President Obama’s Ask Me Anything on Reddit needed 60 dedicated servers (!)
Instapaper might have found iPad Mini proof in app stats
California passes bills to create open-source digital library for college textbooks
Touchdown for cord-cutters: DirecTV offers ‘NFL Sunday Ticket’ on PlayStation 3 again
Clone Wars 2: Apple’s gunning for copycat apps
Slaughter a few thousand rats in a free Fruit Ninja-inspired Dishonored spinoff
Amazon to debut two 7-inch Kindle Fire models next week (and one is ad-supported)
Facebook’s double-whammy financial downgrade leads to another stock-price nosedive
Penny Arcade Expo goes international with Australia show
Grooveshark once again kicked out of Google Play store
Plants vs. Zombies shambling to Zen Pinball 2 and Pinball FX2 next week
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‘Copycat’ startups in Latin America are killing it
Dual-spacecraft mission GRAIL begins new measurements of our moon
Walmart testing ‘Scan & Go’ iPhone feature for self-checkout
Curiosity’s weekly video report: now with more freaking lasers
SV Angel files for a $40 million fund, ‘SV Angel IV’
Google gives up on TV ads
Steam lets you play in the streets of Gotham City Impostors for free
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SEC uses JOBS Act to set up new roadblocks to crowdfunding
Amazon’s app store sees massive growth (but it’s no Google Play)
Facebook’s letting developers reach users through notifications (updated)
‘Convertible equity’: a plan to keep early-stage startups out of debt
80% of people stop watching HD video stream when it buffers
Open webOS launches first beta for developers with 450K lines of code
How Storm8 can score millions of mobile game downloads with zero marketing cost (interview)
Why your Facebook Page has fewer likes
GamesBeat weekly roundup: More Zynga executives leave, CEO Perlman leaves OnLive, and Bethesda announces new Skyrim DLC
Zynga recruits a real-money gambling chief
Reuters: Amazon teaming up with Nokia for Kindle Fire maps
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Why Apple needs to lose the Samsung appeal
CrowdCall growing 100% every month, announcing new features & pricing next week (exclusive)
Apple’s iOS 6 App Store search takes a bite out of Chomp
The DeanBeat: Being a tortoise isn’t so bad, but the water is choppy, EA’s top game studio boss says
German researchers find possible ‘internet addiction gene’
Samsung finally records a court win over Apple
Microsoft unveils first wave of Xbox Live games on Windows 8
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