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 Silicon Alley Insider / Matt Rosoff
Google: Users Are ‘Delighted’ With Our Search Changes (GOOG)

A couple weeks ago, Google started blending social information from Google+ into search results. The blogosphere’s reaction to this change, which Google called Search Plus Your World, was swift, loud, and mostly negative…

 Engadget / Michael Gorman
IBM builds 9 nanometer carbon nanotube transistor, puts silicon on notice

It’s not the smallest transistor out there, but the boffins at IBM have constructed the tiniest carbon nanotube transistor to date. It’s nine nanometers in size, making it one nanometer smaller than the presumed physical limit of silicon transistors…

 Mashable / Brian Anthony Hernandez
Elaborate ‘It Gets Better’ Video Resembles ‘Glee’

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. An extensively choreographed “It Gets Better” music video — set to Lady Gaga‘s “Hair” — gained steam Friday after the mega pop star gave it her seal of approval on Twitter…

 Silicon Alley Insider / Matt Rosoff
Your Next Laptop Could Have Kinect Built In (MSFT)

Microsoft is testing laptops with built-in Kinect sensors, which would allow users to control them with voice commands and gestures. The Daily saw a couple of prototypes that looked to be made by hardware partner Asus…

 Mashable / Lauren Indvik
Photo Startup Makes It Easy to Create Albums With Friends

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here…

 Silicon Alley Insider / Matt Lynley
Zynga Finally Sneaks Above Its IPO Price (ZNGA)

Zynga closed at $10.05 today — just a hair above its IPO price of $10 — for the first time since its trading debut after shooting up more than 6 percent in trading today. A flurry of buy ratings (including one today from BTIG) and the prospect of Zynga expanding into online gambling have propelled it back to its starting point…

 Engadget / Richard Lawler
Shocker! New RIM CEO targets existing BlackBerry users for upgrades

All of new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins’ fresh ideas will apparently still be revealed to the company’s board in a couple of weeks, but he’s already dropped some gems in interviews with the Wall Street Journal and Reuters (update: and Bloomberg)…

 Mashable / Brandon Smith
15 Killer Quotes From ‘Sh*t People Say’ Videos

This meme is certainly making a strong case to be one of the biggest of 2012. Sure, the first episode of “Sh*t Girls Say” was uploaded at the end of last year, but who’s counting really? The results that Google yields when you start typing “Sh*t People Say” are as far-ranging in quality as they are in topic…

 Silicon Alley Insider / Julie Bort
Email Shows How Steve Jobs Got A Google Employee Fired (GOOG, AAPL)

How’s this for ugly? One CEO tells another to stop poaching employees, so the other agrees, fires the recruiter, and then apologizes … to the CEO. The men involved were Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt. This is one of the stories revealed from a class action suit between employees and the power players in Silicon Valley…

 ReadWriteWeb / Jon Mitchell
Google Maps vs. Do-It-Yourself: Which Is Better for Business?

As mobile becomes normal for the Web, location becomes key. The next phase of location apps are live, right there with the user as she goes about her business. When it comes to mapping the outside world, the space is pretty crowded…

 Mashable / Mashable Video
Twitter Users Rally to Boycott Country-by-Country Censorship [VIDEO]

Twitter‘s new approach to censoring tweets has users rallying around the hashtag #TwitterBlackout — a call to boycott the microblogging service Saturday. The change lets Twitter withhold content on a country-by-country basis, when a government deems the tweets inappropriate…

 Engadget / Terrence O'Brien
MasterCard’s QkR mobile payment system enters trial in Australia

MasterCard is all over the map when it comes to mobile payments. The credit company will partner with anyone, anywhere, anytime if it means getting new customers and making a buck on the deal. Its latest offering is called QkR, an Australian effort with support from the Hoyts chain of movie theaters and Commonwealth Bank…