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April 20, 2013, 8:50 PM

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Norimitsu Onishi / New York Times:

Ron Conway, Tech Investor, Turns Focus to Hometown — SAN FRANCISCO — The evening did not unfold as planned for Ron Conway, one of the tech industry's most influential investors. — He stayed longer than expected at a political fund-raiser with President Obama at a hedge-fund billionaire's home …

More: The Technology Chronicles, Venture Capital Dispatch and SiliconBeat

Tweets: @qthrul, @benioff, @biz and @hunterwalk

Marc Rogers / The Official Lookout Blog:

The Bearer of BadNews — Overview — Lookout has discovered BadNews, a new malware family, in 32 apps across four different developer accounts in Google Play. According to Google Play statistics, the combined affected applications have been downloaded between 2,000,000 - 9,000,000 times.

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Jay Rossite / The Yahoo! Yodel:

Sharpening our focus - to bring you new Yahoo! products — Like we announced last month, we want to bring you experiences that inspire and entertain you every day. That means taking a hard look at all of our products to make sure they are still central to your daily habits.

Andy Baio / Waxy.org:

The Death of Upcoming.org — So, Yahoo's finally decided to close Upcoming.org, the events community I started nearly ten years ago. And, in Yahoo's typical f**k-off-and-die style, they're doing it with 11 days notice, no on-site announcement, and no way to back up past events.

More: Waxy.org and The Next Web. Tweets: @waxpancake, @fredbenenson and @twbell

Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:

Report: Facebook is Iowa's Mystery Data Center Prospect — Will a huge data center like this one rise in Altoona, Iowa? Local sources say Facebook is the company behind Altoona's Project Catapult. This is a look at the Facebook data center in Forest City, North Carolina. (Photo: Rich Miller)

More: Des Moines Register, VentureBeat and CNET

Andrew Huang / bunnie's blog:

The $12 Gongkai Phone — How cheap can you make a phone? — Recently, I paid $12 at Mingtong Digital Mall for a complete phone, featuring quad-band GSM, Bluetooth, MP3 playback, and an OLED display plus keypad for the UI. Simple, but functional; nothing compared to a smartphone …

More: Gizmodo and SlashGear. Tweets: @scottjenson

TechCrunch:

Another Win For Flat Design As Facebook Gives Its F Logo & Other Icons A Flatter, Cleaner Look — Facebook has given its main “f” logo icon a makeover, flattening the design by removing the pale blue bar along the bottom, which gave the icon a reflective sheen/slight 3D effect …

More: Inside Facebook, Tom Waddington and Gizmodo

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Apple's Stock Not As Doomed As You Think — Wall Street has basically given up on Apple. — The stock has tanked more than 40% from a peak of $702 last September to a new low of about ~$406 this morning. — The stock is also now trading at a price/earnings ratio of 9X.

More: TechCrunch, Insider Monkey, TheStreet.com and Motley Fool

Dave Tach / Polygon:

Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles introducing a video game design patch — The Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles have teamed up with Women in Games International to create a new patch that scouts can earn for designing video games, according to a report in Girl Gamer.

More: VentureBeat, Ars Technica, CNET, Business Insider, Geek News Central, Computerworld, IntoMobile and Kotaku. Tweets: @lbraun2000

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Twitter sets a May 7th kill date for TweetDeck Android, iPhone, AIR and Facebook integration — Back in March, Twitter announced that TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone would be killed off. At the time they gave a general ‘early May’ estimate …

More: tweetdeck.posterous.com, MacRumors, AppleInsider, T3 News, GigaOM, VatorNews, TUAW, CNET, MobileSyrup.com and Softpedia News

Ben Ward / Twitter Developers:

Deprecating IE6 and IE7 support in Twitter for Websites (TFW)

More: Neowin, Softpedia News, WinBeta, The Verge and The Next Web

Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider:

A Hyped Startup Called Fab Is Pivoting To Become The 'World's Alternative To Amazon And Wal-Mart' — E-commerce design site Fab is gearing up to make its second big pivot, and further “reinvent and reimagine shopping.” — Fab co-founders Jason Goldberg and Bradford Shellhammer made a risky decision back in 2011.

More: PandoDaily and Betabeat

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Y Combinator's Paul Graham Takes His First Ever Board Seat With Healthcare Crowdfunding Non-Profit Watsi — Y Combinator founder Paul Graham is a father figure to countless startups he's helped accelerate, but had never taken a board of directors seat until now.

More: The Next Web. Tweets: @paulg. Thanks:@alexia

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Bing Questions Study That Claimed It Delivers 5x More Malware Than Google, Says It Blocks 94% Of Clicks To Malicious Sites — Last week, a study by German antivirus testing company AV-Test claimed that Microsoft's Bing delivered “five times as many websites containing malware as Google.”

More: Bing, GeekWire, nbcnews.com, Softpedia News and Search Engine Land

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