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April 14, 2013, 7:20 PM

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Jessi Hempel / Fortune:
The second coming of Facebook  —  Back in 2010 Mark Zuckerberg made a very bad decision.  Instead of building separate apps for iPhones, Androids, BlackBerrys, Nokia devices, and, yes, even Microsoft phones, he put his engineers to work designing a version of Facebook that could operate on any smartphone.
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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Computer Security Legend Mudge Leaves DARPA for Google Job  —  Peter Zatko, the computer hacking expert better known by the handle Mudge, says he's leaving his job as a program manager at DARPA to join Google.  He announced the change overnight on Twitter.  —  Zatko joined DARPA …
Tweets: @dotmudgeThanks:@ahess247
Economist:
Start-ups founded by immigrants are creating jobs all over America  —  ON APRIL 19th Jack Markell, the governor of Delaware, is due to visit a new factory being built in his state by Bloom Energy, a start-up based in Silicon Valley.  Bloom makes clean power-generation systems using a novel fuel-cell technology.
Tweets: @edithyeung
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Bitcoin Miners Are Racking Up $150,000 A Day In Power Consumption Alone  —  There's a gold rush going on these days, or a Bitcoin rush, at least.  Driven by the recent swings in the value of a Bitcoin, more and more people are learning about and becoming interested in the currency.
Semil Shah / TechCrunch:
Iterations: How Five Real Economists Think About Bitcoin's Future  —  There isn't just a bubble in the Bitcoin economy, there's a bubble in the number of posts about Bitcoin.  I'll pile on, even after this week's mini-crash, but with a twist.  A few weeks ago, I wrote some brief notes …
Tweets: @semil and @garrytan
Rima Abdelkader / Rock Center with Brian Williams:
Laurene Powell Jobs on immigration reform & Steve Jobs' ‘private legacy’  —  Laurene Powell Jobs is speaking publicly for the first time since her husband Steve Jobs' death to advocate for immigration reform.  —  “I started getting more and more active around immigration reform …

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