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March 5, 2012, 11:00 AM

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Om Malik / GigaOM:

Naveen Selvadurai, Foursquare co-founder is leaving — UPDATED: Last week, when I heard the news that Foursquare investors were buying up stock from current employees, it piqued my interest - who was Spark Capital buying stock from, I wondered? For nearly three years …

More: Venture Capital Dispatch, BetaKit, Business Insider, SocialTimes.com, Pulse2 Technology …, Business Insider, The Next Web and AllThingsD

Tweets: @bijan, @dens and @naveen

Thanks:@forrestkoba

Naveen Selvadurai / STREAM:

next — three years ago this week, when dennis and i were putting …

More: Business Insider, Mashable!, Fast Company, CNET, About Foursquare, VentureBeat and Betabeat

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

SV Angel Also Buying Up Foursquare Stock. Dennis Crowley Emerges As Big-Company CEO

Tweets: @eldon

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Targeting Merchants, Square Debuts Register iPad App And Analytics; Now Processing $4B In Payments Per Year — As we reported earlier this year, mobile payments company Square revealed that it was planning to add a number of new operational capabilities and data analysis to the register, including in-depth analytics.

More: App Advice, AllThingsD, VatorNews, USA Today, 9to5Mac, Electronista, Macgasm, blog.chron.com, TUAW, CNET, Techland, everythingiCafe, The Verge, GigaOM, MacStories and VentureBeat

Tweets: @jack and @joshelman

Sinead Carew / Reuters:

Senator Schumer asks FTC to probe Apple, Android — (Reuters) - A U.S. senator has urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate reports that applications on the Apple Inc and Google Inc mobile systems steal private photos and contacts and post them online without consent.

More: GigaOM, The Register, Appolicious Advisor, Marketing Pilgrim, TUAW, Between the Lines Blog, FierceMobileContent, Pulse2 Technology …, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, Electronista, Betabeat, Inquirer, 9to5Mac, MobileBurn.com and Gizmodo

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Android ‘Key Lime Pie’ comes after Jelly Bean — We've been tipped by a reliable source today that Google will be using the name “Key Lime Pie” for the version of Android that comes after Jelly Bean (in fact, the information comes from the very same source that tipped us to the Jelly Bean codename last year).

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:

Have Arrington and Conway screwed up big time with their investment in Highlight? — Tonight I'm getting message after message that friend after friend has joined Highlight (the photo above is of Paul Davison showing it off to some of its first users back in December on the day it launched into a closed beta).

More: Startup Grind, Business Insider, everwas, Digital Trends and bub.blicio.us

Tweets: @sdkstl, @eldon, @adnys, @johnnie and @obrien

Economist:

Taking the long view — INSIDE a remote mountain in Texas, a gargantuan clock is being pieced together, capable of telling the time for the next 10,000 years. Once the clock is finished, people willing to make the difficult trek will be able to visit the vast chamber housing it …

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Wall Street Journal:

Plans for ‘TV Everywhere’ Bog Down in Tangled Pacts — It was dubbed “TV Everywhere.” But for many TV viewers, it has had trouble going anywhere. — Nearly three years after Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corp. kicked off a drive to make cable programming available online for cable subscribers …

More: DSLreports and Gizmodo

Edward Gay / New Zealand Herald:

Dotcom extradition papers filed — The United States Government has filed its application to have Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three associates extradited to face charges of breaching copyright. — Crown Law is handling the case on behalf of the US Government.

More: TorrentFreak, Computerworld, Betabeat, WebProNews, CNET, Bloomberg, Associated Press and Electronista

New York Times:

The Bright Side of Being Hacked — SAN FRANCISCO — Hackers operating under the banner Anonymous have been poking a finger in the eye of one private company after another for two years now. — They steal files from inside corporate computer systems and occasionally, as in the case of Stratfor last week …

More: Gizmodo

Journalism.org:

The Search For A New Business Model — HOW NEWSPAPERS ARE FARING TRYING TO BUILD DIGITAL REVENUE — By Tom Rosenstiel and Mark Jurkowitz of PEJ — A new study, which combines detailed proprietary data from individual newspapers with in- depth interviews at more than a dozen major media companies …

More: Poynter, Nieman Journalism Lab, PewResearch.org, Media Decoder, paidContent:UK and JIMROMENESKO.COM. See also Mediagazer

Hal / App Inventor Edu:

Announcing: MIT App Inventor Open Beta Preview — The MIT Center for Mobile Learning is delighted to announce that we're meeting our goal of making MIT App Inventor available as a public service in the first quarter of 2012. — For the past two months, we have been conducting a closed test …

More: GigaOM, eWeek, Android and Me, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear and MAKE

Matt Creamer / AdAge:

Apple's First Marketing Guru On Why ‘1984’ Is Overrated — Regis McKenna On Advising Startups and How He Helped Steve Weather ‘Antennagate’ — When a young Steve Jobs needed a marketing expert, he called Intel to ask who made their sharp-looking ads and was told “Regis McKenna.”

More: Gizmodo. Thanks:@matt_creamer

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Yahoo Labs Head Raghavan Departing to Google — Prabhakar Raghavan, the well-respected head of Yahoo's Labs unit and also recently its head of strategy, is leaving the company to take a job at Google. — The departure comes ahead of possibly deep cuts in his division …

More: 9to5Google, Seattle Times, CNET, Business Insider, msnbc.com, Beyond Search, WebProNews, Softpedia News, Pulse2 Technology … and The TechBlock. See also Mediagazer

Associated Press:

Reports say major creditor seeking liquidation of iPad trademark challenger Shenzhen Proview — (Eugene Hoshiko, File/Associated Press) - FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 file photo, a man walks past an advertisement of Apple's iPad 2 in Shanghai, China.

More: The Next Web and ZDNet

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:

Diskeeper revamps, becomes Condusiv Technologies — Summary: Diskeeper is now Condusiv Technologies and CEO Jerry Baldwin has big expansion plans. — Diskeeper, best known for its defrag software, has retooled itself over the last six months and now has a new moniker—Condusiv Technologies.

More: Computerworld

Kyunghee Park / Bloomberg:

SingTel Agrees to Buy Amobee for $321 Million to Expand Mobile Advertising — Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (ST), Southeast Asia's biggest phone company, agreed to buy Amobee Inc. for $321 million in cash to expand in mobile advertising amid a surge in demand for smartphones.

More: VatorNews, Internet2Go, SingTel, silicontap.com, Deal Journal, TechCrunch, Agence France Presse, Associated Press, MarketWatch, Tech in Asia and The Next Web

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