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March 12, 2012, 3:28 PM

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Felix Salmon / Reuters:
South by Southwest: Is CNN buying Mashable?  - Felix TV (1:08)  —  Breaking News from SXSW: Reuters blogger Felix Salmon has learned from an unnamed source that CNN will buy social media website Mashable for more than $200 million.  The source says an announcement is expected for Tuesday.
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Nokia likely to launch Windows 8 tablet PCs in 4Q12, say sources  —  Nokia will team up with Microsoft to venture into the tablet PC market by releasing a 10-inch Windows 8-based tablet PC set on Qualcomm's dual-core platform in the fourth quarter of 2012 at the earliest, according to sources at upstream component suppliers.
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Pinterest Aims at the Collector Hidden Inside All of Us  —  AUSTIN, Tex. — Seeking attention for your start-up?  You may want to look beyond the Internet-savvy throngs clogging the sidewalks and bars here.  —  Many start-up companies trying to attract interest work the circuit at the annual South …
David Carr / New York Times:
A Code of Conduct for Content Aggregators  —  As words and articles became digitized over the last 15 years, they began to float, there for the plucking and replication elsewhere.  Words like “curation” and “aggregation” became the language of the realm, sometimes used as substitutes for describing the actual creation of content.
Mike Cassidy / Mercury News:
Silicon Valley has become the new Motor City  —  Back in the bleak days of the dot-com bust, a number of naysayers would sum up Silicon Valley's sorry state by wondering whether the region was on its way to becoming the next Detroit.  —  Now a decade later, you could argue it's come to pass …
Peter Guest / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook, Friend or Foe?  —  Investors have realized that companies no longer compete with Facebook, they compete on it  —  Stuck to the wall by the entrance to Badoo's office in London's Soho district is a postcard that says 'No, I'm Not On Facebook'.  —  Badoo's 135 million registered users …
Tomio Geron / Social Markets:
Marvel Comics' Axel Alonso: New App Augments Reality [Video]  —  Marvel comic book heroes are jumping off the page with some new digital features.  —  Marvel Entertainment, a subsidiary of Walt Disney Co., is adding augmented reality to its comics using a new “Marvel AR” app for iOS or Android …
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
OMG: 5-Week-Old App Draw Something Hits 20 Million Downloads And Generates 6-Figures Per Day  —  Win 75K in prizes for YOUR startup in BI's annual business-plan competition!  Deadline is March 31 so apply now!  And hear from Fab, Lot18, and more at the Startup 2012 conference on May 3, 2012!
Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:
Samsung Accused by Apple of Violating Order in Infringement Case  —  Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) was accused by Apple Inc. of violating a court order in a patent- infringement case by failing to produce source code as directed by a judge.  —  Samsung “only partially complied with” …
Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:
Les Moonves: Steve Jobs Approached CBS for Apple TV Content  —  The CBS CEO spoke at the UCLA Entertainment Symposium on Saturday, which also included a panel on negotiating talent deals.  —  CBS CEO Leslie Moonves said Saturday that he was approached about a year ago by Steve Jobs …
Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog:
Facebook throws up roadblock for Google-hosted blogs  —  Summary: Facebook has started prompting users who post any link from Google Blogger with a CAPTCHA test.  This seems to affect all blogspot.com links as well as Google-hosted blogs with a custom URL.  —  Facebook has started throwing …
More: Mashable!.  Thanks:@emilprotalinski
John Herrman / BuzzFeed:
Organizers Defend “Homeless Hotspots” at SXSW  —  The talk of Austin is a jarring campaign in which homeless people actually become Wi-Fi hotspots.  “The worry is that these people are suddenly just hardware,” admits its organizer.  —  Source: hardlynormal.posterous.com
Thomas Houston / The Verge:
The Google that never was: how the search giant killed a 2007 redesign  —  Creative Lab's Chris Wiggins, Maps's Evelyn Kim, Gmail's Michael Leggett, Chrome's Nicholas Jitkoff, and Search's Jon Wiley also discussed the big changes in structure and approach to the more recent 2011 design.
More: AllThingsD

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