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Zach Epstein / BGR:
RIM acquires The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), the SWAT team of UI design — RIM's upcoming QNX-based OS is about to get a swift kick in the UI, as the company announced its acquisition of The Astonishing Tribe on Thursday. Also known as TAT, the team is renowned for its stunning UI work …
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Research In Motion / Inside BlackBerry:
RIM welcomes TAT! — Today we are pleased to confirm plans for The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) team to join Research In Motion (RIM). We're excited that the TAT team will be joining RIM and bringing their talent to the BlackBerry PlayBook and smartphone platforms.
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Guardian, Internet2Go, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, Tech Trader Daily, Digital Trends, 9 to 5 Mac, VentureBeat, mocoNews, Digital Daily, The TAT Blog, Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, Computerworld, Appolicious Advisor, TechEye, Al Sacco's blog, SiliconANGLE, mobiputing, AndroidGuys, Geek.com, CrackBerry.com blogs, IntoMobile, lalawag, Android Phones, Tips …, Droid Life, Know Your Cell, Techie Buzz, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena, Erictric, SlashGear, The Next Web, GottaBeMobile, FierceMobileContent, LaptopMemo, THINQ.co.uk and TechCrunch
SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
eBay Buying Milo.com For $75 Million — eBay is acquiring local shopping site Milo.com, we've learned from a reader. We confirmed it with a second source. The price tag according to our sources is $75 million in cash. Milo.com is shopping search engine that lets you find out what's in stock at local stores.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: Ebay Acquires Milo For $75 Million. Investors Make A Killing. — An update to our post earlier today: We've confirmed that local shopping startup Milo has in fact been acquired by eBay, for $75 million. Business Insider first reported on the possible deal earlier today.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
BBC Plans Subscription-Only U.S. iPlayer On iPad — This is huge. The BBC will launch the long-awaited global version of its iPlayer TV catch-up service on a subscription-only basis, and initially only on iPad. — The service, carrying BBC shows like Doctor Who on-demand …
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Ars Technica, The Toybox Blog, CNET News, PC World, The Register, IntoMobile, Newlaunches.com, O'Grady's PowerPage, Appletell, Engadget, Techland, gHacks Technology News, Zatz Not Funny!, mobiputing, Gadgetell, Computerworld, PhoneArena, The Next Web, App Advice, THINQ.co.uk, MacStories, Electricpig.co.uk, SlashGear, AppleInsider, PC Pro, TUAW and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
Kent Walker / Google Public Policy Blog:
Making Copyright Work Better Online — There are more than 1 trillion unique URLs on the web and more than 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. It's some pretty fantastic stuff - content that makes us think, laugh, and learn new things. Services we couldn't have imagined ten years ago …
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Music Ally, Inquirer, ReadWriteWeb, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Guardian, TechCrunch, CNET News, Epicenter, p2pnet and SiliconANGLE
Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:
Being bad to your customers is bad for business — A recent article by the New York Times related a disturbing story. By treating your customers badly, one merchant told the paper, you can generate complaints and negative reviews that translate to more links to your site; which, in turn, make it more prominent in search engines.
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BetaNews, Screenwerk, Macworld, The Register, PC World, Communications …, msnbc.com, eWeek, Zendesk, Geek.com, Google Analytics …, Between the Lines Blog, Techland, P Morgan Brown, Guardian, Search Engine Roundtable, Search Engine Watch, the Econsultancy blog, Softpedia News, New York Times, KitGuru, TG Daily, GMSV, Infothought and GeekSugar, more at Mediagazer »
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Liberty Exits IAC For Evite, Gifts.com And $220M In Cash - Diller Steps Down As CEO — Big move for Liberty Media, IAC and the latter's Barry Diller today. The former has exchanged its entire equity stake in the Internet holding company for a combination of assets and cash in a transaction intended to be tax-free to both companies.
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VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, PR Newswire, paidContent, Mixed Media, The Social, Reuters, SAI, MediaMemo and Bloomberg, more at Mediagazer »
Mike Bradshaw / The Official Google Blog:
U.S. General Services Administration is going Google — (Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog) — The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) today announced its decision to move 17,000 employees and contractors to Google Apps for Government. GSA oversees the business …
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eWeek, Fortune, CNET News, internetnews.com, Datamation, SAI, The Microsoft Blog, Beyond Search, Search Engine Land and VatorNews
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Tom Rizzo / Why Microsoft:
Google, the GSA and the Competition
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TechEye, eWeek, Google Enterprise Blog, Digital Daily and The Next Web
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Zynga Buys Mobile Gaming Developer Newtoy — Social gaming giant Zynga has had a big week. The company launched a new game, CityVille, last night; debuted FarmVille in Japan; and teamed up with American Express to allow cardholders to exchange rewards for virtual goods.
