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April 27, 2012, 3:35 PM

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Om Malik / GigaOM:

Apple kills Chomp for Android — Apple acquired app discovery service Chomp earlier this year, betting that it would help make app discovery easier and better on its iTunes Appstore. The casualty of that acquisition is the Chomp for Android app which seems to have been discontinued.

More: The Verge, CNET, 9to5Google, MacRumors, Ars Technica, Macgasm, The TechBlock, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com and MacNN

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

How CISPA would affect you (faq) — CISPA may have cleared the U.S. House of Representatives, but the fight isn't over. It's shifted to the U.S. Senate. Here's CNET's FAQ on what you need to know about this particularly controversial Internet bill. — Follow @declanm

More: PC Magazine, The Firewall, PC World, Guardian, Security Bytes, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, BostInno, dailywireless.org, eWeek, Betabeat, WebProNews, ZDNet, fiercemobileit.com and The Atlantic Online

Leigh Beadon / Techdirt:

Insanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote

Bill Gurley / abovethecrowd.com:

Intuit To Acquire Demandforce For $424MM — This morning, Intuit announced its agreement to acquire one of Benchmark's portfolio companies, Demandforce, for $424mm. As with Instagram, Benchmark Capital is the largest institutional investor in Demandforce.

More: AllThingsD, GigaOM, Business Wire, VentureBeat, Screenwerk, WebProNews, The Tech Trade, TechCrunch and Pulse2 Technology …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

All-Star Cast Invests 750K In Ben Huh And Matt Galligan's Mobile News Startup Circa — SimpleGeo's Matt Galligan and Icanhascheezburger's Ben Huh have teamed up to change the way people consume news via mobile. Their startup Circa, which boasts a newsworthy list of advisors …

More: Betabeat and DigiDave. Tweets: @benhuh

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Lead Android developer thinks a five-month wait for an update is ‘very reasonable’ — Jean-Baptiste Queru, technical lead on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), has revealed his opinion on the current state of the project and the lengthy waits users face for updates.

More: CNET, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Android Forums, Android Police, MobileSyrup.com, Android News, Rumours …, PhoneArena, Android Phone Fans, PC World and Jean-Baptiste Queru

Cade Metz / Wired:

Say Hello to Windows Azure, The World's Most Misunderstood Cloud — Jeremy Howard sees Silicon Valley as an echo chamber. He recently moved to Northern California from Australia, looking to improve the fortunes of his startup, an ingenious operation known as Kaggle, and he soon found …

More: Techie Buzz

Don Reisinger / CNET:

Apple's Texas move ‘in peril’ after attorney calls contract ‘rigged’ — The company initially had plans to invest $304 million in Austin, Texas, but now the county isn't sure it wants to offer Apple incentives to come to the city. — Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.

More: Austin American-Statesman, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, MacRumors, TUAW, MacNN, 9to5Mac and MacDailyNews

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Apple sued over iPad cover — A Colorado man says Apple's smart cover for the new iPad and the iPad 2 violate his 2005 patent for a “Portable Computer Case.” — Aspen resident Jerald Bovino filed a lawsuit in federal court asking Apple and retailer Target to pay royalties for using his technology.

More: Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Macgasm, The Mac Observer, iDownloadBlog.com, Courthouse News Service and MacNN

Brian Womack / Bloomberg:

Google Says It's Being Investigated in Argentina, Korea — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s business practices are the subject of investigations by regulators in Argentina and South Korea, according to a regulatory filing. — Argentina's main antitrust agency and the Korea Fair Trade Commission …

More: Wall Street Journal and The Next Web

Bloomberg:

Google Street View Investigation by U.S. Declared Closed

More: SiliconANGLE, CNET, New York Times, Inquirer, ZDNet, SlashGear, Marketing Land, Reuters, WebProNews, Search Engine Land and Agence France Presse

Eric Randall / The Atlantic Wire:

Are You a Klouchebag? — Klouchebag.com, a new parody of Klout, is the most entertaining expression we've seen of a growing backlash against the clout-measuring service's recent spate of media attention. Klout is a service that measures your influence across various social networks based …

More: PC Magazine, Betabeat, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Mashable!, Laughing Squid and The Industry

Tweets: @fmanjoo, @zacharye, @danprimack, @beschizza, @tomscott and @davewiner

Bloomberg:

Samsung Ends Nokia's 14-Year Run as World's Biggest Phone Maker — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) overtook Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) as the world's biggest vendor of mobile-phones last quarter, ending the Finnish company's 14-year run as the global industry leader, according to researcher Strategy Analytics.

