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February 3, 2012, 9:00 PM

February 3, 2012

8:40 PM  •Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:  Apple ads Genius movie, TV recommendations to Apple TV
7:55 PM  •Natalie Zmuda / AdAge:  Facebook Hires Former Levi's, Apple Exec Rebecca Van Dyck to Lead Marketing
7:20 PM  •Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:  Path Now Has 2M Users, Having Doubled Since It Relaunched Two Months Ago
7:10 PM  •Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:  Apple updates iBooks Author to clarify that you own created content
6:45 PM  •Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:  Windows Phone developer lead leaves for Amazon's Kindle team
6:10 PM  •Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:  Google Search Now Features Fresher Results, Faster Autocomplete and More Relevant Related Searches
5:45 PM  •David Cohen / All Facebook:  89 Percent Of Ad Agencies Used Facebook In Q4
5:40 PM  •Kellex / Droid Life:  Google Issues Statement Regarding CDMA Nexus Devices
5:15 PM  •Chris Ziegler / The Verge:  Verizon Galaxy Nexus removed from Google's developer support pages (update)
5:10 PM  •Kellex / Droid Life:  Google No Longer “Supports” the LTE/CDMA Verizon Galaxy Nexus?
4:50 PM  •Amar Toor / Engadget:  Dropbox offers up to 5GB of free space to anyone willing to go beta
4:30 PM  •Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:  After 3 Years Of A Crummy Checkin Experience, Foursquare Is Working On A Speedier Solution
4:10 PM  •Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:  What is the mystery “entertainment device” Google is testing?
3:55 PM  •Tom Warren / The Verge:  Windows Phone Marketplace launches in five new regions, no sign of China yet
3:40 PM  •Nancy Messieh / The Next Web:  Tumblr now lets you highlight your posts, but it will cost you $1 each time
3:25 PM  •Canalys Newsroom:  Smart phones overtake client PCs in 2011
3:10 PM  •Jeff Roberts / paidContent:  The New York Times' About.com: From All-Star To Albatross
3:05 PM  •Bloomberg:  Facebook Is Valued at $94 Billion in Auction on Private Market
2:50 PM  •Megan Lavey-Heaton / TUAW:  iBooks Author 1.01 out with updated EULA
2:40 PM  •Mark Milian / CNN:  U.S. government, military to get secure Android phones
2:25 PM  •Mike Masnick / Techdirt:  Full Text Of Slovenian Ambassador's Apology For Signing ACTA
2:15 PM  •KBOI2:  Micron CEO Steve Appleton dies in airplane crash
2:05 PM  •@street_insider:  Micron $MU CEO died in plane accident
2:05 PM  •MarketWatch:  Statement by Micron Technology Board of Directors
2:00 PM  •Steve Kovach / Business Insider:  Whoops!  Motorola Accidentally Sold A Bunch Of Used Tablets With Personal Information Still Stored On Them
1:40 PM  •Horace Dediu / asymco:  First: Apple's rank in mobile phone profitability and revenues
1:20 PM  •Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:  Mozilla developing Web push notification system for Firefox
1:00 PM  •Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:  Xbox co-creator Seamus Blackley launches mobile-game startup with Atari arcade veterans
12:55 PM  •Paul Sawers / The Next Web:  Here's Google's extensive response to EU requests to “pause” its privacy policy updates
12:35 PM  •Leena Rao / TechCrunch:  Evernote's First Institutional Investor Troika Sells Stake To Sequoia For Over 10X Return
12:30 PM  •Ryan J. Reilly / TPM:  FBI Investigating ‘Illegally Obtained’ Conference Call On Anonymous Probe
12:10 PM  •Ernesto / TorrentFreak:  Seized Sports Streaming Site Makes a Blazing Comeback
11:50 AM  •Associated Press:  Poland halts copyright law after mass protests
11:25 AM  •Reuters:  Panasonic headed for record $10 billion annual loss
11:10 AM  •John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:  Apple: All iPad and iPhone Models Will be Back on Sale Online in Germany Shortly
10:45 AM  •Matt Brian / The Next Web:  Apple hits Samsung with 278 patent claims in revised Australian lawsuit
10:20 AM  •Graham Cluley / Naked Security:  Anonymous spies on FBI / UK Police hacking investigation conference call
10:00 AM  •Pew Internet:  Why most Facebook users get more than they give
9:40 AM  •Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:  The Dirty Little Secret Of Silicon Valley's Startup Boom...
