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April 6, 2013, 2:25 PM

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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.
Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:
Nokia Lumia 928 for Verizon pictured in leaked image  —  Images are surfacing of what purports to be Nokia's upcoming flagship Windows Phone device for Verizon, the Lumia 928.  Twitter user @evleaks posted renders of the front and back of the 920 variant, and outwardly it looks nearly the same as AT&T's.
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.
Phil Milford / Bloomberg:
Zynga Sued Over Social-Game Maker Executives' Stock Sales  —  Zynga Inc. (ZNGA), the largest maker of online social games, was sued by a shareholder after executives were allowed to sell stock early for more than $200 million, while sales by lower level employees and outsiders were blocked.
Emanuel Maiberg / Inside Social Games:
Wikimedia France:
French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article  —  Wikimedia France strongly condemns pressure on Wikipedia sysop by French homeland intelligence agency (DCRI)  —  In early March, the DCRI (Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur) …
Mathew Ingram / paidContent:
When cancer stole Roger Ebert's voice, Twitter gave him a new one  —  Film critic Roger Ebert talked about how much Twitter meant to him as a form of conversation, and his enthusiastic use of it as a way to connect with readers is a lesson to journalists of all kinds.
More: CNN and Motherboard
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.
Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
The JOBS Act turns one, and let's be honest, it's a failure  —  On April 5, 2012, in the Rose Garden of the White House, US president Barack Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, one of those distinctly American pieces of legislation that hits you over the head with an unequivocally positive acronym—in this case, JOBS.
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.
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 and TechCrunchTweets: @rafat

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