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New York Times:
Is It a New Tech Bubble? Let's See if It Pops — Banks pouring money into technology funds, wealthy clients and institutions clamoring to get pieces of start-ups, expectations of stock market debuts building — as Wall Street's machinery kicks into second gear, some investors with memories …
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GigaOM, Scripting News, andrew hillman dot com, @alexia, @cdixon and @om
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Chris / cdixon.org:
A few points about the “tech bubble” debate — Pretty much every day now a major blog or newspaper writes an article asking whether we are experiencing another tech bubble (e.g. see today's NYTimes). I don't know whether successful private companies like Groupon, Zynga …
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AdExchanger.com, Launching Tech Ventures and VentureBeat
Paul Kedrosky / Bloomberg:
Dear Warren: Here are the Overvalued Social Networking Companies
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Howard Lindzon and Webware.com, Thanks:pkedrosky
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
RIM: The inmates have taken over the asylum — Once upon a time, the Blackberry was the king of smartphones. After a succession of Psion PDAs and Palm devices, I loved my Blackberry, it was the perfect PIM (Personal Information Manager). Email, contacts and calendar functions worked well together …
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datasecurityblog.wordpress.com, Daring Fireball and WMPoweruser.com
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
RIM: The obits are a bit premature — Days before Research in Motion launches its PlayBook tablet analysts and tech observers are scrambling to predict the demise of the company. The gloom and doom may be misplaced. — Look, it's obvious that RIM has a few issues. Consider:
Wall Street Journal:
Google Pursues Role in Mobile Payments — Google Inc. is teaming up with MasterCard Inc. and Citigroup Inc. to embed technology in Android mobile devices that would allow consumers to make purchases by waving their smartphones in front of a small reader at the checkout counter, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Reuters and @amir_efrati
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
Facebook May Hire Robert Gibbs, Former Obama Aide — Facebook is in talks to hire Robert Gibbs, President Obama's former White House press secretary, for a senior role in helping to manage the company's communications, people briefed on the negotiations said.
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NetworkEffect
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Products Help Block Mideast Web — Protests flared Sunday in Yemen. Western Web-filtering technology has been used there, researchers say. — As Middle East regimes try to stifle dissent by censoring the Internet, the U.S. faces an uncomfortable reality: American companies provide …
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Paul Baran, Internet Pioneer, Dies at 84 — Paul Baran, an engineer who helped create the technical underpinnings for the Arpanet, the government-sponsored precursor to today's Internet, died Saturday night at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 84. — The cause was complications from lung cancer, said his son, David.
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GigaOM, Network World and @psaffo
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Warner Brothers Expands Facebook Rentals to “Harry Potter,” “Inception” — After a successful run renting “The Dark Knight” over Facebook, Warner Brothers has decided to offer five more movies over the social network, the studio announced on Sunday. — The studio will offer …
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VentureBeat, Engadget, The Next Web, louisgray.com and NBC Bay Area
Casey Newton / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. tech jobs climb near level of dot-com peak — As technology companies' soaring valuations draw comparisons to the dot-com days, a new analysis highlights another similarity: The number of tech workers in San Francisco today is nearing its peak in 2000.
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Paul Kedrosky's …, The Next Web and New York Times
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nintendo 3DS review: Is it worth $249 and $40 per game? — Nintendo has done its best to launch a new era in video games with the launch of its 3DS portable gaming system, which goes on sale for $249 on Sunday. The appeal of this device, which can display games in stereoscopic 3D without glasses, is growing on me.
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Joystiq
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Jared Newman / Technologizer:
Nintendo 3DS Launches, Haunted by Smartphones
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Digital Trends, The Business Insider and CrunchGear
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
New MobileMe includes music locker, costs $20 per year? — The Music Void claims that Apple's new MobileMe - reportedly due in April - will have a major music component, dubbed a ‘locker.’ The report does not delve into the details about this ‘locker’ but past reports have pegged the new service …
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Fast Company, PadGadget, TiPb, App Advice, iClarified, Apple Bitch, mocoNews, MacStories and TUAW
Naked Security / Sophos:
MySQL.com and Sun hacked through SQL injection — Proving that no website is ever truly secure, it is being reported that MySQL.com has succumbed to a SQL injection attack. It was first disclosed to the Full Disclosure mailing list early this morning. Hackers have now posted a dump of usernames and password hashes to pastebin.com.
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Sucuri, Techie Buzz and The Next Web
