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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Big Deal: Facebook Emerges As Major Player In Mobile And Location-Based Services — The world of location-based services changed dramatically today. And the changes that Facebook announced place the company firmly in the center of that very dynamic universe and ecosystem.
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TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, MacStories, VentureBeat, mocoNews, BoomTown, The Register, All Facebook, Inside Facebook, ReadWriteWeb, 9 to 5 Mac, Erictric and IntoMobile
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Erick Tseng / Facebook Blog:
Making Mobile More Social — Life happens in real time, and so should sharing. Today's mobile phones allow people to connect on the go and to share interesting moments as they happen all around them. — Earlier this week, when the Giants won the World Series, revelling baseball fans took to the streets of San Francisco.
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Download Squad, Inside Facebook, BGR and Mashable!
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Revamps The Mobile Log-In Process With Single Sign-On — Today at Facebook's event in Palo Alto, CA the company wanted to talk about mobile. First, CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a few updates to both Facebook's Android and iPhone apps. But the real key to all of this is the platform, he said.
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CNET News, Inside Facebook, Mashable! and The Next Web
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Facebook has 200 million active mobile users, improves iOS and Android applications — Today, at the company's mobile media event, social networking giant Facebook announced that it has roughly 200 million active users on its Facebook mobile products; up from 65 million last year.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Gives All Developers Access To Full Set Of Places APIs …
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Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Launches Local Deal Service for Places
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Facebook Blog, VatorNews, SAI, The Next Web, Mashable!, Mobile Entertainment and TechCrunch
Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Nokia Gets Support of ITC Staff in Apple Smartphone Trial — Nokia Oyj shouldn't be found liable of infringing Apple Inc.'s patents, the staff of the U.S. International Trade Commission said as a trial started. — “The evidence will not establish a violation” of Apple patent rights …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
At My Wit's End: Jason Calacanis Threatens To Sue Us — Jason Calacanis, our former partner on our TechCrunch50 events, is threatening to sue us. His demand letter and draft complaint are embedded below. In a nutshell, he wants part of the proceeds from our sale to AOL.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
The big tech pedigree doesn't help: Whitman and Fiorina go down in flames — Perhaps tonight's elections in California should be a lesson for technology executives at big tech companies. The pedigree of being an executive at a major tech company isn't necessarily a winning background for California politics.
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The Microsoft Blog, TechFlash, Mercury News, Computerworld, Fortune, Hillicon Valley, GMSV, SAI, CNET News and Tech Trader Daily
Paul Marks / New Scientist:
Aircraft bomb finds may spell end for in-flight Wi-Fi — The long-awaited ability to use a cellphone or Wi-Fi connection on an aircraft might become a casualty of the latest aviation security threat. — It was revealed on 29 October that parcels containing a powdered explosive packed …
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Techdirt, Telegraph, DSLreports, The Register, GigaOM, Technologizer, CrunchGear, Wi-Fi Networking News, Electronista, Boing Boing and Gizmodo
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
LG Pad coming in Q1 2011, with Android Honeycomb, dual-core Tegra 2, and 8.9-inch screen — Want some specificity about LG's super-duper tablet roadmap? Last we heard from the Korean tech giant, it was canning plans for a Froyo slate and looking forward to a more suitable iteration of Android …
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Andreessen Horowitz Doubles Down, Raises $650 Million Fund — The fundraising crunch doesn't seem to be hitting venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which announced today that it has raised $650 million for a second fund, more than doubling the $300 million it raised 16 months ago.
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Ben Horowitz / ben's blog:
Why Andreessen Horowitz Just Raised $650,000,000
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RCR Wireless News
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
T-Mobile roasts AT&T in debut of ‘Largest 4G Network’ campaign — T-Mobile USA tonight is launching a new slogan — and a new attitude — with an advertising campaign that lays claim to “America's Largest 4G Network” while poking fun at the notorious network problems experienced by iPhone users on the competing AT&T network.
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T-Mobile News …, mocoNews, VentureBeat, MobileCrunch, TmoNews, TUAW, FierceWireless, Softpedia News, Android and Me, Yahoo! News, DailyTech, blogs.chron.com, Gizmodo, Androinica, pocketnow.com, MacStories, AndroidGuys, RCR Wireless News, FierceBroadbandWireless, Electronista, PhoneArena, CNET News, SlashGear, BGR, Engadget, Know Your Cell and Neowin.net, Thanks:johnhcook
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
The 4G forgery — T-Mobile does not have a 4G network.
