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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
Live from Microsoft's Windows 8 Consumer Preview event  —  7:36 pm Windows head Steven Sinofsky just cruised through and worked the crowd a little.  He's looking happy.  7:35 pm 7:35 pm They're all loaded to the max with Metro icons — a far cry from the more spare Metro homescreens Microsoft's been showing off up until now.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
It's Windows 8 download day: Here's what we know  —  Summary: Here's my ‘live’ FAQ with all the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Windows Server 8 beta and Visual Studio “11″ tidbits from my contacts and around the Web.  —  I'm not in Barcelona — where Microsoft is launching the Consumer Preview (beta) of Windows 8 today.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Sources: New Apple TV launching in March, near-immediate availability hinted for new iPads  —  iPads and Apple TVs work together for innovative AirPlay features  —  Reliable sources familiar with Apple's upcoming product release have said that the company is in fact launching a new Apple TV alongside the next-generation iPad.
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple announces iPad event for March 7 in San Francisco
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Helpful Tips For Keeping Your Job As Editor Of Techcrunch  —  I rarely get writers block, but I've aborted multiple attempts to write about the leadership change at TechCrunch yesterday.  So I'm going to keep it simple.  —  I'm exceptionally bummed that so many people have left TechCrunch.
More: TechCrunch.  Tweets: @hnshah.  Thanks:@bobcaswell
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Apple Loophole Gives Developers Access to Photos  —  Developers of applications for Apple's mobile devices, and Apple itself, came under scrutiny this month after reports that some apps were taking people's address book information without their knowledge.  —  As it turns out, address books are not the only things up for grabs.
Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:
HP lays off 275 employees from webOS division  —  We've just received word that HP has laid off more than 270 employees from its webOS division as it “no longer needs many of the engineering and other related positions that it required before.”  This follows just behind the departure …
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Spotify Exec Ken Parks On “Windowing”: Mind-Boggling, Very Bad, Hostile  —  The biggest threat right now to subscription-based music services isn't coming from consumers or record labels—with millions of customers paying for monthly plans to Spotify and Rhapsody, all four majors see the services as major new sources of revenue.
More: hypebot
Josh Lowensohn / CNET:
eBay's iPad trade-ins up 10-fold from same time last year  —  eBay says 10 times the number of people traded in their iPads during February than did during the same time year.  —  Stack of iPads are piled up at the San Francisco Apple Store at the 2010 launch.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Opens Timeline To All Biz Pages, Mandatory After 30 Days Of Curation  —  Facebook Pages around the world can now upgrade to Timeline, allowing businesses to express themselves more visually through a redesign consistent with what was pushed to user profiles this fall.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Feature: How Red Hat killed its core product—and became a billion-dollar business  —  A decade ago, Linux developer Red Hat faced a decision that would make or break the company: whether to stop producing the very product that gave Red Hat its name.  The company was built on Red Hat Linux …
Thanks:@jbrodkin
Nancy Gohring / ITworld.com:
Google once considered issuing currency  —  After discovering legal hurdles, it ditched the idea of ‘Google Bucks’  —  Google once considered issuing its own currency, to be called Google Bucks, company Chairman Eric Schmidt said on stage in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress Tuesday.
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Scoop: Less than 1M Google TV devices in use  —  It's widely known Google TV hasn't exactly been a success story.  Early CE partner Logitech lost millions on the device, and consumer feedback was mostly negative after the first devices reached the market in late 2010.
Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog:
Facebook claims you're playing games you aren't playing  —  Summary: Facebook recommends games to you based on what your friends are playing.  Unfortunately, the Discover New Games module is lying: it often claims your friends are playing games they aren't.  —  Facebook's “Discover New Games” algorithm is broken.
Thanks:@emilprotalinski
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Track Who's Tracking You With Mozilla Collusion  —  LONG BEACH, Calif. — Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs took the TED stage Tuesday morning to introduce Collusion, a Firefox browser add-on that lets you track who's tracking you across the web for behavioral targeting purposes.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Facebook Pitches Advertisers on a New Ad Model  —  Facebook sold $3 billion worth of ads last year, but it's still feeling its way around the ad business.  —  And the ad business still isn't sure what to make of Facebook: Grand new marketing paradigm, or a collection of 800 million people …
Burt Helm / Inc.com:
The Forgotten Founder: YouSendIt's Khalid Shaikh  —  In Silicon Valley offices, the framed founder's doodle is as common as jewel-toned furniture and quirky conference-room names.  But there's something peculiar about the drawing hanging in the colorful lobby at YouSendIt …

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