9:25 AM  •Tomio Geron / Social Media:  Do iOS Apps Crash More Than Android Apps? A Data Dive
9:10 AM  •T.C. Sottek / The Verge:  Corning and Samsung to marry Lotus Glass with OLED displays in new joint venture
8:55 AM  •Aoife White / Bloomberg:  Samsung Says ‘Confident’ on EU Antitrust Probe of Mobile Patents
8:35 AM  •Ben Popper / VentureBeat:  Peek a boo! As it abandons U.S. devices, Peek raising $15M for Asian expansion (exclusive)
8:30 AM  •Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:  Yammer Time: In 2011 “Pretty Much Everything Tripled”
7:55 AM  •Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:  Apple v. Moto In Germany: One iPhone Injunction Ordered, Another One Lifted
7:50 AM  •Claire Davenport / Reuters:  EU regulators want Google to halt new privacy policy
7:30 AM  •Wall Street Journal:  Advertisers' Free Ride May End On Facebook
6:55 AM  •Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:  I switched to Bing on my iPhone and I kind of liked it
6:35 AM  •Donald Melanson / Engadget:  Skype rolls out update for Windows with full HD video calling, group screen sharing
6:15 AM  •Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:  Apple TEMPORARILY removed products from German online store due to Motorola injunction based on FRAND patent
6:10 AM  •Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:  Apple working on fix for iTunes Match bug that matches explicit songs as clean
5:50 AM  •Glyn Moody / Techdirt:  Why Piracy Is Indispensable For The Survival Of Our Culture
5:30 AM  •Joseph Menn / Reuters:  Exclusive: Hacked companies still not telling investors
5:10 AM  •Austin Carr / Fast Company:  Exclusive Look Inside The MTA-MasterCard PayPass Pilot: 17,000 NYC Customers In Six Months
4:50 AM  •Enigmax / TorrentFreak:  Megaupload Founder Accuses Police of Assault, Denied Bail Again
4:35 AM  •Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:  Motorola wins German injunction against Apple's iCloud (and MobileMe) push email service and client devices
4:20 AM  •Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama:  Amazon's Junglee.com Goes Live In India As An “Advertising Service”; Our Take
4:15 AM  •Farhad Manjoo / Slate:  Is Facebook Really a Good Business?  —  It's nothing without …
4:10 AM  •Reuters:  Analysis: A sobering look at Facebook
1:55 AM  •Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:  The DeanBeat: Billionaire Mark Pincus breaks out of quiet period (exclusive interview)
1:20 AM  •Steve D. Jones / Digits:  Microsoft Continues Sniping at Google's Snooping
12:45 AM  •Josh Constine / TechCrunch:  Facebook Tests Photo Viewer That Encourages Comments, Google+ Comparisons
12:10 AM  •Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:  Judge complains of too many patents in Apple case against Motorola

February 2, 2012

11:45 PM  •Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:  Ting launches no-contract wireless phone service on Sprint's network
11:25 PM  •Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:  Apple researching social fitness tech sporting real-time sharing of performance data for competitive workouts
11:05 PM  •Ina Fried / AllThingsD:  RIM Offering Free PlayBook Tablets to Woo Android Developers
10:45 PM  •Jake Smith / 9to5Google:  Android Ice Cream Sandwich now installed on 1 percent of all devices
10:25 PM  •Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:  How Marc Andreessen makes Silicon Valley magic
10:05 PM  •Jeremy Kirk / Techworld:  Kelihos botnet, once crippled, now gaining strength
9:45 PM  •Adi Robertson / The Verge:  Super Bowl XLVI releases free official app for iOS and Android
9:25 PM  •Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:  Surprise! Location App Highlight Actually Creates Serendipity
9:05 PM  •Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:  Qualcomm chips complete first successful VoIP-over-LTE to WCDMA handoff
8:45 PM  •AJ Glasser / Inside Social Games:  Zynga's market cap climbs more than $1B a day after Facebook's IPO filing
8:25 PM  •Brendan Sasso / The Hill:  Google not ‘forthcoming’ during congressional questioning
8:05 PM  •Kellex / Droid Life:  GSM Galaxy Nexus Receives Google Wallet Access on AT&T, Still Nothing for the LTE Variant on Verizon
7:50 PM  •Nilay Patel / The Verge:  Tim Cook boasts about Apple's charitable contributions during internal all-hands meeting
7:35 PM  •Leena Rao / TechCrunch:  TripIt Owner Concur Backs Personalized Travel Search Engine Room 77
7:20 PM  •Tyler Holman / Neowin.net:  One studio accounts for 1/3 of Twitter DMCA takedowns
7:00 PM  •Ed Doney / KFOR-TV:  Lawmaker proposes tax on violent video games
6:55 PM  •Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:  Windows Phone 8 ‘Apollo’ to bring NFC, Skype integration and easier porting of apps
6:40 PM  •Ben Popper / VentureBeat:  Ticket aggregator TiqIQ raises $1.7M as it goes head to head with rival SeatGeek
6:25 PM  •Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:  Nokia Lumia 900 now available for pre-order at Microsoft's retail stores with $25 downpayment
6:10 PM  •Dominic Sacco / MCV:  Disney acquires majority stake in UTV
5:55 PM  •E.B. Boyd / Co.Create:  With Super Bowl XLVI Shaping Up As Hashtag Sunday, Twitter Launches Ad Scrimmage Competition
5:40 PM  •Jeff Roberts / paidContent:  NYT Co Sees Drop In Earnings But 20% Rise In Digital Subs
5:25 PM  •Heather Dougherty / Hitwise Intelligence:  10 Key Statistics about Facebook
5:10 PM  •Scott Denne / Venture Capital Dispatch:  Palo Alto Networks Seeking I-Banks For IPO
4:55 PM  •Andy Kessler / Wall Street Journal:  The Button That Made Facebook Billions
4:40 PM  •Agam Shah / PC World:  Dell Forms Software Group, Names Former CA CEO as Head
4:25 PM  •Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:  New Virtual Controls from Apple Point to a Future iMac Touch
4:10 PM  •Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:  Under new CEO, AMD will launch processors for tablets this year
3:55 PM  •Elinor Mills / CNET:  Google now scanning Android apps for malware
3:50 PM  •U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement:  Special agents and officers seize more than $4.8 million in fake NFL merchandise and seize 307 …
