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May 4, 2012, 11:05 PM

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Brian X. Chen / Bits:
AT&T Chief Regrets Offering Unlimited Data for iPhone  —  When Randall Stephenson, AT&T's chief executive, spoke about the state of the wireless industry at a conference this week, he shared some surprisingly frank comments about the iPhone.  In particular, he said that he wished the company …
Sara Forden / Bloomberg:
Google Said to Face Fine by U.S. Over Apple Safari Breach  —  Google Inc. (GOOG) is negotiating with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over how big a fine it will have to pay for its breach of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s Safari Internet browser, a person familiar with the matter said.
Wall Street Journal:
Resume Trips Up New Yahoo Chief  —  Hedge fund Third Point LLC continued its attack against Yahoo Inc.'s management, calling for the immediate termination of Chief Executive Scott Thompson amid admitted inaccuracies in his academic credentials.  —  Third Point, which owns about 5% of Yahoo …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Loeb Demands Yahoo Board Fire CEO by Monday Over False Resume  —  Now that activist shareholder Dan Loeb has discredited Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's educational credentials and credibility, he's going full bore after the company's directors.  —  In a new letter to Yahoo's board of directors today …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
The iPad 2,4 Review: 32nm Brings Better Battery Life  —  When Apple launched the 3rd generation iPad (as the new iPad), it also dropped the price of the entry-level 16GB WiFi iPad 2 to $399.  Apple's products tend to hold their values exceptionally well, so this two-tablet strategy made sense.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Buys Location-Based Discovery App Glancee  —  A little under one month after its acquisition of Instagram, Facebook has acquired Highlight competitor and ambient location app Glancee.  —  The social network has already shut down the developer's passive location app and all three co-founders …
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites — now  —  The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance.  —  In meetings with industry representatives …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Messenger Apps Get More Life-Like, Now Show If Someone's Read Your Message  —  Facebook thinks mobile messaging should feel like you're having a face-to-face conversation, so today it updates its Messenger for iOS and Android apps with the ability to see if someone's read your message …
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
Nokia and execs hit with lawsuit alleging fraud over meager Lumia sales, failed turnaround  —  Troubled Finnish phone giant Nokia is increasingly troubled, unicorns be damned.  —  The latest bad news for the phone maker: along with high-ranking executives Stephen Elop (CEO) and Timo Ihamuotila …
Othman Laraki / Twitter Blog:
Innovate through experimentation  —  In order to offer you the simplest and most engaging Twitter experience, we frequently test hundreds of variations of new features and designs with small groups of users.  We test everything from subtle tweaks in the language of our sign-up pages and removing …
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
iOS app success is a “lottery”: 60% (or more) of developers don't break even  —  There is no shortage of stories about lone developers who made an app for the iPhone or iPad and had runaway success.  But in the real world, the majority of app makers struggle to break even, according to a recent survey by marketing firm App Promo.
Andrew Feinberg / Hillicon Valley:
Verizon moves toward 911 texting  —  Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski praised Verizon Wireless on Friday for selecting a vendor to help deploy its first-in-the-nation implementation of its “text-to-911” service.  —  The service will allow wireless phone users …
Nick Farrell / TechEye:
John McAfee arrested in Belize  —  John McAfee, who founded McAfee Antivirus, is in trouble with a country which he has given millions of dollars to help out.  —  McAfee lives in Belize and has even given the country's Coastguard a patrol ship.  —  Now he says that he has become a target …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Microsoft to Botmasters: Abandon Your Inboxes  —  If the miscreants behind the ZeuS botnets that Microsoft sought to destroy with a civil lawsuit last month didn't already know that the software giant also wished to unmask them, they almost certainly do now.
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google's April Updates: Bigger & Tiered Index, Document Ranking, Sitelink Changes & More  —  If it's the first Friday of the month, it must be time for Google to share its latest list of search quality updates.  And, like clockwork, Google didn't disappoint today — the company has posted …
Carl Franzen / TPM IdeaLab:
How OpenStreetMap Got Apple To Give It Due Credit  —  Apple has finally given credit where credit was due: To OpenStreetMap, a crowdsourced world map that Apple recently began using in its iPhoto app without proper attribution.  —  “Apple attributes OSM in iPhoto,” OpenStreetMap's official …
Bloomberg:
Facebook at 99 Times Profit Exceeds 99% of S&P 500 Index  —  Facebook Valuation Could Rise Higher on Road Show  —  Facebook Inc. (FB) is betting its growth prospects will persuade investors to pay 99 times earnings for its initial public offering, a higher multiple than 99 percent of companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

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