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Nielsen Wire:
U.S. Smartphone Battle Heats Up: Which is the “Most Desired” Operating System? — According to October 2010 data from The Nielsen Company, 29.7 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers now own smartphones that run full operating systems. — The most popular smartphones are the Apple iPhone and RIM Blackberry …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Nielsen: iPhone and Android are tied for ‘most-desired’ smartphones
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AppleInsider, Gearlog and iPhone Buzz
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Verizon 4G Going Live Dec 5th; 5 GB Per Month For $50, 10 GB For $80 — Fresh off of their 4G press conference call, Verizon has just dumped a host of details surrounding the launch of their 4G LTE network. Here's what you need to know: They'll officially start lighting up their network as of December 5th.
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Technologizer, PC World, Electronista and Verizon
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Verizon 4G Network to Launch Sunday — Verizon Wireless announced on Wednesday that it will launch its 4G network on Sunday in 38 markets across the United States. — The company had shared most of its plans ahead of time. One of the unknowns, though, was what Verizon would charge for the service.
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GigaOM, Verizon, Wi-Fi Networking News, SAI, Engadget, CNET News, BGR, 9 to 5 Mac, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters, Gizmodo, AnandTech, Mashable!, Sidecut Reports, Techland, IntoMobile, LaptopMemo, The Next Web and Tech Report
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Verizon to switch on 4G network on Sunday, but not for smartphones — Verizon Wireless said Wednesday that it would turn on its 4G wireless network Sunday in 38 U.S. cities, though the new network will not support smartphones until the first half of 2011. — Instead, the 4G network …
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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DealBook:
Google 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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Continuations, Fortune and Understanding Google …
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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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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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NetworkEffect, VentureBeat, NBC Bay Area and Fast Company
Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
Motorola Olympus Found at Flea Market Poses For Hi-Res Photoshoot — Of course, we're never too sure that what our tipsters have told us is the truth, but this one claims he bought Motorola's unannounced new flagship at a market. The very same Android that's leaked all over the place recently.
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IntoMobile, LaptopMemo, PhoneArena, Android and Me, Techie Buzz, Android Phone Fans, BGR, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, Engadget and Ubergizmo
Andrew / Groublogpon:
Coming Soon: Groupon Stores and the Deal Feed — This summer, we launched personalization to bring you deals that better suit your interests. We weren't about to stop there - today, we're giving you a sneak peak of some new stuff that will bring you even more deals you love: Groupon Stores and the Deal Feed.
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Screenwerk, TechCrunch, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Softpedia News and The Next Web
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Groupon Acquires Local Marketing Services Startup Ludic Labs, Expands Some More — Groupon is expanding its presence in Silicon Valley with a brand new office and the acquisition of San Mateo-based Ludic Labs, the local marketing services startup behind offerfoundry.com and diddit.com.
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alarm:clock, CNET News, Business Wire, ReadWriteWeb, Tech Trader Daily, SAI, Financial Post, Digital East Asia, PC Magazine, DealBook, TechEye and ZDNet
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Melanie Lee / Reuters:
Groupon buys 3 discount sites, expands into Asia
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Fast Company and The Next Web
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Netflix Boosts Streaming Catalog With First-Run Movies — Netflix announced today that it has signed a multi-year deal with newly-formed film distribution company FilmDistrict to bring first-run films to its streaming catalog. — Last week, Netflix introduced a streaming-only subscription plan …
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GigaOM, PR Newswire, CNET News, Digital Daily, NBC Bay Area and Between the Lines Blog
Wall Street Journal:
Race Is On to ‘Fingerprint’ Phones, PCs — IRVINE, Calif.—David Norris wants to collect the digital equivalent of fingerprints from every computer, cellphone and TV set-top box in the world. — He's off to a good start. So far, Mr. Norris's start-up company, BlueCava Inc., has identified 200 million devices.
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Venture Capital Dispatch and TechEye
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 …
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
IBM Claims Breakthrough in Laser-Based Chips — A race to transform computers with laser-based communications is accelerating, with International Business Machines Corp. the latest to claim breakthroughs in chips that send data at blazing speeds using pulses of light.
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The Register, VentureBeat, PC World and Softpedia News
Christy Pettey / Gartner:
Gartner Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for 2011 and Beyond — Predictions Show Clear Linkage of IT Investments and Business Results Becoming an Imperative for IT Organizations — Gartner, Inc. has revealed its top predictions for IT organizations and users for 2011 and beyond.
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All Facebook, ReadWriteWeb, Between the Lines Blog and Pluggd.in
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
AOL Acquires Email Prioritization App Unblab To Boost Project Phoenix — It looks like AOL has just acquired email prioritization app Unblab, according to an email sent from Unblab's founder Eli Holder. The acquisition was also announced on Unblab's website. Terms of the deal were not disclosed (AOL also owns TechCrunch).
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The Next Web
David Lam / David Lam's Business & …:
RIM sues Kik for patent infringement — If you've been following BlackBerry news lately, you know that Kik Messenger was booted out of the Blackberry app store by RIM on Nov 12, for “breaching contractual obligations”. — Kik is an in instant messaging service, much like RIM's BlackBerry Messenger (BBM).
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GigaOM, BGR, IntoMobile, Tech Trader Daily, CrackBerry.com blogs, Erictric, pocketnow.com, BerryReview.com, mobiputing and Gizmodo
Alex Howard / Gov 2.0:
FTC online privacy report endorses “Do-Not-Track” mechanism for Web browsers — The Federal Trade Commision released an online privacy report today that will reshape how companies, consumers and businesses interact on the Internet. The agency will take questions from reporters at 1 PM EST …
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, Ars Technica, CNET News, MacRumors, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, ThinkMobile, IntoMobile and BetaNews
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
BlackBerry Mobile Internet Use Overtakes Apple In US — Website analytics provider StatCounter has published a new report showing that for the first time since its starting collecting mobile internet data, RIM's BlackBerry OS overtook Apple's iOS in terms of mobile internet usage …
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Business Wire, Fortune, mocoNews, TechCrunch and 901am
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
WikiLeaks website, pummeled by attacks, loses home — Below: — NEW YORK — The website of WikiLeaks, the organization that just released a trove of sensitive U.S. State Department documents, appears to have lost or left its main Web host, Amazon.com. — The main website and a sub-site devoted …
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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 …
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TechCrunch, MediaSmartServer.net, The Windows Blog, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Inquirer, DailyTech, WinRumors, Softpedia News and The Register
Rob Walker / Fast Company:
Inside the Wild, Wacky, Profitable World of Boing Boing — Happy Mutants: From left, Mark Frauenfelder, David Pescovitz, “band manager” John Battelle, Cory Doctorow, and Xeni Jardin | It's eccentric. It's unprofessional. And it makes money. How four people who do exactly what they want run …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
The Future Is Here: DoubleTwist Brings Wireless Sync To Android For Music, Photos & Video — Earlier today, Winamp released a new version of its Android application that allowed users to sync their music wirelessly with their Windows desktop (disclosure: Winamp and TechCrunch are both owned by AOL).
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mobiputing, Engadget, Download Squad, Electricpig.co.uk, Fonehome.co.uk, Zatz Not Funny!, BlogsDNA, Music Ally and Android Phone Fans
