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May 6, 2012, 10:10 AM

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Paul Tassi / Forbes:
Draw Something Loses 5M Users a Month After Zynga Purchase  —  We may be seeing the beginnings of a lesson as to why it's not always the best idea to buy your competition outright.  Mobile giant Zynga's game development philosophy has always been, “If you can' beat 'em, buy 'em,” …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Set To Rebrand Itself As Gyre?  —  A few days ago the latest uTorrent alpha release saw the light.  —  Among other things, the new version aims to make downloads even faster for users with high bandwidth connections.  —  But there was something else quite unique about the release.
Kim Zetter / Wired:
Everyone Has Been Hacked.  Now What?  —  The attackers chose their moment well.  —  On Apr. 7, 2011, five days before Microsoft patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that had been publicly disclosed three months earlier on a security mailing list …
Tweets: @e_kaspersky
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Campus Tsunami  —  Online education is not new.  The University of Phoenix started its online degree program in 1989.  Four million college students took at least one online class during the fall of 2007.  —  But, over the past few months, something has changed.
More: TechCrunch and Darren HermanTweets: @dan_preiss
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
New Start Up CodeNow.Com Lets You Build And Test Code In Real Time, In Your Browser  —  Trying new APIs is tricky.  You can spend hours setting things up, gaining permissions, and learning syntax before you even get to write one line of code.  That's why CodeNow.com is cool.
Tweets: @stevecheney
Steven Troughton-Smith / High Caffeine Content:
2007's pre-M3 version of Android; the Google Sooner  —  When Google first showed off Android, they showed it running on a device very similar to Blackberries or Nokia E-class devices of the time.  This device was the Google Sooner - an OMAP850 device built by HTC, with no touchscreen or WiFi.
More: The VergeThanks:@sidharthdassani
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
YC Price Guide Startup Priceonomics Raises $1.5M Seed From Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel  —  How much should you pay for a used iPhone, TV, or bicycle?  Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel and more think you need to know, so they've invested $1.5 million into Priceonomics, a Y Combinator winter 2012 startup.
Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo, Alibaba Working on New, Taxable Deal  —  Yahoo Inc. has been working on a new deal to sell a portion of its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. back to the Asian company, and a transaction could be completed within weeks, people familiar with the matter said.

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Channel 9:
Inside NuGet for C++  —  NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5!  It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls  —  For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah!  HDP for Windows is Now GA!  —  Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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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