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April 16, 2012, 10:55 AM

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Apple:
New iPad Arrives in South Korea & 11 Additional Countries This Week  —  CUPERTINO, CaliforniaApril 16, 2012Apple® today announced the new iPad®, the third generation of its category defining mobile device, will arrive in South Korea and 11 additional countries on Friday, April 20.
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Confirmed: Redpoint Leads $40M Funding Round for Path  —  Path, the mobile social networking start-up, is planning to announce it has raised Series B funding as early as tomorrow, according to sources.  —  Redpoint Ventures led the $40 million round, which values Path at $250 million.
Derek Andersen / Startup Grind:
Exclusive: Electronic Arts Set To Layoff +500 Employees  —  Exclusive: I've confirmed from multiple sources within Electronic Arts that the company is planning to layoff 500-1,000 people as soon as this week.  As of March 31 public numbers, that represents between 5%-11% of total company employees.
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Exclusive: Big changes coming to Kleiner Perkins  —  Brook Byers and Ray Lane scale back their future involvement.  —  Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is changing its partnership structure, according to prospective limited partners in the venture firm's next early-stage fund.
David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: Amazon Low Prices Disguise a High Cost  —  The Justice Department finally took aim at the monopolistic monolith that threatened to dominate the book industry.  So imagine the shock when the bullet aimed at threats to competition went whizzing by Amazon …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Netflix CEO calls out Comcast on net neutrality  —  When most Comcast subscribers complain, it's a blip.  When the CEO of Netflix vents to his 120,000 subscribers on Facebook, it's a salvo.  Reed Hastings doesn't agree with Comcast's approach to net neutrality and caps — and he wants everyone to know it.
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Samsung sends out event invites to “come and meet the next Galaxy” on May 3 in London.  Galaxy S III incoming?  —  Update: The event has been confirmed by Samsung.  —  Samsung could be just weeks away from unveiling its next flagship Android smartphone — the Galaxy S III …
Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
Roku to launch in Canada with over 100 channels, pre-orders start today  —  We heard that Roku was planning to go international with its tiny streaming boxes, and after launching in the UK a couple of months ago, the company has announced that its products are available to pre-order in Canada as of today.
PC World:
Twitter Tech Support: How Effective Is Tweeting a Tech Problem?  —  Companies do answer customer support questions sent via Twitter.  Here's how they handle it and how to be heard when you tweet your problem.  —  As the Web becomes increasingly social, more and more companies turn to Twitter …
Tweets: @qthrul
Ian Katz / Guardian:
Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin  —  Exclusive: Threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style ‘walled gardens’  —  The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation …

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Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek  —  You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
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:
Love, Magic, & APIs  —  I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page.  Don't hate.  It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hive 0.11, Stinger and SQL-Compatibility  —  The release of Hive 0.11 is exciting and represents a big step forward to delivery of Project Stinger and SQL-IN-Hadoop.  There is still some work to be done however.
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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