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March 11, 2012, 11:35 AM

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Zee / The Next Web:

Well that's that. Gowalla shuts down. — Three months after the acquisition of Gowalla by Facebook, the company has officially closed it doors. The screenshot below can be found on the location startup turned travel guide's homepage. — The termination is a timely one.

More: Internaut, Friending Facebook Blog, Betabeat and WebProNews. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily:

Amazon's brilliant plan to pay you crazy money for your iPad 2 — It's been three days since Tim Cook unveiled the new iPad, but you're still stuck with your trusty old iPad 2. You're keen to get rid of it so you can buy the new one, but you forgot to log in to one of those buy-back sites before Wednesday's launch.

More: Business Insider

Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:

Review: iPhoto for iOS out-does Adobe for mobile image editing — Apple released the final piece of its iLife suite for iOS on March 7, delivering a universal version of iPhoto for iPad and iPhone (sorry, iPod touch users). We spent some quality time with the app using an iPad 2 and iPhone 4 …

Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

How Frictionless Sharing Could Undermine Your Legal Right to Privacy — You might not think about the Fourth Amendment while you're using Facebook and other online tools, but you probably should. — You are no doubt familiar, now, with Facebook's concept of “frictionless sharing.”

More: Wake Forest Law Review and Scripting News

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Eric Chu Steps Away From Overseeing Android's App Store, Jamie Rosenberg Expands Role — There was more than meets the eye with this week's rebranding of Android Market as Google Play. — Accompanying the new name and look is a shift in how the store is being managed.

More: PhoneArena, Android Phone Fans and MacNN

Paul Graham:

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas — One of the more surprising things I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are. In this essay I'm going to demonstrate this phenomenon by describing some. Any one of them could make you a billionaire.

More: Business Insider, TechCrunch, metarand, Om Malik, Brian Rue's Blog and Dustin Curtis

Tweets: @levie, @thomashpark, @ericries and @cdixon

Mike Isaac / Wired:

With Schemer, Google Plots to Bolster Its Social Efforts — AUSTIN, Texas — Google's official party line is “Don't be evil.” Scheming while twirling a nefarious handlebar mustache, however, seems to be a different story. — The data giant isn't going all Snidely Whiplash on us.

Bloomberg:

Apple Drives Silicon Valley's Biggest Leasing Boom Since 2000 — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is leading the biggest leasing surge in California's Silicon Valley since the dot-com boom, as the company scours the region for space before building a futuristic new headquarters.

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:

Apple provides additional details, renders for Cupertino campus project

More: MacDailyNews, Cupertino City News and iPhone in Canada Blog

Stephanie Strom / New York Times:

YouTube Finds a Way Off Schools' Banned List — Educators are giving YouTube — long dismissed as a storehouse of whimsical, time-wasting and occasionally distasteful videos — another look. As Google, YouTube's parent company, fine-tunes a portal that lets schools limit students' access …

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Envisions A Future With Super-Fast Touchscreens — As solid as modern touchscreens are, there's very often an subtly apparent sense of disconnect when you try to use one. According to Paul Dietz of Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group, it all comes down to latency …

More: Engadget, Forbes, Geek.com, WinBeta, LAPTOP Magazine, Full of I.T. and PhoneArena

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Loopt's Sam Altman on Why He Sold to Green Dot for $43.4M — Mobile location start-up Loopt will be acquired by the banking company Green Dot, best-known for its prepaid cards. — The deal is worth $43.4 million in cash, though that includes $9.8 million set aside in retention payments for key Loopt employees.

More: VentureBeat, Business Wire, GigaOM, The Tech Trade, The Next Web, All Points Blog, TechCrunch and BetaKit

Robert McMillan / Wired:

After Megaupload Bust, Putlocker and RapidShare Pick Up Slack — The Feds shut down Megaupload two months ago, but browser-based filesharing hasn't slowed down. It has just moved to other websites. Before the takedown, Megaupload was the most popular web-based filesharing service — by far.

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