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April 27, 2014, 11:50 AM

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Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Exclusive: CEO Gurbaksh Chahal Fired by RadiumOne Board — According to sources, Gurbaksh Chahal has been fired by the board of RadiumOne, directly related to his conviction for battery and domestic violence. — That is obviously the impetus for the vehement defense Chahal mounted …

More: Business Insider

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal Says He Didn't Do It: “I Didn't Hit Her 117 Times” — It is hard to know where to start in this astonishingly vehement account that RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal just posted on his personal site, titled “Can You Handle the Truth?,” in which he defends himself from charges of domestic violence.

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The Atlantic Online:

Net Neutrality: A Guide to (and History of) a Contested Idea — This week, news broke that the Federal Communications Commission is considering new rules for how the Internet works. — In short: the FCC would allow network owners (your Verizons, Comcasts, etc.) to create Internet …

More: Hit & Run, IEEE Spectrum, WP Engine, Salon, Medium, PC World and InfoWorld. Tweets: @tonyromm

Lee Fang / VICE:

Several key FCC staffers recently worked for ISPs who would benefit from net neutrality defeat — Former Comcast and Verizon Attorneys Now Manage the FCC and Are About to Kill the Internet — A tombstone for Internet freedom. Photo via Flickr user DonkeyHotey — The open Internet may soon become a thing of the past.

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Barbara van Schewick / Center for Internet and Society:

The FCC changed course on network neutrality. Here is why you should care. — Wednesday's press reports of the new network neutrality rules proposed by FCC Chairman Wheeler have been met with anger and confusion. According to the Wall Street Journal, “[r]egulators are proposing new rules …

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Benedict Evans:

Why iPad plateaued: tablets are eroding the PC market, but the smartphone is the transformative new category — iPads and tablet growth — Apple's revenue has pretty much stopped growing. This chart shows the quarterly revenue the company has reported - a series of ever larger spikes upward around …

More: Medium, AVC, The Atlantic Online, Business Insider, 9to5Mac and PadGadget

Tweets: @dkthomp, @bertmmi, @stevesi, @rjs, @niallharbison, @borthwick, @nathanborror, @benedictevans, @rwd and @pefnam

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

The Untold Story Of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback — One day in July 2001, Larry Page decided to fire Google's project managers. All of them. — It was just five years since Page, then a 22-year-old graduate student at Stanford, was struck in the middle of the night with a vision.

More: Business Insider, Business Insider and BGR

Tweets: @ianbrownoii, @swaaanson, @valaafshar, @trailsfootmarks, @daddy_san, @mattrosoff and @nichcarlson

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal:

Airbnb starts recommending nearby destinations to SF users, other cities coming soon — Airbnb Wants to Be a Travel Agent — Airbnb wants to be a travel agent. — People who opened the apartment-sharing company's mobile app in San Francisco on Thursday found something new …

More: VentureBeat and Skift

John Zorabedian / Naked Security:

Viber images and videos were not encrypted during transit or storage, company says “issue has already been resolved” — Here we go again: Viber mobile messenger app leaves user data unencrypted — Viber, a mobile messenger app that allows users to make phone calls …

More: UNHcFREG, CNET, The Hacker News, The Register, Softpedia News, SC Magazine and Android Community

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Comixology removes in-app purchases to avoid paying fees to Apple — It's about to get a bit more difficult to buy comic books from a mobile device. Comixology is replacing its iOS app today with a new version that removes the ability to purchase comics. The new app is solely a comic book reader …

More: comiXology Unbound, MacRumors, Macworld, Bleeding Cool Comic Book …, The Next Web, App Advice, MacNN, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Central, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget and CNET News

Tweets: @reneritchie and @marcoarment

Ron Nixon / New York Times:

US built Twitter-like services for Cuba, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and dozens more countries — U.S. Says It Built Digital Programs Abroad With an Eye to Politics — WASHINGTON — The United States built Twitter-like social media programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, like one in Cuba …

More: The Eastern Tribune. Tweets: @katrinanation, @digiphile and @nytimesbits

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Amplify helps Twitter grab a piece of the multi-billion dollar TV ad market — Twitter Wants to Be Your TV — Profitability doesn't appear to be in Twitter's (TWTR) future anytime soon. Losses are increasing, membership growth has slowed, and the company's stock price is down 28 percent since …

Tweets: @bw and @socialtvtrends. See also Mediagazer

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