3:45 PM  •Paul Thurrot / Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows:  Windows Phone 8 Preview
3:35 PM  •Leena Rao / TechCrunch:  comScore: As U.S. Smartphone Usage Grows, Android Nears 50 Percent Market Share
3:30 PM  •Tom Warren / The Verge:  Windows Phone 8 ‘Apollo’ video details Skype plans, Windows 8 integration, and hardware support
3:15 PM  •Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:  AOL to Launch Huffington Post Streaming Network in Second Quarter
2:55 PM  •Evan Blass / pocketnow.com:  Exclusive: Windows Phone 8 Detailed
2:40 PM  •Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Showyou Rolls Out All-New iPad App With Improved Video Discovery, Better Social Tools
2:25 PM  •Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:  Facebook's Ad Business Is a $3 Billion Mystery
2:05 PM  •Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:  ZTE Optik tablet hits Sprint for $100 on February 5th, hopes EVDO is good enough
1:45 PM  •Eric Slivka / MacRumors:  Apple Poised to Benefit from U.S. Government's Five-Year Push for Digital Textbooks
1:40 PM  •Chris Ziegler / The Verge:  Peek offers remaining hardware to hackers: ‘maybe somebody can build something great’
1:35 PM  •Sharif Sakr / Engadget:  Peek killing off US email and Twitter devices after ‘lifelong service’
1:15 PM  •John Cook / GeekWire:  Exclusive: Amazon.com buys TeachStreet
1:00 PM  •Alex Leo / MediaFile:  Introducing Reuters Social Pulse
12:45 PM  •Lauren Goode / AllThingsD:  Avid Brings Its “Pro-sumer” Video Editing App to iPad
12:30 PM  •Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:  Viacom Plans to Announce Another Online Content Deal, Possibly With Amazon
12:25 PM  •Jim Romenesko:  The graffiti artist who is about to become a Facebook millionaire
12:15 PM  •Joseph Menn / Reuters:  Key Internet operator VeriSign hit by hackers
11:45 AM  •Glyn Moody / Techdirt:  Estonia Next In Line To Receive US ‘Encouragement’ To Adopt Harsher Anti-Piracy Laws
11:10 AM  •ChangeWave Research:  ChangeWave Survey Shows Momentum for Amazon Going Forward
10:55 AM  •Ernesto / TorrentFreak:  Feds Seize Sports Streaming Domains in New Super Bowl Crackdown
10:30 AM  •Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:  Post-IPO, Facebook will have to make privacy investigations public
10:25 AM  •Dieter Bohn / The Verge:  Sony posts $2 billion net loss for Q3 FY2011 results, forecasts $2.9 billion loss for full year
10:00 AM  •Brent Csutoras / Search Engine Land:  StumbleUpon Kills Direct Links, iFrames Everything
9:55 AM  •Bill Gurley / abovethecrowd.com:  Why Facebook Clearly Belongs In The 10X Revenue Club
9:35 AM  •Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Glassdoor Launches “Inside Connections,” A Facebook-Based Job Hunting Tool
9:00 AM  •Matt Brian / The Next Web:  Apple grabs another gaming executive with appointment of Xbox Live marketing chief
8:35 AM  •Jon Russell / The Next Web:  South Korean man faces jail for retweeting North Korean Twitter messages
8:10 AM  •Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:  Android Can No Longer Be Ignored, And The Crunchies Prove It
7:45 AM  •Loretta Chao / Wall Street Journal:  In China, Facebook Alternatives Thrive
7:20 AM  •Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:  Google Docs for Android gets offline support and a tablet refresh
6:55 AM  •Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  New Everpix iPhone App Automatically Uploads Your Photos To The Cloud
6:30 AM  •Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:  Zuckerberg Controlling 57% of Facebook Seen as Risk to Investors
6:15 AM  •Matt Brian / The Next Web:  HTC acknowledges some of its Android devices may leak Wi-Fi passwords
5:40 AM  •Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:  My desk — at Facebook HQ.
5:25 AM  •Julia Kollewe / Guardian:  Silicon London is first choice of base for Google, Facebook and other tech giants
4:40 AM  •Rip Empson / TechCrunch:  ShoreTel To Acquire Cloud Communications Company M5 Networks For Up To $146 Million
1:55 AM  •Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:  New Sony Chief Executive Reveals Fast-Forward Plans
1:15 AM  •Brian Stelter / New York Times:  Blogging Site Tumblr Makes Itself the News
12:35 AM  •Sam Byford / The Verge:  Nokia chairman warns of slow progress for ‘a significant part’ of 2012
12:20 AM  •New York Times:  From Founders to Decorators, Facebook Riches
12:05 AM  •Eric Slivka / MacRumors:  Apple Passes LG to Become World's Third Largest Mobile Phone Manufacturer

February 1, 2012

11:40 PM  •Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:  Beyond ACTA: next secret copyright agreement negotiated this week—in Hollywood
11:15 PM  •Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:  Remember that Gawker redesign? A year's worth of data says it worked
11:00 PM  •Om Malik / GigaOM:  What a Facebook IPO means for Silicon Valley
10:50 PM  •Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Facebook:  Facebook's platform paid out $1.4 billion to developers in 2011 — less than what Apple did
10:25 PM  •MG Siegler / TechCrunch:  “Think Profit.”  —  When Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld …
10:00 PM  •Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:  Foodspotting apps updated, now offer ‘Pandora-like’ food recommendations
9:35 PM  •Stephen Schenck / pocketnow.com:  Google Chrome to Phone Gets Long-Overdue Update
9:25 PM  •Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Facebook:  The details: Facebook spent $68 million on acquisitions last year
9:20 PM  •Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:  Mark Zuckerberg Loves It When A Plan Comes Together
9:00 PM  •Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:  Study: Pinterest drives more referral traffic than Google+, nearly on par with Twitter
8:40 PM  •Austin Carr / Fast Company:  Inside Stripe, The PayPal Competitor Backed By PayPal Founders Peter Thiel, Elon Musk
8:20 PM  •Colleen Taylor / GigaOM:  Twitter begins larger rollout of enhanced brand pages
8:10 PM  •Quora:  Facebook IPO & S-1 Filing (February 2012): What are the most notable aspects of Facebook's S-1?
