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March 4, 2013, 12:50 PM

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Bloomberg:
Apple's Planned ‘IWatch’ Could Be More Profitable Than TV  —  While Tim Cook has dropped hints that Apple Inc. (AAPL) is hard at work on a television to drive the next era of growth, the company's wristwatch-style device, still in development, may prove more profitable.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Apple's watch will run iOS and arrive later this year, say sources  —  Jony Ive wants a spot on your wrist  —  More details are emerging about Apple's forthcoming watch, which is targeted for release this year, according to aBloomberg report this morning and corroborated by our sources.
Wayne Williams / BetaNews:
Xbox Live premieres its first movie  —  In tough economic times, raising the money and getting a movie made without any major stars in it can be more than a little challenging for independent film makers.  Getting it distributed is even harder.  —  So instead of trying to get their movie into cinemas …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Warren Buffett: If he were Tim Cook, he'd be buying Apple  —  “If you could buy dollar bills for 80 cents, it's a very good thing to do.”  —  FORTUNE — In a three-hour appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box Monday morning, Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKA) Warren Buffett addressed two burning issues …
Joel Johnson / Gizmodo:
Hold On Tight, Gizmodo Is a TV Show Now  —  If we made a Top Gear for gadgets, would you watch it?  In two weeks, you'll have your chance.  —  Nearly ten years ago, when I first ran Gizmodo, gadgets were as niche of a topic for news and debate as could be.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
YouTube Programmers Complain About Video Advertising Dollars  —  The big picture for YouTube looks good.  The world's biggest video site keeps getting bigger, generating more video views and more ad dollars.  —  Things are fuzzier for some of YouTube's biggest programming partners.
Kristian Vatto / AnandTech:
Seagate to Discontinue 7200rpm 2.5" Drives Later This Year  —  Earlier today X-bit Labs reported that Seagate will stop the production of their 7200RPM 2.5" drives by the end of this year and I just got a confirmation from Seagate that this is really the case.
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
The Evolving Economics of the App  —  Music search application SoundHound is a bargain on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone store: It is free.  —  But for iPhone users, one version of SoundHound costs $6.99.  And on Google Inc. Android devices, a version of the mobile app costs $5.99.
Laird Harrison / KQED News Fix:
Microsoft Winds Down ‘Scroogled’ Campaign Against Google  —  Can nothing stop Google?  —  On Thanksgiving, Microsoft launched attack ads against the Internet giant that were so ferocious they made headlines in advertising and technology publications alike.

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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 …
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University makes major investment in big data development  —  As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
 

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