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March 30, 2012, 4:40 PM

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Wall Street Journal:

Breach Hits Card Processor Global Payments — Global Payments Inc., which processes credit cards and debit cards for banks and merchants, has been hit by a security breach that has put some 50,000 cardholders at risk, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

More: Bloomberg, Between the Lines Blog, Zero Day Blog, Gartner and Office of Inadequate Security. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

MasterCard, VISA Warn of Processor Breach — VISA and MasterCard are alerting banks across the country about a recent major breach at a U.S.-based credit card processor. Sources in the financial sector are calling the breach “massive,” and say it may involve more than 10 million compromised card numbers.

Bits:

With Tablet Plan, Google Goes After Apple and Amazon — Google's long-awaited tablet might finally be on the way to becoming a reality. For at least two years, there have been reports that the search giant was working on something that could compete with Apple's iPad.

Reuters:

Apple supplier Foxconn cuts working hours, workers ask why — (Reuters) - When Chinese worker Wu Jun heard that her employer, the giant electronics assembly company Foxconn, had given employees landmark concessions her reaction was worry, not elation. — Wu, 23, is one of tens of thousands …

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

SOPA is all fun and games until NBC rips off Apple's artwork — Reality TV is a harsh business. One minute everyone is glued to Jersey Shore, the next you're looking at a canceled series and a backlog of ‘GTL’ shirts cluttering up the company store. One of the perennial favorites …

More: Pulse2 Technology …, WebProNews, MacDailyNews, Softpedia News and PandoDaily

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo Layoffs Set to Begin Next Week, Followed by Restructuring the Week After — Yahoo is preparing to begin layoffs of what could be thousands of employees starting next week, according to multiple sources, and is then expected to announce a new restructuring of the company the week after.

More: Search Engine Land, Reuters, The Verge, TechFlash, Digits, Tech and China, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, WebProNews and SeekingAlpha.com

Adi Avidor / Inside Search:

Graphing on Google.com - Now in 3D — A few months ago we launched a graphing functionality right in search to help students and math lovers plot functions in an easy, simple way. In addition to calculating something simple like dividing up a restaurant bill or graphing more difficult math functions using …

More: Search Engine Land, Mashable! and WebProNews

Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:

RIM: We are not withdrawing from consumer market — EXCLUSIVE: RIM speaks to Pocket-lint — RIM has denied reports that it is pulling out of the consumer market following poor q4 financial results on Thursday. — “The claim that RIM has said it will withdraw from the consumer market …

More: parislemon, Gotta Be Mobile, Techland, Telegraph, The Register, The Next Web, The Next Web, The Verge, Electricpig.co.uk, Digital Trends, Neowin.net, Know Your Mobile, Engadget and Between the Lines Blog. Thanks:@pdtechhd

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

RIM hints again that it could license BlackBerry 10

More: eWeek, Ars Technica, Inquirer, SlashGear, VatorNews, Fortune, BGR, Guardian and T3 News

Zack Whittaker / London Calling Blog:

RIM lost $54 million on four-day global BlackBerry outage

Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire:

Confirmed: Netflix buys DVD.com — Netflix buys DVD.com domain name. — [Update: Netflix has confirmed its purchase of DVD.com. A spokesperson tells Domain Name Wire “Netflix cares about keeping DVD healthy, and this is just one small investment in keeping DVD healthy."]

More: AllThingsD, GigaOM, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, SlashGear, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Domain Name News. See also Mediagazer

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Wikipedia's Next Big Thing: Wikidata, A Machine-Readable, User-Editable Database Funded By Google, Paul Allen And Others — Wikidata, the first new project to emerge from the Wikimedia Foundation since 2006, is now beginning development. The organization, known best for its user-edited encyclopedia …

More: CNET, Digits, TechFlash, Wikimedia blog, The Seattle Times and UMBC ebiquity. Thanks:@sparkcatalyst

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Expedia files Google complaint to EU regulators — (Reuters) - Online travel agency Expedia on Friday accused Google of breaching EU rules with a formal complaint to EU antitrust regulators as it joined a dozen other firms that have taken their case to the European Commission in the last two years.

More: Bloomberg and SeekingAlpha.com

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Zynga's Engineering VP for New Gaming Platform Moves On — Neil Roseman, Zynga's VP of Engineering, has resigned after 15 months at the social games company, AllThingsD.com has confirmed. — Most recently, Roseman (pictured on the right, with Zynga's CEO Mark Pincus on the left) …

More: GeekWire, Business Insider, The Seattle Times, WebProNews, GamesIndustry International and SeekingAlpha.com

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Violin Memory Raises $50 Million at $800 Million Valuation, May IPO This Year — Violin Memory, the company that builds storage arrays based on flash memory technology, will on Monday announce that it has raised a $50 million Series D round of funding at an implied valuation of $800 million.

More: Digits, The Register, VentureBeat, Fortune and SeekingAlpha.com. Thanks:@ahess247

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Senator Al Franken: ‘privacy is a casualty’ of Google and Facebook's success — Senator Al Franken gave a rousing speech to the American Bar Association's Antitrust Section last night, calling for greater antitrust oversight of large media and tech companies as a way to ensure greater privacy protections for Americans.

More: Interactioned

Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:

Ahead of I.P.O., Mark Zuckerberg's Lawyers Expedite Disclosures — Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, is rushing to clear all his paperwork, ahead of the social network's highly anticipated initial public offering. — The Federal and Trade Commission disclosed in a notice on Friday …

More: Friending Facebook Blog, VentureBeat, Los Angeles Times and The Next Web

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Look at that DuckDuckGo! Daily search traffic is ballooning, up 227% in 3 months — True story: just yesterday I had a meeting with an entrepreneur, looked up something on his computer and noticed that he was using alternative search engine DuckDuckGo rather than Google or Bing.

More: msnbc.com, TPM IdeaLab, The Atlantic Online and gHacks Technology News

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Invents a Killer 3D Imaging Camera for iOS Devices — Apple has invented a killer 3D imaging camera that will apply to both still photography and video. The new cameras in development will utilize new depth-detection sensors such as LIDAR, RADAR and Laser that will create stereo disparity maps in creating 3D imagery.

More: Los Angeles Times, CNET, Appolicious Advisor, iPhone Hacks, Pocket-lint, Ubergizmo, Phones Review, Gizmodo UK, WebProNews, ITProPortal, SeekingAlpha.com and Business Insider

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:

Apple faces second class-action lawsuit over Siri — A new class-action lawsuit has been filed against Apple over its Siri voice recognition feature of the iPhone 4S with allegations that the company is falsely representing the service's capabilities. — iPhone 4S owner David Jones filed suit …

More: Ars Technica, TUAW, App Advice, Los Angeles Times, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie, WebProNews, Gotta Be Mobile, Edible Apple, MacNN, FierceWireless and iPhone Hacks

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Apple named Japan's top consumer brand for the first time — With more than half of all US households reportedly owning at least one of its products, Apple is a company that is continually topping satisfaction surveys in America and the world over. Today, the company has been named …

More: 9to5Mac, Nikkei.com, Tech Trader Daily, AllThingsD, Techie Buzz, The Loop, MacNN, VentureBeat, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com and TechPinions

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:

Huffington Post Bloggers' Suit Against AOL Is Dismissed — AOL Inc. (AOL) won dismissal of a suit by unpaid bloggers seeking $105 million for their work on the Huffington Post. — U.S. District Judge John Koeltl today threw out the suit, filed last April by writers seeking a share …

More: Reuters and Associated Press. See also Mediagazer

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