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April 8, 2013, 4:45 AM

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Mat Honan / Wired:
Facebook's ‘Phone’ Is Another Triumph of Mediocrity  —  Maybe you were hoping for something radically new and different from a Facebook phone.  If so, Zuck just broke your heart.  But so what.  Facebook never does anything new.  New doesn't matter in the blue.
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Streaming Sites and the Rise of Shared Accounts  —  LAST Sunday afternoon, some friends and I were hanging out in a local bar, talking about what we'd be doing that evening.  It turned out that we all had the same plan: to watch the season premiere of “Game of Thrones.”
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Response  —  There have been some extremely serious and criminal allegations against me over the last week.  All of the allegations are completely untrue, and I've hired a law firm to represent me in the legal actions against the offending parties.  —  I know this isn't, for now, much information.
Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal:
Silicon Valley's Mouthwatering Tax Break  —  Debate Emerges Over Whether Daily Fringe-Benefit Meals Are Taxable; Issue Is Now on IRS's Radar  —  Google has more than 120 corporate cafes world-wide serving over 50,000 meals a day.  Above, a cafeteria at Google's Venice Beach campus.
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Greg Lindsay / New York Times:
Engineering Serendipity  —  WHEN Yahoo banned its employees from working from home in February, the reasons it gave had less to do with productivity than serendipity.  “Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people, and impromptu team meetings,” explained the accompanying memo.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Allen Stern, blogging pioneer and entrepreneur, passes away — we will miss you Allen  —  Allen Stern, an early blogger as well as an entrepreneur and an all-around great human being, passed away last week, according to an update posted on his Facebook page by his sister Sari Rosenberger.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
The Next Don: How VCs Plan For The Future  —  We all remember the last scene in The Godfather, where Michael Corleone is depicted as the next Don, taking over the role from his father as the figurehead of the mafioso Corleone family.  As a viewer, we are partly left with a sense of relief …
Bloomberg:
Cyberattacks Abound Yet Companies Tell SEC Losses Are Few  —  The 27 largest U.S. companies reporting cyber attacks say they sustained no major financial losses, exposing a disconnect with federal officials who say billions of dollars in corporate secrets are being stolen.

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