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InformationWeek, Thanks:aharpaz
Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
Facebook's Initial Crew Moving On — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, the most successful start-up of the last decade, is only six years old, and an initial public offering is still a way off. — But a number of Facebook's early employees are giving up their stable jobs, free food and laundry service to build their own businesses.
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Tech Trader Daily and The Atlantic Online, Thanks:rawmeet
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Twitter Promoted Tweets Come To Google — In a first ever move, Google is now carrying ads from someone else's ad network — Twitter's, as Google integrates Twitter's new Promoted Tweets into Google Realtime Search. — It's quite a coup for Twitter. Not only did the company get Google …
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Google's Obsession With Speed Comes to the Web Server — Google has been obsessed with speeding up the web for quite a while now. The company's most recent efforts towards this goal include Google Instant for speeding up search, the Page Speed tool for developers and webmasters …
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Google Webmaster Central Blog, Technology Review, Search Engine Land and SiliconANGLE
Kunal / Samsung Hub:
Galaxy Tab will receive the Gingerbread and Honeycomb updates — Not a surprise but if you're looking for some official confirmation, Samsung India at an event yesterday confirmed that Galaxy Tab will be blessed with Android's future updates. Samsung will release Gingerbread (Android 2.3) …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Ministry of Sound Forced To Suspend File-Sharing Shakedown — World famous nightclub and independent music label Ministry of Sound have been forced to suspend their planned shakedown of tens of thousands of alleged file-sharers. The company had planned to send 25,000 letters demanding hundreds …
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E.B. Boyd / Fast Company:
Google Tool May Have Had Wrong Polling Place Locations for Hundreds of Thousands of Voters — Political technology and info company Aristotle says flaws in Google's poll finder tool are widespread. — After a Fast Company editor got a wrong address from Google's polling place locator this morning …
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TechEye, msnbc.com, The Politico, MSDN Blogs, Geekosystem, ResourceShelf, The Huffington Post and Gizmodo Australia, Thanks:noahr
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
comScore: Android Continues To Close In On Apple, RIM — comScore has released its monthly smartphone mobile report today and like last month's data, Android is continuing its assault on Apple and RIM's share of users. The data, which measured smartphone usage from June until September of this year …
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Fortune, Digital Daily, comScore, Inc., AndroidGuys, Eurodroid, Electronista, Android Phone Fans and MobileBurn.com
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Facebook Tests Smaller Font In News Feed, Users Retaliate On Twitter — We noticed a small change tonight on Facebook's news feed: the font seems to have become smaller. It's unclear how much the size was adjusted but it looks like the change is significant enough that it drew user attention as soon as the font was tweaked.
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SelectStart, Softpedia News, Digital Trends and All Facebook
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Tweeting Your iPhone Angst? AT&T is Listening... on Twitter — AT&T is tracking Twitter updates to aid in its understanding of network failures and glitches, according to a new report from MIT's Technology Review this morning. Using software developed internally by its own researchers …
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Technology Review, Techland and SlashGear
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple Can Sell 100M iPhones, 48M iPads in 2011, Analyst Says — Just how big can Apple (AAPL) get in the smart phone and tablet markets? Pretty darn big. — Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair on Tuesday issued some absolutely stunning forecasts on the prospects for Apple in 2011.
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BetaNews, Fortune, AppleInsider, asymco, Macsimum News, SlashGear, Ars Technica and MacNN
Quentin Hardy / At Your Servers:
HP's Move on IBM — The competition for the world's biggest tech contracts just kicked in harder. — Hewlett Packard is announcing a comprehensive reconfiguration of how it sells large, complex computing systems to its biggest clients. The program, the first big move by HP chief Leo Apotheker …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
SurveyMonkey Lands Massive $100 Million Debt Financing — One of the unsung heroes among Web startups is SurveyMonkey, the company that offers online surveys. Today, it is announcing a very large round of senior debt financing: $100 million from a syndicate led by Bank of America Merrill Lynch and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
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paidContent, alarm:clock, VentureBeat and silicontap.com
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Serves As Good Predictor Of Election Results — The day after the elections it appears as though Facebook has proven to be a relatively good predictor of how candidates will perform. While we don't have all the numbers on gubernatorial races, the winners of 74 percent of house races …
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Facebook, CNN, Fast Company, SiliconANGLE, Mashable!, techPresident and Gawker
