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1/27/12 Links

Your daily links for Friday January 27, 2012.

Entrepreneurial Spirit Awaits Its Moment in the Middle East - NY Times

Why is Investment Income Taxed Less Than Wages? - Associated Press

Twitter Commits Social Suicide - Forbes

Twitter Faces Censorship Backlash - paidContent.org

North Korea Outlaws Cell Phones - Forbes

Straight From Davos: There's A Reason It's Called 'Venture' Capital - The Business Insider

Andrew Mason on the Future of Groupon - Inc Magazine

Understanding Google's New Page Layout Algorithm - Entrepreneur

We're Losing Control of Our Digital Privacy - CNN

Can Too Much Information Harm Patients? [Excerpt] - Scientific American

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1/26/12 Links

Your daily links for Thursday January 26, 2012.

Watching Apple Win the World - 37signals

$100 Billion Question: What Should Apple Do With Its Cash? - Time

Ten Tips for Pitching Your Company - This is Going to be Big

Google: How the Government Used a Con Artist to Catch Google's Criminal Activities - Gizmodo

Feds say senior Google Execs Knew About Illicit Pharma Ads - ars technica

Andreessen Is Said to Seek $1.5 Billion in Fund-Raising - NY Times

How to Choose What You Share with Google - Washington Post

Netflix Streaming Margins Are 11 Percent, DVD Margins Are 52 Percent - TechCrunch

Judge: Order to Decrypt Laptop Does Not Violate Fifth Amendment [video 1:19] - Mashable

Google Brain: Are We Losing Our Memory to the Search Giant? [video 0:53] - Mashable

Your Company Has a Perception Problem - Inc Magazine

What Could Kill Apple, Google Or Microsoft? - Forbes

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1/24/12 Links

Your daily links for Tuesday January 24, 2012.

Google Tweaks Search Results to Punish Ad-Heavy Websites - Wired

Google: Do Yourself a Favor and Just Come Clean Already - Pando Daily

Why We Should Teach Our Kids to Code - Slashdot

Science: Clever 1-Minute Video Shows How Airplane Wings Really Work [video, 1:14] - Gizmodo

Will This Be Apple's First $40 Billion Quarter? - TechCrunch

11 Vital Mobile Apps for Entrepreneurs - Mashable

Twitter is Much More Than Social: Co-founder Dorsey - Reuters

Facebook to Google: 'Don't be evil' - CNNMoney

Three Degrees of Reid Hoffman - Fortune

New Orleans and Young Entrepreneurs: Nurturing Each Other - Inc Magazine

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1/20/12 Links

Your daily links for Friday January 20, 2012.

Venture Capitalists Spend More Cash - Reuters

4 of 7 Named in Megaupload Indictment Denied Bail in New Zealand - NY Times

Iran: Iranian Programmer Sentenced to Death for Developing Porn Site Software - Gizmodo

Apple's Big Plan To Revolutionize The Textbook Stinks - The Business Insider

Jon Stewart Tells Us Everything We Need To Know About SOPA [video 7:09] - The Business Insider

This VC Has Heard 10,000 Pitches: Here's What Works - The Business Insider

Zynga Confirms It Is Seeking Partners for Online Gambling Initiatives - Wall Street Journal

Do Venture Capitalists Really Deserve Half a Billion Dollars in Taxpayer Money? - Inc Magazine

Facebook Gets Even More Sticky - MarketingVOX

Nine Things You Didn’t Know About Twitter - NY Times

At $400 billion, Apple is Worth More Than Greece - CNNMoney

Zuckerberg: SOPA Is 'Poorly Thought-Out Law' - Mashable

China's Challenge to the iPad Raises a Red Flag - Reuters

Larry Page: Display Advertising Is A $5 Billion Business - TechCrunch

Internet Wins: SOPA and PIPA Both Shelved - ars technica

Humor: The Most Exuberant 404 Error Ever - Gizmodo

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1/18/12 Links

Your daily links for Wednesday January 18, 2012.

8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now - Both Sides of the Table

Online Advertising Is Most-Pitched Media Product, But How Best To Sell It? - paidContent.org

A Lost And Found For The Internet - Fast Company

Yahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang Resigns from Company - CBS News

Wikipedia Editors Question Site's Blackout - AP

Google Will Change Its Home Page Tomorrow To Protest SOPA - The Business Insider

CHART OF THE DAY: Apple Is The Biggest PC Seller In The World - The Business Insider

SOPA Opera: White House Shuts Down Online Anti-Piracy Bill - Scientific American

Key Lessons for Startup Entrepreneurs from the 'TechStars - Entrepreneur Magazine

Scott Forstall is Apple's 'CEO-in-waiting' Says New Book - Fortune

For Some Internet Start-Ups, a Failure Is Just the Beginning - NY Times

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1/17/12 Links

Your daily links for Tuesday January 17, 2012.

