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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google In Discussions To Acquire Yelp For A Half Billion Dollars Or More — Google and Yelp are in advanced acquisition negotiations, we've confirmed from multiple sources. And while the deal isn't done, we've heard that it's very likely to close. The price is supposedly at least $500 million.
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Search Engine Land, Silicon Alley Insider, atmaspheric, Scobleizer, Gizmodo and bizjournals
John Letzing / MarketWatch:
Privacy groups file FTC complaint against Facebook — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Ten privacy and consumer groups announced Thursday they've filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleging that Facebook Inc.'s privacy-policy changes violate federal law.
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epic.org, Bits, The Buzz Bin, The Not-So Private Parts, Mashable!, All Facebook, paidContent, Silicon Alley Insider and Inside Facebook
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
ComScore: iPhone overtakes Windows Mobile use for the first time in US — There are plenty of ways to measure smartphone marketshare. IDC measures units shipped from manufacturers whereas Gartner measures units sold to consumers. Then there's comScore, the research firm that conducts monthly surveys …
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CNET News, TechFlash, NEWSFACTOR, mocoNews, Brainstorm Tech, Electronista, PMP Today, Gearlog, ReadWriteWeb, PC World, Computerworld, Boy Genius Report, IntoMobile, TUAW, MacRumors, AppleInsider and Internet2Go
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comScore, Inc.:
Android: Crashing the Smartphone Party — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the release of its latest report on the mobile market, Android: Crashing the Smartphone Party. The report provides an overview of the current U.S. mobile environment …
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Silicon Alley Insider, PC World, Tech Beat, The Microsoft Blog, Internet2Go, AndroidGuys, Between the Lines and WebProNews
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
JooJoo/CrunchPad Company Responds To Mike Arrington's Lawsuit — Fusion Garage, the Singapore-based company behind the JooJoo tablet — formerly known as the CrunchPad — has responded to the lawsuit that TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington filed earlier this month.
Jim Goldman / CNBC.com:
RIM Soars, Stuns the Street — So much concern, so much talk about dealing with disappointment, and a perceived slowdown in Blackberry momentum amid so much media clamor about anything and everything Droid from Google and what does Research in Motion do? Blows everyone away, that's what.
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Reuters, Tech Trader Daily, CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider, Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch
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Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Netflix Spilled Your Brokeback Mountain Secret, Lawsuit Claims — An in-the-closet lesbian mother is suing Netflix for privacy invasion, alleging the movie rental company made it possible for her to be outed when it disclosed insufficiently anonymous information about nearly half-a-million customers …
BBC:
YouTube post leads to movie deal — A producer from Uruguay who uploaded a short film to YouTube in November 2009 has been offered a $30m (£18.6m) contract to make a Hollywood film. — The movie will be sponsored by director Sam Raimi, whose credits include the Spiderman and Evil Dead films.
Nick Bilton / Bits:
A Day in the Life of NYTimes.com — Have you ever wondered where the readers of The New York Times's Web site come from, and what kind of devices they use to read our content? In a past life, not too long ago, when I worked in The Times's research and development labs …
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Barry Collins / PC Pro:
Mozilla: Firefox Mobile will kill off app stores — Mozilla claims that its new Firefox Mobile browser could be the beginning of the end for the hugely popular app stores created by Apple and its ilk. — Mozilla is releasing the first version of Firefox Mobile (codenamed Fennec) …
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Hardware 2.0
Raphaël Moll / Android Developers Blog:
Knowing is half the battle — As a developer, I often wonder which Android platforms my applications should support,especially as the number of Android-powered devices grows. Should my application only focus on the latest version of the platform or should it support older ones as well?
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mocoNews, BetaNews, Macworld, Android and Me, Android Phone Fans, InfoWorld, Android Central and Between the Lines, Thanks:atul
Joel Johnson / Gizmodo:
AT&T Has Spent Less on Network Construction Every Quarter Since the iPhone's Launch — If you like your links hyper, here is that AP story, AT&T's financial sheet [PDF], and the post in which Fake Steve Jobs originally pointed out this disparity. Namaste. — Send an email to Joel Johnson, the author of this post, at .
Royal Pingdom:
Thank you Google for the SLOOOW Internet — Pingdom's management team recently visited Boston, USA, for some meetings. On their way back they had some time left over at the airport and decided to get some work done. Nicely enough, Google is currently offering everyone free Wi-Fi …
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These are the Droids
Ilinca Nita / Unwired View:
Lots of Samsung bada OS screenshots leaked — For one reason or another, Samsung's been a bit reluctant in showing screenshots of its newly-announced bada smartphone OS. — Well, in case you want to know what the new mobile platform looks like (and you probably do want), there are many leaked screenshots available.
