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March 16, 2013, 12:25 PM

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Kim Zetter / Wired:
Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them  —  Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge ruled Friday.  —  U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered …
TechCrunch:
Mailbox Cost Dropbox Around $100 Million  —  Disrupt alumnus Dropbox made the second in a series of super-savvy, super-early stage acquisitions today, picking up hyped-up email management app Mailbox in an acquisition that we're calling “DropMail.”  —  We had been hearing that Mailbox was raising money …
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Brings Down The Hammer Again: Cuts Off MessageMe's Access To Its Social Graph  —  MessageMe, an app that launched last week and raced up the charts to the #2 spot in social networking in the U.S., is confronting Facebook's touchiness around access to its social graph.
More: T3 News and The VergeTweets: @semil and @joshelman
Slate:
The Google Graveyard  —  It's hard to lose a loved one, especially if that loved one is a Google service.  That's why we're opening the gates of the Google Graveyard, a virtual space for grieving.  Buried in these hallowed grounds are some of Google's ill-fated services.
Tweets: @carnage4life
Dan Primack / Fortune:
ZipCar CEO resigns, hours after Avis acquisition  —  ZipCar CEO resigns, just hours after company is acquired.  —  FORTUNE — Well, that didn't take long.  —  Avis Budget Group (CAR) announced after market close yesterday that it had completed its $500 million acquisition of car-sharing company ZipCar …
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Uber black towncar drivers strike in San Francisco over compensation terms and treatment  —  A number of Uber drivers of their ‘Black Car’ service are striking this afternoon in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco.  Those drivers participating have parked in front of Uber's headquarters.
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires Web Application Server Talaria To Enhance Its Cloud Platform  —  Talaria, a company that was building a “new, dynamic web application server with a JIT-based runtime at its heart,” just announced that it has been acquired by Google.  The Talaria team will become part of the Google Cloud Platform team.
More: GigaOM
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Facebook Names Mike Schroepfer CTO  —  Facebook named Mike Schroepfer as the company's chief technical officer on Friday, rounding out the company's C-Suite of executives and elevating him from his former position of VP of engineering at the social giant.  —  “Mike Schroepfer's new designation …

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