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April 30, 2012, 5:55 PM

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Makes $300M Investment In New Barnes & Noble Subsidiary To Battle With Amazon And Apple In E-books — Barnes & Noble has found a new, major partner in its fight to get an edge over Amazon and Apple in the heating up market for e-books and the devices being used to consume them …

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft and Barnes & Noble settle patent dispute; create new subsidiary

More: GeekWire, The Seattle Times, FOSS Patents, Neowin, eWeek, The Tech Trade, VatorNews, Know Your Cell, Computerworld, Macworld and GeekWire

Om Malik / GigaOM:

At $1.7 billion, Nook is worth more than Barnes & Noble itself

More: CNET, Reuters, Internet Evolution, Tech Trader Daily and Digits. See also Mediagazer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

B&N 8-K: Microsoft Paying $180M Advance On Nook For Windows 8, $125M For Content, Tech Acquisition

More: WebProNews, BetaNews, TechNet Blogs and paidContent

Anil Dash:

Why you can't trust tech press to teach you about the tech industry — If there were one lesson I'd want to impress upon people who are interested in succeeding in the technology industry, it would be, as I've said before, know your s**t. Know the discipline you're in …

More: parislemon. Tweets: @rafat, @rafat, @davemcclure, @codinghorror, @anildash, @asadotzler, @bobbiejohnson and @mathewi

Dan Farber / CNET:

Java creator James Gosling: “Google totally slimed Sun” — Gosling said that Sun was “wronged” by Google, and that Oracle is right to sue Google for the way it used Java code in Android. — Follow @dbfarber — James Gosling speaks at JavaOne conference in San Francisco in May 2007.

More: Wired, Pulse2 Technology …, Business Insider, SlashGear, 9to5Google, FOSS Patents, MacNN, ZDNet, Datamation.com and Dave Winer's …

Rachel King / CNET:

Oracle: Google execs ‘knew this day would come’ — SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle made its closing statements during the first segment of the Oracle-Google trial this morning, and it all boils down to this: Google is making excuses for taking the property of Sun Microsystems — and now Oracle — and using it on Android.

More: Mercury News and WebProNews. Tweets: @robglaser

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Google defends fair use of Java on Android in closing statements

More: News on ZDNet Australia

BBC:

The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules — The Pirate Bay is hosted in Sweden, where it has an active supporter base — File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled. — The Swedish website hosts links to download mostly-pirated free music and video.

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Verizon launches $80 prepaid plan with 1GB of data and unlimited talk / text, plus a prepaid MiFi hotspot — Verizon's looking to put some pressure on the prepaid carriers of the world — the company just announced a new $80 prepaid plan that offers unlimited calling, texting, and 1GB of data.

More: PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, CNET, FierceWireless and Engadget

Jessica Dolcourt / CNET:

Verizon, Comcast join forces in six new markets

More: The Verge and GigaOM

Mor Naaman / GigaOM:

Apple squared, (four)squared — I was down in Soho last week, visiting (of course) the new Manhattan REI store. After the shopping spree, I pulled out my iPhone and found a dinner recommendation on Explore: five of my friends had eaten at La Esquina, several of them more than once. Bingo.

More: MacStories and Street Fight

Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News:

Skype Reveals Remote and Local IP Address Of All Online Users — If you are a user of the messaging software Skype, you know that you can see the location of your contacts in the Skype interface. What you probably do not know is that there is currently a way to display a Skype user's remote and local IP address as well.

