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Status Update #10 – The Social Bubble
Sunday March 25, 2012
Hosts: Jacob Bodnar and Jared Weseman

STORIES
Apple’s Up and Down Week
Up: Determining what to do with their hoard of cash
Down: iPad Heat Problems
Apple responds to heat problems: up to our thermal standards
Research shows iPad’s battery math is wrong
Former Apple designer: Steven Jobs denied new Apple TV interface five years ago
Clarifies statement: innovations in interface make it okay now
Facebook Password Showdown
Facebook says they might take legal action against offending employers
Mobile News
Zynga snaps up OMGPOP, makers of Draw Something, for $180 million
Free Android apps waste 75% of power on advertising
More details on power consumption of free Android apps
iPhone Rumor: 4.6-inch retina display, 4G LTE
Must Watch: New Sony Xperia ad, finally a good ad for Android
Report: Android 5.0 Jelly Bean could be ready for summer launch
Another Samsung Galaxy S III photo leaks, same as the previous
Unnamed Samsung exec: S III will have quad-core, LTE
HTC and Sprint tease their new “collaboration”
Instagram for Android now accepting emails for alerts
Social Media News
How is Social Media Going to Monetize?
Path looking for another round of funding, at $250 valuation
Dave Morin: Path is growing faster in Asia than in the West
Pinterest hires the guy who monetized Facebook
Instagram still figuring out how to monetize
Meanwhile Facebook charging $700k for a log out ad
Quick Hits
Sign points to retina displays in MacBooks
Google wants to serve you ads based on phone call background noise
Apple A5X vs. Tegra 3 – is Apple’s really 4x faster? No.
App Drawer
Jared: Scrabble
Jacob: SportsCaster

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