7:50 PM  •Tom Warren / The Verge:  Windows 8 ARM devices to have a non-Metro desktop experience with app restrictions?
7:40 PM  •MG Siegler / @parislemon:  Facebook has more profit than Google had revenue when they went public.
7:35 PM  •Tim Carmody / Gizmodo:  Facebook's ‘Letter from Zuckerberg’: The Annotated Version
7:35 PM  •Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:  Zuckerberg Is the Billion-Share Man: Who Owns What, Who Makes What in the Facebook IPO
7:15 PM  •iSuppli®:  Sign of the Times: Wireless Displaces Computers as Top Semiconductor Spending Area for OEMs in 2011
6:55 PM  •Wired.com:  Facebook's $5 Billion IPO: The Next Google? Or The Next Groupon?
6:35 PM  •Kathleen De Vere / Inside Social Games:  EA digital revenue climbs 40% to $274M in holiday quarter
6:15 PM  •Grant Gross / Computerworld:  White House: No comment on call to investigate MPAA for SOPA bribery
6:05 PM  •Josh Constine / TechCrunch:  Facebook's Risk Factors: Mobile, Gov, Slowed Growth, Google+
5:45 PM  •Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:  French Court Fines Google $660,000 Because Google Maps Is Free
5:30 PM  •Leena Rao / TechCrunch:  Facebook's S-1 And The Largest Shareholders: Zuck Owns 28 Percent
5:25 PM  •Todd Haselton / BGR:  Qualcomm reports record Q1, beats estimates with $4.68B in revenue and raises outlook
5:20 PM  •Andrea Chang / L.A. Times Tech Blog:  Facebook says ticker symbol will be FB, annual revenue $3.7 billion
5:15 PM  •Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:  Stuck Like Glue: Zynga Accounts for 12 Percent of Facebook Revenue in 2011
5:10 PM  •Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Facebook:  Facebook's net income and revenues: $1 billion on $3.71 billion in 2011
5:05 PM  •Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:  Facebook's S-1 Reveals: 845 Million Users Every Month, More Than Half Daily, Half Mobile
5:00 PM  •Josh Constine / TechCrunch:  Facebook's S-1 Letter From Zuckerberg Urges Understanding Before Investment
5:00 PM  •U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:  Form S-1 REGISTRATION STATEMENT — Facebook, Inc.
4:51 PM  •Eric Slivka / MacRumors:  Apple Releases OS X 10.7.3 with New Language Support and Bug Fixes
4:35 PM  •Fred Wilson / A VC:  Dispersion and Entropy In Social Media
4:15 PM  •bitly blog:  Device Usage on the Social Web
3:55 PM  •Reuters:  Facebook execs gear up political influence arm
3:35 PM  •Leena Rao / TechCrunch:  Google Mobile Search Ad Requests More Than Doubled In 2011
3:15 PM  •Brad Molen / Engadget:  US Cellular intros first LTE devices: the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 4G and Galaxy S Aviator 4G
2:55 PM  •Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:  Google Fights Back Against Microsoft's “Putting People First” Ad Campaign
2:35 PM  •Olzhas Auyezov / Reuters:  Ukraine government websites attacked after piracy crackdown
2:30 PM  •Ernesto / TorrentFreak:  Authorities Shut Down Ukraine's Largest File-Sharing Site Ex.ua
2:20 PM  •Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:  Verizon's wireless, marketing deal with cable firms to be considered at Senate hearing
2:15 PM  •DealBook:  Tracking Facebook's Valuation
2:00 PM  •Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:  Apple Loses German Court Bid to Ban Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N, Nexus Phone
1:35 PM  •Carnegie Mellon University:  Who Gives a Tweet  —  Twitter users say only a little …
1:05 PM  •John Ribeiro / Computerworld:  Seagate: Shortage of disk drives to continue through 2012
12:45 PM  •Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:  Why Mint on Android tablets could boost its user base
12:25 PM  •Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:  What's new in Microsoft's Kinect for Windows final bits
12:20 PM  •Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:  AOL's Armstrong: Some Patches DID Turn Profitable in 2011
12:05 PM  •Ernesto / TorrentFreak:  The Pirate Bay Moves to .SE Domain To Prevent Domain Seizure
11:50 AM  •Jeff Roberts / paidContent:  Google Buys Online Ads In Pushback Over Privacy
11:45 AM  •Todd Bishop / GeekWire:  Amazon filing shows $558M loss for LivingSocial in 2011
11:25 AM  •Jon Russell / The Next Web:  Google in talks with Chinese authorities to keep Google Maps operational there
11:05 AM  •Charles Arthur / Guardian:  Acta goes too far, says MEP
10:40 AM  •Bill Ray / The Register:  40,000 Apple fanbois demand ethical iPhone 5
10:15 AM  •Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:  Microsoft Slams Google Privacy Changes With “Putting People First” Ad Campaign
9:40 AM  •Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:  Go the F**k Back to Sleep, Silicon Valley: Facebook IPO Likely to File Later Today at Earliest
9:30 AM  •Josh Ong / AppleInsider:  Apple reportedly shopping for TV display components from major supplier
8:55 AM  •Brooke Crothers / CNET:  Windows 8 may have an edge over Android on tablets, ARM CEO says
8:30 AM  •Eric Slivka / MacRumors:  ZFS Comes to OS X Courtesy of Apple's Former Chief ZFS Architect
8:05 AM  •Gareth Beavis / TechRadar:  Samsung confirms Galaxy S3 delay No show for quad core powerhouse at MWC
7:40 AM  •Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:  AOL Beats Low Expectations, Increasing Ad Revenue and Slowing Total Decline in Q4 (Plus Charts!)
