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March 2, 2013, 7:00 AM
 

March 2, 2013

6:15 AM  •
Michael Geist Blog:  Here Comes ACTA: Canadian Government Introduces Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Compliance Bill
1:55 AM  •
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:  Apple Stock Just Crashed To A New Low

March 1, 2013

11:50 PM  •
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:  HitBliss, The Pandora Of Ads, Will Pay You To Watch Commercials
10:15 PM  •
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:  Apple's Lightning AV Adapter contains an ARM SoC, 256MB memory, may be an ‘AirPlay’ decoder
8:40 PM  •
Elizabeth Spiers / Fast Company:  Exclusive: Andrew Mason's Last Interview As Groupon CEO
7:25 PM  •
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:  The Raspberry Pi: One year since launch, one million sold
6:30 PM  •
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:  Yahoo to kill swath of products including BlackBerry app, message boards, and more in April to sharpen focus
5:55 PM  •
Ben Lovejoy / MacRumors:  Apple Offers Refund After British Boy Spends $2500 on In-App Purchases in 15 Minutes
5:20 PM  •
Rachel King / ZDNet:  HP SVP suggests learning from cyber criminals and their methods
5:00 PM  •
Juli Clover / MacRumors:  T-Mobile Attacked by AT&T in Newspaper Ad Ahead of Potential Rebranding
4:40 PM  •
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:  Google Releases Interactive Infographic: “How Search Works”
4:20 PM  •
Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:  Yahoo Is Now Officially Calling Itself A ‘Technology Company’, Ditching The ‘Digital Media’ Tagline
4:00 PM  •
Zach Epstein / BGR:  BlackBerry coup confirmed: iPhone, Android users make up half of Z10 sales in Canada, one-third in UK
3:40 PM  •
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:  Judge strikes $450 million from $1 billion damages award in Apple v. Samsung: second trial needed
3:35 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Apple Award Cut With New Trial for Some Samsung Products
3:30 PM  •
Melissa Eddy / New York Times:  German Copyright Law Targets Google Links
3:15 PM  •
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:  FTC: Chairman was unaware of Google's donation to ceremony celebrating his work during investigation
2:55 PM  •
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:  Exploit lets websites bombard visitors' PCs with gigabytes of data
2:35 PM  •
Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:  Apple Argues Suit Over iPhone Data Fails to Show Harm
2:15 PM  •
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:  Apple blocks older versions of Adobe Flash Player plug-in
1:55 PM  •
Chris Welch / The Verge:  At last, Microsoft brings Photosynth panorama app to Windows Phone 8
1:35 PM  •
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:  Square Slapped With Cease And Desist By Illinois State Department Of Financial Regulation
1:10 PM  •
Jamie Rigg / Engadget:  First BB10 update addresses battery life, low-light photography, third-party app performance and more
12:45 PM  •
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:  Facebook holding an event to show off a ‘new look for News Feed’ on March 7th
12:11 PM  •
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:  Einhorn's Greenlight Drops “Silly” Apple Suit
11:35 AM  •
Erin Bury / BetaKit:  PayPal Competitor WePay Launches iOS App to Take Invoicing & Payments Mobile
11:00 AM  •
David Hsieh / DisplaySearch Blog:  Smaller Tablet PCs to Take Over in 2013?
10:25 AM  •
Jon Russell / The Next Web:  US Web payment enabler Stripe finally comes to Europe, launches beta service in the UK
9:25 AM  •
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:  Oracle investigating after two more Java 7 zero-day flaws found
8:50 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Best Buy Says It Got No Offer From Founder Schulze
8:00 AM  •
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:  Twilio and 500 Startups take their seed fund to Europe
7:05 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Google Defeats Publishers Over Copyright in German Parliament
5:50 AM  •
Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blog:  Evernote for iOS Update: New View, Better PDF Support, Evernote Business Improvements, and More
4:45 AM  •
David Meyer / GigaOM:  BSkyB buys Telefónica UK's fixed-line business for $300M
1:55 AM  •
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:  Apple Invents Advanced iPad Magnetics System for Dual iPad Notebook, Tripod Stands, Gaming Controller & Much More
1:30 AM  •
Gary Sims / Android Authority:  Ex-Apple marketing guru Guy Kawasaki now advising Motorola
1:10 AM  •
Reuters:  Megaupload founder suffers procedural setback in U.S. extradition bid
12:25 AM  •
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:  Google's Low Profile at Show Belies Its Clout

February 28, 2013

11:45 PM  •
Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:  IFixit tablet repair index: Dell at top; iPad, Surface at bottom
11:05 PM  •
Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:  FCC To Investigate Cell Phone Unlocking Ban
10:35 PM  •
Sue Zeidler / Reuters:  Hollywood targets “rogue” mobile apps in war on pirated content
10:00 PM  •
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:  Google Launches Zopfli To Compress Data More Densely And Make Web Pages Load Faster
9:45 PM  •
Jesse Hicks / The Verge:  Over 1,000 days without a trial: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the culture of secrecy
9:20 PM  •
Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley:  White House debating actions to retaliate against foreign cyberattacks
8:45 PM  •
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:  youdidntgetglass Google Has Closed Registrations For Their #ifihadglass Pre-Order Ploy
8:20 PM  •
Chris Welch / The Verge:  Google's CFO says Motorola's upcoming products aren't ‘wow’ by Google standards (update)
7:55 PM  •
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:  Google Translate to add dialects for text-to-speech feature?
7:50 PM  •
Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence:  Ted Leonsis Back in a Dotcom Driver's Seat at Groupon
7:45 PM  •
Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:  Groupon Stock Up 12% In After-Hours Trading Following Mason Ouster (But Has Fallen Since)
7:30 PM  •
Brian Womack / Businessweek:  Facebook Ads Based on Browsing Challenge Google
7:00 PM  •
Anke Corbin / MapQuest Blog:  MapQuest Continues Its Evolution by Introducing Free Travel Blogs
6:35 PM  •
Macworld:  Silent email filtering makes iCloud an unreliable option
6:10 PM  •
Tim Carmody / The Verge:  Bradley Manning pleads guilty to being Wikileaks source, denies ‘aiding the enemy’
5:45 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Apple Required Executives to Hold Triple Their Salary in Stock
5:40 PM  •
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:  Dropbox users complain of spam emails reminiscent of last year's data leak, company is investigating
5:35 PM  •
Ben Lovejoy / MacRumors:  UK Judge Who Chastised Apple Over Samsung ‘Apology’ Now Consulting as Patent Expert for Samsung
5:05 PM  •
Larry Dignan / ZDNet:  Salesforce delivers strong Q4, outlook solid
4:45 PM  •
Groupon, Inc.:  Groupon Announces Leadership Change
4:40 PM  •
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:  Andrew Mason is out as CEO of Groupon, here's his sendoff letter
4:35 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Google Helped Honor FTC Chairman During Agency Inquiry
4:15 PM  •
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:  Facebook Confirms It Will Acquire Atlas Advertiser Suite From Microsoft To Close The Ad Spend Loop
4:15 PM  •
Brian Boland / Facebook Newsroom:  Facebook to Acquire Atlas from Microsoft
3:55 PM  •
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:  Federated Media CEO Deanna Brown steps down, company founder John Battelle assumes leadership
