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April 1, 2013, 4:06 AM

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Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider:
Angry Twitterers Are Threatening To Switch To Bing After Google Honors Labor Leader Cesar Chavez On Easter  —  Google's decision to celebrate Cesar Chavez's birthday today in its Doodle, rather than Easter, has spurred some mixed reviews on Twitter.  —  Cesar Chavez, whose 86th birthday would be today …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Round Up: All of Google's jokes for April Fools 2013  —  Every year, Google goes all out for April Fools' Day.  The company not only pulls together more jokes than all the other tech giants, but the company makes a point to outdo itself too.  It honestly gets difficult to keep track …
Scott Weiss:
The Building is the New Server  —  The personal computer is dead.  As quickly as we moved from the desktop to the laptop, we are moving to the tablet — never to return.  With the death of the PC, an entire ecosystem dies with it.  The chipset is ARM based, rather than Intel.
Tweets: @qthrul and @wroloson
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
New book shares insights from Steve Jobs' 1st boss  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Steve Jobs adopted “think different” as Apple's mantra in the late 1990s, the company's ads featured Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Amelia Earhart and a constellation of other starry-eyed oddballs who reshaped society.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
World's top supercomputer from '09 is now obsolete, will be dismantled  —  Roadrunner, formerly the world's fastest supercomputer, is being decommissioned today.  —  Los Alamos National Laboratory  —  Five years ago, an IBM-built supercomputer designed to model the decay …
Sandro Villinger / ITworld.com:
7 hidden gems in Windows Blue  —  Some yet-to-be unveiled facts and hints about what's coming to the Windows ecosystem in late 2013.  —  Windows Blue, leaked last Sunday.  And a few days later, Microsoft publicly acknowledged its existence (coincidentally or not) in the announcement for its BUILD conference.
More: TechSpot and NeowinTweets: @h0x0d and @getwired
Bloomberg:
Michael Dell Said to Consider Blackstone LBO With CEO Guarantee  —  Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell will only consider backing a buyout by Blackstone Group LP if the private-equity firm guarantees he can remain as chief executive officer, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
More: AllThingsD and CNET
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
TV Service Providers Held Talks With Aereo  —  Aereo Inc., the Web television startup backed by media mogul Barry Diller, has discussed partnerships with major pay-TV distributors and Internet service providers, including AT&T Inc. and Dish Network Corp., as it looks to roll out its fledgling service …
More: CNET and The Verge

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