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Tablet Reading Apps Zite, Pulse Strike Publisher Deals

More tablet experimentation from publishers, this time via reading apps Pulse and Zite. Pulse, which already offered readers excerpts from Bonnier’s Popular Science magazine, will now be doing that with 20 other Bonnier titles. And Zite will be bringing content from eight publishers — including VentureBeat, CNN and AOL’s Huffington Post — to its apps.

HuffPo Co-Founder Ken Lerer’s Stealthy Start-Up Aims at CNN, Fox

Ken Lerer helped build an Internet news powerhouse out of thin air. Now he wants to do it again — this time using video.
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Lying Apple Gadfly Mike Daisey Still Doesn’t Get It

Mike Daisey — the lying, Apple-attacking monologuist — is still trying to seize the moral high ground on the matter of Apple, Foxconn and workers’ rights in China.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry Drops In on South by Southwest

The onetime Republican presidential nominee pays a visit to the Austin festival as part of a CNN event.
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Jon Stewart and Siri Debate Foxconn

“The Daily Show” reminds viewers who makes their iPhones and Xboxes.
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Zite Jumps to the Small Screen, Too

The iPad is famous for being a content-consumption device. But its smaller sibling can be a good place to read, too.
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Mike McCue Talks! Flipboard Finally Launches App for iPhone. (Video)

What took the popular social reader so long to go mobile? In any case, it’s finally here.
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Here’s Gowalla CEO’s Non-Denial Denial Email to Investors About Facebook Acquisition

Let’s put this one in the “done” column, shall we?
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