3:35 PM  •
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:  Microsoft expands Surface RT and Pro market reach, adding Japan and the UK among other countries
3:15 PM  •
John Biggs / TechCrunch:  AT&T “Hacker” Andrew Auernheimer's Sentencing Scheduled For March 18
2:55 PM  •
Horace Dediu / asymco:  Measuring the iBook market
2:35 PM  •
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:  Exclusive: EU regulators likely to fine Microsoft by end-March - sources
2:20 PM  •
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:  YouTube for iOS gets AirPlay-like video ‘beaming’ for smart TVs, Xbox 360 and PS3, Capture support
2:10 PM  •
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:  Facebook Gives Examples To Jumpstart Usage Of Graph Search, Which It May Have Spent Too Long Building
1:45 PM  •
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:  Apple has sold 3M iPads directly into US education over past year and 4.5M total (Update: 8M worldwide)
1:35 PM  •
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:  Apple Has Sold Over 8M iPads Direct To Education Worldwide, With More Than 1B iTunes U Downloads
1:10 PM  •
John Koetsier / VentureBeat:  UpTo wants to be the social glue of tomorrow, adds $1.5M, and opens its event stream platform
12:45 PM  •
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:  Ouya confirms March 28 console shipping and hires ex-Journey developer Kellee Santiago
12:30 PM  •
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:  Koozoo turns every old iPhone into a 24/7 spycam
12:05 PM  •
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:  Vimeo teams up with Vivoom to add snazzy filters & effects to your videos
11:30 AM  •
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:  Video Chat Startup Rabbit Raises $3.3 Million From Google Ventures, CrunchFund, And Bebo Founder Michael Birch
10:55 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Apple Supplier Corning Sees Three-Year Wait for Flexible Display
10:40 AM  •
Kunal / Sammy Hub:  Samsung planning something at Times Square on Galaxy S4 unveiling day
10:25 AM  •
Vitalik Buterin / Bitcoin Magazine:  Bitcoin Price Breaks All Time High
10:15 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Samsung Fails to Block Apple iPhone, iPad Sales in Japan
10:10 AM  •
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:  Google, Facebook And Twitter Ordered To Delete Photos By UK Law Enforcement
9:55 AM  •
Ellyne Phneah / ZDNet:  China says US regularly hacks its military sites
9:40 AM  •
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:  Online Radio Service TuneIn Adds Recommendation Engine And Google+ Sign-In Integration
9:30 AM  •
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:  As Nook revenues plunge, B&N says it's “calibrating” strategy but “committed” to devices
9:25 AM  •
Scott Webster / CNET:  Big screens and Jelly Bean mark Android trends at Mobile World Congress
9:20 AM  •
Phil Wahba / Reuters:  Barnes & Noble's Nook, ebook sales fall 25.9 percent in quarter
9:10 AM  •
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:  With $1.8M From Andreessen, Chris Sacca & More, Rental Marketplace Getable Digs Into The $32B Construction Market
8:55 AM  •
Apple:  iTunes U Content Tops One Billion Downloads
8:50 AM  •
Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable!:  ISPs Finally Explain How ‘Six Strikes’ Anti-Piracy Program Will Work
8:45 AM  •
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:  AOL Confirms Susan Lyne As CEO Of Brand Group, Artie Minson Out As COO Role Goes (Memo)
8:20 AM  •
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:  UK judge who issued extreme ruling for Samsung against Apple hired by... Samsung!
7:45 AM  •
Dave Lee / BBC:  Court orders UK ISPs to block more piracy sites
7:00 AM  •
Steve Lohr / New York Times:  I.B.M. Exploring New Feats for Watson
6:05 AM  •
Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:  LinkedIn: The Ugly Duckling of Social Media
5:10 AM  •
Steve Dent / Engadget:  T-Mobile Q4 2012 revenue drops 5.2 percent to $4.9 billion, customers and income also fall
4:15 AM  •
Chris Welch / The Verge:  Time Warner Cable says there's no consumer demand for gigabit internet
1:55 AM  •
MIT Technology Review:  An Autopsy of a Dead Social Network
1:20 AM  •
Mozilla Hacks:  Building A Paid App For Firefox OS
12:55 AM  •
