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April 1, 2012, 11:45 AM

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VentureBeat:

OMGPOP CEO tweets that only employee not to transition to Zynga was the “weakest” one — Last week, GamesBeat reported that Shay Pierce was the only OMGPOP employee to decline a position with Zynga after it bought the Draw Something developer. Pierce wrote an editorial for Gamasutra …

More: Epeus' epigone and Business Insider. Tweets: @tfadp, @tfadp, @dickc, @notch, @tomcoates, @helloandy, @tziegmann and @tapbot_paul

Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat:

OMGPOP CEO responds to criticisim of his tweets about former employee — Early this morning, GamesBeat reported that Dan Porter, chief executive officer of OMGPOP (developer of the Pictrionary-clone Draw Something), publicly called out the only employee not to join Zynga after the $210 million buyout.

More: AllThingsD. Tweets: @tfadp

Scott Austin / Digits:

‘Girls Around Me’ Developer Defends App After Foursquare Dismissal — The developer of a controversial mobile app that used data from Facebook and Foursquare to reveal the location of nearby women defended its intentions Saturday after drawing a firestorm of criticism over privacy concerns.

More: AllThingsD, Charlie's Diary, Digits, MacNN, Cult of Mac, PC World, textually.org, Business Insider and TechCrunch. Tweets: @pkafka

John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:

Creepy Girl-Stalking App Girls Around Me Has Been Yanked From The App Store — Notorious girl stalking app Girls Around Me has been pulled from the App Store. — Girls Around Me — the creepy geo-location app that allowed you to stalk and find personal information about girls …

More: Business Insider, Appolicious Advisor, TechCrunch, Pulse2 Technology …, Digital Trends, Pulp Tech Blog, PC Magazine and msnbc.com. Thanks:@cultofmac

Amit Runchal / Interactioned:

Whom Do We Blame? — This story by Nick Bilton in the New York Times …

More: Online Dating Insider, MacNN, The Verge, Bits and Cult of Mac

Zee / The Next Web:

A Round Up of ALL of Google's April Fools Jokes. Fair play, they really make an effort... If there's one thing Google clearly does better than its competing tech giants, it's April Fools. We were honestly having difficulty writing up pieces on each of Google's announcements as they flew …

More: CNET, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Gmail Blog, WebProNews, Technabob, The Official Google Blog, StevenLevy.com, Gotta Be Mobile and Google+

David Kravets / Wired:

Megaupload User Demands Return of Seized Content — An Ohio man is asking a federal judge to preserve data of the 66.6 million users of Megaupload, the file-sharing service that was shuttered in January following federal criminal copyright-infringement indictments that targeted its operators.

More: Ars Technica, The Verge and Electronic Frontier Foundation

Zack Whittaker / London Calling Blog:

UK ‘to announce’ real-time phone, email, Web traffic monitoring — Editors note: Despite this being April 1, or ‘April Fools Day’, this story is not a fabrication nor a joke. For background to this story, head this way. — Under new UK legislation, Internet service and broadband providers …

More: BBC and ZDNet. Thanks:@zackwhittaker

Wall Street Journal:

RIM Weighs Bleak Options — Research In Motion Ltd.'s new chief executive faces two bleak options: Attempt a bold turnaround of the embattled BlackBerry maker, or find a willing buyer. Neither will be an easy task. — RIM said sales of BlackBerrys fell sharply in the latest quarter …

More: TechCrunch, WMPoweruser, SeekingAlpha.com, MacDailyNews and Electronista

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

OMGPOP Draws Zynga's Daily User Traffic Up By 25% — As the dust settles after Zynga's purchase of New York mobile social game developer OMGPOP, the company is visibly taking on a new shape. A 25% larger and more mobile one. That's the percentage growth of its total daily active user base …

More: PhoneArena

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

French ‘Three Strikes’ Law Slashes Piracy, But Fails to Boost Sales — It's a cheerful day for the copyright industry. In France the controversial “graduated response” law (Hadopi) has evaporated unauthorized file-sharing. — A new report from the Hadopi office, conveniently written …

More: Techi.com and gHacks Technology News

Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:

Obama to sign pro-crowdfunding JOBS Act into law Thursday — A piece of legislation designed to make crowdfunding a legal option for startups will be passed into law as President Barack Obama plans to sign the JOBS Act Thursday, VentureBeat has confirmed. — The Jumpstart Our Business Startups …

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Smartbooks redux: Qualcomm promises ultrathin quad-core laptops — Windows 8 may bring a failed computer category back from the dead: in late 2009, Qualcomm promised that an ARM-based laptop computer called a “Smartbook” would change the industry, and today, PCWorld reports that the company is promising ARM-based laptops once again.

More: Engadget, Windows 8 Beta, CNET, Liliputing, PC World, Neowin.net and netbooknews.com

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