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March 7, 2013, 10:30 AM

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Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
Why Icahn's Dell plan could be a FUD nightmare  —  Summary: Carl Icahn's proposal might severely damage Dell as a serious enterprise technology player when the fear uncertainty and doubt parade starts rolling.  —  Dell's move to go private has become very complicated as investor Carl Icahn …
More: CNET, Forbes and Fortune
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Read Carl Icahn's Letter to Dell's Board About the Buyout Plan  —  It's confirmed.  Carl Icahn has an investment stake in Dell, and is gearing up for a fight against that company's proposal to go private in a leveraged buyout transaction.  —  Dell's board of directors confirmed what CNBC …
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Inside Microsoft's decision to loan the Dell buyout consortium $2 billion  —  Dell's current expedition to go private is encountering turbulence in the form of investor discontent, leaving the details of the accepted deal somewhat obscured behind the smoke of shareholder battle.
More: Deal JournalThanks:@panzer
David Faber / CNBC:
Reuters:
Analysis: Next Intel CEO to guide new business, maybe Apple deal  —  (Reuters) - Intel's next CEO is likely to shepherd the top chipmaker into a growing contract-manufacturing business, a strategic shift that could lead to a deal with Apple Inc and give it a fighting chance to make inroads in the mobile arena.
Ben Lovejoy / MacRumors:
Apple and Intel Have Reportedly Discussed Deal for Production of Future iPhone and iPad Chips  —  Reuters reports that Intel's move into contract manufacturing of chips for other companies suggests that Apple could become a future customer with its A-series chips for the iPhone and iPad …
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
Facebook's Redesign Hopes to Keep Users Engaged  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook plans to announce on Thursday a substantial redesign of its News Feed — a makeover aimed at both keeping users glued to the social network and luring more advertising dollars.  —  Company executives have broadly …
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:
EU caves in to pressure on new data, privacy law changes; U.S. tech firms breathe sigh of relief  —  After major U.S.-based technology companies lobbied European member states and politicians, many will wake up today able to breathe a sigh of relief, as the European Commission is forced …
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
Twitter's API keys and secrets for its official apps surface; what should we do with them?  —  It appears that Twitter's API keys and secrets for its official apps have surfaced, and are currently being shared on GitHub.  —  Note: The combination of API keys and secrets are used to authorize …
Kai Lukoff / TechRice:
Year of the ChinaDroid  —  Nestled in the hills of Shenzhen in southern China, stands a factory that churns out smartphones day and night.  Migrant workers labor for fourteen-hour shifts, six days a week.  Most welcome the overtime, which is usually paid.  Components stand around …
More: QuartzThanks:@niubi
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
How two volunteers built the Raspberry Pi's operating system  —  When you buy a Raspberry Pi, the $35 computer doesn't come with an operating system.  Loading your operating system of choice onto an SD card and then booting the Pi turns out to be pretty easy.  But where do Pi-compatible operating systems come from?
More: ZDNet and Inquirer
Dan Levine / Thomson Reuters News and Insight Legal:
Apple attracts one friend in Samsung appeal: Nokia  —  (Reuters) - Nokia has filed a brief in support of Apple Inc's bid to secure permanent injunctions against several Samsung Electronics Co Ltd phones, making the Finnish smartphone maker the only outside group to come forward in backing the iPhone maker's appeal.
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Big layoffs at T-Mobile headquarters, ahead of merger  —  A significant round of layoffs is happening at the Bellevue headquarters of T-Mobile USA just ahead of its merger with MetroPCS, according to people inside the company.  —  Employees are expecting the cuts, which may affect …
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Texas proposes one of nation's “most sweeping” mobile privacy laws  —  If the bill passes Austin, Texas could lead the nation in mobile privacy protection.  —  fusionpanda  —  Privacy experts say that a pair of new mobile privacy bills recently introduced in Texas are among the “most sweeping” ever seen.
Naomi Tajitsu / Reuters:
Megaupload founder can sue New Zealand spy agency: court  —  WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A court ruled on Thursday that Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom can sue New Zealand's spy agency for illegal surveillance, opening the government up to more scrutiny over its role in an unlawful 2011 police raid on the internet entrepreneur's home.
Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal:
Apps: The New Corporate Cost-Cutting Tool  —  TRUMBULL, Conn.—The biggest mall in town stopped staffing its customer-service desk in January.  But perched on that same desk recently was a plastic cutout of a hand holding a smartphone.  “Download the free app,” it said.
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
A Mac Pro Mini  —  For years, geeks have wanted Apple to make an “xMac”: an expandable desktop tower like the Mac Pro, but much cheaper, generally achieved in theory by using consumer-class CPUs and motherboards instead of Intel's expensive, server-grade Xeon line.
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Facebook Engineering / Facebook:
Under the Hood: Building out the infrastructure for Graph Search  —  By Sriram Sankar, Soren Lassen, and Mike Curtiss, who are building Graph Search's infrastructure.  —  In the early days, Facebook was as much about meeting new people as keeping in touch with people you already knew at your college.
More: GigaOM and The Register
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Gets a Million-Dollar Bonus After Six Months on the Job  —  According to a regulatory filing by Yahoo, its CEO Marissa Mayer got a $1.12 million bonus, as part of a compensation package she got when she came to the Silicon Valley Internet giant.  —  It was based on serving a half of a year.

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