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:  Placed study reveals how Amazon is impacting brick-and-mortar retailers
12:20 AM  •
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:  Viddy Updates Its Mobile Video App With 30-Second Videos, New Filters, And Discovery Tools

February 27, 2013

11:55 PM  •
Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal:  Unsold IPhones Piling Up at Leap Wireless
11:20 PM  •
Avram Piltch / LAPTOP Magazine:  E Ink Android Phone Lasts a Week, Weighs Next to Nothing
10:50 PM  •
Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net:  EA putting micro-transactions “into all of our games”
10:20 PM  •
Sruthi Gottipati / India Ink:  ‘Hole in the Wall’ Wins Indian Educator $1 Million TED Prize
10:15 PM  •
Sam Gibbs / Gizmodo UK:  Tweetbot Shows You How to Shame Bottom-Feeding Pirates (Updated)
10:10 PM  •
Alistair Barr / Reuters:  Groupon shares crumple after dismal outlook, take-rate cut
10:05 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Groupon's Loss Widens; Stock Dives
9:35 PM  •
Bernard Vaughan / Thomson Reuters:  Inventor argues Nintendo infringed his 3-D patent
9:00 PM  •
Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:  To Bolster Search, Facebook Nudges its Users to Help Index the Real World - and Build a Data Store to Rival Google's
8:25 PM  •
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:  Comcast Punishes BitTorrent Pirates With Browser Hijack
8:00 PM  •
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:  Authors face change as Amazon tightens affiliate policy on free Kindle books
7:35 PM  •
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:  Cluster App Aims at Better Photo Curation (Especially for the Lazy)
7:10 PM  •
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:  Coinstar coin-counting machines are now also PayPal ATMs
6:50 PM  •
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:  Shazam: ‘TV advertising is going to become our primary revenue stream’
6:25 PM  •
Natasha Lennard / Salon:  Anonymous group claims to show BofA monitored hackers, activists
6:00 PM  •
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:  Momentum Grows for Alternative Phone System Tizen
5:30 PM  •
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:  Pandora Resurrects Its 40-Hour (Monthly) Limit On Free Music, But This Time It's Capping Mobile Usage
5:25 PM  •
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:  Exclusive: AOL Poised to Hire Susan Lyne to Run All Content Brands, Except HuffPo
5:05 PM  •
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:  Google's Chrome Super Sync Sports Turns Your Smartphone's Browser Into A Game Controller
4:45 PM  •
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:  GDRs and Microsoft's road to Windows Phone Blue
4:30 PM  •
Casey Newton / CNET:  Sergey Brin: Smartphones are ‘emasculating’
4:12 PM  •
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:  Groupon tanks on missed Q4 revenue of $638.3 million, unexpected loss of $0.12 per share
4:10 PM  •
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:  Gmail Search Field Trial Adds Calendar Results To Google Search
3:55 PM  •
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:  Cook: Forget About Our Share Price, Apple Has Some Great Stuff Coming
3:50 PM  •
Barb Darrow / GigaOM:  Rackspace buys its way into MongoDB market with ObjectRocket
3:30 PM  •
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:  Bango To Power Payments In Mozilla's Firefox OS App Store, Offering Carrier Billing By Default
3:10 PM  •
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:  Bill would force ‘patent trolls’ to pay legal costs
3:00 PM  •
Jordan Press / canada.com:  BlackBerry not as secure as believed, memo warns federal workers
2:50 PM  •
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:  State-sponsored hackers steal more than a terabyte of data per day, says new report
2:30 PM  •
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:  Stanford Grad Files Lawsuit Claiming He Came Up With Snapchat, Snapchat Calls Lawsuit “Devoid Of Merit”
2:25 PM  •
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:  Facebook Lets Advertisers Tap Purchase Data Partners To Target Customers, Categories Like Car-Buyers
2:10 PM  •
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:  Spotify's social network arrives: New Follow tab is now gradually rolling out to users
1:55 PM  •
Roger Cheng / CNET:  Sorry, LTE compatibility in the U.S. still years away
