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April 29, 2012, 1:45 PM

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New York Times:

How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Global Taxes — Apple, the world's most profitable technology company, doesn't design iPhones here. It doesn't run AppleCare customer service from this city. And it doesn't manufacture MacBooks or iPads anywhere nearby. Yet, with a handful of employees …

More: Gizmodo, MacRumors, New York Times, 9to5Mac, Pulse2 Technology …, Fortune, VentureBeat, MacStories, CNET, Business Insider, iClarified, MacNN, 24/7 Wall St. and Slashdot

Tweets: @blam, @chpwn, @chronic, @nytimes, @felixsalmon, @gaberivera and @cdixon

Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:

Exclusive: Google releases FCC report on Street View probe — Google has released the full report of the Federal Communications Commission's investigation into the data it collected and stored from millions of unknowing households across the nation while operating specially equipped cars for its Street View service.

More: Ars Technica, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Computerworld, The Verge, CNET, Pulse2 Technology …, SlashGear and Slashdot. Tweets: @csoghoian

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Google Engineer Told Others of Data Collection, Full Version of F.C.C. Report Reveals — Google's harvesting of e-mails, passwords and other sensitive personal information from unsuspecting households in the United States and around the world was neither a mistake nor the work of a rogue engineer …

More: CIO Network

Wall Street Journal:

Big Data's Big Problem: Little Talent — It seems that the markets are as much in love with “Big Data”—the ability to acquire, process and sort vast quantities of data in real time—as the technology industry. — The first Big Data initial public offering hit the market last week to roaring approval.

Thanks:@saokar

Ken Auletta / New Yorker:

Get Rich U. — There are no walls between Stanford and Silicon Valley. Should there be? — Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever. Students ride their bikes through manicured quads …

More: The Verge, Pulse2 Technology …, Slashdot, Gizmodo and SiliconANGLE. See also Mediagazer

Nick Bilton / Bits:

Start-Ups Keep Revenue at Zero to Cash In on Acquisition — The gears of Silicon Valley continue to mesh and turn because of money, not necessarily technological innovations. And there are certain things about that money machine that denizens of the Valley would rather keep quiet.

Tweets: @davemcclure, @davemcclure, @bill_gross, @zimbalist and @rafat

J.B. / Fusible.com:

Google finally launches Cube, play your way through a cubic Google Maps world — Back in January, Google released a teaser video for a Google maps-based game that was set to be released in February. But February, came and went and the game wasn't released.

More: NevilleHobson.com, VentureBeat, Google Maps Mania, Examiner, TechRadar.com, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget and Softpedia News. Thanks:@fusible

New York Times:

Developers Are Working on Television Apps, but TV Industry Is Wary — The same consumers who delight in navigating the iPad still click frustratingly through cable channels to find a basketball game. Their complaint: Why can't television be more like a tablet?

More: Stowe Boyd and WatchingTV Online

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Why is Silicon Valley silent on CISPA? — In January, America's major tech companies joined everyday internet users to break the back of a reviled law called SOPA. Months later, Washington is brewing a new law that alarms many SOPA opponents — but this time the same companies have been quiet as church mice.

More: Foreign Policy, The Verge and Business Insider

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: The Billion-Dollar Inside Story of How Demand Media Almost Went Private Last Week (And Then Didn't) — According to sources close to the situation, Demand Media was deep into discussions with a private equity firm to complete a deal that would have taken the online content company private …

More: The Domains. See also Mediagazer

James Trew / Engadget:

Woz: Windows Phone is ‘beautiful,’ Android ‘no contest,’ still loves iPhone, ask again tomorrow — When Steve Wozniak talks mobile, people love to listen. Last time we checked in, he was lauding some of Android's finer points, and now he's raining praise on Windows Phone.

More: Examiner, A New Domain, Nokia Conversations, CNET, wpcentral, OSNews, Redmond Pie, The Verge, GeekWire, VentureBeat, MacNN, The Next Web, iClarified, Business Insider, Neowin, PhoneArena, WMPoweruser and Computerworld

Semil Shah / TechCrunch:

The Seven Forces Disrupting Venture Capital — Editor's Note: TechCrunch columnist Semil Shah currently works at Votizen and is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter @semil — For the past few years, I have read over what seems like hundreds of blogs and thousands of tweets …

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