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New York Times:
Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class — When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president. — But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own …
Fred Wilson / A VC:
A Post PIPA Post — On my way from a breakfast meeting to the office yesterday I got a phone call on my cell phone with a 202 area code on it. I picked up the call and on the other end of the line was someone in Congress who I've known for a decade or more.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Aren't Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought — Reinforcing the fact that Chris Dodd really does not get what's happening, and showing just how disgustingly corrupt the MPAA relationship is with politicians, Chris Dodd went on Fox News …
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Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar:
The week the web changed Washington
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TPM Idea Lab, @digiphile, Mashable! and VatorNews
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
DLD 2012 - @Jack Dorsey: “Twitter Has A Business Model That Works” — Earlier this fine Sunday afternoon, Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey took the stage at the DLD Conference, the annual pre-Davos meeting of minds held in Munich, Germany. — In an interview with not one but two journalists …
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AllThingsD, VentureBeat, DLD Conference and The Next Web
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Just Incentivized Every College Kid To Get An iPad. As For High Schoolers... As I watched Apple's iBooks event in New York City last week, my mind began to race about the ramifications of such announcements. Everyone had a pretty good idea for weeks (or months if you read the Steve Jobs biography) …
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MacStories, Macworld and InvestorPlace
Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:
Are there too many gadget choices? — At CES last week, I took to one of the many stages upstairs inside the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center for a panel dubbed “Argue The Future.” Joining me for the discussion was our site's managing editor Nilay Patel, alongside representatives from HTC, Samsung Mobile, and Microsoft.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Uploaded.to Blocks US Visitors After MegaUpload Shutdown — Uploaded.to, one of the most popular file-hosting sites in the Internet, has closed its doors to US visitors. The move is most likely a response to the FBI crackdown on MegaUpload two days ago. US visitors of Uploaded.to currently get the following message.
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Geek.com and TorrentFreak
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Disruptions: The Sloshing Sound of Tech Valuations — On a recent Thursday night, I stood motionless and perplexed on the dance floor of a San Francisco club. As I looked around, 300 or so people danced and darted back and forth to a free open bar while laser lights shot overhead.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Megaupload Drops Lawsuit Against Universal Music Over Viral Video (Exclusive) — Amid a criminal case that forced the shutdown of Megaupload, the company has dismissed UMG from a lawsuit over a video that showed many stars endorsing the site. But that doesn't mean the case is over.
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Electronista, The Next Web, The Verge and WebProNews
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Inside Megaupload's Megamind: Kim Dotcom's Playboy Bunnies, Russian Nuclear Vessels, And Private War On Terror — In the Wild, Wild West-era of digital media, there is no cowboy quite like Kim Dotcom. Part Sean Parker, part Kevin Mitnick, with a whiff of Notorious B.I.G. …
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Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Ars Technica and Reuters, Thanks:@jengapokers
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Megaupload Details Raise Significant Concerns About What DOJ Considers Evidence Of Criminal Behavior
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New York Times, Pulse2 and VentureBeat
Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald:
Love online: 100,000 Grindr users exposed in hack attack — The Grindr app, left, and founder Joel Simkhai's profile. — A popular “meat-market” smartphone app that spawned a sexual revolution in Australia's gay community has been compromised by a Sydney hacker, potentially exposing …
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Pulse2, Queerty, Gay Blog, SFist, New York Magazine, PC Magazine, Grindr Blog, Softpedia News, The Raw Story, Gawker and Naked Security
Rocky Agrawal / VentureBeat:
This post on Google+ statistics is a billion* times better than any other post — In Thursday's Google earnings call, CEO Larry Page told the world that the company's fledgling social network, Google+ has reached 90 million registered users. He went on to say that, “Over 60 percent …
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PC Magazine, VentureBeat and reDesign, Thanks:@theromit
Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:
News.me Swoops In to Save Save Summify Users — News.me deserves credit today for some start-up agility and helpfulness. Yesterday, Twitter bought Summify, a service that crunched down links from one's Twitter feed into a need-to-know email digest, and it will be shut down. Loving users freaked out.
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News.me, GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Next Web and App Advice