1:40 PM  •
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:  EA's Digital EVP, Playfish Co-Founder Kristian Segerstrale Departs
1:25 PM  •
Erica Ogg / GigaOM:  Waze adds real-time re-routing around road closures to latest iOS, Android update
1:15 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Apple's ‘Very Active’ Cash Talks Won't Assuage Investors
1:00 PM  •
Matt Brian / The Next Web:  Sony releases experimental Firefox OS ROM for Xperia E
12:40 PM  •
Christina Farr / VentureBeat:  Nexenta pulls in $24M to realize its vision for a software defined data center
12:20 PM  •
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:  Leap Motion Controller Ships Pre-Orders May 13, Hits Best Buy Store Shelves May 19 For $79.99
12:00 PM  •
J.K. Trotter / The Atlantic Wire:  Fake Google Glass eBay Auction Pulled After Bids Soar Past $15,000
11:55 AM  •
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:  Bizarre old-school spyware attacks governments, sports Mark of the Beast
11:35 AM  •
Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM:  Practice Fusion buys mobile health startup 100Plus to power patient tools with clinical data
11:30 AM  •
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:  Spotify for iPhone updated with new interface
11:20 AM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Amazon's Streaming Music Service Goes Big Screen With Debut Of Cloud Player For iPad
10:55 AM  •
Josh Ong / The Next Web:  Apple rolls out iTunes in the Cloud support for movies to 12 European countries [update: Confirmed]
10:40 AM  •
Seeking Alpha:  Judge Upholds VirnetX Jury Verdict Against Apple For $368M
10:25 AM  •
Damon Poeter / PC Magazine:  Intel Tackles Big Data With Release of Apache Hadoop Platform
10:10 AM  •
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:  Apple CEO to Face Investors Seeking More of Cash Hoard
9:50 AM  •
Matt Brian / The Next Web:  Amazon warns iOS users to skip latest app update following reports of deleted books
9:30 AM  •
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:  Microsoft launches updated Office 365 for business users
9:15 AM  •
Sinead Carew / Reuters:  Clearwire to tap Sprint money but continue Dish talks
8:40 AM  •
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:  Boss Talk: What RSA Learned From Its Security Breach
7:45 AM  •
Erica Ogg / GigaOM:  Passbook mobile ticketing expanding to 13 MLB ballparks this season
7:00 AM  •
Michael V. Copeland / Wired:  New App Turns Your iPhone Into a Mobile Urine Lab
6:15 AM  •
Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:  Pebble Smart Watch Tells When Phone Calls, Emails Arrive
5:30 AM  •
Dan Seifert / The Verge:  Samsung takes a page from Apple's Passbook with new Wallet app
4:55 AM  •
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:  Apple joins Intel, Facebook, Microsoft, others in support of gay marriage
4:10 AM  •
Ryan Tate / Wired:  This Amazing 3-D Desktop Was Born at Microsoft
1:55 AM  •
Vinod Khosla / TechCrunch:  “Venture Assistance”: A Philosophical View Of What Boards Should And Should Not Do
1:30 AM  •
Wisdoms of Pearl:  Tweens + Instagram = Tweenstagram !!!
1:05 AM  •
James McQuivey / AllThingsD:  Why Silicon Valley Is the Next Detroit
12:40 AM  •
Marco Arment / Marco.org:  Why don't MacBooks come with cellular networking?
12:15 AM  •
Billy Steele / Engadget:  Adobe outs Photoshop Touch for phones, ready to outfit pockets for $4.99

February 26, 2013

11:55 PM  •
Brandon Bailey / Mercury News:  Yahoo responds to outcry, says work-from-home ban is not an ‘industry view’
11:25 PM  •
Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:  Future iPhones could anticipate user needs with ‘situational awareness module’
10:50 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  In India, iPhone Lags Far Behind
10:15 PM  •
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:  Pinterest For Products Wanelo Raises At North Of $100M
10:10 PM  •
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:  Is The Google+ “Spam-Free” Sign-In Really That Different From Facebook?
10:05 PM  •
Seth Colaner / HotHardware.com News:  i-mate Smartphone Has Intel Inside, Runs Windows 8 Pro—Assuming It's Not Vaporware
9:30 PM  •
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:  Is Twitter actually worth $10 billion? We have our doubts
9:25 PM  •
Dennis K. Berman / Wall Street Journal:  Is Twitter Really Worth $10 Billion?
