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EU Press Room:
Antitrust: Commission probes allegations of antitrust violations by Google — The European Commission has decided to open an antitrust investigation into allegations that Google Inc. has abused a dominant position in online search, in violation of European Union rules (Article 102 TFEU).
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The Incredible Stupidity Of Investigating Google For Acting Like A Search Engine — I did a search at Google today for “cars” and was shocked. Rather than list links allowing me to search for “cars” on Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Voila, Naver and Yandex, Google instead favored its own search results.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechEye, BuzzMachine and SAI
Aoife White / Bloomberg:
Google Investigated by European Union Over Online Ads, Search
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New York Times, BBC, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, TechCrunch Europe, Engadget, Telegraph, Guardian, Computerworld, Macworld, VentureBeat, PC World, Digital Trends, DailyTech, Fortune, Googling Google Blog, Fast Company, Electronista, GigaOM, The Next Web, BGR, Search Engine Land and SAI
George Ou / Digital Society:
Level 3 outbid Akamai on Netflix by reselling stolen bandwidth — Level 3 communications raised a lot of eyebrows earlier this month when it outbid rival Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider Akamai to deliver Netflix content to large parts of the United States.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Feature: How Comcast became a toll-collecting, nuke-wielding hydra — Wharton Business School professor Kevin Werbach dubs Comcast's actions this week a “turning point in US Internet policy.” Law professor Susan Crawford calls Comcast a terrifying, hat-wearing hydra—and she's looking for a Hercules to cut it down to size.
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GigaOM, Susan Crawford blog and savetheinternet.com/blog
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
FCC Seeks Info on Comcast-Level 3 Dispute
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Between the Lines Blog, Free Press, Comcast Voices, Media Decoder, SiliconANGLE and dailywireless.org, more at Mediagazer »
J T. Ramsay / Comcast Voices:
How Internet Peering Works
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CableTechTalk, GigaOM, Telecom Trends and Between the Lines Blog
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Forget Net Neutrality, Comcast Might Break the Web
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Computerworld, CNNMoney.com, VideoNuze.com, Digital Media Wire, Light Reading, BetaNews, CNN, isen.blog, Media Decoder, Electronista, Gizmodo, GMSV and TechCrunch
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Google's Groupon Offer: $5.3 Billion, With $700 Million Earnout — According to sources close to the situation, Google has offered $5.3 billion for Groupon, in what will be its largest acquisition yet if completed. — Sources said the deal for the social buying site seemed likely to be struck …
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Examiner, Local Onliner, Venture Capital Dispatch, Computerworld, Fortune, Mashable!, The Huffington Post, Bloomberg, SAI, ClickZ, Digital Trends, GigaOM, Chicago Tribune, Tech Check, Deal Journal, Tech Trader Daily, Digits, TechCrunch, DealBook, John Gapper's Business Blog, dailywireless.org, Techland, Search Engine Land, NBC Bay Area, MarketBeat, P Morgan Brown, GMSV, Fast Company, Times of India, Softpedia News, TechEye, VatorNews, Googling Google Blog, Hillicon Valley, John Battelle's Searchblog and broadstuff
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Stephen Grocer / Deal Journal:
Analysts on Groupon Deal: Google Upping Its Fight with Facebook?
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Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
New Enterprise Associates Poised to Score Big on Groupon Thanks to Old Ties
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Venture Capital Dispatch
Daniel Rubino / WPCentral.com:
Rumor: January Windows Phone 7 update to be massive, catches up with iPhone — We've been covering the rumored software update for Windows Phone 7 for sometime now, even having our forum members add some info to the mix. So far, the update is suppose to have the following features:
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Examiner, IntoMobile, eWeek, Yahoo! News, Channel News, TechSpot, Computerworld, mygadgetnews.com, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Fonehome.co.uk, Pulse2, MobileCrunch, Erictric, BGR, Download Squad, SlashGear, Technologizer, Geek.com, Go Rumors and Bink.nu
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs: AirPlay Video Streaming Coming to Safari and Third-Party Apps in 2011 — One of the major new features deployed in iOS 4.2 last week was AirPlay, Apple's solution for streaming video, audio, and photos from portable iOS devices to the new Apple TV for display on users' televisions.
