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Adria Richards’ Response, Facebook’s New Ad Plan and Finding the Next Steve Jobs: The AllThingsD Week In Review 3/24/13 — 3/30/13

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Photo by Asa Mathat

For our readers who are not inclined to constantly hit the refresh button, here’s a quick look back the top 10 stories that drove AllThingsD this week:

  1. Yahoo Paid $30 Million in Cash for 18 Months of Young Summly Entrepreneur’s Time
  2. iTunes Not Exactly Break-Even Anymore
  3. Fired SendGrid Developer Evangelist Adria Richards Speaks Out
  4. Another Reason Google Reader Died: Increased Concern About Privacy and Compliance
  5. A Smarter Calendar for iPhone
  6. BlackBerry’s Million-Smartphone Mystery Partner: Brightstar
  7. Facebook’s New Ad Plan Is the Web’s Old Plan
  8. New Flipboard: News and Posts Handpicked and Shared
  9. Sony’s High-End Xperia ZL Comes to U.S. at a Hefty $719
  10. Q&A: Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell on Innovation, the “Next Steve Jobs” and Why Mobile Games Are “Over”

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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik