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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions  —  uTorrent for Windows saw its first public release in September 2005 and soon became the most widely used BitTorrent application.  Today over 125 million users worldwide use the client regularly and this number continues to rise.
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
App.net reaches $500,000 funding goal with a day to spare  —  Dalton Caldwell's ambitious attempt at a new kind of social network has just achieved its no less daring goal of half a million US dollars in pledged funding.  The requisite threshold for funding App.net was crossed some 38 hours …
Tweets: @daltonc
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Malaria is no excuse for patent trolling, Mr. Myhrvold  —  Nathan Myhrvold, CEO of Intellectual Ventures, took issue with GigaOM this week after we expressed skepticism about his company's plans to hire a “VP of Global Good.”  —  In an interview with tech site Geekwire, Myhrvold said …
Tweets: @tomkrazit and @dangillmor
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
A feisty Nathan Myhrvold defends his quest for ‘Global Good’  —  Scientists and researchers working with Intellectual Ventures have come up with lots of wild ideas over the years.  Some of them have the potential to help the world, ranging from a laser to zap mosquitoes to a container for preserving vaccines for long periods of time.
More: Slashdot.  Tweets: @counternotions
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Fox sues to shut down Aereo copycat over TV streaming  —  Broadcasters have been battling for months to shut down Aereo, a service that uses dime-size antennas to stream TV to Apple devices.  Now, the fight has taken a strange new twist.  [Note: this post has been updated with BarryDriller comments]
Joe Pollicino / Engadget:
Barnes & Noble cuts prices across its Nook lineup, vies for your budget tablet affection  —  In what could be seen as a response to the positive reaction that Google's $200 Nexus 7 has garnered, Barnes & Noble has just cut down the prices on all three of its Android-based, seven-inch Nook Tablets.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Demonoid Domains Go Up For Sale  —  With an army of passionate fans, Demonoid was spoken about fondly by many in the torrent community.  Just two weeks ago it was one of the world's largest and most thriving torrent sites but a DDoS and hacker attack followed by a police raid brought it to its knees.
More: Neowin
Matthew Wong / Venture Capital Dispatch:
VCs Tune In to YouTube Channels  —  Producer and director Brian Robbins started AwesomenessTV six months ago to provide streaming shows ranging from a version of “The View” for teenage girls to a program featuring sports highlights and bloopers hosted by NBA star Blake Griffin.
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Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Spotify Radio for desktop gets thumbs up/down feature, letting you sync the songs you like across devices  —  Spotify enabled mobile radio on iOS a month ago, with the same functionality landing on Android last week.  —  Spotify Radio lets users create radio stations based on any artist, album or playlist.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Outlook.com team hints at IMAP support, admits Mac client support 'isn't great'  —  Microsoft launched its all-new Outlook.com late last month, but Mac users and fans of IMAP were left out in the cold.  Although Microsoft has never officially supported IMAP in Hotmail, a large number of users have always called for its inclusion.
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Apple Offered to License its Patents to Samsung for $30 Per Smartphone, $40 Per Tablet  —  Apple executives have testified the company was “shocked” when Samsung debuted its first Galaxy phones.  But, considering the Korean company was a major supplier, Apple apparently was also willing to make a deal with its rival.
Violet Blue / CNET:
Piracy witch hunt downs legit e-book lending Web site  —  commentary: Several authors on Twitter mistook an e-book lending Web site for a piracy hub, a mistake that eventually took the site offline.  As the dust settles, a disturbing picture of file-sharing hysteria emerges.

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