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April 1, 2013, 11:35 AM

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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:

Russia Begins Selectively Blocking Internet Content — MOSCOW — The Russian government in recent weeks has been making use of a new law that gives it the power to block Internet content that it deems illegal or harmful to children. — The country's communications regulators have required Facebook …

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Reuters:

Youth flock to mobile messaging apps, may be threat to Facebook — (Reuters) - Create personal profiles. Build networks of friends. Share photos, videos and music. — That might sound precisely like Facebook, but hundreds of millions of tech-savvy young people have instead turned …

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Jai / NextBigWhat:

Exclusive: Snapdeal raises $50 million from eBay and existing investors — Exclusive: Delhi based online marketplace, Snapdeal has raised $50 million from eBay and existing investors; including a Japan based financial institution, according to two sources close to the deal.

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, Business Insider, VentureBeat, The Hindu and Tech in Asia

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Round Up: All of Google's jokes for April Fools 2013 — Every year, Google goes all out for April Fools' Day. The company not only pulls together more jokes than all the other tech giants, but the company makes a point to outdo itself too. It honestly gets difficult to keep track …

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

April Fools 2013: The Round-up

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple's ‘iPad Mini’ Trademark Application Initially Denied, but Resolution Should Be Simple — Over the weekend, Patently Apple reported that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had refused Apple's trademark application for the term “iPad mini”. While some such as The Verge's Nilay Patel …

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New York Times:

E-Commerce Companies Bypass Middlemen to Build Premium Brand — When the founders of a start-up that sells eyeglasses online, Warby Parker, began investigating why designer glasses cost several hundred dollars, they discovered that everyone in the process was taking a cut: designers, manufacturers, brands, wholesalers and retailers.

More: Stowe Boyd

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Henry Blodget Is Quietly Planning a Stunning Return to Wall Street — Kind of! — Business Insider's co-founder and editor is the subject of a Ken Auletta profile in this week's New Yorker, which means Henry Blodget is now in some rarefied media mogul air (see: Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, etc.)

More: New Yorker and DealBook. Tweets: @mathewi. See also Mediagazer

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple CEO Tim Cook announces changes to warranty policies, apologizes to customers in China following smear campaign — Following controversy in China with state-controlled media outlets going after Apple over its warranty policies, Apple CEO Tim Cook today addressed the issue in a letter published to the company's website in China.

More: GigaOM, Business Insider, StreetInsider.com and China.org.cn

David Feith / Wall Street Journal:

Timothy Thomas: Why China Is Reading Your Email — Beijing's cyber attacks are rooted in military strategy, says one of America's foremost experts. The best way to combat them is for the U.S. to go on the cyber offensive too. — Fort Leavenworth, Kan. — For several years …

More: Fortune and Cult of Mac

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

TV Service Providers Held Talks With Aereo — Aereo Inc., the Web television startup backed by media mogul Barry Diller, has discussed partnerships with major pay-TV distributors and Internet service providers, including AT&T Inc. and Dish Network Corp., as it looks to roll out its fledgling service …

More: TechCrunch, Deadline.com, Light Reading, CNET and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

World's top supercomputer from '09 is now obsolete, will be dismantled — Roadrunner, formerly the world's fastest supercomputer, is being decommissioned today. — Los Alamos National Laboratory — Five years ago, an IBM-built supercomputer designed to model the decay …

More: VentureBeat, DailyTech, BBC, TechEye, CNET, PC Magazine, Electronista, Softpedia News, The Verge, VR-Zone, Engadget and Gizmodo

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay Becomes #1 File-Sharing Site as Cyberlockers Collapse — Less than two years ago we published an overview of the most used file-sharing sites, covering both BitTorrent and traditional cyberlockers. — At the time one-click download sites were beating BitTorrent sites by a landslide.

More: Betabeat and Gizmodo

Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider:

Angry Twitterers Are Threatening To Switch To Bing After Google Honors Labor Leader Cesar Chavez On Easter — Google's decision to celebrate Cesar Chavez's birthday today in its Doodle, rather than Easter, has spurred some mixed reviews on Twitter. — Cesar Chavez, whose 86th birthday would be today …

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