Google LatLong:
Google & Audi take Google services in a car to the next level in the new Audi A8 — Nowadays, it seems like everything is connected to the Internet: mobile phones, laptops, netbooks, portable game consoles, personal navigation devices. Think of how applications such as Google Maps for mobile …
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Softpedia News, GPS Obsessed, Gearlog, Gadgetell, WebProNews, Between the Lines, Pocket-lint.com and Mashable!, Thanks:atul
Kelsey Volkmann / bizjournals:
Bing! Information Design sues Microsoft — Bing! Information Design in St. Louis has sued Microsoft Corp. for alleged trademark infringement and unfair competition over Microsoft's new Bing search engine. — The suit, filed this week in St. Louis City Circuit Court …
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The Microsoft Blog, internetnews.com, Agence France Presse, Ars Technica, Dow Jones Newswires, eWeek, TechFlash and Seattle Times
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Ad.ly Launches Analytics For Sponsored Tweets — There's been a bit of controversy around Ad.ly, which aims to link up high-profile advertisers with celebrities on Twitter and then distribute links to marketing campaigns through the user's tweet stream with full disclosure.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Get Ready For The Google Branded Chrome OS Netbook — Most of the tech world now considers it a given that Google will be selling its own unlocked phone, called the Nexus One, to customers directly early in 2010. A few stragglers are still debating the finer points of the difference between Google working …
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Between the Lines, DVICE, DroidDog Android Blog, jkOnTheRun, The Register, SlipperyBrick.com, Network World, VentureBeat, eWeek, Mobile Whack, Maximum PC, Gizmodo Australia, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, MediaPost, Gizmodo, I4U News, PC World, Neowin.net, MacNN, Technologizer and Softpedia News
Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:
WordPress and Tumblr show iPhone Tweetie and Twitterrific Not Just for Twitter Anymore — Tweetie 2 and Twitterrific 2 aren't just two of the best Twitter clients for the iPhone, they're two of the best mobile micro-blogging interfaces on the planet and now both WordPress and Tumblr …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel: New graphics, ‘Core’ chips coming — Intel on Thursday previewed new Core processors and graphics technology that will become the pillar of its mainstream chip offerings. — As reported previously, Intel said it will roll out new Intel Core i processors on January 7 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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internetnews.com, PC World, Engadget, Electronista, PC Magazine, eWeek, VentureBeat, Mobile Whack and Gizmodo Australia
Ben Fritz / Company Town:
Carl Icahn's new target: Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive — Take-Two Interactive Chairman Strauss Zelnick may have a new best friend. Activist investor Carl Icahn has been gobbling up shares in the video game publisher best known for the wildly popular Grand Theft Auto series.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Watch The Buzz On Bitly.TV — With more than two billion links a month passed through its link shortening service, bit.ly can see what is some of the most buzzed about and shared content on the Web. Today, it is exposing the most popular videos people share through bit.ly on Bitly.TV …
Business Wire:
Palm Reports Q2 FY 2010 Results … Companies: — Related Quotes — SymbolPriceChange — 11.72 — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM - News) today reported that total revenues in the second quarter of fiscal year 2010, ended Nov. 27, 2009, were $78.1 million.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Computerworld:
Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO — In a morning press call on December 17th, 2009 Mark Shuttleworth announced that he was stepping down as head of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. In his place, Jane Silber, the current Chief Operating Officer who has been with Canonical since 2004 will take over as CEO.
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Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical Blog, internetnews.com, DesktopLinux.com, CNET News, eWeek and PC World
Nik Fletcher / Download Squad:
Palm unveils “Project Ares” webOS developer tool — Ever since Palm announced its webOS system earlier in the year, the company has been continually working out its approach for application development for the device. With the App Catalog in beta for customer use, and the Mojo SDK available …
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Palm Developer Network Blog, Engadget, Gizmodo, Silicon Alley Insider, InfoWorld, Crave, PreCentral.net, Electronista and Phone Scoop
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Working on 3D ‘Hyper-Reality’ Displays — Apple's patent applications always provide an interesting peek into what Apple researchers have been working on. In one of the more interesting patent applications we've discovered, Apple appears to be researching 3D displays in which the user will be able to look around an object.
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Ars Technica, NBC Bay Area, GigaOM, AppleInsider, Gizmodo Australia, The iPhone Blog, The Next Web Network and SlashGear
Gabriel Kahn / Wall Street Journal:
Sony, RealD in 3-D Equipment Partnership — Sony Corp. announced a partnership with RealD, as the Japanese electronics giant continues its push into the growing market for 3-D home entertainment. — Under the terms of the agreement, Sony will license some of RealD's technology and equipment …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Microsoft updating Zune HD Twitter to stop censoring tweets — Microsoft definitely copped some of Apple's lame App Store antics with its tweet-censoring Zune HD Twitter app, so now it's time for the infuriatingly vague PR-speak backtracking — Redmond just pinged us to say it's …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Verizon Tests 10 Gbps to the Home. Yeah, You'll Have to Share — Verizon yesterday said it tested a fiber technology in its labs and a customer home that delivered 10 Gbps downstream over its FiOS network and 2.4 Gbps in upload speeds. The technology, called XG-PON …
Michael Cheng / The Official Google Blog:
Translate Google Sites with one click — Google brought translation features to many of our products in 2009, including Google Docs and Gmail and we're happy to add one more before the New Year. To make it easier for people around the globe to read the site you created with Google Sites …
