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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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The Loop
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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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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Ingrid Lee / DigiTimes:
Sources reveal some PCB suppliers for iPad 2
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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 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.
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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!, Search Engine Land, SiliconANGLE, TrendSlate, Techie Buzz and The Next Web
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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CNET News, Boing Boing 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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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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PR Newswire and CNET News
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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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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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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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.
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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VatorNews and VentureBeat
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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Arbor Networks Security, Thanks:forbestech
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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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.
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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Macworld, Apple, MacRumors, Erictric, SlashGear, I4U News, PC World, Softpedia News and MacStories
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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FierceWireless, TechEye and Computerworld
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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CRN, The Next Web and Between the Lines Blog
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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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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