7:35 AM  •Bloomberg:  Facebook Picks Morgan Stanley to Lead IPO
7:30 AM  •Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:  Introducing Our First Event Series: PandoMonthly
7:05 AM  •Ernesto / TorrentFreak:  Pirate Bay Founders' Prison Sentences Final, Supreme Court Appeal Rejected
6:40 AM  •Semiocast:  Brazil becomes 2nd country on Twitter, Japan 3rd Netherlands most active country
6:15 AM  •John Cox / Network World:  Apple forcing IT shops to “adapt or die”
5:50 AM  •Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:  Jack Dorsey Defends Twitter's Tweet-Level Censorship
5:25 AM  •Jeff Atwood / Stack Exchange:  The Trouble With Popularity
5:00 AM  •Amar Toor / Engadget:  Sony confirms Kazuo Hirai as new President and CEO, replacing Howard Stringer
4:35 AM  •Leena Rao / TechCrunch:  Omniture Co-Founder's Business Intelligence SaaS Company Domo Lands $20M From IVP
1:55 AM  •Mark Otto / Twitter Developers:  Say hello to Bootstrap 2.0  —  Six months ago we open-sourced …
1:15 AM  •Andrew Tarantola / Gizmodo:  Redbox Puts the Kibosh on WB's 56-day Waiting Period
12:35 AM  •Josh Constine / TechCrunch:  Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Dropbox Is The Best Overall Startup
12:05 AM  •Identified:  New Identified Research Reveals Engineers Far More Likely than MBAs to Build and Run Companies

January 31, 2012

11:30 PM  •Nolan Caudill:  The Front Line  —  So, Yahoo messed up today.
11:05 PM  •Farhad Manjoo / Slate:  Introducing the iFactory  —  Apple reinvented gadgets.
10:40 PM  •Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar:  With GOV.UK, British government redefines the online government platform
10:25 PM  •Practice Fusion / @practicefusion:  Watch the #crunchies live here! http://www.ustream.tv/techcrunch
10:20 PM  •Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:  YouTube could introduce a subscription service of its own
10:05 PM  •Horace Dediu / asymco:  Pricing Paradox  —  As Apple's extraordinarily low valuation …
9:45 PM  •Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:  Exec shuffle focuses AT&T on the real prize: mobile
9:25 PM  •Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com:  Exclusive: First Image of a BlackBerry 10 Superphone!!
9:05 PM  •Jasmin Melvin / Reuters:  Netflix says Congress can help bring Facebook app to U.S.
8:40 PM  •Marguerite Reardon / CNET:  Sprint gives LightSquared until March to get FCC approval
8:30 PM  •Byron Acohido / USA Today:  Google to give closed-door briefing on policy changes
8:25 PM  •Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:  The Quiet Man: Meet the Less-Known Face of the Facebook IPO, CFO David Ebersman
8:00 PM  •Audrey Watters / Hack Education:  Stanford Professors Daphne Koller & Andrew Ng Also Launching a Massive Online Learning Startup
7:25 PM  •Financial Times:  Yahoo: Alibaba remains in complicated split talks
7:00 PM  •The Mozilla Blog:  Firefox Adds Powerful New Developer Tools
6:35 PM  •Stephen Shankland / CNET:  Microsoft: The Web is better without plug-ins
6:10 PM  •Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:  Boxee officially pulls the plug on PC client
6:05 PM  •Pallavi Gogoi / Associated Press:  Will Facebook deliver an IPO surprise?