Paul Sloan / CNET:

Yahoo hits Facebook with two more patent claims — Now it's Yahoo's turn. — Yahoo today replied in court to Facebook's countersuit, and it's now asserting that Facebook is infringing on two more patents — up from the 10 patents it initially claimed that Facebook is infringing on.

More: Ars Technica, Florian Mueller, AllThingsD and The Next Web

comScore, Inc.:

Tablet Competition Heats Up: Kindle Fire Captures more than Half of Android Tablet Market — 10" Tablets Have 39 Percent Higher Content Consumption Rate than 7" Tablets — comScore Device Essentials™ Introduces Unique Device and Local Market Reporting to Cross-Device Digital Traffic Measurement

Tasneem Raja / MoJo Articles:

“Gangbang Interviews” and “Bikini Shots”: Silicon Valley's Brogrammer Problem — For startups like Path, recasting geek identity with a frathouse swagger is a dangerous game. — Quora (left and right); Geeklist (center) — At the South by Southwest Interactive festival in March …

More: BostInno and Betabeat

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Amazon settles $269M Texas tax bill with jobs, investment and ‘immaterial payment’ — Amazon.com has reached a settlement in one of its largest and longest-running state tax disputes, reaching a deal with the Texas comptroller to resolve the state's claims that the company owed some $269 million in back taxes in the state.

More: The Verge. Thanks:@johnhcook

Keith Stuart / Guardian:

Nintendo to begin simultaneous digital and retail releases — The veteran video game giant has just suffered its first ever annual loss, prompting a new focus on digital downloads — In an investor meeting following the news of Nintendo's £330m annual loss, president Satoru Iwata …

More: VentureBeat, Engadget, AllThingsD, GamesIndustry International, Gotta Be Mobile, GamePolitics blogs, Electricpig.co.uk and Engadget

Peter Farago / Flurry Blog:

Social Networking Ends Games 40 Month Mobile Reign — The app revolution has changed the way software is distributed and used among consumers. With a perfect storm of digital distribution, free content and powerful touch screen devices, the success of mobile apps has disrupted industries …

More: VatorNews, AllThingsD and TechCrunch. Thanks:@steverubel

Brad Sams / Neowin:

HP is working on x86 Windows 8 tablet, rough render exposed — Windows 8 news comes from a variety of sources. Sometimes it comes from the Windows 8 fountain and other times it comes from sources familiar with company's plans. — This time around we have some information from a trusted source …

More: Business Insider, GeekWire, ZDNet, Engadget, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine, Windows 8 Beta, Liliputing, SlashGear, The Tech Report and MacNN

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Drive Arrives In ChromeOS Developer Channel — Ever since Google released its cloud storage service Google Drive earlier this week, there has been some speculation as to what its integration with ChromeOS, Google's cloud-centric operating system, would look like.

More: Google Chrome Releases, PC World and Liliputing

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Viddy Is Raising $30M At A $370M Valuation — Someone wise once said “If Instagram for video were to happen it would look nothing like Instagram” but, because it was on Twitter, I briefly saw that tweet before it got lost in the ether and now I can't find it, dammit.

More: Appolicious Advisor, Pulse2 Technology …, VentureBeat, Business Insider, FierceMobileContent and Pat Phelan. Tweets: @levie

Lior Abraham / Facebook:

Under the hood: Data diving with Scuba — At Facebook, we often find ourselves seeking very specific answers to complicated questions. Whether we're diagnosing a performance regression or measuring the impact of an infrastructure change, we want data, and we want it fast.

More: GigaOM

Paul Sloan / CNET:

Facebook's next patent push: The top suspect — When Yahoo filed its sweeping patent lawsuit against Facebook, claiming that Facebook essentially built its social network on the back of Yahoo's intellectual property, Mark Zuckerberg took little time to take up arms.

More: AllFacebook and Business Insider

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:

Foxconn Brazil workers reportedly threaten strike over working conditions — Factory workers at a Foxconn plant in Jundiaí, Brazil are complaining of overcrowded buses, poor food and a lack of water and have threatened to strike unless the issues are resolved by May 3.

More: BGR, TUAW and PhoneArena

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