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May 4, 2012, 11:35 AM

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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Scott Thompson Resume Scandal Is Not ‘An Inadvertent Mistake’ — He Also Claimed Comp Sci Degree As CTO Of PayPal — Yahoo's new CEO, Scott Thompson, is under fire for telling the SEC (and Yahoo's board) that he had a computer science degree from Stonehill College when he does not have one.

More: CNET, VentureBeat, Washington Post, Beyond Search, Betabeat and memeburn. Tweets: @rakeshlobster

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo's Board Will “Review” Resume Discrepancy of CEO — Yahoo just released a statement that its board will “review” today's revelation that the bio of its CEO Scott Thompson contained an error related to his educational achievements and will make “appropriate disclosure” about what happened.

More: CNET, Business Insider, ZDNet, Hillicon Valley, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Reuters, Business Insider, Softpedia News, DevBiz and The Next Web

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

In 2009 Interview, Yahoo CEO Does Not Deny He Has a CS Degree and Calls Himself an “Engineer” (Audio) — On March 25, 2009, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson — when he was then president of PayPal — appeared on the TechNation radio show to talk about the revival of the eBay payments unit.

More: Business Insider, TechWeekEurope UK and VentureBeat

Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

The Disgrace Of Yahoo … Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has lied …

More: Uncrunched, AllThingsD, CNET, Business Insider and Marketing Pilgrim

Tweets: @rafat and @mg

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo's Response on CEO's Computer Science ResumeGate: “Inadvertent Error”

More: Tech and China, paidContent, CNET, ITworld.com, PR Newswire, TechCrunch, Inquirer, DealBook, eWeek, ReadWriteWeb, Wall Street Journal, The Verge and Business Insider. Tweets: @cdixon

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

LinkedIn Is Buying SlideShare For $119 Million — LinkedIn just announced plans to buy SlideShare for $119 million. It will be 45% cash and 55% stock. Here's what CEO Jeff Weiner said in a press release explaining the move: “Presentations are one of the main ways in which professionals capture …

More: SlideShare Blog, AllThingsD, Master of 500 Hats, SlashGear, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Tweets: @jeffweiner, @hunterwalk, @anildash and @kristacanfield

Dustin Curtis:

Facebook's numbers — I like to look at raw numbers every once in a while, without external influence, to recalibrate my ability to judge the magnitude of things. Here are some of the numbers from Facebook's most recent S-1 filing (published on May 2nd) that I think are important as metrics …

More: TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and Business Insider. Tweets: @mathewi

Bloomberg:

Facebook at 99 Times Profit Exceeds 99% of S&P 500 Index

DealBook:

Small Investors May Get to Own a Bit of Facebook

More: New York Times, Betabeat and Techland

AnandTech:

Samsung Galaxy S III Performance Preview: It's Fast — Earlier today Samsung unveiled its Galaxy S III, at the heart of which is Samsung's new Exynos 4 Quad SoC. Fortunately we got a ton of hands on time with the device at Samsung's unpacked event in London and are able to bring …

More: IntoMobile, 9to5Google, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, BuzzFeed, Android and Me, CNET and GigaOM

Ben Kersey / SlashGear:

Flipboard for Android is a Galaxy S III exclusive

More: Techland, Phones Review, Gotta Be Mobile, Samsung Mobile Press, Guardian, AllThingsD, Android News, Rumours …, CNET, Mashable!, Know Your Cell, Redmond Pie, VentureBeat, PhoneArena, The Verge, Social Media, MobileSyrup.com and 9to5Google. Tweets: @mrinaldesai

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Full Samsung Galaxy S III launch event now online

More: GigaOM, The Next Web and PhoneArena

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Samsung Galaxy S III preview: hands-on with the next Android superphone (video)

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

The iPad 2,4 Review: 32nm Brings Better Battery Life — When Apple launched the 3rd generation iPad (as the new iPad), it also dropped the price of the entry-level 16GB WiFi iPad 2 to $399. Apple's products tend to hold their values exceptionally well, so this two-tablet strategy made sense.