More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, CNET, Pulse2 Technology … and Neowin. Tweets: @tyrgr

Michelle Levi / ABC News:

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg Reveal a New Tool on Facebook that Could Save Lives in Exclusive Interviews with ABC's Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer — Zuckerberg Interview to Air on “Good Morning America” and Sandberg Interview to Air on “World News with Diane Sawyer” Tuesday, May 1, 2012

More: VentureBeat, AllFacebook, Computerworld and ITProPortal

David Kushner / New Yorker:

George Hotz, Sony, and the Anonymous Hacker Wars — In the summer of 2007, Apple released the iPhone, in an exclusive partnership with A.T. & T. George Hotz, a seventeen-year-old from Glen Rock, New Jersey, was a T-Mobile subscriber. He wanted an iPhone, but he also wanted to make calls using …

More: Betabeat, Gizmodo, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie, iPhone in Canada Blog and 9to5Mac

Paul Miller / The Verge:

I'm leaving the internet for a year — At midnight tonight I will leave the internet. I'm abandoning one of my “top 5” technological innovations of all time for a little peace and quiet. If I can survive the separation, I'm going to do this for a year. Yeah, I'm serious.

More: WebProNews and Geek News Central. Tweets: @futurepaul, @jsnell, @blam, @zpower, @jyarow, @joannastern, @theromit and @jyarow

Phil Milford / Bloomberg:

Google Sued by Pension Fund Over Proposed Stock Split — Google Inc. (GOOG), the world's largest Web-search provider, was sued by a Massachusetts city's pension fund claiming the company's planned stock split would unfairly create nonvoting shares. — The Brockton Retirement Board contends …

More: Reuters

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Socialcam Nabs Angel Funding From The A-List: Yuri Milner, Tim Draper, Laurene Powell Jobs, And More — The race to be the “Instagram for video” is hotter than ever, and Socialcam, the app that spun out of video sharing pioneer Justin.tv last year and was part of Y Combinator's winter 2012 class, is hustling hard for the lead.

More: Business Insider, NBC Bay Area, Mashable!, VentureBeat, the Econsultancy blog and AllFacebook

Don Reisinger / CNET:

Groupon Now hits 1.5 million deals, outpacing original Groupon — Groupon Now has gotten off to a good start. — (Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) — The original Groupon platform might have set the stage, but Groupon Now has gotten off to an even better start.

More: Business Wire, The Next Web, WebProNews and ITProPortal

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

LG To Pull Away From Windows Phone's Loving Embrace, Refocus On Android — Sure, Windows Phone is still but a baby alongside Android and iOS, but the platform shows promise. Woz likes it. And the fact that it's backed by hardware partners like Samsung and Nokia says good things, as well.

More: The Korea Herald, PhoneArena, BGR, CNET, IntoMobile, SlashGear, wpcentral, Softpedia News, Windows Phone Life, PhoneNews.com, Techie Buzz, WMPoweruser, Neowin, MacNN, Computerworld and The Verge

Sagi Cohen / Ynetnews:

Apple's Israeli hiring goes into high gear — High-tech workers, update your CVs: In the coming weeks, Apple's Israeli headquarters will be posting dozens of positions to be filled — Sagi Cohen — Preparations for — At the end of March, Apple's international site was already running four ads …

More: AppleInsider and MacNN

Steve D. Jones / Digits:

IBM's Pick Of SugarCRM Creates More Rivals For Oracle — Much has been made of the rivalry between Oracle Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. in cloud computing. But last week a venture-backed start-up secured one of the richest contracts in business for software to manage sales, marketing and customer relationships.

Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:

Watch out, Raspberry Pi: Intel unveils ultra-small Next Unit of Computing PC — Details of a new, ultra-compact computer form factor from Intel, called the Next Unit of Computing (NUC) are starting to emerge. — First demonstrated at PAX East at the beginning of April …

More: Dice Blog Network, SlashGear, Liliputing and The Tech Report

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Apple and Taxes: What the New York Times Missed — I have never seen the exterior of the offices of Braeburn Capital in Reno, Nevada, and so I have the New York Times to thank for the photograph of its offices that accompanied its Sunday front-page story on how Apple avoids paying certain taxes …

More: Washington Post, The Huffington Post and Forbes. Thanks:@ahess247

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

iTunes Match Launching in New Countries Including Austria, Greece, and Italy — MacRumors has begun receiving reports that iTunes Match has started going live in several new countries today. So far we have heard from users in Austria, Greece, and Italy, with some users reporting …

More: 9to5Mac, MacStories, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, App Advice, iClarified and The Next Web

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