Obama Says So Long SOPA, Killing Controversial Internet Piracy Legislation - Forbes

Ahead of May IPO, Facebook's Ad Business Shines--With One Caveat - Forbes

Employees' Most Outrageous 'Late' Excuses - LiveScience

SendGrid Sends 2.6 Billion Monthly Emails And It Just Raised $21 Million - San Francisco Chronicle

Do You Buy This? Free Apps With In-App Purchases Will Dominate Over Paid - paidContent.org

7 Must-Have Qualities to Look for in Employees - Inc Magazine

How to Make a Successful Cold Call - Inc Magazine

Apple May Be Building Facebook Directly Into The Next Version Of iOS - The Business Insider

The Secret To Pinterest's Astounding Success: A Brilliant Sign-Up Process You Should Copy - The Business Insider

The Traditional Media Buying Agency Is Dead - The Business Insider

Venture Capitalists, Startups Hope to Hit Sin City Jackpot - Reuters

Why iPhone Shoppers Buy More Apps - NY Times

YouTube Invests $100 Million In Original Programming - Media Post

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1/14/12 Links

Your daily links for Saturday January 14, 2012.

Underwater Noise Disturbs Whales 120 Miles Away - Wired

Technology Waves and Valuations: Are We in a Social Networking Bubble? - Roger and Mike's Hypernet Blog

Since 2007 Bill Gates Has Given Away 48 Percent of His Net-Worth for Charity [Infographic] - The Inquisitr

Combating Online Piracy while Protecting an Open and Innovative Internet - WhiteHouse.gov

Why Google's Social Search Is Too Much, Too Soon - Mashable

Career of the Future: Data Scientist [INFOGRAPHIC] - Mashable

Declaring Victory - Seth Godin Blog

How Pinterest Works - The Business Insider

Can Facebook Control 5 Percent Of Online Advertising By End Of 2012? - paidContent.org

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1/13/12 Links

Your daily links for Friday January 13, 2012.

Apple Suspends iPhone 4S Sales in Mainland China Stores - NY Times

Google CEO Larry Page Just Made His First Big Mistake - Forbes

Google Is Diving Back Into China With Search That Can't Be Censored - The Business Insider

Rupert Murdoch On The MySpace Deal: "We Screwed Up In Every Way Possible" - The Business Insider

Documenting Life in a Start-up - Inc Magazine

Google: Sorry, Twitter, We Don't Index the @ Symbol - Mashable

How Google's Social Search Shift Will Impact Your Brand's SEO - Mashable

An Invisible Keyboard Aims to Improve Touch-Screen Typing - NY Times

Google Responds: No, That’s Not How Facebook Deal Went Down (Oh, And I Say: The Search Paradigm Is Broken) - John Battelle's Searchblog

Not At Any Price: Twitter Denied Data To Google And Bet On Itself - TechCrunch

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1/12/12 Links

Your daily links for Thursday January 12, 2012.

33 Entrepreneurs Who Make This World A Better Place - Idea Mensch

InboundScore Ranks Incoming Website Sales Leads Intelligently (exclusive) - VentureBeat

A Q&A With Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber - Washingtonian

Q4 Venture Deals, Dollars Stayed Strong, Making 2011 Best in a Decade - Xconomy

How to Raise Money for Your Startup -- Now - Entrepreneur magazine

Apple May Need Cheaper Phones To Compete In China - Forbes

Fab.com: Mobile Shoppers Buy Twice as Often as Web Visitors - Gigaom

Bing Search Overtakes Yahoo - Slashdot

Apple's Foreign Cash Hoard - Seeking Alpha

How Facebook's Expected $100 Billion IPO Breaks Down [INFOGRAPHIC] - Mashable

How Memory Works - Online Colleges

Facebook to Hit 1 Billion User Mark in August [STUDY] - Mashable

Has Facebook Peaked Too Soon? - Forbes

10 Steps To Turn Your Passion Into Your Business - Fast Company

Working In Word, Excel, PowerPoint On an iPad

This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business - Fast Company

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1/11/12 Links

Your daily links for Wednesday January 11, 2012.

With Romney Under Attack, Private Equity Fights Back - NY Times

The Private Equity Industry Is Striking Back With Its Argument For Why It Makes America Great - The Business Insider

Majority Doesn't Care Whether Boss Is Male or Female - Forbes

Google+ Is Way Bigger Than We Thought: It's Totally Going To Change How The Web Works - The Business Insider

Google search undergoes 'most radical transformation ever' - CNN

“Search Plus Your World” Is Just About Google+, Not Your World - TechCrunch

Google To Twitter: Wait, Didn’t *You* Break Up With Me? - TechCrunch

Twitter to Google: You broke the Internet! - CNET

Can China Avoid a Hard Landing? - CNN Money

How a Niche Email Newsletter Grew to a Million Subscribers [video, 6:59] - Mashable

The Neuroscience of Looking on the Bright Side - Scientific American

Craig Venter Explains How Pond Scum Will Save the World - Scientific American

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