5:40 PM  •Matt Hickey / The Daily:  Inside Microsoft's plan to equip laptops with Kinect technology
5:15 PM  •Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog:  Comcast issues six-month progress report for cheaper broadband program
4:55 PM  •Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:  ITC throws out Barnes & Noble's antitrust claims against Microsoft ahead of trial: no signs of wrongdoing
4:50 PM  •Dan Levine / Reuters:  Analysis: Patent plaintiffs target Facebook as IPO approaches
4:40 PM  •Jason Boog / GalleyCat:  Barnes & Noble Stores Will Not Stock Books Published By Amazon
4:35 PM  •IFR:  Facebook readies to file US$5bn IPO, could grow
4:30 PM  •Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:  Amazon: Big Kindle sales, but sales and outlook fall short
4:10 PM  •Amazon.com:  Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 35% to $17.43 Billion; Kindle Device Sales Nearly …
3:55 PM  •Fox News:  EXCLUSIVE: WikiLeaks to move servers offshore, sources say
3:35 PM  •Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:  Filing: Without Itanium Chip, HP Is “Strategically Screwed”
3:15 PM  •Leena Rao / TechCrunch:  IBM Buys HTML5 App Development Company WorkLight For $70M To Expand Mobile Enterprise Services
3:00 PM  •John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:  Neil Young and the Sound of Music
2:45 PM  •Reuters:  Exclusive: Europe sets sights on deeper mobile roaming cuts
2:30 PM  •Matthew Humphries / Geek.com:  Why the Raspberry Pi won't ship in kit form
2:10 PM  •Greg Sterling / Marketing Land:  Seeking To Banish “Distraction” Microsoft Replaces Hotmail Display Ads With Deals
1:55 PM  •Charles Arthur / Guardian:  Nokia chief hints at Lumia phones with NFC
1:40 PM  •Michael Kan / Computerworld:  Apple appeals iPad trademark decision in China
1:20 PM  •Tom Warren / The Verge:  Rumor: Office 15 for Windows 8 will be desktop apps, not fully Metro style
1:00 PM  •Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:  Firefox 10 Launches: Promises Fewer Add-On Compatibility Issues, Enables Fullscreen API
12:45 PM  •Zach Epstein / BGR:  Can these four superheroes rescue RIM?
12:30 PM  •Ben Popper / VentureBeat:  Obama calls on Congress to pass bill aimed at helping startups
12:25 PM  •Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:  EFF Launches MegaRetrieval To Help Users Save Their Megaupload Data
12:15 PM  •Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:  Zynga CEO: We aren't the copycats on Bingo social game (exclusive interview)
12:10 PM  •Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:  EXCLUSIVE: The IM Conversation In Which 19-Year-Old Zuckerberg Decided To Build Facebook, This Year's $100 Billion IPO
12:05 PM  •Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:  Visa leads $40M in TrialPay's alternative payments business
11:45 AM  •Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:  Country-Specific Blogger URLs
11:40 AM  •Don Reisinger / CNET:  Google responds to Congress over privacy policy inquiries
11:35 AM  •Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:  Apple updates Final Cut Pro X with multicam, broadcast monitoring
11:10 AM  •Amar Toor / Engadget:  T-Mobile brings Square to select small businesses, does the mobile payment thing
11:00 AM  •Zach Epstein / BGR:  Unannounced HTC Ville with Android 4.0 and Sense 4.0 shown off in leaked video
10:55 AM  •Ben Horowitz / ben's blog:  Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years?
10:50 AM  •CNET:  Feds: We obtained MegaUpload conversations with search warrant
10:35 AM  •Leena Rao / TechCrunch:  Andreessen Horowitz Closes $1.5 Billion New Fund
10:20 AM  •Sharif Sakr / Engadget:  ARM boosts profits by 45 percent, strengthens grip on the universe
10:00 AM  •Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:  Facebook's Sandberg in Spotlight En Route to IPO
9:40 AM  •Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:  Salesforce launches Desk.com, slick social customer support software based on Assistly
9:25 AM  •Chris Chang / M.I.C. Gadget:  Thousands Line Up For Foxconn's Jobs in Zhengzhou (video)
9:05 AM  •Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:  Hewlett-Packard Wins Dismissal of Oracle Fraud Claim Over Hurd
8:50 AM  •Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:  Amazon S3 Reports Staggering Growth in 2011
8:35 AM  •EU Press Room:  Antitrust: Commission opens proceedings against Samsung
8:30 AM  •Pablo Chavez / Google Public Policy Blog:  Changing our privacy policies, not our privacy controls
8:15 AM  •Josh Constine / TechCrunch:  Synacor Files For IPO, Acquires HTML5 Cloud OS Carbyn For $1.1M
8:00 AM  •Reuters:  Mexicans overcharged billions for phone, web: study
7:45 AM  •Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:  Who is Apple's new retail boss, and what will he do?