More: MacRumors, ZDNet, CNET, Business Insider, MobileSyrup.com, TUAW, iLounge, App Advice, everythingiCafe, The Verge, MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, The Next Web, Engadget, I4U News and 9to5Mac

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Windows 8 drops DVD playback, only available with paid Media Center upgrade — You might have heard that Windows 8 won't come with Media Center, but that's not the only missing multimedia piece of the puzzle. This week, Microsoft revealed that the new operating system won't have any kind of DVD playback …

More: The Register, Liliputing, CNET, gHacks Technology News, SlashGear, Neowin, Pocketables, Engadget and Pocket-lint

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

Microsoft: Media Center not part of ‘the future of entertainment’

More: CNET, PC World, VentureBeat, MSDN Blogs, The Tech Report, Gizmodo, The Next Web and Business Insider

Carl Franzen / TPM IdeaLab:

How OpenStreetMap Got Apple To Give It Due Credit — Apple has finally given credit where credit was due: To OpenStreetMap, a crowdsourced world map that Apple recently began using in its iPhoto app without proper attribution. — “Apple attributes OSM in iPhoto,” OpenStreetMap's official …

More: MacRumors, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, iPodNN, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge and Spatially Adjusted. Tweets: @openstreetmap

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Judge says Google's Android lost money in 2010 — Google Inc's Android mobile platform resulted in a net loss for the company in every quarter of 2010, despite generating roughly $97.7 million in revenue for the first quarter of that year, a U.S. judge said in court.

More: TechCrunch, PC Magazine, The Register, OStatic blogs, Appolicious Advisor, T3 News, Pocket-lint and Business Insider

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Nokia and execs hit with lawsuit alleging fraud over meager Lumia sales, failed turnaround — Troubled Finnish phone giant Nokia is increasingly troubled, unicorns be damned. — The latest bad news for the phone maker: along with high-ranking executives Stephen Elop (CEO) and Timo Ihamuotila …

More: Nokia, TechCrunch, CNET, BGR, IntoMobile, GigaOM, SlashGear, Robbins Geller Rudman …, Ubergizmo, PhoneArena and Communities Dominate Brands

Diego Basch / Diego Basch's Blog:

A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi — On March 20th, 2000 Inktomi had a market capitalization of 25 billion dollars. As a relatively early employee, I was a multimillionaire on paper. Life was good. In the next year and a half the stock went down by 99.9%. In the end, Inktomi was acquired by Yahoo for 250M.

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David Kravets / Wired:

Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement — Federal authorities who seized a popular hip-hop music site based on the assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four “pre-release” music tracks gave it back more than a …

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, TorrentFreak, Dvorak News Blog and Techdirt

Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:

The New iPhone: Size, Screen + New Connector (Plus iPod touch) — Whether you call it the “iPhone 5,” the “iPhone 6,” or the “iPhone 4G”—well, maybe not the last one thanks to international regulators—the new iPhone is coming this fall, and we have some details to share.

More: ABCNEWS, T3 News, Electricpig.co.uk, Know Your Cell, iPhone, Know Your Mobile, PC Magazine, TechSpot, Gotta Be Mobile, Edible Apple, App Advice, Los Angeles Times, Macgasm and iDownloadBlog.com

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

Huffington's Role Shrinks at AOL — Executive Says Shift Will Free Her to Focus on Her Namesake News Site as It Gears Up to Expand Abroad — Arianna Huffington acknowledged Thursday that her portfolio at AOL Inc. is being scaled back to include only the Huffington Post …

More: VentureBeat and Dustin Curtis

Jeremy Wagstaff / Reuters:

In a Samsung Galaxy far, far away ... will Android still rule? — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics is the world's largest smartphone manufacturer and biggest user of Google's Android operating system. — And, for some, that's the problem. — Samsung's meteoric rise …

Rachel King / ZDNet:

NPD: Apple will lose quarter of tablet market by 2017 — Summary: The tablet market is predicted to grow five times over by 2017, but Apple won't account for as much of it by then. — The tablet PC market is expected to grow five times over in the next five years, according to global market research …

More: AllThingsD, TechPinions and DisplaySearch

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Kindle Fire Shipments Fizzle

More: GeekWire, ReadWriteWeb, Fortune, Computerworld, The Tech Report, Phones Review, Ars Technica, The Verge, Good E-Reader, VentureBeat, Geek.com, NEWS.com.au, Gotta Be Mobile, BGR and Android Phone Fans

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Almunia says won't rush Google antitrust decision — (Reuters) - EU regulators are in no rush to decide any antitrust charges against Google, in a complicated investigation into complaints by rivals about its search results, the EU's competition chief said on Friday.

More: CNET and The Next Web

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