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Zynga, VentureBeat, L.A. Times Tech Blog, VatorNews, GigaOM, mocoNews, SAI, TUAW, All Things Digital and EngageDigital
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Gowalla 3.0 Unifies Check-Ins, Places With Facebook, Twitter, And Yes, Foursquare — This past March, I came home from SXSW with a problem. The so-called “location war” hadn't yielded one check-in service to rule them all. In fact, several new ones popped up just at that conference alone.
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CNNMoney.com, ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, About Foursquare, Mashable!, Market Wire, Gowalla, The Next Web, LEWIS 360°, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, GigaOM, AppScout and USA Today
Om Malik / GigaOM:
For Flipboard, Future is HTML5, RSS & New New Advertising — As traditional publishers struggle to find new business models centered on the iPad and other tablets, Mike McCue, the founder of Palo Alto, Calif.-based mobile media company, Flipboard, seems to have figured out a business model for his 20-person company.
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ReadWriteWeb, Flipboard for iPad, SFGate, Business Week, paidContent, Electronista and TeleRead, more at Mediagazer »
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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Fortune, eWeek, blogs.chron.com, IntoMobile, AppleInsider, MacRumors, SAI, iLounge, GottaBeMobile, everythingiCafe, MacStories, Newlaunches.com, TUAW and PhoneArena
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Jack Dorsey's Square Embroiled In Nasty Litigation Over Card Reader Patent — Every startup needs an inception story, and that of electronic payment service company Square goes something like this: … As always, the full story of the founding of Square is a tad longer, and much more complex.
Artem Russakovskii / Android Police:
Android Gingerbread UI Gets Exposed In The Crispest Video To Date — Wow, this went unnoticed for a while, didn't it? On November 23rd, Google's own GoogleinHK YouTube account posted a video walkthrough of the new Google Voice Search in Cantonese. With only 2100 views …
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Engadget, BGR, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Techie Buzz, MobileCrunch and Android Phone Fans
Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
Quad-core processors coming to Android devices in the near future — I'm not sure who coined the phrase first, but those “Chuck Norris quad-core processors” that everyone likes to joke about on Twitter could make their way into Android devices sooner than you think.
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Computerworld, I4U News, GottaBeMobile, PhoneArena and pocketnow.com
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Maps Image Sparks International Debate In Iran — Some in Iran are calling for the removal of a Star of David that's still sitting atop the Iran Air headquarters in Tehran, some 30+ years after Iran broke off relations with Israel. The image above shows the Star on the building's roof …
Democracy in America:
Missing the point of WikiLeaks — DAVID BROOK's recent column and Ross Douthat's reply to my defence of WikiLeaks have helped me to pin down and articulate the source of a nagging but previously inchoate sense that somehow we're all missing the bigger picture.
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Michael Kan / PC World:
Chinese Search Giant Baidu Launches Groupon-like Site — China's top search engine Baidu has launched its own Groupon-like platform that will not only provide discounts to consumers, but will also allow businesses to freely promote their own group buying deals online.
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TechEye and Voices on All Things Digital
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Password Manager LastPass Acquires Xmarks — LastPass, an online password manager, has acquired the social bookmarking and browser synchronization service Xmarks. — The San Francisco-based Xmarks has been in the midst of some tumult of late, as it closed down in September and then quickly opened …
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LastPass, Xmarks Blog, CloudAve, Mashable!, The Next Web, Techie Buzz and Lifehacker
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo's M&A Head Andrew Siegel Is Departing the Company — Andrew Siegel-Yahoo's head of corporate development, who is in charge of its mergers and acquisitions strategy-is leaving the company, according to sources. — The former General Electric exec, who came to the Internet giant just over a year ago …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
IDC: IT spending will shift from hardware to software; 25 billion app downloads in 2011 — IDC is projecting global IT spending will be $1.6 trillion in 2011, up 5.7 percent from 2010. But under the hood there are a few key shifts underway in cloud computing, social software and mobile apps.
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TechEye, ServerWatch, Business Wire, Bits, Datamation and internetnews.com
Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Smart mute and easier ways to unmute — If you subscribe to a lot of mailing lists and like to keep an empty inbox, muting (or preventing a conversation from re-entering your inbox) is an essential feature. We just made a few changes that should make muting even better.
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The Atlantic Online, Techland, Erictric, Download Squad, Softpedia News and The Next Web
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Are Companies Scanning Open Source Commit Logs And Patenting What They Find? — It's funny how often we hear patent system supporters tell us that if you haven't actually gotten a patent for your invention, it's perfectly reasonable for someone else to go and patent it instead.
