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7:25 PM ET, April 1, 2011

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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Eric Schmidt Tried To Get Google To Hide His Political Donation In Search Results  —  Departing Google CEO Eric Schmidt was known for some of his bumbling public statements — like saying that privacy didn't matter — but apparently he made some internal blunders as well.
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
New Book on Google Shows Gaffes in China  —  When Google opened for business in China in 2006, Eric E. Schmidt, its chief executive, said, “Google has 5,000 years of patience in China.”  But its divorce from the country just four years later was inevitable because operations there were troubled from the start.
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Exclusive: Snafus forced Twitter data center move: sources  —  (Reuters) - An ambitious plan to prevent “Fail Whales,” the cartoon icon that greets frustrated Twitter users during network outages, has turned into a fail whale of its own.  —  A new, custom-built facility in Utah meant …
Discussion: AllTwitter
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
April Fools 2011: The Big List  —  Yes, folks, that's right.  That special, special time of year is upon us.  It's April Fools 2011!  We take April Fools pretty seriously around here, so we'll be constantly updating this post with the best April Fools jokes and pranks the World Wide Interwebernets has to offer.
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google April Fools' Day 2011  —  This year, Google's hoaxes are less inspired and some of them aren't original either, but they're still funny.  Here are some of them:  —  1. Google China invented teleportation.  “Through the search is to let Google take you through time and space …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Onion, America's Finest News Source, Picks Finest Day To Debut iPad App  —  This is not a joke.  The Onion, “America's Finest News Source” (TM), released its iPad app fittingly enough on April Fools Day.  IPad apps are serious stuff.  This one delivers fake news stories, videos …
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple's success contributes to departure of Acer, Nokia, LG CEOs  —  The success of Apple's iPad has had a major impact on the netbook market, forcing the CEO of low-cost notebook maker Acer to resign.  That follows the departures of top brass from two other Apple competitors, Nokia and LG.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
It's No Joke.  IPOs Are Back, Baby  —  Fourteen venture-backed companies went public in the first quarter of 2011, raising $1.4 billion in the process, according to the National Venture Capital Association.  That's the highest number to go public in a quarter since 2007.
Discussion: IBD Click
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Verizon 4G LTE ‘blows away’ Sprint's WiMAX in 1,000 speed tests  —  Sprint is no longer the “4G king,” BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk proclaimed on Friday following a massive speed test that pitted Sprint's HTC EVO 4G against Verizon Wireless' HTC ThunderBolt.
THE DRUM:
Facebook ‘sued for $1 billion’ over Intifada page said to threaten Jewish lives  —  The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook itself are being sued for a billion dollars over their alleged role in furthering a radical Palestinian page called “Third Intifada,” which threatened Jews in particular with death.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion After Not Removing A Page Fast Enough
Discussion: Switched
Ben Laurie / Google Online Security Blog:
Improving SSL certificate security  —  In the wake of the recent Comodo fraud incident, there has been a great deal of speculation about how to improve the public key infrastructure, on which the security of the Internet rests.  Unfortunately, this isn't a problem that will be fixed overnight.
Discussion: WebProNews
TechCrunch:
Facebook Terminated Corporate Development Employee Over Insider Trading Scandal  —  Facebook corporate development manager Michael Brown (pictured left in happier days) recently and abruptly left Facebook, and the company then hired a senior Google employee to replace him.
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Microsoft removes Imagewind from Marketplace, WP7 gets first bitter taste of rejection  —  Oh, sure, it was easy to pick on Apple for all those frustrating App Store rejections over the years, but Google's had its own run-ins with apps being pulled under unfortunate circumstances, and now it's time for WP7 users to get a taste.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple may build its own external battery pack for recharging on the go  —  Apple has shown interest in integrating a rechargeable external battery pack into its standard charging cable, providing extra power for devices like a MacBook or iPhone when a power outlet isn't available.
Dan Frommer / The Wire:
Just Like That, Time Warner Cable Adds A Bunch More Channels To Its iPad App  —  Give Time Warner Cable some credit for bouncing back quickly.  —  A day after announcing that it was getting rid of a bunch of channels from its streaming iPad app, pressured by network lawyers …
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Patent Shows that Apple is Bringing “Spaces” to the iPad  —  In an Apple Discussions forum on Spaces for iPad, Robb Manning stating back in 2010 that having “the ability to touch one button and switch spaces to where I have safari up to do some research would be awesome.”  Well, today we move closer to that reality.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Google Answers Viacom in YouTube Appeal (Exclusive) … Google has filed its brief to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the closely-watched $1 billion lawsuit brought by Viacom over alleged copyright infringement on YouTube.  —  In the 94-page document, Google outlines why it believes it qualifies for …
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Verizon iPhone Was February's Most Popular Phone Model, comScore Says  —  Riding a strong launch of the Verizon iPhone, Apple saw its share of the phone market rise nearly a percentage point between November and February, according to a report from comScore.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Social browser RockMelt makes its first big upgrade  —  RockMelt, the Web browser that launched last fall with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, is releasing some improvements today that co-founder and chief executive Eric Vishria told me will tackle the two biggest requests from users.
Haaretz:
Israeli startup Conduit with more users than Twitter negotiating billion-dollar exit  —  The company has 230 million users of its products, half the number of Facebook users, and more than LinkedIn and Twitter; if the deal comes off, it would be the biggest sale of an Internet firm in Israeli history.
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Robert McMillan / Network World:
UberSocial fixes direct-message privacy bug
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Robert Lemos / InfoWorld:
VeriSign DNS fix paves way for safer Internet
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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
MTV Loves Facebook, and Facebook Likes MTV a Lot (Video)
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Michael Kan / PC World:
China's Baidu to Compensate Songwriters for Music Downloads
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Ben Horowitz / TechCrunch:
What's The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Google's Schmidt beats Apple's Jobs in employee approval ratings
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Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Mobile Apps:
Facebook-Enabled, Social Recommendations of Mobile Apps Are Here With Apptitude
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Dan Levine / Reuters:
Google foe won't take “no” on Buzz cash
Discussion: paidContent and Adotas
Neil McAllister / InfoWorld:
What to expect from Gosling at Google
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
BlackBerry Touch (Monaco / Monza) hands-on!
Peter Cartwright / Netbooknews:
Eee Pad Transformer coming soon to BestBuy for $400 (Update: dock spotted for $150)
Pamela McClintock / Reuters:
Theater owners fuming over studios' VOD plan
Discussion: MediaMemo
Evelyn Rusli / New York Times:
Bessemer Venture Partners Closes $1.6 Billion Fund
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Massive SQL injection attack making the rounds—694K URLs so far