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Google Wave is officially dead starting today | The Verge | |

Google Sued by Pension Fund Over Proposed Stock Split - Bloomberg | |

Apple Doesn't Want Musicians to See Secret Steve Jobs Deposition - Hollywood Reporter | |

Washington Post Hiring Digg Tech Team - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD | |

Google "Comparison" Units Get New Look; Change Highlights Paid Inclusion In Some Vertical Search Areas | |

Engineer in Google’s Street View Is Identified - | |

Apple objects to discovery request of secret Steve Jobs and Eddy Cue depositions | 9to5Mac | Apple Intelligence | |

Sergey Brin offers $1 million to charity -- if tech titans match | Tech Culture - CNET News | |

Microsoft's Nook Deal, Aiming at Amazon, Sets Up Battle in E-Books - | |

French group sues because Google Suggest thinks Jon Hamm is Jewish | |

Google Inc. GOOG -0.09% and Yahoo Inc. YHOO +0.26% sell traditional display and search ads on their sites. Facebook also offers image and text-based ads, but it pushes new methods that haven't been fully tested.

today it announced that it has filed fresh round of patent suits — 11 in all — against HTC, RIM and Viewsonic across courts in the U.S. and Germany, covering some 45 patents, all told.

Last night we reported on Target's plans to discontinue sale of the Kindle due to "conflict of interest," and now the company has confirmed to us that it will, indeed, discontinue sale. In a statement, Target says that it will be "phasing out Kindles and Amazon- and Kindle-branded products in the spring of 2012," here citing the continuous process of evaluating products for its customers. Of course, given Amazon's main business is aggressive pricing and low margins to undercut retailers, we're sure that didn't sit right with the brick-and-mortar retailer, either.

"I deny the second half of Apple’s motion (seeking prohibition of the deposition) as frivolous and the first half (seeking substitution) as untimely. I've had my fill of frivolous filings by Apple. The next such motion, and I shall forbid it to file any motions without first moving for leave to file."

The photo-sharing app is on fire. It now has more than 50 million users — and is adding new ones at the rate of roughly 5 million per week, according to its API. Instagram hit 40 million users around April 13, and 30 million at the start of the month (no April Fooling). This is astonishing growth for an app that started 2012 with just 15 million users.

There is real exposure for users: The agreement doesn't protect users if Google -- not the user -- deems it necessary to give litigants or government representatives access to private files, and it won't prevent Google from terminating access to their own files if "Google thinks a file violates someone's rights. The example of what happened to innocent users caught during the MegaUpload saga is still fresh in people's memories.

The new desktop application for Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS 10.6 or 10.7 allows people to drag and drop files as if they were transferring files to a local hard drive. Cloud Drive, which launched last year, gives people tiered levels starting with 5 gigabytes of free storage, or enough to hold about 1,000 songs or 2,000 photos. Services are then available for $20 to $100 per year depending on disk space, maxing out at 1,000 gigabytes. Up to eight devices can access the service, and music files purchased and stored by Amazon don't count toward a gigabyte limit.

RT @karaswisher: Interesting read: Is the OMGPOP Acquisition Haunting Zynga? - Forbes via @sharethis

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RT @Techmeme: Microsoft to drop Windows Live branding with Windows 8 (@maryjofoley / CNET)

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RT @Techmeme: Verizon's LTE-powered in-home broadband goes national (@jdolcourt / CNET)

RT @Techmeme: Verizon's LTE-powered in-home broadband goes national (@jdolcourt / CNET)

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