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April 6, 2013, 6:30 AM

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Diane Bartz / Reuters:
ITC judge says Samsung infringes key part of Apple patent  —  (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd infringed a key portion of an Apple Inc patent by including a text-selection feature in its smartphones and tablets, an International Trade Commission judge said in a preliminary decision.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Former News Corp President Chernin bids $500 million for Hulu  —  (Reuters) - Former News Corp president Peter Chernin bid around $500 million for Hulu, the online video streaming service he helped create in 2007, according to two sources with knowledge of Hulu's sale process.
Nicole Perlroth / NYT Bits:
Fake Twitter Followers Becomes Multimillion-Dollar Business  —  Far from slowing, the market for fake Twitter followers seems to be taking off.  —  The fake Twitter follower phenomenon made headlines last summer after Mitt Romney's Twitter following jumped by 100,000 in a matter of days.
Emanuel Maiberg / Inside Social Games:
Zynga hopes to retain top executives with bigger bonuses tied to performance, Mark Pincus' new annual salary is $1  —  Zynga today filed a form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission which reveals that in 2013 the company's top executives will be compensated with larger bonuses …
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Google publishes - then removes - a post stating that Fiber will launch in Austin, Texas next  —  A report from VentureBeat yesterday, citing multiple sources, claimed that Google and the City of Austin would be announcing the launch of the Google Fiber gigabit Internet service in the Texan city on Tuesday.
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
The Story Of A Failed Startup And A Founder Driven To Suicide  —  A few months ago, on Sunday, January 27, an entrepreneur named Jody Sherman had plans to see a movie with a friend.  —  But that afternoon, the friend received a call from Jody's wife, Kerri.  —  Jody had gone missing.
Julian Sanchez / Cato Institute:
Untappable Apple or DEA Disinformation?  —  Tech news site CNET has an interesting, but I suspect somewhat misleading, story today suggesting that text messages sent via Apple's iMessage service—an Internet-based alternative to traditional cell phone SMS text messages—are “impossible to intercept” by law enforcement.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Movie Studios Want Google to Take Down Their Own Takedown Request  —  There's a dark side to Google's transparency efforts, especially when it comes to publishing DMCA requests it receives from copyright holders.  —  With more than 100 million links to pirated files Google is steadily building …
Eliza Kern / GigaOM:
Twitter co-founders clarify Obvious Corp. structure, say Medium now operates independently  —  Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams re-launched the Obvious Corporation in June 2011, bringing back the umbrella organization from which they've launched startups like Blogger and Twitter.
More: Medium, TechCrunch and memeburnTweets: @rafat
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