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Tweet There’s a new rule at Apple: if you’re an executive or board member, you’re not allowed to let your holdings of Apple shares get below a certain threshold. The company recently instituted new requirements that CEO Tim Cook has to hold stock worth 10 times his base salary, that other executives hold three times their base salary, and that members of the board of directors who are not Apple…

Tweet If SXSW Interactive is “spring break for geeks,” SXSWedu is spring break for geeks who want to help the country turn out even more geeks. Kicking off Monday in Austin, Tex., the conference attracts entrepreneurs, investors, school leaders, policy makers and others trying to use technology to improve and remake education. Last year, it drew about 2,000 participants and, this year that’s expected to double, organizers say. That’s still just…

Tweet Keith Enright, the head of Google’s privacy division, publicly trashed Microsoft’s recent “Scroogle” ad campaign, calling the attempt to question Google’s attitude on privacy “misleading” Read more… Neowin

Tweet Google is clearly trying hard to portray a new German law involving the republishing of news as a victory, and some observers seem to agree, saying the company “defeated” publishers who wanted it to pay for the right to publish excerpts. But if you look more closely, this is not an obvious win for the search giant — just as recent deals with French publishers and Belgian publishers were…

Tweet The entrepreneurs who are still willing to attempt large scale manufacturing of next-gen energy technologies — whether it’s solar materials, LEDs, futuristic batteries or advanced biofuels — are increasingly looking to using existing machines from other industries to make their products. Many of the executives, and investors at the ARPA-E Summit this week told me they are building this requirement into their original business models. While the move might…