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To end your week, we have news that Google is reportedly building a smartwatch, a PE firm devoted cannabis and Punxsutawney Phil gets indicted for lying about Spring.
Today in Second Opinion, there's lots of Google news including their decision to stop printing Frommer's guidebooks and how Google Now has not been submitted to Apple's App store. Also, we have a test to see if your Lululemon yoga pants are bad.
In Second Opinion, we have news that Yahoo! has acquired Jybe, rumors that Amazon is developing a $99 7-inch Kindle Fire HD and Bart Simpson was in court in front of Mr. Burns. Seriously.
In Second Opinion, we have news that Samsung is racing to develop it's own wristwatch, Yahoo is in talks to buy Dailymotion and Starbucks buys a coffee farm.
EA CEO John Riccitiello has stepped down, two Connecticut pension funds are selling off investments to meet their cash flow needs, and meet the "Winklevoss" of Snapchat! And so much more!
Car service Uber gets a new kind of unwanted publicity, Warren Buffett pays Bill Gates $1,800, China's Solyndra just imploded, too, and so much more!
Ricky Gervais has agreed to create content exclusively for YouTube, there's big tension in how Larry Page is running Google, and the Justice Department has charged one of Reuters' own with conspiring with the hacker group Anonymous. And so much more!
Google switches things around at the top, Twitter is reportedly preparing a music discovery app that could be released in weeks, Fisker founder Henrik Fisker says see ya later, alligators, and so much more!
While Sheryl Sandberg leans in, Marissa Mayer lies low, another CEO steps down abruptly (this time, it's Peter Stern of the link-tracking analytics company Bitly), and PE firms are returning record levels of cash to their LPs. And so much more!
To end your week, we have another cruise ship with problems, Google is slashing jobs and the backstory on how Disney bought Lucasfilm (and the plans for Star Wars).