9:10 PM  •
Christopher Soghoian / ACLU:  New Document Sheds Light on Government's Ability to Search iPhones
8:35 PM  •
Tim Maly / Wired:  Freescale's Insanely Tiny ARM Chip Will Put the Internet of Things Inside Your Body
8:00 PM  •
Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg:  Hewlett-Packard CEO Whitman to Evaluate Sale of Small Businesses
7:25 PM  •
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:  U.S. ‘Pirate’ Streaming Site Operator Gets Amnesty
6:50 PM  •
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet:  Torvalds strongly objects to Windows 8 secure boot keys in the Linux kernel
6:35 PM  •
Alexandra Berzon / Wall Street Journal:  N.J. Gov. Christie Signs Online Gambling Bill
6:20 PM  •
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:  EA enables gamers to use a single identity across game platforms (exclusive)
6:05 PM  •
Tomio Geron / Forbes:  Peter Thiel Backs Thinkful For Personalized Online Education
5:50 PM  •
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:  China labor watchdog SACOM says Apple failing to monitor work conditions at suppliers
5:40 PM  •
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:  Adobe springs emergency Flash update, says hackers hitting Firefox
5:35 PM  •
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:  Should you be worried about the new “six strikes” anti-piracy rules? Yes and no
5:30 PM  •
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:  “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Starts, With Mystery Punishments
5:00 PM  •
Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:  Cricket to spin off Muve Music, licensing the service to other carriers
4:40 PM  •
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:  Exclusive: PayPal Co-Founder Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm
4:20 PM  •
Brendan McGarry / Bloomberg:  Pentagon Will Open Networks to Apple, Google Devices in 2014
4:00 PM  •
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:  Cloudflare Partners With World's Leading Web Hosts To Implement Its Railgun Protocol, Speeds Up Load Times By Up To 143%
3:40 PM  •
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:  NPD: Illegal P2P music sharing declined 17% in 2012 as Internet users turn to free, legal streaming services
3:35 PM  •
Matt Burns / TechCrunch:  “Angry Birds Toons”, Rovio's New Cartoon Series, Is Coming To A Browser Near You March 16
3:20 PM  •
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:  Instagram Surpasses 100 Million Active Users
3:10 PM  •
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:  Apple's Selling More Macs Because It Finally Has More Macs to Sell
2:55 PM  •
Don Reisinger / CNET:  Google spars with Spain over data privacy
2:50 PM  •
Élyse Betters / 9to5Mac:  Staples now sells Apple accessories including Apple TV, keyboards, Airports, Magic Mouse, and Smart Covers
2:35 PM  •
Owen Thomas / Business Insider:  Glam Media Just Secretly Filed For An IPO
2:25 PM  •
Reuters:  Supreme Court throws out challenge to surveillance law
2:10 PM  •
Aloysius Low / CNET:  HTC exec says there will be more Windows Phones in 2013
2:00 PM  •
Rachel King / ZDNet:  Intel baking Apache Hadoop into silicon for big data, security uses
1:40 PM  •
Nilay Patel / The Verge:  First LG webOS TVs to launch in 2014 with revamped interface, but details still light
1:30 PM  •
Jim Finkle / Reuters:  Researchers say Stuxnet was deployed against Iran in 2007
1:25 PM  •
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:  Maybe You'll Get the Pay TV You Want, After All: Cablevision Sues Viacom to Break Up the Bundle
1:05 PM  •
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:  Revealed: Stuxnet “beta's” devious alternate attack on Iran nuke program
12:50 PM  •
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:  Silicon Valley dwarfs list of top regions for tech acquisitions
12:30 PM  •
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:  Apple Now a Bit Easier to Deal With, and Other Observations From France Telecom's Straight-Talking CEO
12:10 PM  •
Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:  Former Square COO Keith Rabois Joins Square Investor Khosla Ventures As Partner
12:05 PM  •
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:  Twitter for Windows Phone finally gets new design that matches other apps, Live Tile support and more
11:55 AM  •
Stephen Shankland / CNET:  Opera reveals its new WebKit-based browser for Android
11:50 AM  •
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:  Google's Rubin: No Need for Retail Stores
11:45 AM  •
Nick Wingfield / NYT Bits:  Gates, Zuckerberg, Other Tech Icons Promote Youth Coding in New Film
11:25 AM  •
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:  For the First Time Since Napster, Music Sales Are Growing
