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April 30, 2012, 8:05 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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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

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

More: WebProNews, TechNet Blogs and BetaNews

Om Malik / GigaOM:

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

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

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

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

More: News on ZDNet Australia, FOSS Patents, Neowin, The Seattle Times, The Tech Trade, Know Your Cell, Computerworld, GeekWire, Macworld and eWeek

Peter Svensson / Associated Press:

B&N, Microsoft team up on Nook, college businesses

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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 …

Tweets: @alex, @rafat, @davemcclure, @codinghorror, @anildash, @asadotzler, @bobbiejohnson, @rafat 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: PC World, Ars Technica, Associated Press, Wired, Business Insider, Pulse2 Technology …, SlashGear, 9to5Google and FOSS Patents

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, News on ZDNet Australia and WebProNews. Tweets: @robglaser

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Google defends fair use of Java on Android in closing statements

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.

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

Rumor: Digg to be acquired by The Washington Post — With a history only fitting an Internet business, Digg has seen the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows, and everywhere in between. — We've received a tips from multiple sources that Digg may have found a suitor by way of The Washington Post.

More: CNET. Tweets: @lessien, @robpegoraro, @edbott, @mathewi and @ckrewson. Thanks:@alex. See also Mediagazer

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, PR Newswire, Pulse2 Technology …, Gizmodo, CNET and FierceWireless

Jessica Dolcourt / CNET:

Verizon, Comcast join forces in six new markets

More: The Verge and GigaOM

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: ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Pulse2 Technology …, AllFacebook, Computerworld and ITProPortal

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

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. Tweets: @jsnell, @blam, @zpower, @jyarow, @joannastern, @theromit, @jyarow and @futurepaul

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

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Violin Memory Boosts Latest Funding Round to $80 Million — Last month AllThingsD reported that Violin Memory, the flash memory technology start-up, had raised $50 million in a Series D round at an implied valuation of more than $800 million. — That funding round, I've since learned …

More: VentureBeat

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: The New Persuaders, Business Insider, Mashable!, NBC Bay Area, VentureBeat, Pulse2 Technology …, WebProNews and the Econsultancy blog

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 and CNET. Tweets: @tyrgr

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: VentureBeat and Reuters

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Confirmed: Schultz and Efrusy to Leave Groupon Board; “Accounting Types” Joining — According to sources close to the situation, Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz and Accel Partners' Kevin Efrusy will be stepping down from the board of Groupon. — Schultz's departure will be effective today …

More: VentureBeat, GeekWire, TheStreet.com, The Tech Trade, Tech Trader Daily and Business Wire

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, Pulse2 Technology …, ITProPortal and WebProNews

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: TechFlash, Coyote Tracks, iPhone and Washington Post. Thanks:@ahess247

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

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

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Rumor: Hulu Will Soon Require Viewers To Have A Cable Subscription [Update: It'll Happen, But Not “Soon"] — If you love watching TV shows on Hulu but don't have a cable subscription, things could get a bit more complicated in the near future. According to the New York Post …

More: The Verge, Hillicon Valley, GigaOM, Betabeat, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Gizmodo, Techdirt, Ubergizmo and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

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