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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Groupon Board Will Meet Tomorrow To Decide On Google Deal — Amidst everyone in the world writing about the rumored $5.3 billion dollar Google Groupon offer at the moment, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the deal has not yet been sealed and that Groupon's board of directors is holding …
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DealBook:
Google's Gambit for Groupon Raises Concerns — Google's $6 billion bid for Groupon, an online coupon start-up, is an aggressive move by the company to dominate local online advertising and help with its long-sought move into social networking. — Google has offered Groupon $5.3 billion …
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Local Onliner, Fortune, New York Times, Under the Radar, Pulse2 and VatorNews
Wall Street Journal:
Google in Talks to Buy Groupon — Google Inc. is in talks to buy local deals site Groupon Inc., said people familiar with the matter, a move that would mark Google's biggest acquisition yet and a major push into local advertising. — The two sides weren't prepared to announce a deal as of Tuesday …
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Googling Google Blog, Erictric 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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Level 3 Communications, ZDNet, CNET News, Bit Rate, GigaOM and CNNMoney.com
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J T. Ramsay / Comcast Voices:
How Internet Peering Works — In the last couple of days, since Level 3 challenged Comcast's “Internet peering” practices and said they violated the principles of “net neutrality,” a lot of people have been trying to understand just how “Internet peering” works.
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PC World, CableTechTalk, paidContent, GigaOM, Digital Society, Telecom Trends, Between the Lines Blog and Business Wire
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Feature: How Comcast became a toll-collecting, nuke-wielding hydra
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The Huffington Post, Skype Journal, GigaOM, Susan Crawford blog and Media Decoder
Vijay Sankaran / Nokia Siemens Networks Blog:
New iPhone OS supports our network technology to boost smartphone performance — With its latest iPhone iOs 4.2 software, it looks like Apple is joining efforts to cut smartphone signalling down to size. Tests by Nokia Siemens Networks have shown that iPhone iOs 4.2 supports …
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Engadget, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, DailyTech, iPhone in Canada Blog, GigaOM, Electronista, Communications …, Light Reading, IntoMobile and iClarified
Wall Street Journal:
Google Set to Launch E-Book Venture — Google Inc. is in the final stages of launching its long-awaited e-book retailing venture, Google Editions, a move that could shake up the way digital books are sold. — The long-delayed venture—Google executives had said they hoped to launch this summer …
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TeleRead, Engadget, The Next Web, Kindle Review, CNET News and paidContent, more at Mediagazer »
Royal Pingdom:
Mobile OS usage splits the world (chart) — Where do you think Apple's iPhone is the most popular? Where does Nokia's Symbian phones dominate? How is it going for Android in different parts of the world? What about Blackberry? — We're going to answer all of those questions and more in this article …
Discussion:
Technologizer and Internet2Go
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
Groupon Grows Beyond One Deal Per Day — Amidst all of the buzz swirling over a potential buy-out by Google, Groupon is unveiling a series of changes that shows how it plans to become more than just a deal-a-day site. — Call it Groupon 2.0. The company is “trying to re-imagine …
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Andrew / Groublogpon:
Coming Soon: Groupon Stores and the Deal Feed
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The Next Web and SAI
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bidding War For Twitter Raises Valuation To Nearly $4 Billion. Kleiner Perkins Currently In Pole Position — Two weeks ago we reported that Twitter was mulling over raising a big new round of financing and the expected valuation was in the $3 billion range. Things have developed since then, it seems.
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VentureBeat and The Business Insider
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Facebook Engineering Director Aditya Agarwal Departs — Facebook director of engineering and very early employee Aditya Agarwal is leaving the company after more than five years, he announced last night. — In a note published on his Facebook profile, Agarwal said:
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.
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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PC World, BlogsDNA, Gizmodo, Gadget Lab, TiPb, MacStories, App Advice, Netputing, TUAW, BGR, iClarified, Edible Apple and everythingiCafe
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.
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SAI, Poynter, CNET News and VentureBeat, more at Mediagazer »
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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MacStories, InformationWeek, Electronista, eWeek, SAI and The Huffington Post
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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mygadgetnews.com, P2P Dns, DSLreports, PC World, Business Wire, Computerworld, Techie Buzz, Techdirt, Gizmodo, OSNews and CircleID
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Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:
Fed up with ICANN, Pirate Bay cofounder floats P2P DNS system
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ReadWriteWeb and TechCrunch
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Kindle Feels iPad's Heat, Sees E-Reader Lead Going Up in Smoke — When Apple CEO Steve Jobs first announced the company's new iBookstore and iBooks application for the iPad back in January, he said that while Amazon had done a great job with its Kindle e-book reader, Apple planned to “stand on their shoulders and go a little further.”
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InvestorPlace, CNET News, TechCrunch, MacRumors, AppleInsider, SAI, Ars Technica, BetaNews, MacDailyNews, Digital Trends, IntoMobile, Computerworld, Fortune, iLounge, TUAW and displayblog
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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Engadget, Winamp Blog, ReadWriteWeb, IntoMobile, BGR, Pulse2, mygadgetnews.com, pocketnow.com, Electronista, TechSpot, Newlaunches.com, Examiner, Android Phone Fans, Technologizer, Download Squad, SAI and ConceivablyTech
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Dell Inspiron Duo review — When Dell first demoed the Inspiron Duo and its vertically rotating screen on stage at IDF in September, our mouths nearly hit the floor. It looked like a plain old netbook until its 10.1-inch capacitive touchscreen did a magical backflip and folded down over its keyboard to morph into a tablet.
Discussion:
GottaBeMobile, SAI and Liliputing
Terry Walsh / We Got Served:
HP Pulls Out of the Windows Home Server Market, Leaves Vail Out in the Cold — HP today announced an immediate withdrawal from the Windows Home Server market. — In a briefing earlier this month, the company explained that the recent acquisition of Palm had led to a shift in business priorities across …
Discussion:
The Windows Blog and The Microsoft Blog
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, SuperSite Blog, Appirio, Beyond Search and The Next Web, Thanks:hornokplease
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Gearing Up For A Chrome Web Store Launch (For Real This Time) — Back in August, at a conference in Europe, Google showed a little preview of the Chrome Web Store and noted that a launch would probably take place in October. While there were some hints of it coming along in October …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google Cuts Off AppNexus, and the Ad Tech World Shudders — AppNexus, a high-flying ad technology start-up, just had a bad few days. The next few weeks could be rough, too. — That's because over the weekend, Google suspended the company's access to the ad giant's “real time” ad exchange.
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FM Blog, TechCrunch and AdExchanger.com, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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Examiner
Sui-Lee Wee / Reuters:
China arrests hundreds of hackers, says situation “grim” — (Reuters) - China has arrested more than 460 hackers from start of this year to the end of November, but the prospects to prevent future assaults on computer security remain grim, the ministry of public security said.
