I t’s easy to frame the fight over SOPA and PIPA as Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley — two huge industries clashing over whose voice should dictate the future of Internet policy — but it’s absolutely wrong. The bills are dead , thanks to widespread protest. But the real architects of the bills’ defeat don’t have a catchy label or a recognized lobbying group. They don’t have the glamour or the deep pockets of the studios. Yet they are the largest, most powerful and most important voice in the debate — and, until recently, they’ve been all but invisible to Congress. Read full article > >

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We are the media, and so are you

Google is reportedly prepping a cloud-drive competitor to services such as Dropbox. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the company is planning to roll out a storage locker in “weeks or months.” Read full article > >

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Report: Google plans cloud-storage service

Though its revenue continues to soar.

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Groupon Reports $9M Quarterly Loss

US technology giant Cisco says rising quarterly sales show that its cost-cutting plans are bearing fruit.

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Cisco sees profits rise over 43%

Bad news, hungry hip-hop fans. As many of you speculated, Bon Rappetite, the world's first rap themed eatery, does not actually exist. The gloriously pun-filled website Bon-Rappetite.com is currently the closest you will get to such dishes as the Waka Flocka Flambe . That's right, if you can stop thinking about the Talib Quali-i you'll have to make it for yourself. But take heart, because the people behind the site feel your pain. “I wish it were real” says Everett Steele a web designer and one of the co-creators of Bon-Rappetite.com. The hip-hop fan and Atlien (that's Atlantan to the uninitiated) adds, “I have no desire to be a restaurateur but Ludacris, if you are listening, Usher, Drake come down to Atlanta, give me whatever is in that case or what you keep in that room and I will build a restaurant around it.” Click to listen to the CNN Radio podcast: Steele says that the site started as a joke, a collection of puns written on a bar napkin. “Our company really enjoys fun with technology and the internet,” he explains – almost as much as they like puns involving rappers. So Baby Robot Industries , co-founded by Everett and his wife Bunny Mcintosh , decided to take the puns from the napkin to the net. “We emailed it to like ten people” he says. A year later a couple of local Atlanta outlets took notice. Now Steele finds himself fielding questions from national media including a mention in the food magazine Bon Appetit . The site has received tens of thousands of hits and spent the better part of one recent morning down due to high traffic volume. Steele chuckles at the sudden attention but he gets the appeal, everyone loves puns, he says. Best of all, he loves that people now share their own menu items like: Gucci Mane Lobster and A Tribe Called Quesadilla . All jokes aside, Steele does seem a little bothered by assumptions that the site is little more than a marketing ploy. The company, Baby Robot Industries has not gotten any gigs as a result he says. But, he adds, if you find yourself unable to quell a craving for some real Bon Rappetite in your life they will have t-shirts for sale soon replete with a logo that he says “looks almost like a real restaurant.” Click to listen to the CNN Radio podcast:

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Pun-packed faux restaurant website whets appetite for hip-hop dishes

Two years ago, Hollywood talent agent Ari Emanuel made a remarkable statement about the future of media. He said he could see a time when certain movies premiered on Facebook instead of in theaters. “For the $150 million movie, you’ll still need to go to Warner Brothers, but for the $25 million movie, probably not,” he said at a San Francisco conference . Read full article > >

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How Facebook could remake the entertainment industry

Perpetual gadflies Anonymous released a recording between agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Scotland Yard on Friday in which the two agencies discuss anti-hacking operations. The FBI issued a statement acknowledging that the call is valid, saying that a criminal investigation is underway, ABC News reported . In a statement to the Guardian , Scotland Yard also confirmed the call was real, saying that “no operational risks to the [Metropolitan Police Service] have been identified.” Read full article > >

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Anonymous releases FBI, Scotland Yard call

Tom Coughlin’s intensity when it comes to detail goes all the way back to his first head coaching job, at Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Where Giants’ Coughlin First Became a Stickler for Details

Facebook’s offering documents show that Mark Zuckerberg, the founder, will retain full control over the social networking giant even after it becomes one of America’s largest publicly traded companies.

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DealBook: A Big Bet on Zuckerberg

Does the Internet have a soul? The question occurred to me as I spent an hour browsing the Web, and on inspection, it seemed to me not entirely nutty. Technology is changing the way we think about all kinds of theological concepts, such as community, prayer, ritual and worship. Why should it not expand our definition of “soul”?   Read full article > >

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Rethinking the soul as the ’Net becomes more lifelike

On a day when valuation is in the news (ahem, Facebook ), let’s look at a new analysis of the economic worth of what we used to call “keeping house.” This week, the editors at Mint , the financial services Web site, released a breakdown of the value of different homemaker duties. They found that if the job were salaried, it would draw, on average, close to six figures: $96,261. Read full article > >

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A homemaker’s real salary

Microsoft on Wednesday seized on Google’s privacy flap as an opportunity to tout its own services as better for consumers. In a national ad campaign to launch today, Microsoft says that it offers greater choice to its users and that it isn’t as interested in collecting data for behavioral advertising. Read full article > >

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Microsoft ads to slam Google on privacy

Morgan Stanley will handle offering.

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Facebook Prepares $5B IPO: Report

PARIS — After more than two decades of trying, France apparently has finally found a foreign customer for its Rafale fighter jet, reaching an $11 billion deal with India for 126 planes and a heavy technology transfer, the government announced Tuesday. Read full article > >

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France to sell Rafale figher jet to India

Square’s mobile readers are headed to select T-Mobile retail locations Tuesday, and just in time for campaign season. The Square mobile reader — a smartphone accessory with a card reader that you can plug into the headphone jack of most iPhones, iPads and Android devices — will be sold in T-Mobile stores starting Tuesday. The attachments, which are already sold in Apple stores and other retailers such as Target and Best Buy, make it possible to process credit cards via smartphone. That ability has become increasingly important for merchants who have historically run on a cash-only basis, such as food carts or farmer’s market vendors. Read full article > >

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Square readers coming to T-Mobile stores