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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Google Turns Its Local Eyes to Groupon-But Who Else Could Enter Bidding? — According to multiple sources close to the situation, Google is in discussions with local deals powerhouse Groupon about buying it. — Without making the requisite joke about the deal of the day …
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Henry Blodget / SAI:
Hell, Yes, Google Should Buy Groupon. And Twitter. And Foursquare... Google is in talks to buy Groupon for more than $3 billion, Kara Swisher reports. — Good. — Google offered $2.5-$4 billion to buy Twitter a few months ago, Nicholas Carlson reports. — Also good.
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Tim Berners-Lee / Scientific American:
Long Live the Web — The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending — The world wide web went live, on my physical desktop in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 1990.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Apple Developing CDMA-GSM ‘World iPad’? — Here's an interesting bit of speculation from Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair, whose recent Qualcomm channel checks may reveal something about Apple's next-generation iPad. According to Blair, Apple is developing a “World iPad” based on one of Qualcomm's multimode CDMA-GSM chips.
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Ingrid Lee / DigiTimes:
Sources reveal some PCB suppliers for iPad 2 — Ibiden, Tripod Technology and TTM Technologies have been named as the initial PCB suppliers for a second-generation Apple tablet PC, which is expected to be launched in the first quarter of 2011. Four more suppliers will be added to the list in February 2011 …
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Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Wanted: more than 2,000, in Google hiring spree — (Reuters) - Google Inc plans to hire more than 2,000 people around the globe, bumping up its workforce as it expands into new markets and battles for talent with faster-growing rivals. — The world's largest Internet search engine …
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Kelly Riddell / Bloomberg:
Cox Communications Takes On AT&T, Verizon With Mobile Offering — Cox Communications Inc. is becoming the first U.S. cable company to offer a mobile-phone service as it looks to challenge incumbents AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless by bundling wireless handsets with Web and TV.
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Phil Nickinson / Android Central:
HTC Merge 360-degree view appears, quickly disappears from Verizon's site — Need another sign that the HTC Merge is nearing release? How about a 360-degree look to go along with our previous hands-on and video preview. It popped up on Verizon's website today and was quickly pulled, but that's just not how we do things around here.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Testing A New “People” Tab: All Your Social Graph Steroids In One Place — Since the launch of New Twitter in September, things have been pretty quiet on the new feature front. Yes, they're testing out a new analytics product, but in terms of features that the majority of end users will use …
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Electronista:
Carriers threaten Apple over talk of embedded iPhone SIMs — European carriers are discussing the possibility of retaliating against Apple if it goes ahead with a rumored plan to use embedded SIMs in iPhones, leaks from the industry alleged Thursday night. The parent companies of O2 …
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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Another Hacker's Laptop, Cellphones Searched at Border — A well-known and respected computer security researcher was detained for several hours Wednesday night by border agents who searched his laptop and cell phones before returning them to him. — The researcher, who goes …
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Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget:
$399 iPads, fondue sets appearing at TJ Maxx locations across the country — Sure, we know where you guys go when you're near a strip mall and have to pick up an irregularly sized Tommy Hilfiger shirt, or when you run out of Paco Rabanne cologne before a hot date, but we definitely did a double …
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Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Exclusive: Foursquare's New Partnership With PepsiCo Takes Focus Off of Places — Foursquare's pilot program, launching today, breaks away from Facebook Places and Gowalla with badges and discounts based not only on locations but your reasons for being there.
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Search Engine Land, VentureBeat and About Foursquare
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Mac App Store opening soon, Apple implores developers to submit their apps — Apple sent out an email this evening telling Mac developers to submit their Mac ‘apps’ for inclsion in the opening of the store which should happen pretty soon.
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Fast Company, SlashGear, Softpedia News and The Next Web
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Angry Birds spotlights Android fragmentation — The good news for Android is that it's flexible enough to reach many corners of the smartphone market. The bad news is that this can mean headaches for programmers—as the top-ranked game Angry Birds illustrated today.
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Google to delete Street View data gathered in the UK — Technology giant signs commitment to improve its data handling after illegally capturing personal details from Wi-Fi networks — Google is to delete the sensitive information - including full emails and passwords …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Meet the Firehose Seven Thousand Times Bigger Than Twitter's — Twitter announced yesterday that for the first time, outside developers will be allowed to purchase access to 50% of all the messages that flow through its network. The price for half the firehose? $360,000 per year, payable to partner company Gnip.
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Michael Grothaus / TUAW:
Mac OS X 10.6.5 fixes MacBook Air display issues — As noted by Mac Rumors, the Mac OS X 10.6.5 software update released last week fixes the display issues some owners were having with their new MacBook Airs. In a new support document released today titled MacBook Air (Late 2010) …
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Shayndi Raice / Wall Street Journal:
Small Deal Brings Scrutiny to Huawei — Huawei Technologies Ltd., whose efforts to buy big U.S. companies have been stymied by security concerns, has landed in hot water in Washington for acquiring a small technology firm without first running the deal by the government.
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Tana Ganeva / AlterNet:
Debt Collectors Stalking, Publicly Shaming People Through Facebook — Now that we have debtor's prison again, it's only natural that Americans who owe money be publicly shamed for the sin of being broke during a devastating recession. — A Tampa woman who fell behind on her car payments …
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Phil / Nokia Conversations:
EVP Niklas Savander discusses Nokia N8 quality — GLOBAL - We have been getting excellent feedback from consumers on the capabilities of the Nokia N8, but in the last couple of days, a very small number of users have reported that their Nokia N8 is not switching on as it should.
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Klint Finley / ReadWriteWeb:
Salesforce.com's Chatter to Go Freemium — Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff reportedly told analysts today that the company will announce a free version of its enterprise activity stream product Chatter at the annual Dreamforce event in San Francisco next month.
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Mark Milian / CNN:
Twitter CEO chides China — (CNN) — “Dear Chinese Government,” began a message sent late Thursday from Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. — “Year-long detentions for sending a sarcastic tweet are neither the way forward nor the future of your great people,” he wrote on his Twitter profile.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
You Can Now Gift Anyone With An E-mail Address A Kindle Book — With the holiday shopping season in full swing, retailers are clamoring to publicize their sales, deals and more. Amazon issued a release today that customers can now give any of the 725,000 Kindle books to anyone with an email address.
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Brian Hendricks / Bing:
Announcing the new Bing Maps site with a redesigned left-rail and broader access to Map Apps & StreetSide — Today, we're happy to announce the following additions and changes to Bing Maps: — AJAX V7 Control — The launch of the next version the Bing Maps AJAX control provides consumers …
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Laurie Spindler / MySpace:
MYSPACE INTRODUCES MASHUP WITH FACEBOOK — Myspace Users Can Easily Create Highly Personalized, Entertainment-Focused Streams Based on their Facebook Profile — Today, Myspace announced Mashup with Facebook, a new feature that allows Myspace users to easily create a personalized stream of entertainment content.
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Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
Exclusive: YouWeb, Billion-Dollar Incubator? — Even in the insular echo chamber of Silicon Valley, the name YouWeb doesn't come up a whole lot. Yet the young incubator, largely a one-man show run by founder Peter Relan, has in just three years taken its initial seed capital of $700,000 …
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