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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: Pulse2 Technology …, The Next Web and AllThingsD

Tweets: @dens, @naveen and @bijan

Thanks:@forrestkoba

Naveen Selvadurai / STREAM:

next — three years ago this week, when dennis and i were putting the finishing touches on the vision for this company, we had a hundred or so beta testers who helped us reach the finish line. we went down to sxsw to tell the world about foursquare. — it's hard to believe that now …

More: CNET, VentureBeat, About Foursquare, Business Insider and Betabeat

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

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

Tweets: @eldon

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).

More: Guardian, AndroidOS.in, IntoMobile, Pocket-lint, The Tech Herald Technology …, PhoneArena, Pulse2 Technology …, MobileSyrup.com, 9to5Google, Android Phone Fans, Neowin.net, Gizmodo and Electronista

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: The TechBlock and Pulse2 Technology …

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: Inquirer, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Pulse2 Technology …, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, Electronista and Betabeat

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

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: The Verge, USA Today, VentureBeat, MacStories and parislemon

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 …

More: Personanondata. See also Mediagazer

CBS News:

Stuxnet: Computer worm opens new era of warfare — (CBS News) The most pernicious computer virus ever known wasn't out to steal your money, identity, or passwords. So what was the intricate Stuxnet virus after? Its target appears to have been the centrifuges in a top secret Iranian nuclear facility.

More: AllThingsD and CNET

Klint Finley / SiliconANGLE:

Github Auditing Codebase in Wake of Ruby on Rails Hack, Draws Fire from Community — Github, the popular code sharing site, suffered a major security exploit today when an unauthorized user pushed a commit to the Ruby on Rails project. The problem appears to be a flaw in Ruby on Rails …

More: Egor Homakov, Code Space, Zero Day Blog, The GitHub Blog, The GitHub Blog and jtimberman.housepub.org

Tweets: @gossnj, @cgiffard, @timhaines, @zedshaw, @jsonculverhouse, @dhh, @zedshaw and @drpizza

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Razer Blade review — Long story short, you'll want to use a mouse, and assuming you will, that frees up the four-inch screen and those dynamic adaptive tactile keys for the other, far more interesting things they can do. Namely, macros and touchscreen apps.

Steve Lo / M.I.C. Gadget:

Hands-on with iPad 3 Front Glass, Rear Shell, and Cases (video) — Keeping you, our dear M.I.C. readers updated, we have some very interesting news for you. Despite the rumors that Apple would be having no home button on their next-generation iPad, we have gotten our hands on the parts through our sources …

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

iPad 3 Parts Put Together on Video, iPad 2 Smart Cover Still Works

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

BitTorrent Pirates Go Nuts After TV Release Groups Dump Xvid — Every now and again, the world's most famous piracy release groups get together and have a big old meeting to decide how they'll carry out their future activities. At the top of the agenda is an item of utmost importance …

More: Gizmodo, The Verge and Boing Boing

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