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Financial Times:
Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact — Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company's being paid to “de-index” its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Offers To Pay News Corp To “De-List” Itself From Google — Microsoft (MSFT) wants to pay News Corp (NWS) and other large publishers to de-list their Web sites from Google's (GOOG) search index, the Financial Times reports. — The idea is to force Google (GOOG) to pay for content, thinning its currently fat margins.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Thoughts On A “Killer” Bing-News Corp Deal & The Myth Of An “OPEC For News” — It's back, the prospect that Microsoft might try to make Rupert Murdoch happy by offering a “get listed with Bing” exclusive deal. Later, I'll revisit the topic in a coordinated fashion.
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple's Schiller Defends iPhone App Approval Process — In his first wide-ranging interview on the matter, the Apple senior vice-president explains his company's App Store vigilance—and why it sometimes loosens up — Apple (AAPL) is under fire from some developers for the way it vets applications …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Meet the New AOL Logo: “Aol.” (Plus the Press Release) — The new AOL will differ than the old one in several ways: New boss, smaller headcount, different owners. — So, of course, it also gets a new logo. This one will look awfully familiar, since it is the same trio of well-known letters …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:Armstrong On AOL's New Branding And ‘Very, Very, Very Inexpensive’ Campaign
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Announces Black Friday 2009 Sale — As expected, Apple has announced that they will be holding a one day shopping event on Friday, November 27th. In the U.S., the day after Thanksgiving is called “Black Friday”, which is historically one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Here's a First: Man Arrested for Not Using Twitter — Terrifying? Inevitable? Harbinger? In any case, it's a first: Police in Long Island, New York, have arrested a man for not using Twitter. — Someone named Justin Bieber, who apparently is a teenage singer, was supposed to appear …
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Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Video: Roku Launches Channel Store with Facebook Photos, Pandora and More — Roku vice president of marketing Chuck Seiber only gave us a teeny-tiny sneak-peek at the new Roku Channel Store at NewTeeVee Live couple weeks back, but the company officially launched the feature along with ten new free channels today.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Facebook Soon To Enable You To Comment On Status Updates Via E-mail — Annoyed because you have to leave your e-mail inbox every time you would like to respond to someone else's Facebook status update? Good news: the social network is testing a brand new feature that will enable you to comment on threads by e-mail.
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Chester Wisniewski / Chester Wisniewski's Blog:
Another iPhone worm - and this time it's malicious — I had guessed we would see a dangerous incarnation of worm for the iPhone within a week of the 5 Euro scam that Graham blogged about on November 3rd. Fortunately my predictions were wrong, and we made it almost 3 weeks before someone succumbed …
CNN:
EBay apologizes for Web site glitch — (CNN) — Online auction giant eBay apologized Sunday for a daylong glitch that inactivated the search function on its Web site, and said it will compensate sellers for their losses. — When shoppers searched for an item Saturday, the site returned limited or no results.