11:15 AM  •
Bryan Bishop / The Verge:  Google+ Sign-In takes on Facebook Connect and frictionless sharing
11:05 AM  •
googleplusplatform.blogspot.co.uk:  Introducing Google+ Sign-In: simple and secure, minus the social spam
10:55 AM  •
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:  Apple's ‘Think Different’ man likes Samsung's ad campaign
10:20 AM  •
Alex Williams / TechCrunch:  Salesforce.com Launches Service Cloud Mobile With In-App Customer Service, Co-Browsing And Chat
9:55 AM  •
Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:  Mid-2013 expansion for Internet names targeted
9:30 AM  •
Barb Darrow / GigaOM:  Exclusive: RightScale is first to resell, support Google Compute Engine
9:05 AM  •
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:  Internet Explorer 10 finally released for Windows 7
8:45 AM  •
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:  Nvidia Shows Off The Tegra 4i Reference Smartphone On Video, Delivers Impressive Mobile Gaming Performance
8:00 AM  •
David Meyer / GigaOM:  EU digital chief throws €50M in 5G's direction to help continent regain mobile lead
7:25 AM  •
Christopher Nerney / CITEworld:  Bad news for Android: enterprise share dropped in Q4
6:40 AM  •
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:  The Pirate Bay Departs Sweden And Sets Sail For Norway and Spain
5:45 AM  •
Michael A. Prospero / LAPTOP Magazine:  Dell Latitude 10 Enhanced Security Hands-On: Built-in Fingerprint, Smart Card Readers
5:00 AM  •
CNET:  Mozilla CEO: Android, iOS leave lots of room for Firefox OS
4:15 AM  •
Christina Bonnington / Wired:  Durability Will Be Apple's Biggest Challenge to Making a Curved iWatch
1:55 AM  •
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:  Outbox Pours Salt On Snail Mail By Launching Its Digitizing Service In San Francisco
1:20 AM  •
Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:  BlackBerry Testing Money Messenger Service
12:10 AM  •
Cotton Delo / AdAge:  Foursquare Partners with Visa and MasterCard to Give Discounts When Users Shop
12:05 AM  •
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:  Spark Capital Raises $450 Million For Its 4th Fund To See Its Startups All The Way Through To Exit

February 25, 2013

11:35 PM  •
Seth Rosenblatt / CNET:  Firefox betas pull the shades per-tab on ‘porn mode’
11:10 PM  •
Josh Ong / The Next Web:  Twitter will have a native client ready for Firefox OS launch, will support Web Activities for easy tweeting
10:50 PM  •
Gabe / Penny Arcade:  The MS Surface Pro
10:25 PM  •
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:  Google Chrome may soon get audio indicators to show you noisy tabs, keep them open when memory runs out
10:00 PM  •
James Hutchinson / Australian Financial Review:  Legal twist in Apple, Samsung case
9:35 PM  •
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:  YouTube testing Hulu-esque pre-roll ad chooser, letting you watch one long or several short ones
9:10 PM  •
Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:  LinkedIn's next target: Yammer, Salesforce Chatter?
8:20 PM  •
Horace Dediu / asymco:  Apple's International Retail Strategy
7:45 PM  •
Juliette Garside / Guardian:  European mobile companies vow to break Google and Apple monopolies
7:20 PM  •
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:  Y Combinator-Backed Thalmic Labs Introduces MYO, A $149 Armband For Gesture Control
6:55 PM  •
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:  Apple settles lawsuit over apps aimed at kids — will pay $5 iTunes credit or cash
6:30 PM  •
Jaymar Cabebe / CNET:  DoubleTwist and Qualcomm to bring AirPlay-like streaming to Android
6:05 PM  •
Tim Stevens / Engadget:  Chromebook Pixel review: another impractical marvel from Google
5:40 PM  •
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:  ZTE Grand Memo: hands-on with a 5.7-inch smartphone
5:15 PM  •
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:  What LG Will Do With webOS
5:10 PM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Apple Rejecting Apps Using Cookie-Tracking Methods, Signaling Push To Its Own Ad Identifier Technology Is Now Underway
4:50 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Google Said Developing Subscription Music Service
4:45 PM  •
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:  Samsung Sparks Anxiety at Google
4:30 PM  •
Adam Goodman / The Duo Bulletin:  Bypassing Google's Two-Factor Authentication
4:15 PM  •
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:  After CEO Departure, Mobile Video Startup Viddy Cuts Staff By More Than A Third
4:05 PM  •
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:  Hortonworks delivers beta of Hadoop big-data platform for Windows
3:55 PM  •
