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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Facebook to Raise Series E Funding with Apple as Investor [RUMOR] — Update: Facebook has called our tipster's claims inaccurate, denying both the coming Series E round and the claim that Apple will be an investor. — Is Mark Zuckerberg about to friend Steve Jobs?
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9 to 5 Mac, Velocity and The Next Web, Thanks:nathanielmc
Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch:
UberCab Ordered to Cease And Desist — Did Ubercab just crash and burn? Taxi and limo industry insiders in California today informed TechCrunch that the San Francisco Metro Transit Authority & the Public Utilities Commission of California have ordered the startup to cease and desist.
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The Digital Letter
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
UberCab Cease & Desist Means One Thing: They're Onto Something — Like most people in Silicon Valley, I'm very intrigued by this UberCab cease & desist situation. My first reaction was “uh oh”. But that quickly switched to a feeling that this is probably the best thing that could ever happen to the young startup.
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Google leads charge to dismiss Paul Allen's ‘scattershot’ lawsuit — In the case of Paul Allen vs. the Internet, the Internet is joining forces to fight back. Well, most of it, anyway. — Ten of the online giants sued for patent infringement by the Microsoft co-founder in August …
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TechSpot, Electronista and Pulse2, Thanks:johnhcook
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft says Windows 8 roughly two years away — In its most concrete comments yet about the next version of Windows, Microsoft said in a blog post on its Dutch Web site that Windows 8 is about two years from hitting the market. — Microsoft is working on the next version of Windows …
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iGeneration Blog, winrumors, GeekSmack, Download Squad, Redmond Pie, Gizmodo and Pulse2
Chris / cdixon.org:
You need to use social services to understand them — I don't know if Malcolm Gladwell is right when he claims “the revolution will not be tweeted,” but I can say with certainty that the Twitter he describes is not the Twitter I know. Gladwell's central argument is that Twitter creates weak ties …
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Stowe Boyd and Giles Bowkett
Andy McSmith / The Independent:
Google faces landmark fine for ‘gross invasion of privacy’ — Google faces being the first company to incur heavy fines under British privacy laws, after admitting downloading private emails and passwords. — Britain's Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, announced yesterday …
New York Times:
WikiLeaks Founder on the Run, Chased by Turmoil — LONDON — Julian Assange moves like a hunted man. In a noisy Ethiopian restaurant in London's rundown Paddington district, he pitches his voice barely above a whisper to foil the Western intelligence agencies he fears.
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Gawker, Mashable!, Switched and Hillicon Valley
Payvand Iran News:
Tehran's Unplugged Internet Plan — Source: Khashayar Nouri from mianeh.net — Authorities want separate network that looks like internet but is confined and controlled within country. — Plan to create a separate internet for Iran could leave web users confined to a closed domestic network, cut off from the rest of the world.
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Jobs: There won't be a ‘mute-switch becomes an orientation lock’ option for iPad — Back in January 2010 Apple announced that the hardware switch on the side of the iPad would be a mute switch, just like on the iPhone. Then, closer to the product's launch in March of this year …
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MacRumors, TiPb, BlogsDNA and Erictric, Thanks:markgurman
Ryan Block / gdgt:
Will the Mac App Store have enough to sell? — Apple bringing the App Store to the Mac was a pretty obvious move — I know I'm not the only one who was predicting it would happen sooner or later, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this is going to have a huge impact for some Mac software developers.
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TechCrunch, bijan sabet, MacStories, Daring Fireball, parislemon and The Atlantic Online
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
A Web Pioneer Profiles Users by Name — In the weeks before the New Hampshire primary last month, Linda Twombly of Nashua says she was peppered with online ads for Republican Senate hopeful Jim Bender. — It was no accident. An online tracking company called RapLeaf Inc. had correctly identified …
