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May 6, 2012, 10:10 AM

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

They Shoot Yahoo CEOs, Don't They? But Not Without a Really Smoking Gun and a Much Stronger Board. — Earlier today, Yahoo's persistent thorn, activist shareholder Dan Loeb of Third Point poison-penned another letter to the board of the Silicon Valley Internet company …

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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,” …

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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 Herman. Tweets: @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 Verge. Thanks:@sidharthdassani

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

If VLC can ship a free DVD player, why can't Microsoft? — Summary: Microsoft's decision to remove support for playing DVD movies in Windows 8 has caused some confusion. If the VLC media player can provide DVD support for free, why can't Microsoft? For starters, Microsoft isn't French.

More: MSDN Blogs, Engadget, PC Magazine, International Business Times, Softpedia News and Neowin

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

AT&T HTC One X bootloader denied official unlock solution due to ‘restrictions’ — Yesterday, MoDaCo noticed that the bootloader on the AT&T version of the HTC One X was locked and that HTC's online tool for unlocking it didn't work. We reached out to HTC on the matter …

More: Engadget, SlashGear, IntoMobile, MobileBurn.com, Android Phone Fans, TechCrunch, modaco.com, Android Community and TalkAndroid.com

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.

More: The Gong Show and Priceonomics Blog

Emil Protalinski / ZDNet:

Facebook blames Scoble snafu on spam false positive — Summary: Facebook has explained why a comment made by Robert Scoble earlier today was blocked for being “irrelevant or inappropriate.” The social networking giant is blaming it on a spam false positive.

More: TechCrunch, Robert Scoble, TechCrunch, ZDNet and Betabeat. Tweets: @edbott

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.

More: Business Insider, Reuters and Techonomy

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