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"This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America's first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The \"First to Know\" series keeps you in the know on what's happening now in the world of social media and technology.\n\nWelcome to this morning\u2019s edition of \u201CFirst To Know,\u201D a series in which we keep you in the know on what\u2019s happening in the digital world. We\u2019re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.\nHBO on Netflix? Don't Hold Your Breath\nIn an interview with Bloomberg, HBO Co-President Eric Kessler declared that HBO, which hosts such popular shows as True Blood and The Sopranos, is unlikely to sign a deal with Netflix anytime soon.\n\u201CThere is value in exclusivity,\u201D Kessler explained. \"[Consumers] are willing to pay a premium for high quality, exclusive content,\u201D he said.\n\u201CWe would love to do a deal as well with HBO,\u201D a spokesman for Netflix responded. \u201CCompete with us or collaborate with us, but we would much rather work with them.\u201D\nInstead, Kessler said, HBO intends to make its content available online via its own platform, HBO Go.\n1/4 of Dell Shareholders Withdraw Support for CEO\nIn a recent vote, a quarter of Dell's shareholders (approximately 378 million) voted against the continuation of Founder and CEO Michael Dell's tenure on the company's board.\n\u201CIt is extremely rare to have that amount of shareholder disaffection directed toward an executive who is so central to the company\u2019s past, present and future,\" observed Stanford Law Professor Joseph A. Grundfest.\nDell paid the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) $100 million last month to settle accounting fraud charges, in addition to a $4 million penalty paid by Michael Dell himself, who was accused of misleading investors by \"not disclosing the full extent that regular payments from the chip maker Intel had come to play in Dell\u2019s overall financial performance,\" according to the NYT.\nApple Awarded Patents for Two Key Mobile Features\nThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple patents for two key mobile features: the Slide to Unlock feature on Apple's mobile devices, and the magnified letters that appear when typing on the iPhone keyboard [via TUAW].\nFurther News\n\nGoogle shared screenshots of its forthcoming Chrome Web Store, a marketplace for HTML5 apps, at the GDC Europe conference.\nGroup-buying deals site Groupon has purchased a majority stake in two international clones, Qpod.jp and Darberry.ru, for undisclosed sums, effectively extending its reach into Japan and Russia.\nSony has just announced features and pricing information for its soon-to-be-released PS3 bundle, which includes both an updated version of the console and the equipment you need (including its new Wii-like motion controller, PlayStation Move) to play the motion games.\nNote-taking software application Evernote has passed the 4 million users mark.\n\nSeries supported by HTC EVO 4G\n\n\n\n\nThis series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America's first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The \"First to Know\" series keeps you in the know on what's happening now in the world of social media and technology."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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