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Rachel Slajda / TPMMuckraker:
How Lieberman Got Amazon To Drop Wikileaks — Early this week, after hacker attacks on its site, Wikileaks moved its operation, including all those diplomatic cables, to the greener pastures of Amazon.com's cloud servers. But today, it was down again and mid-afternoon we found out the reason …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Sen. Joe Lieberman: Amazon Has Pulled Hosting Services For WikiLeaks — WikiLeaks was briefly down this morning not only because of ongoing DDoS attacks, but because it was actually taken off Amazon Web Services by Amazon and moved back to a Swedish provider, according to a statement from Senator Joe Lieberman:
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
WikiLeaks site, pummeled by attacks, leaves US — NEW YORK (AP) — The WikiLeaks website has left its U.S. Web host, Amazon.com, and moved back to a Swedish provider. The site, which just released a trove of sensitive U.S. State Department documents, took up residence on Amazon.com Inc.'s …
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Peter Baldwin / Official Google Reader Blog:
The Android Google Reader app is here! — It's been a long time coming, but the official Google Reader app for Android is finally here. Let's jump into the features, shall we? — The app supports all the basics you'd expect like unread counts, friends, sharing, liking, and starring, but it also has a whole lot more, including:
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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 …
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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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Sue Zeidler / Reuters:
Netflix scrambles future of TV, films — (Reuters) - Hollywood, which embraced Netflix Inc just a few years ago as a savior, is moving quickly to stanch the growth of one of the media's newest, biggest stars. — Senior executives at three of the big six television and movie studios …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Changes Its Rank Algorithm In Response To DecorMyEyes Story — more info (via: Wylio)Over Thanksgiving weekend a New York Times story, “A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web” clued a lot of people in to some of the drawbacks of Google, namely that negative attention online and complaint links …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Amazon Poised to Make a Major Strategic Investment in LivingSocial to Counter Groupoogle Threat — With the red-hot acquisition dance between Google and Groupon sucking up all the attention, it's easy once again to ignore the No. 2 player in the fast-growing social buying space-LivingSocial.
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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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Federal Trade Commission:
FTC Staff Issues Privacy Report Offers Framework for Consumers, Businesses, and Policymakers — Endorses “Do Not Track” to Facilitate Consumer Choice About Online Tracking The Federal Trade Commission, the nation's chief privacy policy and enforcement agency for 40 years …
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Alex Howard / Gov 2.0:
FTC online privacy report endorses “Do-Not-Track” mechanism for Web browsers
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Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
No One Happy With FCC Chairman's Speech, Except Broadband Investors — Everyone has something to say about today's speech by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on the subject of net neutrality (video below). Having been blocked in the courts from imposing sanctions on Comcast for throttling users …
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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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Erictric, GottaBeMobile, AndroidGuys, IntoMobile, Android and Me, Techie Buzz, Android Phone Fans, LaptopMemo, Pocket-lint, BGR and PhoneArena
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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9 to 5 Mac:
Apple opens up new business with POS systems — Late last year there were rumors that Apple would release their EasyPay point-of-sale system as a commercial product to third parties. Last month Apple's first customer, Gap Inc's Old Navy subsidiary began piloting them.
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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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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Windows Phone 7 Update Is No iPhone Killer — Since it is bubble-bursting Wednesday here at Mobilized, let me assure you that the forthcoming update to Windows Phone 7 is neither “massive” nor an iPhone killer, despite some reports to the contrary. — On the other hand, the software update …
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Dell Venue Pro finally available to order: $99 on contract, shipping December 9th — The much-delayed and much-desired Venue Pro is now finally ready for its proper launch. Dell has begun taking online orders for its first Windows Phone 7 device and prices are set at $99 for the 8GB handset …
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Simon Mackie / GigaOM:
Evernote 2.0 Beta for Mac Features Notebook Stacks and Sharing — Note-taking app maker Evernote released the beta of the next major version of its client for Mac Wednesday. It includes a couple of great new features: in-app notebook sharing and notebook stacks.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YouTube Officially Launches Ads You Can Skip — Yep, you read that right. Today, YouTube is officially launching TrueView, a new ad format that lets users skip over ads they aren't interested in — and advertisers are actually okay with it. — It's a new format that YouTube has been testing …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Silicon Valley Go-To Guy Peter Currie Joining Twitter Board — According to sources close to the situation, well-known Silicon Valley power player Peter Currie is joining the board of directors of Twitter. — It's an interesting choice to bring the well-regarded moneyman …
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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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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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Boom! 5 Million Users Check-In To Foursquare — It appears that Foursquare has just passed 5 million users if new user account numbers are correct. — It's taken just a month and a half for the location-based social network to accumulate one million more members.
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Naval Ravikant / Startup Boy:
There is No Angel Bubble. There are Many Angel Bubbles. — A common meme floating around right now is that there is an Angel investing bubble. — In the sense that an enormous amount of capital is being placed at risk, and its popping will have grave macro-economic consequences, No.
