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August 26, 2012, 8:15 PM

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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

Investors Don't Like Acqui-hires — Sarah Lacy wrote about acqui-hires this weekend on Pando Daily. She got some things wrong. — The main problem is her argument doesn't work on its face. The logic breaks. — She says that all the interested parties love acqui-hires …

Tweets: @eldon, @tolles, @cdixon and @rafat

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

The Acqui-hire Scourge: Whatever Happened to Failure in Silicon Valley?

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @sriramk, @owenthomas, @rabois and @rafat

Nick O'Neill:

There Are Plenty Of Failures In Silicon Valley, Thanks

Tweets: @carnage4life and @spencerchen

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Barry Diller Shows Up Late, Gets What He Wants: IAC to Buy About.com From New York Times — The New York Times, which was set to sell its About.com unit to Answers.com, now looks ready to sell it to Barry Diller instead. — People familiar with the transaction say the Times now plans …

More: paidContent, TechCrunch, Media Decoder and Wall Street Journal. See also Mediagazer

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Dropbox two-step verification security option to lock down your files available to test now — Everyone knows that your primary email account is the lynchpin of your digital security: if someone gains access to that it's likely you could face quite a bit of damage, not unlike what happened to Mat Honan earlier this month.

More: VentureBeat, The Next Web, iMore, Gizmodo, Digital Inspiration …, Business Insider, Techdows, BetaNews and Lifehacker. Tweets: @mattcutts

Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times:

Samsung scrambles to recover after uppercut — Samsung Electronics' uphill court battle against Apple in the United States over intellectual property patent infringement now looks insurmountable after a jury in San Jose awarded the American technology giant an overwhelming victory.

More: PC Magazine, MacRumors, CNET, Fortune and Reuters. Tweets: @asymco

Wall Street Journal:

At Home, Samsung Seen as Underdog

More: Monday Note and PandoDaily

Groklaw:

Jury in Apple v. Samsung Goofed, Damages Reduced — Uh Oh. What's Wrong With this Picture?

More: Dice Blog Network, CNET, PC World, Fortune, TechnoBuffalo, Reuters, madisonian.net, Above the Law and CNET

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @dangillmor

Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

Pandora and Spotify Rake in the Money and Then Send It Off in Royalties — If you have read anything about digital music recently, you have probably encountered two names over and over: Spotify and Pandora. Both offer an abundance of free listening on easy-to-use interfaces, and music fans have embraced them.

Tweets: @brittneybean and @bwerde

Cam Simpson / Business Week:

The Deadly Tin Inside Your Smartphone — On May 29, in the bottom of a tin-mining pit on Bangka Island in Indonesia, a wall about 16 feet high collapsed, sending a wave of earth crashing down on a 40-year-old father of two. His name was Rosnan. The dirt crushed his legs …

More: Business Insider, The Verge, GMSV and Ars Technica

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Disruptions: At Box, a Fast-Moving Chief Immersed in the Cloud — LOS ALTOS, Calif. — It's about 20 minutes into my lunch interview with Aaron Levie, co-founder of Box, at the headquarters of the online data storage company, and he still doesn't have any food. — “Are you eating?”

Tweets: @msquinn

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Book Reviewers for Hire Meet a Demand for Online Raves — TODD RUTHERFORD was 7 years old when he first understood the nature of supply and demand. He was with a bunch of other boys, one of whom showed off a copy of Playboy to giggles and intense interest.

Tweets: @jamesrbuk and @hunterwalk. See also Mediagazer

Avi Charkham / TechCrunch:

5 Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions — Editor's note: Avi Charkham is Head of Product & Design @ lool ventures, an early stage, value-add venture capital firm based in Israel and the incubators of MyPermissions personal cloud security service.

More: Boing Boing and Gizmodo

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Sequoia Capital's Latest $975 Million Raise Is All About International — It looks like Sequoia Capital finally closed in on that cash we've been hearing about. — We've heard that the firm has raised three separate funds for U.S., China and Israeli investments.

More: Bloomberg and VatorNews

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

With A San Francisco Launch Imminent, Lyft Is Doubling Its Fleet Of Drivers And Readying An Android App — It's been just eight weeks since Zimride's ride-sharing service, Lyft, was launched in beta, providing San Francisco users a low-cost alternative to cabs and Ubers.

More: VoIP Watch and GigaOM

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Will Apple now sue Google? — Maybe eventually. But Apple is working its way up the food chain, and it's got a full plate — FORTUNE — There was an elephant in the courtroom when Apple (AAPL) won its billion-dollar patent infringement award against Samsung Friday, and its name is Google (GOOG).

More: VatorNews, brian s hall, TechnoBuffalo, Redmond Pie, Neowin, The Register and Gizmodo. Tweets: @danfrakes

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