7:40 AM  •Wall Street Journal:  Verizon's Tangled Web
7:20 AM  •Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:  RIM-hosted BlackBerry services for Office 365 now generally available
6:55 AM  •Wall Street Journal:  The Coming Tech-led Boom
6:30 AM  •Tom Warren / The Verge:  Apple hires former Dixons CEO John Browett as retail chief
6:25 AM  •Matt Brian / The Next Web:  EU antitrust watchdog to probe Samsung over fair access to mobile patents
6:20 AM  •Dave Copeland / ReadWriteWeb:  Twitter Upgrades Will Include Analytical Tools
5:55 AM  •Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:  German appeals court upholds Galaxy Tab 10.1 injunction — but on different legal basis than Apple's design right
5:30 AM  •Robert Andrews / paidContent:  Sky Will De-Couple Pay-TV Content From Satellite For IPTV Era
4:50 AM  •Apple:  John Browett Joins Apple as Senior Vice President of Retail
4:45 AM  •Ina Fried / AllThingsD:  Twitter's Dick Costolo on Ads, Censorship and Google (Video)
4:41 AM  •Rob Cox / Reuters:  Facebook IPO will put public markets to shame
1:55 AM  •Jon Russell / The Next Web:  Twitter's advertising revenue is predicted to triple by 2014 to reach $540 million
1:35 AM  •Ina Fried / AllThingsD:  Twitter CEO Says Board Changes “Not Some Ninja Move”
1:25 AM  •AJ Glasser / Inside Social Games:  Facebook tests ‘games only’ activity feed, might drop games ticker
12:55 AM  •Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Tablet Shipments To Reach 383.3 Million By 2017, 46% In Emerging Markets
12:25 AM  •Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:  The Only Thing Less Stable Than Working at a Start-Up: Working at a Start-Up Co-Working Space
12:05 AM  •Jake Smith / 9to5Mac:  China Telecom says it will sell the iPhone 4S in a month

January 30, 2012

11:55 PM  •Chris Ziegler / The Verge:  Brian Hernacki, webOS chief architect, leaves HP
11:35 PM  •Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:  Pre-IPO Filing, Facebook Trading Privately At $84 Billion Valuation
11:15 PM  •Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog:  Facebook launches Timeline Movie Maker
10:55 PM  •Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:  T-Mobile to institute domestic roaming data caps starting in April
10:35 PM  •Jon Russell / The Next Web:  Megaupload lawyer: User data is safe for “at least two weeks”
10:30 PM  •Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:  Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: 2012 is going to be the Twitter election
10:10 PM  •Ina Fried / AllThingsD:  Costolo: Twitter Isn't Looking to Censor Anyone
9:50 PM  •Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:  SocialCam Is Growing, But It's The Latest Alum Startup Returning To Y Combinator Anyway
9:30 PM  •Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:  Node.js creator Ryan Dahl steps away from Node's day-to-day
9:10 PM  •Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:  Obama's Google+ Hangout Didn't Change the Game, It Just Changed the Channel
9:05 PM  •Nick Bilton / Bits:  Obama and Romney Campaigns Adopt Square for Funding
8:45 PM  •Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:  As Anonymous protests, Internet drowns in inaccurate anti-ACTA arguments
8:25 PM  •David Carr / Media Decoder:  At Sundance, Kickstarter Resembled a Movie Studio, but Without the Egos
8:06 PM  •Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:  Paying To Serve: Microsoft Offers Accelerator-Backed Startups $60,000* In Azure Cloud Usage
7:50 PM  •Jake Smith / 9to5Google:  Google launches official Android Developers page on Google+
7:35 PM  •Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:  BuzzFeed Bulks Up Again, With a Tech Section Run by Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan
7:30 PM  •Paul Thurrott's / SuperSite for Windows:  Responding To Feedback, Microsoft Makes Changes To Windows 8 File Management
7:15 PM  •Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:  Codecademy Becomes A Platform: Now Anyone Can Write Programming Tutorials
7:00 PM  •Stuart Dredge / Guardian:  Angry Birds boss: ‘Piracy may not be a bad thing: it can get us more business’
6:45 PM  •Sosadmin / Privacy Matters Blog:  Another subpoena to Twitter for Occupy related account
6:25 PM  •Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:  Apple Topples HP for Lead in Q4 ‘Client PC’ Sales, Says Canalys
6:20 PM  •Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:  Wireless Companies to Face New U.S. Disclosure Rules in Bill
6:00 PM  •Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:  Three Founders Are Out At Demand Media
5:45 PM  •Federico Viticci / MacStories:  Apple Releases iOS-like AirPort Utility 6.0 for Lion
5:40 PM  •Kori Schulman / White House.gov Blog:  Watch Live: President Obama Answers Your Questions in a Google+ Hangout
5:25 PM  •Shayndi Raice / Wall Street Journal:  Facebook Widens Lead in Display Ads
5:05 PM  •Jim Finkle / Reuters:  Symantec says pcAnywhere safe, offers free upgrade
4:45 PM  •Jeff Roberts / paidContent:  Verizon Says More Than 600 Websites Used In Cybersquatting Scam
4:25 PM  •Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:  SnagFilms Grabs $7 Million to Share Indie Movies Online
4:10 PM  •Mike Masnick / Techdirt:  Apparently Veoh Isn't Dead Enough For Universal Music; Asks For Rehearing Of Its Bogus Copyright Lawsuit
3:55 PM  •Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:  The Real Story of How Dick Costolo Kicked Investors Off Twitter's Board
3:30 PM  •Brad McCarty / The Next Web:  Facebook: Over 5 billion songs have been shared since September's f8
3:25 PM  •Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:  Attorney General set to destroy tens of millions of users' legitimate MegaUpload files
3:10 PM  •Dan Graziano / BGR:  AT&T to launch Samsung Galaxy Note on February 19th for $299.99 [video]
2:55 PM  •Christopher Williams / Telegraph:  Twitter could block super-injunction tweets
2:50 PM  •Leena Rao / TechCrunch:  Pew: More Than Half Of Adults Used Cell Phones In Stores For Purchasing Decisions During The Holidays
2:40 PM  •Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:  Curebit apologizes for theft, but leaves something out
2:25 PM  •Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:  Apple combats scalpers with new lottery system for iPhone reservations in Hong Kong
2:10 PM  •Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:  Twitter users beware: Homeland Security isn't laughing
1:55 PM  •Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:  Columbia J-School and Stanford Eng Nab $30M Joint Gift for Media Innovation From Helen Gurley Brown
1:50 PM  •Leena Rao / TechCrunch:  The Obama Campaign Is Now Using Mobile Payments Device Square For Fundraising
1:40 PM  •Alistair Barr / Reuters:  Amazon unit may be moving into sporting goods
1:25 PM  •Washington Post:  FDA staffers sue agency over surveillance of personal e-mail
1:10 PM  •Curt Hopkins / ReadWriteWeb:  Google Fires Kenya Lead Over Mocality
12:55 PM  •Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:  Rep. Markey releases draft of cellphone privacy bill
12:40 PM  •Daniel Cooper / Engadget:  Nintendo, NTT DoCoMo testing DS-powered speech translator
12:25 PM  •Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:  Microsoft Office 15 technical preview kicks off
12:05 PM  •John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:  Where's the Fire? Kindle Sales Pushing Six Million for the Quarter.
