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Black Pearl Systems: Check out the secret startup of Ex-Apple hardware guru Tim Bucher

gigaom.com — There's a new band of pirates loose in the Valley, and they're out to grab the best and the brightest from companies like Netflix, Apple, Amazon and Intel: Cupertino-based stealth startup Black Pearl Systems quietly has been assembling a killer team that is out to "create a category-defining product to tackle a problem that faces billions of technology users," as the company likes to say in its job postings.

Check out the secret startup of Ex-Apple hardware guru Tim Bucher (Janko Roettgers/GigaOM)

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Netflix will launch in the Netherlands in late 2013, as its international expansion slows

paidcontent.org — Netflix revealed the next target of its ongoing international expansion Tuesday night: The streaming service will launch in the Netherlands in late 2013, making it the seventh European country to get access to Netflix's service. However, the launch is also decidedly smaller than previous international expansions.

Netflix will launch in the Netherlands in late 2013, as its international expansion slows (Janko Roettgers/paidContent)

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Netflix will launch in the Netherlands in late 2013, as its international expansion slows

paidcontent.org — Netflix revealed the next target of its ongoing international expansion Tuesday night: The streaming service will launch in the Netherlands in late 2013, making it the seventh European country to get access to Netflix's service. However, the launch is also decidedly smaller than previous international expansions.

Yet another YouTube funding: Bedrocket invests in Shira Lazar’s What’s Trending

paidcontent.org — Shira Lazar's What's Trending , the daily pop culture live show on YouTube,has raised funding from Bedrocket Entertainment, the digital entertainment company headed by TV veteran Brian Bedol and co-founded by Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer. The amount of funding wasn't disclosed, but we've heard that it's a seven-figure number.

Bedrocket invests in Shira Lazar's What's Trending (Janko Roettgers/paidContent)

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NASA vows to track every asteroid near Earth as soon as it figures out how

gigaom.com — NASA officials are planning to monitor all asteroids that pass near Earth, they announced Tuesday, an ambitious effort that will need international collaboration between government organizations, private companies, universities and citizens. The space agency currently spots 95 percent of near-Earth asteroids larger than 3,280 feet across.

Now that’s a chathead: Rounds adds co-browsing to its mobile video chat apps

gigaom.com — Rounds, the Tel Aviv-based video chat startup, added the ability to browse websites while you're chatting with each other to its iPhone and Android app Tuesday. Rounds was able to add the shared browsing feature thanks to a cooperation with Channel.me, a Dutch startup that specializes in these kind of co-browsing experiences.

Yet another YouTube funding: Bedrocket invests in Shira Lazar’s What’s Trending

paidcontent.org — Shira Lazar's What's Trending , the daily pop culture live show on YouTube,has raised funding from Bedrocket Entertainment, the digital entertainment company headed by TV veteran Brian Bedol and co-founded by Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer. The amount of funding wasn't disclosed, but we've heard that it's a seven-figure number.

Time Warner Cable: No, we don’t throttle YouTube - it’s all about peering

gigaom.com — It's official: Time Warner Cable doesn't slow down your YouTube videos. The cable provider published a blog post late last week (hat tip to DSLReports), telling its customers that stuttering YouTube videos are "normal for broadband users at any internet service provider, at least some of the time."

Having problems with your Netflix? You can blame Verizon

gigaom.com — If you are trying to get Netflix and use Verizon's broadband, then there is a good chance that your video performance is less than optimal. Some Verizon customers might even go as far as calling it a crappy Netflix experience. The reason: a behind-the-scenes power play between Verizon and Cogent Communications , one of the largest bandwidth providers.