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9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, TiPb, Gizmodo, MacStories, Gadget Lab, BGR, Netputing and Edible Apple
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Winamp Wants To Be The iTunes Of Android; Now Out Of Beta With Wireless Sync — Today Winamp for Android is coming out of beta, a month after its initial launch and more than 500,000 downloads later. The public Android release lets you manage your music downloads on your Android and will offer …
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Examiner, ReadWriteWeb, Winamp Blog, SAI, Technologizer, Newlaunches.com, TechSpot, Download Squad, IntoMobile, Android Phone Fans and Electronista
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Verizon sucks at Photoshop: confuses the Droid X for an iPhone — Man, Motorola's not going to be pleased about this! The Droid X is justifiably one of Verizon's marquee devices for this holiday season and takes pride of place on the carrier's Cyber Monday offers page, but wait …
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Gizmodo, CrackBerry.com blogs, Examiner, p2pnet, AndroidSPIN, Android Phone Fans, Droid Life, IntoMobile, App Advice and Geekword
Emre Peker / Bloomberg:
JPMorgan Gives Bankers IPads, Signaling Danger to RIM — JPMorgan Chase & Co. will give its investment bankers iPads to provide an additional mobile tool as Apple Inc. expands its domain to Wall Street, threatening Research in Motion Ltd. in a market it traditionally dominated.
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SAI, eWeek, MacStories, Electronista, The Huffington Post and Clusterstock
Nick Denton / Lifehacker:
Why Gawker is moving beyond the blog — The 2011 template represents the most significant change in the Gawker model since the launch of Gizmodo and Gawker in 2002. One could go further: it represents an evolution of the very blog form that has transformed online media over the last eight years.
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple makes PhotoFast stop production of speedy 256 GB MacBook Air SSDs — Back in late October we reported that PhotoFast began producing 256GB SSD upgrade kits for Apple's latest MacBook Air lineup. PhotoFast's third-party SSD upgrade for the new MacBook Airs read and write at 250MB/s …
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Computerworld, Examiner, OSNews, Macworld, Ars Technica, Geek.com, CrunchGear, DailyTech, Gizmodo, Pulse2 and MacRumors, Thanks:markgurman
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures — The domain seizures by the United States authorities in recent days and upcoming legislation that could make similar takeovers even easier in the future, have inspired a group of enthusiasts to come up with a new, decentralized and BitTorrent-powered DNS system.
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Ars Technica, P2P Dns, DSLreports, mygadgetnews.com, Digital Trends, CircleID, Techdirt, Computerworld, DomainIncite.com, Gizmodo, OSNews and Techie Buzz
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Motorola to finally split on January 4th — Motorola announced Tuesday that its board has approved a reverse stock split ratio of 1-for-7, and the company will finally split into two separate entities on January 4th, 2011. In just over a month, Motorola will change its name to Motorola Solutions …
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Tech Trader Daily, Between the Lines Blog, Motorola Media Center, Electronista, Engadget and Reuters
Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:
Microsoft exec says Google is ‘failing’ in the enterprise — In Q&A, Microsoft's Tom Rizzo says Google doesn't understand business needs — Computerworld - Raising the stakes in its war of words, Microsoft today said Google simply doesn't understand what businesses need, and is failing at pushing its way into the enterprise.
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WinRumors and The Next Web, Thanks:hornokplease
Rob Pegoraro / Faster Forward:
Amazon charges Kindle users for free Project Gutenberg e-books — Kindle readers, take note: You may have been paying for books you could legally download for free—in nearly identical editions—elsewhere. The titles in question aren't just public-domain books that have long been freely available at such sites as Project Gutenberg.
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TeleRead
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter Trusts, No Longer Verifies — On the Internet no one knows you're a dog. And on Twitter, no one knows if you're really Kim Kardashian. Unless Twitter says so, via its “verified account” badge. — But that system, introduced by Twitter back in June 2009, is going away.
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Techland
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
First Look: Branson's Virgin iPad Project Frustrates With Complexity — The future of publishing, if Virgin's new iPad-only magazine is anything to go by, is messy - Project is a decent-enough male lifestyle title, beset by horrid UI and frustrating Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) delivery...
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Facebook Sued For Having Privacy Controls In Place. Yes, Seriously. — Last week Facebook was hit with yet another patent lawsuit, this time by Walker Digital, an “invention company” founded by Jay S. Walker, co-inventor of Priceline.com. — And boy does this one come straight out of left field.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sony claims it has shipped 4.1M PlayStation Move units, but doesn't give sell-through number — Sony said today that it has shipped 4.1 million units of its PlayStation Move motion controller to retailers around the globe. But, as is its custom, the Japanese company did not say how many of those units have been sold to consumers.
E.B. Boyd / Fast Company:
Visa to Use Your Phone's Location to Prevent Credit Card Fraud — Sure, you like all the great benefits of having your phone know where you are. Looking up directions or local weather information becomes that much faster. But outside companies and agencies are equally delighted to have access …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Awesome: DIY Data Tool Needlebase Now Available to Everyone — If you've been within shouting distance of me over the last month, you've probably heard me singing the praises of Needlebase, a great new point-and-click tool for extracting, sorting and visualizing data from across pages around the web.
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