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March 31, 2013, 3:25 PM

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Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
Google's ‘If I Had Glass’ winners list dominated by celebrities, popular Twitter accounts  —  Google's “If I Had Glass” competition has always been a public affair: applications were submitted using a hashtag on Twitter and Google+, and winners offered the opportunity to be among …
Hank Green:
Lessons Learned from YouTube's $300M Hole  —  For those of you who don't know, John and I were recipients of part of YouTube's “Original Channel” funding initiative.  We used that money to start Crash Course and SciShow.  We were extremely excited to get the chance to have some real capital …
More: Beyond SearchTweets: @ralfressmann and @jenny8lee
Luke O'Neil / Slate:
Boston police catfishing indie rockers: Cops pose as punks on the Internet.  —  The Boston police go undercover on the Internet to stop the city's most dreaded scourge: DIY indie-rock shows.  —  As anyone who's watched a single crime story on TV or film knows, undercover detective work is dangerous business.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Lowest Cost Raspberry Pi Microcomputer Now On Sale In The U.S. - $25 Model A Suited For Battery/Solar Powered Projects  —  The Raspberry Pi microcomputer prides itself on being affordable, with its tiny $35 price-tag for the original Model B Pi.  But now its lowest cost board — the $25 Model A …
Danielle Morrill:
AngelList Receives SEC No-Action Letter Two Days After FundersClub  —  On March 26th The Funders Club received a no-action letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission stating that it will not recommend enforcement action against the year-old private equity investment platform, making it the first government sanctioned online VC.
More: ForbesThanks:@daniellemorrill
Craig Mod / paidContent:
The deal Goodreads should've struck (hint: it wasn't with Amazon)  —  Goodreads, the popular social network and review site for book lovers, is now part of Amazon.  Imagine if it had instead paired up with Readmill, which offers a superior user reading experience.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Home On Android Could Give You A Sixth Sense For Your Social Life  —  Constant, close contact with your friends.  That's the promise of a “Facebook phone.”  The modified Android OS and mobile homescreen replacement that sources tell us Facebook will unveil April 4th pushes …
Junko Yoshida / EE Times:
Exclusive: Lenovo to design own chips  —  BEIJING, China- Lenovo, the second largest smartphone supplier in China, will get into the chip design business with a special focus on smartphones and tablets, EE Times has learned.  —  The company, which has maintained a small IC design team consisting …
More: Android AuthorityTweets: @krewell
Morgen Peck / IEEE Spectrum:
Bitcoin Hits $1 Billion  —  Bitcoin, the world's first open source cryptographic currency, which has been on a tear since the beginning of this year, set a new record for itself yesterday afternoon as the price listed on the largest online exchange rose past US $92.
New York Times:
After Cyberattack, Sven Olaf Kamphuis Is at Heart of Investigation  —  Sven Olaf Kamphuis calls himself the “minister of telecommunications and foreign affairs for the Republic of CyberBunker.”  Others see him as the Prince of Spam.  —  Mr. Kamphuis, who is actually Dutch …
More: SlashGear and CircleIDTweets: @hunterwalk
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Hot Gaming Startup Supercell Is Closing A Round Above $100M At Valuation Around $800M  —  Supercell is a very quiet, humble mobile gaming company out of the very quiet and humble city of Helsinki, Finland.  Unlike their brasher, Angry Birds-making brethren a 15-minute drive away in Espoo …

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