparent attempt to differentiate itself from Facebook by being open about what it knows about you.

More: Search Engine Watch, msnbc.com, Washington Post and GigaOM

Amar Toor / Engadget:

LG unveils flexible plastic e-paper display, aims for European launch next month — LG has made no secret of its fondness for flexible e-paper, but those dreams became a reality today, with the announcement of a six-inch display that promises to “revolutionize the e-book market.”

More: VentureBeat, PC World, ExtremeTech, Gizmodo, Mashable!, Fudzilla, Betabeat and TechSpot. See also Mediagazer

Larry Dignan / CNET:

Best Buy feels Amazon squeeze, to close 50 big-box stores — Selling consumer electronics isn't as easy as it used to be for Best Buy. The big-box retailer is closing 50 stores and compensating employees based on customer service after its fiscal fourth-quarter sales fell short of expectations.

More: GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, Thomson IR, TechSpot, The Verge, Engadget, The Tech Trade, TechFlash, HotHardware.com News, Supply Shock, Tech Trader Daily and BGR

Hulu Blog:

Hulu Plus Arrives on Seven Android Tablets. With a Brand New Style. — Today marks a very special day for us at Hulu. From the beginning, our focus has been to bring the world's most beloved TV shows and movies to entertainment fans whenever they want, wherever they want.

More: CNET, 9to5Google, GigaOM, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile and WebProNews

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google Now Using ReCAPTCHA To Decode Street View Addresses — Have you started seeing images in online reCAPTCHAs that look suspiciously like house numbers pulled from Google Street View? Well, as it turns out, that's exactly what they are. Google confirmed it's currently running …

Thanks:@sarahintampa

Bloomberg:

Apple's Tim Cook Visits Foxconn IPhone Plant in China — Apple Inc. (AAPL) Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook visited Foxconn Technology Group's newly built manufacturing facility for the iPhone in Zhengzhou, China, as the U.S. company seeks to improve working conditions.

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Bump Launches Payments App To Let You Share Money By Tapping Phones Together — More than a snazzy new feature, Bump Pay is the culmination of lessons learned by CEO David Lieb. — Bump, the app that lets users “bump” smartphones together to share contacts and photos, is launching another service to let users pay the same way.

More: The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, PandoDaily, VentureBeat, Appolicious Advisor, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Bump Blog, ABCNEWS, VatorNews and App Advice

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

iPhone 4 owners can register for $15 antennagate settlements (updated) — The official website for the iPhone 4 “antennagate” class action settlement is live, as pointed out by co-lead counsel on the case Ira Rothken. Of course, speaking of cases, if you're an iPhone 4 owner who has taken advantage …

More: PC World, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Gotta Be Mobile, Inquirer, AllThingsD, AppleInsider, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, WebProNews, iPhone, SlashGear, everythingiCafe, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, TUAW, iLounge, CNET and MacRumors

Sarah Mitroff / VentureBeat:

Fake ID holders beware: facial recognition service Face.com can now detect your age — Facial-recognition platform Face.com could foil the plans of all those under-age kids looking to score some booze. Fake IDs might not fool anyone for much longer, because Face.com claims …

More: ProgrammableWeb, BetaNews and WebProNews

Brett Slatkin / Google Small Business:

A fast, accurate, and affordable way to do online market research — From international brands to local food trucks, every business wants to make important decisions with their customers' feedback in mind. Which version of your new logo will people like better? How much interest do dog owners have in organic dog food?

More: Google News Blog, Marketing Land, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Between the Lines Blog, WebProNews, paidContent, Adweek, SlashGear and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

Deborah Gage / Venture Capital Dispatch:

HootSuite Takes A Little Cash Off The Table To ‘De-Risk,’ Aims For Bigger Game — Social media management company HootSuite Media has ballooned since it started a little over three years ago, winning business from global brands and growing to nearly four million users, with $75 million in revenue expected this year.

More: Pulse2 Technology …, PandoDaily, Reuters, BetaKit, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, AllTwitter and TechCrunch

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

London taxi app Hailo takes on $17m in series A funding led by Accel, and gears up for US launch — London-based taxi app Hailo has announced a whopping $17m Series A funding round, which is one of the largest European first-rounds in recent times. — The Next Web first covered Hailo back in November …

More: VentureBeat, Business Insider, PandoDaily and TechCrunch. Thanks:@tgw_paul

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Snapguide wants to be your handheld how-to guide for everything — There are plenty of websites that provide in-depth information about specific topics, but apart from a few tired old services like eHow from Demand Media, there aren't many places you can go to find how-to guides for a wide range …

More: Bits, Digital Trends, Snapguide, PandoDaily, PandoDaily, Lifehacker, Uncrunched and TechCrunch. Thanks:@mathewi

Arne Hess / the::unwired:

AVAILABILITY: HTC announces One X, One S and One V availability for next week [UPDATE] — Tagged under: [HTC] [HTC_One] [HTC_One_X] [HTC_One_S] [HTC_One_V] [HTC_Sense_4.0] [Android_4.0] — HTC today announced that its recently announced HTC One-series of Android smartphones will be available …

More: CNET, Engadget, Pulse2 Technology …, Pocket-lint, Android Phone Fans and PhoneArena

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Google adds real-time traffic estimates to Maps directions — Google has started rolling out traffic estimates for Maps users in selected areas. When you search for driving directions in places with the feature, you'll see an ideal or average time at the top, followed by a time marked “in current traffic.”

More: Search Engine Land, Google LatLong and Engadget

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Spotify Keeps the Free Music Party Going in the U.S. — Good news for American Spotify users who don't want to pay for their music: The streaming service will continue to let them listen to anything they want, without restrictions, for a while longer. — The free-music party was supposed …

More: Music Ally, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Spotify, CNET, Wired, paidContent:UK, SlashGear, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, Media Decoder and Softpedia News. Thanks:@thekenyeung

Iain Marlow / Globe and Mail:

RIM begins laying off high-level staff: source — Research In Motion Ltd.'s RIM-T new CEO Thorsten Heins has begun getting rid of high-level staff at the troubled smartphone giant, according to a source close to the company. — Ahead of RIM reporting fourth-quarter and year-end financial results …

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