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Abraham Murray / The Official Google Blog:
Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices — Today is the first page in a new chapter of our mission to improve access to the cultural and educational treasures we know as books. Google eBooks will be available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Google's New Bookstore Cracks Open the E-book Market — Google today launched its long-awaited electronic book store, called simply Google eBooks, with more than 3 million titles and 4,000 publishers participating as partners, including most of the major industry names.
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Search Engine Land, SFGate, mocoNews, eWeek, O'Reilly Radar, USA Today, Electronista, LaptopMemo, Download Squad and Erictric
Josh Wiseman / Facebook Blog:
Introducing the New Profile — Today I'm excited to introduce you to some improvements we've made to the Facebook profile, so now it's even easier for you to tell your story and learn about your friends. — A New Introduction — The profile begins with a quick overview of basic information …
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Digital Trends, Fast Company, ReadWriteWeb, PC World, Lifehacker, The Huffington Post, Gadgetell, VentureBeat, Techland, the Econsultancy blog, PC Magazine, Pocket-lint, The Not-So Private Parts, MediaPost, Go Rumors, The Register, Naked Security, SelectStart, Reuters, ZDNet Australia, All Facebook, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNET News, SFGate, Insights on the tech industry, Charlene Li, Pluggd.in, WebProNews, ITProPortal, Agence France Presse, CNNMoney.com, Associated Press, The Next Web, Redmond Pie, Switched, Ubergizmo, MacHackPC, SAI, paidContent, The Atlantic Online, CBS News, GeekSugar, Neowin.net and Mashable!
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Full Details On Facebook's Overhauled Profile Pages
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Mashable!, GMSV, Softpedia News, Runnin' Scared, ResourceShelf, Examiner, The Next Web and Gawker
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Facebook launches new profiles: Possible threat to LinkedIn?
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SelectStart and The Huffington Post
Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
With New Profile Design, Facebook Launches List Sharing (Like Twitter's, but Better)
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BoomTown, The Next Web and SelectStart, Thanks:jesse
Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
AOL plots breakup, then merger with Yahoo: sources — (Reuters) - AOL Inc, undergoing a radical transformation into the king of content on the Internet, is actively exploring a breakup of the company involving a complicated series of transactions that may lead to a merger with Yahoo Inc, sources close to the plans said.
Android Developers Blog:
Android 2.3 Platform and Updated SDK Tools — Today we're announcing a new version of the Android platform — Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It includes many new platform technologies and APIs to help developers create great apps. Some of the highlights include:
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JR Raphael's blog
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Kirk Hiner / Appletell:
Appletell exclusive: Mac App Store to open December 13th? — An inside source has just told us that Apple is targeting a Monday, December 13th launch of the Mac App Store. The company apparently told developers to have their software prepared for a launch as early as Monday the 6th of this month …
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The Toybox Blog, App Advice, AppleInsider, Engadget, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, Gearlog, TUAW, Geek.com, Forbes, Erictric, MacStories, AppleBitch, O'Grady's PowerPage, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, Phones Review, CrunchGear, MacDailyNews, iClarified, Gizmodo and PalmAddicts, Thanks:aczafra
Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
Groupon Aims to Emulate Facebook, Not Yahoo, After Walking Away From Deal — Groupon Inc., which rejected a Google Inc. takeover last week, is betting it can keep increasing its valuation after walking away from a deep-pocketed suitor, something Facebook Inc. pulled off and Yahoo! Inc. failed to do.
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The Register, TechCrunch, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Sydney Morning Herald, The Next Web and TechEye, Thanks:chadcat
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Paul Smalera / Fortune:
Google's Groupon groping reveals the shifting power in the web world
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Search Engine Watch and Bloomberg
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Mark Zuckerberg Rocked On 60 Minutes (And The Winklevosses Looked, Well, Pathetic) — Mark Zuckerberg just appeared on 60 Minutes. He talks about Facebook's redesign, watching himself in the Social Network, and the Winklevoss twins. We've embedded the video below.
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Mike Isaac / Social Medium:
Mark Zuckerberg's 60 Minutes Interview: Best Piece of Facebook PR Yet
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SelectStart, Thanks:mj_isaac
Werner Vogels / All Things Distributed:
Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 — I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high …
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Amazon Web Services Blog, Between the Lines Blog, Inquirer, Softpedia News, CNET News, CloudAve and InfoQ
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Norman Foster to design Apple's new campus called ‘Apple City’ — El Economista reports (English)that renowned British architect Norman Foster is hard at work designing Apple's new campus in Cupertino. The 100 acre campus was picked up from HP last month for a measly $300M.
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AppleInsider, SlashGear, Fortune, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Electronista and MacStories
Jack Loftus / Gizmodo:
Rare Transparent Mac SE Can't Sell for $25,000 — Originally meant for internal company use only and made with a transparent shell so Apple designers could see component placement inside a finished product, this super rare Mac SE could have been yours for a startling $25,000.
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9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, Gizmodo Australia and techeblog.com
David Sarno / Los Angeles Times:
BlackBerry vs. iPhone: What's in your pocket? — Apple wants a bigger slice of the pie in the workplace smart phone market dominated by Research in Motion. — Research in Motion's BlackBerry is a workplace workhorse and accounts for more than half of the corporate smart phone market in the U.S. …
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9 to 5 Mac and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Fred / A VC:
Where Should Mobile Developers Focus? — I sent out this tweet yesterday: — I got a bunch of replies suggesting that Apple will remain the market share leader when measured in dollars and I really wasn't focused on that. I don't own Apple stock or Google stock.
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Appolicious Advisor, Phones Review and PhoneArena
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google, Bing & Searching For The New Wikileaks Website — Looking for the Wikileaks website? Having lost one domain, and having its second site going down temporarily, it's a challenge, even for the search engines. — Where's Wikileaks? — Yesterday, I wrote about how Google …
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Associated Press, The Next Web, ResourceShelf, TNL.net and Guardian
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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Wikileaks Now Running on Over 300 Domains
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ZDNet, Network World, Examiner and CNN
