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April 27, 2012, 4:10 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.
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
Leigh Beadon / Techdirt:
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 GeekWireTweets: @benhuh
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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 VergeThanks:@johnhcook
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 …
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: Ars Technica and GigaOM
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 …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Two Angry Birds leaders leave the nest to start Boomlagoon (exclusive)  —  Angry Birds has become a worldwide phenomenon with more than 700 million downloads.  So it's no small event when two of the leaders who created the mobile game leave the nest at Rovio to form their own game studio.
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Big Fish Games Founder Paul Thelen Takes Back Reins From CEO (Memo)  —  Big Fish Games Founder Paul Thelen will again become CEO after handing over the job to Jeremy Lewis six years ago.  —  The shake-up comes as a surprise as the Seattle-based casual games leader was expected to file for an IPO early this year.
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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