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April 7, 2014, 4:50 AM

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Kevin Rose / Instagram:

Anti-tech protesters visit Kevin Rose's SF home, distribute leaflets calling him a “parasite” — My house was protested today by anti-tech folks, they had a large banner saying “Kevin Rose Parasite”, handed these to my neighbors:

More: VatorNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Mashable, CNET and Re/code

Tweets: @kevinrose, @kevinrose, @kevinrose, @kevinrose, @ferenstein, @linecook, @davidmarcus, @tolles, @hemeon, @startupljackson, @startupljackson and @rstephens

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

Organizers of demonstration at Kevin Rose's home demand $3B from Google for an anarchist utopia — Anarchists Picket Digg Founder's House And Demand $3 Billion For Anti-Capitalist Housing — Anarchists staged a protest outside the San Francisco house of Digg founder and Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose today.

More: Indybay newswire and The Technology Chronicles. Tweets: @melodymcc, @thestalwart and @christinelu

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

The Six Juiciest Documents From the Apple-Samsung Trial This Week — Internal Apple document provided by Samsung — You'd think a corporate patent infringement battle would be boring — and you'd usually be right, even during the high-profile Round Two of Samsung versus Apple.

More: Tech.pinions, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News, Engadget, MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo and Mashable

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

Internal slides show why Apple needs a big iPhone: no growth for 4-inch phones costing $300+ — Why Apple has to make a bigger-screen iPhone 6, in its own confidential internal wording — There has been no shortage of rumors that the iPhone 6 will have a big screen ranging from 4.7-inches to over 5 inches.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @antrod and @arix

Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider:

How Techmeme Became The Must-Read News Site For Everyone In The Multibillion-Dollar Tech Industry — Over the past 10 years, the technology industry has evolved from photo-sharing websites like Flickr to photo-sharing apps like Instagram. — And, we suppose, there's been a few other changes along the way.

Tweets: @zpower, @tcarmody, @nikcub, @laughingstoic, @caseynewton, @hunterwalk, @rafat, @mikeisaac, @dmac1, @gaberivera, @jtemple, @parislemon and @qthrul. Thanks:@matthewmspace

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

For some, “bro” culture offers one explanation for why there are so few women in tech — Technology's Man Problem — Elissa Shevinsky can pinpoint the moment when she felt that she no longer belonged. — She was at a friend's house last Sept. 8, watching the live stream …

More: Kate Losse, VentureBeat and Stealthmode Blog

Tweets: @saysoju, @wadhwa, @clairecm, @profjeffjarvis, @stevenlevy, @clairecm, @clairecm, @coreyhaines, @athenedonald, @glennf, @r343l, @r343l, @ejacqui, @beep, @ericries, @mims and @nrrrdcore

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

One big reason we lack Internet competition: Starting an ISP is really hard — Creating an ISP? You'll need millions of dollars, patience, and lots of lawyers. — There are probably many reasons that US households have so few choices for Internet service, but not least among them is the fact …

More: New York Times. Tweets: @qthrul. See also Mediagazer

Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic Online:

Meet Mobile Accord, the company that built “Cuban Twitter” ZunZuneo with help of US government — The Fall of Internet Freedom: Meet the Company That Secretly Built ‘Cuban Twitter’ — The United States discreetly supported the creation of a website and SMS service that was …

Tweets: @yayitsrob. See also Mediagazer

Arielle Duhaime-Ross / The Verge:

Driven: how Zipcar's founders built and lost a car-sharing empire — In the late '90s, Antje Danielson's son Max and Robin Chase's daughter Linnea often played together on a tire swing in Cambridge's Dana Park. The two women had met at their kids' kindergarten, but supervising the playground is how they got to know each other.

Tweets: @mathewi, @arielledross and @mims

Nolan Feeney / The Atlantic Online:

HBO's Silicon Valley the most recent attempt to lampoon increasingly pervasive startup culture — Revenge on the Nerds: Why It's So Cool to Laugh at the Tech World Now — In a lavish Silicon Valley mansion, amid ridiculous liquid-shrimp appetizers and a performance from Kid Rock …

More: TechCrunch, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNET, Bloomberg, NPR, Wall Street Journal, Mashable and VentureBeat

Tweets: @sarahfrier, @garrytan, @pmarca, @siracusa and @levie

Matt Phillips / Quartz:

Enthusiasm for tech stock wanes as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and others fall — The market suddenly hates tech stocks and no one knows why — Seemingly out of nowhere, technology stocks have started selling off hard. Despite a solid report on US jobs Friday …

More: Associated Press, Reuters and TechCrunch. Tweets: @mims

Emily Weinrebe / ACLU:

ACLU introduces searchable archive of all leaked NSA documents — Introducing the ACLU's NSA Documents Database — The public debate over our government's surveillance programs has reached remarkable heights since the first set of NSA disclosures in June 2013 based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden.

More: The Verge, The Register and Daily Dot

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