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March 5, 2012, 7:45 PM

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo's New CEO Preps Major Restructuring, Including Significant Layoffs  —  According to multiple sources both inside and outside the Silicon Valley Internet giant, Yahoo's CEO Scott Thompson is preparing a massive restructuring of the company, including layoffs that are likely to number in the thousands.
Rene Ritchie / iMore:
iPad 3 will have 4G LTE networking  —  The same source that originally told iMore Apple would be holding their iPad 3 event on March 7 has now let us know that the announcement will include 4G LTE networking.  We'd heard previously that 4G LTE would be coming to iOS in 2012 …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple's iPad 3 Launch Putting Squeeze on Freight Shipments from China  —  While rumors of iPad 3 shipments already being en route having been circulating for some time now, we're now hearing from shipping representatives at other companies who are having a difficult time even getting …
Junichi Uekawa / Inside Search:
Introducing a new local search experience across your devices  —  (Cross-posted on the Google Mobile Blog)  —  How often are you doing a Google search from your computer to find information about a place before going there?  Now, next time you go to Google.com on your Android phone or iPhone …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Apple's iOS runs HTML5 games three times faster than Android  —  HTML5 is the new lingua franca of the internet, but games that are written in the format tend to run too slow.  —  The platforms that run HTML5 faster are likely to have an advantage in running a whole new wave of applications and games.
Rob Malda / Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda:
Rolling Up My Sleeves  —  6 months ago I walked away from what might be the greatest job ever.  I had meaningful work at a place i truly called home.  It was a scary decision, but the right one: 14 years had managed to grind me down.  I needed to shake things up, but thats easier typed than done with a wife and two kids.
Josh Kopelman / Redeye VC:
Video Pre-Roll Advertising: SOLVED  —  We've all had the experience — we want to watch a video online, but have to watch some useless pre-roll video beforehand.  This often frustrates the user, doesn't deliver value to the brand, and reduces the consumer's perception of the publisher.
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).
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
The Fascinating Way Facebook Phrases Its Credits Tax  —  I remember way back in 2007 when Facebook first launched their app platform.  Developers were free to add their own advertising and user transactions, Zuckerberg said, and Facebook wouldn't take a cut.  —  Developers flocked to Facebook and a symbiotic relationship emerged.
Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed:
FWD: FWD: FWD: HELLO  —  Welcome to BuzzFeed FWD .  Tech, for humans.  —  Forward.  That's where technology is supposed to take us.  It took us to the moon!  It connected the world.  It brought us... Pinterest.  —  Tech used to be a discrete thing in our lives …
More: TPM Idea Lab and BetabeatThanks:@fwd
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
The Upgradable Car: Ford Sends Software Updates to 300,000 Drivers  —  Late last year, when Ford announced the second version of its MyFord Touch interface, the company also announced that it would allow all current owners of cars with this system to update to the new version.
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 …
Alastair Sharp / Reuters:
Client exodus to push BlackBerry fees down: analyst  —  (Reuters) - Research In Motion will be forced to slash the fees it charges carriers for BlackBerry service this year, an analyst said on Monday as another U.S. government customer edged away from the service, cutting into a pillar …
Sam Byford / The Verge:
Samsung denies April launch for Galaxy S III, will tell us on Twitter when the time is right  —  We recently heard from ZDNet Korea that Samsung's much sought-after Galaxy S III was on track for an April launch, but the company itself has taken to Twitter to refute these claims.
Rafe Needleman / CNET:
Numecent makes any app a Web app  —  “Memory manager in the network” improves performance, bandwidth efficiency for Web apps and makes it possible to stream virtual machines.  —  Neat trick: Numecent runs memory paging through the Internet.  —  Numecent is rolling out its “cloud paging” technology today.
Adam Kmiec / The Kmiec Ramblings:
Walgreens And foursquare Make It Simple To Check In And Save  —  Check In, Scan and Save...Amazing!  —  In keeping with our concept of Return On Amazing, I'm excited and proud that today for the first time EVER when you check in at a Walgreens on foursquare, you'll receive a scannable coupon …
Janet I. Tu / Seattle Times:
Cloud computing to generate 14 million jobs, according to Microsoft-commissioned study  —  Research firm IDC, in a study paid for by Microsoft, predicts that cloud computing will generate nearly 14 million jobs globally by 2015 — based on the premise that companies that move to the cloud …
Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
Google Wallet app now notifies rooted users that they're not supported  —  It looks like Google is closing the book on the security concerns surrounding Google Wallet.  The search giant released a software update a couple of weeks ago that patched the hole that made prepaid funds vulnerable to theft …
Greg Lamm / TechFlash:
Delta Air Lines offers in-flight shopping on Amazon.com  —  Delta Air Lines passengers will now be able to shop on Amazon.com from 30,000 feet, using their laptops, smartphones and tablets.  —  The airline Monday announced a deal with Seattle-based Amazon that will give passengers on Delta …
MG Siegler / PandoDaily:
Burstly Quietly Acquires TestFlight and Secretly Builds TestFlight Live  —  Towards the end of last year, I reached out to the guys behind TestFlight to see if they were interested in talking about their funding situation.  You can't blame me.  It seems that nearly every popular iPhone app …

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