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April 14, 2012, 12:50 PM

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Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
EXPLAINER: Everything You Need To Know About Google's Weird Stock Split  —  Yesterday, in the second paragraph of the press release announcing its Q1 2012 earnings, Google said its board had unanimously approved “a stock dividend proposal.”  —  But as the company explained in a letter from its founders, it's not a dividend.
AppleInsider:
Apple releases Flashback removal tool  —  Coming on the heels of its Thursday Java update, Apple has released a separate program to remove the so-called Flashback trojan that has affected over 600,000 Macs worldwide.  —  Apple on Friday released version 1.0 of its “Flashback malware removal tool” …
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Silicon Valley's Secret, Vicious Lust for Hollywood Fame  —  Motivations are supposed to be pure in Silicon Valley.  Facebook, for example, was developed to make the world a better place; its billions of dollars in revenue are just a happy accident.  And when a Facebook scion eagerly promoted …
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple CEO Tim Cook spotted at video game designer Valve's headquarters  —  Apple's chief executive Tim Cook reportedly visited the Bellevue, Washington headquarters of Valve Corporation earlier today, inciting questions about new potential for collaboration between the two companies.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Valve reveals mystery hardware project: wearable computing  —  This morning, Valve Software set the world of gaming news abuzz by attempting to hire hardware engineers.  Now, Valve developer (and well-known programmer) Michael Abrash has revealed what kind of hardware the company is prototyping: computer technology you can wear.
Leigh Beadon / Techdirt:
New Draft Of CISPA Announced: Some Progress, Still Big Problems  —  The House Intelligence Committee has published a new draft of CISPA (pdf and embedded below), which includes the two amendments that were already approved, plus several other additions and changes.
Joel Kaplan / Facebook:
Damon Poeter / PC Magazine:
Scientists Build First Working Quantum Network  —  Scientists at the Quantum Dynamics division of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany announced Wednesday that they have built the very first, elementary quantum network comprised of a pair of entangled atoms …
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
iCloud's First Six Months: The Developers Weigh In  —  On October 12th, 2011, iCloud launched to millions of iOS users impatiently waiting to start getting their devices to sync with Apple's new platform, which CEO Tim Cook went on to call the company's next big insight for the next decade.
Robert McMillan / Wired:
Netflix To Open Source Army of Cloud Monkeys  —  Netflix is getting ready to unleash its Simian Army.  —  The online movie rental company uses a troupe of cloud software — it calls the programs “monkeys” — that poke and prod its online applications and keeps the web site and its services humming along.

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Channel 9:
Inside NuGet for C++  —  NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5!  It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry  —  In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls  —  For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah!  HDP for Windows is Now GA!  —  Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
 

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