Christopher Brook / threatpost:  Another iPhone Passcode Bypass Vulnerability Discovered
3:40 PM  •
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:  Survey Says: Despite Yahoo Ban, Most Tech Companies Support Work-From-Home for Employees
3:25 PM  •
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:  Apple Is Beta-Testing An Update That Kills Evasi0n Jailbreak
3:10 PM  •
Mike Dano / FierceWireless:  Sprint launches prepaid LTE service through Virgin, Boost
2:55 PM  •
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:  Gizmodo Boss Joe Brown Goes (Back) to Wired
2:45 PM  •
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:  Microsoft Says Windows Phone Store Now Features More Than 130K Apps, 40K New Developers Registered Since WP8 Launch
2:25 PM  •
Matt Rosoff / CITEworld:  Box strikes back against Dropbox with more security controls
2:10 PM  •
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:  Nokia unveils new 105 and 301 featurephones, shipping soon for $20 and $85 respectively
1:50 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sharp-Foxconn Stake Talks Said to End March 26 Without Deal
1:32 PM  •
Roger Cheng / CNET:  Samsung: no interest in Mozilla's Firefox OS
1:30 PM  •
Matt Brian / The Next Web:  Sony jumps on the Mozilla bandwagon, will launch Firefox OS device in 2014
1:05 PM  •
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:  App.net introduces free tier, invite-only for now, includes following 40 people
12:55 PM  •
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:  First Round Expands $500K Student-Run Investment Arm, Dorm Room Fund, To New York City Universities
12:40 PM  •
Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:  Internet providers launch controversial Copyright Alert System, promise ‘education’ over lawsuits
12:30 PM  •
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:  Zynga shuts Baltimore studio and consolidates three other locations
12:10 PM  •
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:  Compete settles with the FTC over consumer data capture, must delete or anonymize existing data
12:05 PM  •
Nilay Patel / The Verge:  HP emerges as big winner in webOS sale, and LG doesn't rule out a phone
11:55 AM  •
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:  Aereo expands TV on-the-go service to 3 more states, launches first big ad campaign
11:50 AM  •
Matt Brian / The Next Web:  LG acquires webOS source code and patents from HP, will live on in new smart TVs
11:35 AM  •
Luke Westaway / CNET:  Asus Fonepad is a cheap 7-inch Jelly Bean tablet that makes calls
11:10 AM  •
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:  Visa, Samsung Ink NFC Deal, Galaxy S IV First In Line For Deep Integration; ROAM Is Visa's …
10:45 AM  •
Jon Russell / The Next Web:  Opera launches Opera Mediaworks to unite its ad businesses, form world's largest mobile ad platform
10:35 AM  •
Sam Byford / The Verge:  Samsung finally folding Bada OS into Tizen
10:05 AM  •
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:  Yandex deals Google a one-two punch, debuts alternative Android app store and 3D interface
9:30 AM  •
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:  webOS Finds New Life Yet Again, This Time in LG Televisions
9:00 AM  •
Don Reisinger / CNET:  BlackBerry delivers first BB10 handset to India — at $800
8:45 AM  •
Dana Wollman / Engadget:  ASUS PadFone Infinity announced: 5-inch, 1080p display, Snapdragon 600 CPU and full HD tablet display
8:05 AM  •
Zach Honig / Engadget:  Samsung announces SAFE with Knox, details plans to secure the enterprise Galaxy (hands-on)
7:40 AM  •
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:  CNET Pulled This Morning's Big News About Hewlett Packard And LG, But It's Still True
6:45 AM  •
Tom Warren / The Verge:  Lumia 720 hands-on: the best Lumia body yet, but the specs let it down
6:15 AM  •
Jon Fingas / Engadget:  Nokia rebrands Drive, Maps and Transit for Windows Phones: it's all about Here (video)
6:00 AM  •
TechCrunch:  TC Interview: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop Talks Windows Phone Alternatives, Low-End Devices And Email
5:45 AM  •
Matt Brian / The Next Web:  Spotify integrates with Ford's SYNC AppLink to offer voice-activated music control in more than one million cars
5:30 AM  •
Sam Byford / The Verge:  Sony's sleek Xperia Tablet Z coming to the US for $499
5:10 AM  •
Daniel Cooper / Engadget:  Facebook and 18 carriers to offer discounted mobile messaging data in 14 countries
4:55 AM  •
Roger Cheng / CNET:  WebOS lives! LG to resurrect it for smart TVs
4:50 AM  •
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:  Nokia Expands Its Windows Phones To More Price Points With $180 Entry Level Lumia 520 And $330 Mid-Range Lumia 720

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