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News on Friday , Mar 12, 2010

1. MyBrandz: Finally, You Can Find People Who Love Nike, Apple, And Ferrari As Much As You Do

   

   Ever wanted to tell the world how much you love BMW, Coca-Cola, and any of the other biggest brand names on Earth? Here’s your chance: MyBrandz is a new community site that looks to let people talk about their favorite brands with other users, allowing them to share their favorite products, photos, and more. You may remember MyBrandz as the company that convinced a guy to tattoo the YouTube logo to his arm a few months back. My initial reaction to the site was that it was a bit bizarre —...
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1. The Rise of Foursquare in Numbers [STATS]

   

   Yesterday, Foursquare turned one. You read that right: The mobile social network that made its splash at SXSW 2009 and has tremendous buzz is just 366 days old.Despite that short amount of time, Foursquare has more than half a million users, 1.4 million venues and 15.5 million checkins, and it’s still growing. Experian Hitwise decided to use this milestone to analyze Foursquare’s growth.As you might imagine, not only have Foursquare’s mobile apps seen growth, but so has Foursqu...
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1. Tim Cook Gets A $22 Million Bonus For Keeping Apple Awesome While Steve Jobs Was Sick (AAPL)

   

   Apple is giving COO Tim Cook a one time $5 million bonus as a thank you for "outstanding performance in assuming the day-to-day operations," while Steve Jobs was out. He also received 75,000 restricted stock units. At today's price of $226 that's worth $17 million. Read the rest of this story »See Also: Apple COO Tim Cook: 'We Have No Interest In Being In The TV Market' Apple's Tim Cook: We're Fine Without Steve Jobs (AAPL) Meet Tim Cook, Apple's Interim Boss (AAPL)
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1. How AT&T Hopes To Save Its A** At SXSW (T, AAPL)

   

   AT&T was the biggest joke of South by Southwest last year.  The thousands of iPhone owners flocking to Austin crushed its 3G network, making it useless. Read the rest of this story »See Also: AT&T Launches A Gadget Blog To Promote Its New Android Phone AT&T Finally Getting Google Android Phones Free Texting App Textfree Is Disrupting AT&T With Over A Billion Messages Handled
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1. Ex-Facebook, YouTube CFO Hands Hunch $10 Million

   

   From All Things D: Hunch, a buzzy startup that answers questions using crowd-sourced recommendations, has resolved one query of its own: Who’s going to fund our B round? Sources tell me that Khosla Ventures is leading a new round that will add another $10 million to $12 million to the startup’s bank account. General Catalyst Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Ron Conway, who put $2 million into the company a year ago, are reinvesting. Read the rest of this story »See Also: ...
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1. A Peek Inside AOL's Great Fanboy-Journalism Experiment (AOL)

   

   From the Daily Beast: AOL has launched a massive effort to interview every one of the 2,000 bands playing South By Southwest—by enlisting everyday music fans to talk to their rock gods. A peek inside the great fanboy-journalism experiment. Continue reading at the Daily Beast > Join the conversation about this story »See Also: AOL's Top Sales Rep Is Ali Van Putten AOL Just Dumped Another Acquisition AOL Plans On Spending $50 Million To Build Hundreds Of Patch Sites
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1. Apple Sells An Estimated 91,000 iPads In 6 Hours (AAPL)

   

   Update at 4:55 EST: More data is rolling in, Philip Elmer DeWitt tells us the estimate now stands at 91,000 iPads in 6 hours. Read the rest of this story »See Also: Apple Selling 20,000 iPads Per Hour? I Just Ordered An iPad: Here's Why 10 Burning Questions About Apple's iPad
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1. Meet The Money Man Behind Your TweetDeck (And Bit.ly)

   

   All Things D power blogger Peter Kafka just posted an interview with John Borthwick, the top dog at not-an-incubator-but-kind-of-an-incubator-ugh-please-just-call-us-a-holding-company Betaworks. Betaworks is an investor in Twitter app TweetDeck and URL shortner Bit.ly. It sold Twitter search engine Summize to Twitter. Notice a pattern? Good. John says Betaworks wants to invest exclusively in the "real-time" Web. He says, "we're either building a mountain or digging a hole." Watch, won't you? Rea...
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1. Just Like Larry And Sergey Used To, Tim Armstrong Approves Every Hire At AOL (AOL, GOOG)

   

   We've been hearing noises that AOL has re-worked its hiring process to be more like Google's. You know -- more and longer interviews, skills tests, bizarre questions, etc -- "Basically creating a grueling process," says one gossiper. Read the rest of this story »See Also: Left At the Altar By AOL, Associated Content Hires Allen AOL's Top Sales Rep Is Ali Van Putten AOL Just Dumped Another Acquisition
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1. CHART OF THE DAY: The Xbox Wins A Small Battle In Console Wars (MSFT, NTDOY)

   

   For the first time in two years, Microsoft's Xbox won a monthly battle in the U.S. game console wars. Microsoft sold 422,000 Xboxs in February, while Nintendo only sold 398,000 Wiis, according to NPD Group. The last time Microsoft outsold Nintendo in the U.S. was in September 2007. Between then and now, Nintendo has sold 24 million Wiis, while Microsoft has sold just 13.2 million Xboxs. While February was a nice victory for Microsoft, it could be short lived. Edward Williams of BMO Capital says ...
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