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April 13, 2013, 5:00 PM
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Cornell NYC Tech, Planned for Roosevelt Island, Starts Up in Chelsea  —  IF all the hopes and hype are warranted, a nondescript third-floor loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan offers a glimpse of the future, for New York City and for Cornell University.
Tweets: @biz and @jeffjohnroberts
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Latest Home Commercial Is Just The Right Amount Of Weird  —  During the Facebook Home launch event, Zuck premiered the company's first commercial for the product.  —  Complete with half-naked dudes stuffed into luggage compartments, surprise drag queens, and an unintentionally spooky child, it was... pretty bad.
Kevin Collier / Daily Dot:
Google, Yahoo executives back CISPA through lobbying group  —  The battle raging around the Cyber Intelligence Security Protection Act (CISPA) just got a little dirtier.  —  A lobbying group that counts top executives at Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo as board members has officially thrown its support behind the controversial bill.
Jan Chipchase / AllThingsD:
You Lookin' at Me?  Reflections on Google Glass. … With the public beta launch of Google Glass, there has been a lot of discussion on why it will or won't fail.  The ultimate benchmark for success is high: After someone has tried Glass, can they imagine life without it?  —  It's the wrong question.
More: Skift.  Tweets: @counternotions
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Surprise!  Jeff Bezos explains to Amazon investors why no profits are a good thing  —  Can a public company prosper catering only to its customers?  —  Jeff Bezos' annual letter to Amazon investors is always worth reading, a peek into the mind of arguably the most important CEO in the technology industry.
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
The HTC First: How Facebook's New Phone Ruins FairSearch's Competition Complaint Over Android  —  Anti-Google lobbying group FairSearch lobbed an antitrust grenade at Google's Android operating system yesterday, complaining to the European Union that it violates competition laws.
More: The Verge
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Following ban, the US House of Representatives can again listen to Spotify  —  In This Week in Asinine, good news: The House of Representatives can once again listen to Spotify.  —  As reported in Red Alert Politics, The House is back up and streaming again.
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
T-Mobile Says First Day With the iPhone Was “Gangbusters”  —  After many, many days of trying to do business without an iPhone to sell, T-Mobile is pretty darn happy with its first day in the Apple business.  —  “Today has been gangbusters for T-Mobile,” Chief Marketing Officer Mike Sievert said in a statement to AllThingsD.
Mathew J. Schwartz / InformationWeek:
FAA Dismisses Android App Airplane Takeover  —  Demonstrated training software exploits don't work against the flight management systems installed in planes, say airline regulators and avionics manufacturers.  —  Start The  —  The Federal Aviation Administration has dismissed …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU court decision heralds multi-country European music licenses  —  (Reuters) - Europe's music royalties societies must now allow artists to sign up to a society of their choice and make multi-country licenses available to the likes of Amazon and Apple after a court backed an EU veto on national monopolies.

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Eli Stokols / Politico:
A look at the tense relationship between Biden and The NYT, beset by misunderstandings, grudges, lack of trust, and his refusal to give the paper an interview

Michael Sisak / Associated Press:
A US appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, finding the trial judge let women testify about allegations that were not part of the case

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount and Skydance move closer to a deal, but Paramount's renewal agreement with Charter, which has an April 30 deadline, is a significant hurdle

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