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Dan Seifert / The Verge:
Samsung takes a page from Apple's Passbook with new Wallet app  —  Samsung took the wraps off of its new Samsung Wallet app during a developer conference at Mobile World Congress on Wednesday.  The Wallet app is designed to let users store things such as event tickets, boarding passes …
Dennis K. Berman / Wall Street Journal:
Is Twitter Really Worth $10 Billion?  —  I spent the last week trying to write a column that proved Twitter wasn't worth $10 billion.  Then the facts intervened.  —  Stubbornly, they arranged themselves into a most unexpected conclusion, one that seems almost blasphemy to type …
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft launches updated Office 365 for business users  —  Summary: Microsoft is launching the services piece of its ‘new Office’ for businesses on February 27.  Here's what new and existing users can expect, as of today.  —  In late January 2013, Microsoft launched its consumer-focused version …
Christopher Soghoian / ACLU:
New Document Sheds Light on Government's Ability to Search iPhones  —  Cell phone searches are a common law enforcement tool, but up until now, the public has largely been in the dark regarding how much sensitive information the government can get with this invasive surveillance technique.
Wall Street Journal:
In India, iPhone Lags Far Behind  —  By DHANYA ANN THOPPILin Bangalore, India,AMOL SHARMA in New Delhi And JESSICA E. LESSIN in San Francisco  —  Apple Inc. is overhauling its iPhone operations in the crucial Indian market, attempting to chip away at Samsung Electronics Co.'s dominance …
Ryan Tate / Wired:
This Amazing 3-D Desktop Was Born at Microsoft  —  LONG BEACH, California - The history of computer revolutions will show a logical progression from the Mac to the iPad to something like this SpaceTop 3-D desktop, if computer genius Jinha Lee has anything to say about it.
Billy Steele / Engadget:
Adobe outs Photoshop Touch for phones, ready to outfit pockets for $4.99  —  Jealous about your mates' ability to edit photos and whatnot via their mid-sized slates?  Well, Adobe has just announced a solution that's ready to equip your handset of choice.  That's right, the pro design software …
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Why don't MacBooks come with cellular networking?  —  I've shared John Gruber's theory on this for a while: … It's been long enough since cellular modems in PC laptops became commonplace, and the MacBook line is diverse enough, that the omission of cellular options looks like a deliberate choice …
Michael V. Copeland / Wired:
New App Turns Your iPhone Into a Mobile Urine Lab  —  LONG BEACH, California - For entrepreneur Myshkin Ingawale the logic was unassailable.  Everybody pees.  And everyone has a cellphone.  “There has to be something going on there,” Ingawale told a chuckling crowd at the TED conference.
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:
Boss Talk: What RSA Learned From Its Security Breach  —  There's a lot of hyperbole in the war against hackers.  Art Coviello, the 59-year-old executive chairman of EMC Corp.'s RSA security division, is in a position to size up the real threat.  —  RSA makes the login security systems used by 95 of the Fortune 100 companies.
More: AllThingsD
Brandon Bailey / Mercury News:
Yahoo responds to outcry, says work-from-home ban is not an ‘industry view’  —  SUNNYVALE — Appearing to acknowledge the uproar over its recent move to order telecommuting workers back to the office, Yahoo (YHOO) issued a brief statement Tuesday to assert that it wasn't offering a broad judgment on the practice of working from home.
More: NYT Bits.  Tweets: @sdkstl.  Thanks:@brandonbailey
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple CEO to Face Investors Seeking More of Cash Hoard  —  CalPERS' Simpson on Apple, Einhorn, Preferred Stock  —  As Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook takes the stage at this year's shareholder meeting, he may not get the reception he received in 2012, when investors lauded the company's performance and rising shares.
More: Digits and AllThingsD
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
“Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Starts, With Mystery Punishments  —  The MPAA and RIAA, helped by five major Internet providers in the United States, will start to warn BitTorrent pirates this week.  The parties launched the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) and agreed on a system through …
More: Geekosystem and BBC
Wisdoms of Pearl:
Tweens + Instagram = Tweenstagram !!!  —  While hanging with my 12 year old cousin the other day, I unknowingly entered into the world of Tweenstagram, a vastly different space than the Instagram I have grown to know and love (and refresh too often).  And what a FASCINATING world it is!
More: Betabeat and BuzzFeed
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Apple joins Intel, Facebook, Microsoft, others in support of gay marriage  —  Today, as reported by Bloomberg, Apple has joined the cadre of technology companies publicly in favor of the legalization of gay marriage in the United States.  —  At stake here is a Supreme Court case …
Damon Poeter / PC Magazine:
Intel Tackles Big Data With Release of Apache Hadoop Platform  —  Intel on Tuesday made a big play to provide organizations with an open-source, hardware-accelerated, and secure foundation for big data analysis with the announcement of the global availability of Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop software.
Vinod Khosla / TechCrunch:
“Venture Assistance”: A Philosophical View Of What Boards Should And Should Not Do  —  Editor's note: Legendary investor Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures.  You can follow him on Twitter @vkhosla.  —  Most VCs pitch their venture firms as value added to a company's entrepreneurial founders.
Tim Maly / Wired:
Freescale's Insanely Tiny ARM Chip Will Put the Internet of Things Inside Your Body  —  Freescale's Kinetis KL02 MCU is very small.  Photo courtesy: Freescale.  —  Chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor has created the world's smallest ARM-powered chip, designed to push the world of connected devices into surprising places.
More: PhoneArena and Gizmodo

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Eli Stokols / Politico:
A look at the tense relationship between Biden and The NYT, beset by misunderstandings, grudges, lack of trust, and his refusal to give the paper an interview

Michael Sisak / Associated Press:
A US appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, finding the trial judge let women testify about allegations that were not part of the case

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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