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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
WhatsApp: We're Not Selling to Google  —  Popular messaging app WhatsApp says it is not in discussions to sell the company to Google.  —  Neeraj Arora, WhatsApp's business development head, told AllThingsDigital today that the company is not holding sales talks with Google.
James Kanter / New York Times:
Europe Receives Complaint About Google's Android  —  BRUSSELS — European antitrust regulators have received a formal complaint about Google's Android operating system for mobile devices, even as they move to the final stages of their inquiry into the company's search practices.
FairSearch.org:
FairSearch Announces Complaint in EU on Google's Anti-Competitive Mobile Strategy  —  The coalition issued the following in a release:  —  FairSearch to EU: Google's Android A ‘Trojan Horse’ to Dominate Mobile Markets  —  Files Complaint to European Commission On Google's Anti-Competitive Mobile Strategy
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Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
Samsung's $399, 16GB Galaxy Note 8.0 Will Launch In The U.S. On April 11  —  After showing off the international version of its pint-sized Galaxy Note 8.0 back at Mobile World Congress, Samsung is gearing up to launch its newest Note tablet in the U.S. in just a few days.
David Pierce / The Verge:
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 review  —  Killing the ‘tablets are for consumption’ line once and for all  —  The story of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 really starts with a different device — the Galaxy Note 10.1.  Samsung advertised a power-user's dream device: letting you edit documents or draw with a pen …
Sarah Silbert / Engadget:
Intel announces next-gen Thunderbolt with 20 Gbps throughput, 4K support  —  Here at NAB, Intel just introduced the next generation of its Thunderbolt interface, which promises a data rate of 20 Gbps in both directions (on each of the two channels) as opposed to 10 Gbps for the previous version.
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
New Threat to Aereo TV  —  Legal Issues in West, Precipitated by Rival Aereokiller, Cloud Diller's Startup  —  The TV industry's best hope of shutting down TV startup Aereo Inc. anytime soon could rest, bizarrely enough, on a legal case involving something called Aereokiller LLC.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
News Corp. Threatens to Pull Fox off the Airwaves if Aereo Wins
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Spotify Launches Ad Campaign On YouTube  —  Spotify's digital music service has 24 million users, and 6 million subscribers.  But it wants a lot more.  —  So it's advertising on the Web's most popular music service: Starting tonight, Spotify is running a one-day “takeover” ad on YouTube's homepage …
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Bloomberg:
Microsoft Said to Adopt AMD Chips for Next Xbox Console  —  Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) will use an Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) processor in its next Xbox game console as it seeks to cut the cost of building machines and get developers to create more titles, people with knowledge of the matter said.
David Goldman / CNNMoney.com:
Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet  —  “When people don't see stuff on Google, they think no one can find it.  That's not true.”  —  That's according to John Matherly, creator of Shodan, the scariest search engine on the Internet.  —  Unlike Google ( GOOG, Fortune 500) …
Ted Greenwald / Adweek:
How Wired Magazine Changed the Way We Talk About Technology  —  Wired co-founders Jane Metcalfe and Louis Rossetto Photos courtesy of Louis Rossetto  —  Imagine a time before smartphones.  Before laptops.  Before Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and even the mighty Google.
Jamie Rigg / Engadget:
EE plans to double 4G spectrum allocation, will boost first ten cities by summer  —  While EE scrambles to spread its LTE network far and wide before the other UK carriers get into the 4G business, it also wants to flex some spectrum muscle.  The network's announced it's planning to double …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Tiny Chiplets Are a New Level of Micro Manufacturing  —  PALO ALTO, Calif. — Under a microscope, four slivers of silicon — electronic circuits called chiplets — perform an elaborate, jerky dance as if controlled by a hidden puppet master.  Then on command, they all settle with pinpoint accuracy …
More: Gizmodo
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Just Six Months After Being Acquired, Twitter's Vine Hits #1 Free Spot On Apple's App Store  —  Twitter acquired the mini-video-taking app Vine last October before it ever launched, sending everyone into a frenzy about the company getting into the video space.  —  In late January, Twitter finally launched the app to much applause.
Mark Hearn / Engadget:
ASUS' 7-inch MeMo Pad now on sale for $150  —  Cheap tablets are currently on the rise, but not just low-end hardware from manufacturers that you've probably never heard of — true consumer electronics heavyweights are getting in on the action.  Today, ASUS unleashed its $150 MeMo Pad to the frugal masses.
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Surface Warranty Criticized in China After Apple Woes  —  Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s after-sales service of its Surface tablet has attracted criticism from China's state-owned radio, following similar reports in the past month targeting Apple Inc. (AAPL)
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
CourseSmart E-Textbooks Track Students' Progress for Teachers  —  SAN ANTONIO — Several Texas A&M professors know something that generations of teachers could only hope to guess: whether students are reading their textbooks.  —  They know when students are skipping pages …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Confirmed: Apple Kicks AppGratis Out of the Store for Being Too Pushy  —  Apple has ousted a popular app-discovery application from its iTunes App Store, claiming the app circumvented App Store rules preventing applications promoting other apps and direct marketing.
Erica Ogg / GigaOM:
Hey, Tim Cook: We found an executive to run Apple Retail for you  —  Ron Johnson is out as CEO of J.C. Penney.  After less than two years on the job, it's not quite clear what the next step would be for him.  Luckily for him, it just so happens that Johnson's former employer, Apple …

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Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi have agreed to part ways following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr. and her behavior while reporting on him

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Sources: Forbes has cut ties with dozens of contributing writers; one exec said Forbes needs to ensure the contributor model is “financially sound”

Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the First Amendment Watch's SLAPP Back Initiative, a US SLAPP tracker; in 2024, 69 of 500 cases involved the media, of which 46 were dismissed

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