One Reason Fourquare Might Be Crushing Gowalla At SXSW

Foursquare appears to be winning the SXSW battle for supremacy against Gowalla, according to a trend forming in the stream of tweets we follow on Silicon Alley Insider.

How Apple Blew Its Chance To Own AdMob For $600 Million (AAPL, GOOG)

Apple had a chance to own mobile advertising company AdMob for $600 million, but blew it, the New York Times reports.

Everything I Didn't Learn About Startups As A VC (Or Why VCs Make Lousy Entrepreneurs)

There are a lot of great venture capitalists who started out as entrepreneurs like Vinod Khosla or Josh Kopelman.

Dead iPad Battery? Don't Replace It, Apple Will Just Send Another iPad For $99

Whoa, Nelly! Isn't this something? Apple has just posted details on its iPad battery replacement service, which is really not a battery replacement service at all.

The iPad Is On Fire: Apple Sold 120,000 Yesterday

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As MySpace Sinks, The Managers Who Could Set It Straight Are Jumping Ship

From TechCrunch:

The problem with all of these people who are walking out the door at MySpace isn’t so much the number of them, because MySpace is trying to replace them by hiring more people.

Here's The Guy Who Bailed Out Annie Leibovitz!

Bloomberg digs to the bottom of how Annie Leibovitz survived her brush with death Art Capital last summer.

Should Google “Burn Its Boats” If It Pulls Out Of China?

The Financial Times reported Saturday that Google is “99.9 percent certain” that it will shut its China search engine at Google.

The 6 Delusions Of Google's Arrogant Leaders

Google's CEO went to Abu Dhabi this week and preached. He sermonized about Google's exceptional virtue — its indifference to profit and supreme trustworthiness.

Google '99.9%' Certain It Will Close Its Search Engine In China (GOOG)

Google is "99.9%" certain to close down its Chinese search engine, the FT reports after speaking with a source at the company.