11:50 AM  •Sean Buckley / Engadget:  Verizon shared data plans show up in employee training materials, still on track?
11:25 AM  •Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:  Glooko raises $3.5M to sync diabetes glucose meters to iPhone app
11:15 AM  •Robert Andrews / paidContent:  Google, Facebook, Twitter Execs Grilled By UK MPs On Privacy
10:55 AM  •Emi Kolawole / Washington Post:  Adam Lashinsky on peeling back Apple's skin
10:40 AM  •Aaron Smith / Pew Internet:  How Americans used their phones to assist with purchasing decisions this holiday season
10:20 AM  •Josh Ong / AppleInsider:  Apple predicted to sell up to 40M iPhones on China Mobile, China Telecom in 2013
10:05 AM  •Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:  Farewell, Yahoo Apps, We Hardly Knew Ye: Deals, News Plus Eight Others Gone
9:45 AM  •Heather Perlberg / Bloomberg:  Apple Fuels Hiring Amid Bubble 2.0 Concern
9:30 AM  •Jamie Keene / The Verge:  Nokia Lumia 910 with 12-megapixel camera appears on Dutch retailer's website
9:15 AM  •Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:  Kayak's Web Site Takes Its Influence From Mobile for Its Latest Design
9:00 AM  •Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:  Buffalo Studios blasts Zynga for copying Bingo Blitz social game
8:45 AM  •Amar Toor / Engadget:  Samsung Galaxy S Advance gets official: 1GHz dual-core CPU, Super AMOLED and Gingerbread
8:30 AM  •Cade Metz / Wired Enterprise:  Meet Bill Gates, the Man Who Changed Open Source Software
8:15 AM  •David Strom / ReadWriteWeb:  Blogging Declines Across the Inc. 500
8:00 AM  •Wall Street Journal:  Upload King's Quiet Steps
7:45 AM  •Rip Empson / TechCrunch:  DreamHost's Unhappy January Continues: First, A Database Breach, Now An Outage
7:30 AM  •Chris Ziegler / The Verge:  Windows Phone ‘Tango’ could support over three times as many languages, native code coming?
7:15 AM  •Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:  Facebook (Eye)PO: Tracking the Truth of the Biggest Deal of Web 2.0
7:00 AM  •Gautham Nagesh / Hillicon Valley:  Senate cybersecurity bill sparking concerns about government control
6:35 AM  •Josh Halliday / Guardian:  Interview: Tumblr founder David Karp
6:10 AM  •Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:  Apple Puts New Engineers On Fake Products Until It Can Trust Them
5:45 AM  •Tom Warren / The Verge:  T-Mobile UK launches ‘Full Monty’ unlimited calls, texts, data plan
5:20 AM  •Leena Rao / TechCrunch:  The Ecommerce Revolution Is All About You
4:10 AM  •Brian X. Chen / New York Times:  BlackBerry Under Siege in Europe
1:55 AM  •David Carr / New York Times:  Twitter Gives Glimpse Into Rupert Murdoch's Mind
1:30 AM  •Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:  Tilera launches two new speedy cloud processors, names new CEO
1:00 AM  •Jon Russell / The Next Web:  Thailand is the world's first government to endorse Twitter's censorship feature
12:30 AM  •Caleb Garling / Wired Enterprise:  Google Teams With Facebook and Microsoft to Phight Phishing
12:05 AM  •Daniel Wagner / Associated Press:  Feds: Megaupload User Data Could Be Gone Thursday

January 29, 2012

10:50 PM  •Charles Arthur / Guardian:  Will Google have to start a patent war to get $9bn of value from Motorola?
9:10 PM  •David Carnoy / CNET:  Report: New Nook coming this spring
7:35 PM  •Reuters:  Japan's NEC to slash 10,000 jobs
5:25 PM  •Ernesto / TorrentFreak:  Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay
2:30 PM  •Aaron Glantz / New York Times:  Old Techies Never Die; They Just Can't Get Hired as an Industry Moves On
2:10 PM  •Rose Simone / TheRecord.com:  Stepping down was a hard decision, but the ‘right’ one: Lazaridis

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