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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.
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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GigaOM, Pulse2, Cult of Mac and UMBC ebiquity, Thanks:mathewi
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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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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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, MobileBehavior and About Foursquare
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.
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.
Andrew Sykes / Gizchina:
Genuine White iPhone 4 On the Grey Market in China! — This week it's all been about the iPhone 4, more specifically the elusive yet to be released (rumored to be axed) White iPhone 4. We've brought you pictures of a genuine white iPhone 4 complete with video and we've even managed to track …
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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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App Advice, Fast Company, SlashGear, Softpedia News and The Next Web
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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Mashable!, Pulse2, Search Engine Land, TrendSlate, SiliconANGLE, Techie Buzz and The Next Web
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
China Hijacks 15% Of Internet Traffic? More Like .015% — The Internet has been echoing itself all week about the latest example of the digital “China Threat”: A report in National Defense Magazine that quoted a researcher from McAfee's security team saying that China Telecom rerouted 15% …
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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 cellphones before returning them to him. — The researcher, who goes …
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Computerworld, Boing Boing, CNET News and Help Net Security, Thanks:hornokplease
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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Grant Gross / PC World:
Senator Threatens to Block Online Copyright Bill — A U.S. senator has vowed to fight attempts to pass a controversial copyright protection bill that would allow the U.S. government to shut down websites suspected of hosting infringing materials. — Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat …
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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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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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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Tumblr dives into a boatload of money — Tumblr, the lightweight blogging company, has raised between $25 million and $30 million in new VC funding, Fortune has learned. The valuation is in the ballpark of $135 million. — BusinessInsider first reported on the existence of a new round last week …
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David Meyer / ZDNet:
Facebook, Yahoo and ISPs plead for UK free speech — Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, Mumsnet and the ISP Association have written an open letter to prime minister David Cameron and justice minister Lord McNally, calling for online free speech to be protected in England.
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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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Video: BoomTown Puts Twitter's Revenue Dude Adam Bain in the Deep Freeze — There is no question Adam Bain is a charmer, as you will be see from the video below. — He has to be, of course, as a longtime online advertising guy running News Corp.'s Fox Audience Network and now as president of global revenue of Twitter.
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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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.
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Dish ‘Slings’ TV Everywhere to iPhone, Android Devices — Dish Network is pushing new features of its TV Everywhere service, enabling its customers to watch live and pre-recorded programming on the iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry mobile devices. While other pay TV providers are building …
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