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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
PayPal VP On Blocking WikiLeaks: State Department Said It Was Illegal — Milo Yannopoulos' very first question on stage to PayPal's VP of Platform Osama Bedier was about why PayPal blocked WikiLeaks payments and froze its account. The question was met with boos from the mostly European audience.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Why Wouldn't Google Mirror Wikileaks? — Consider: Your mission is to “organize the world's information and make it universally accessible.” You thumbed your nose at Wall Street, and you proved them wrong. You've stood up to the entire media industry by purchasing YouTube and defending fair use …
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Emily Bell, more at Mediagazer »
DigiTimes:
Inventec ships 60,000 Chrome OS netbooks to Google — Alongside Google's announcement of its new Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) operating system as well as Chrome OS on December 7, Inventec confirmed that it has already shipped about 60,000 Chrome OS-based netbooks to Google, which are expected to be used for testing.
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Fortune, Liliputing, The Toybox Blog, GigaOM, ZDNet, LaptopMemo, SlashGear, CrunchGear, The Next Web, GottaBeMobile, Softpedia News, TechEye, Engadget, Geek.com, Googling Google Blog, Appolicious Advisor and TechCrunch, Thanks:michaelkroker
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Network Computer Arrives...Finally! — Thank you Eric Schmidt for taking me down memory lane, to the heyday of another bubble, in another century. Today, at the launch of Chrome OS — a new Google operating system for web-centric computing — Schmidt talked about 1997 when he …
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Ars Technica, Venture Capital Dispatch, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, OStatic blogs, GMSV, Engadget and SAI, Thanks:ryanlawler
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Google: Chrome OS laptops won't dual boot with Windows, live …
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Newlaunches.com, Softpedia News, Inquirer, Go Rumors and TechCrunch
Bloomberg:
Apple, Google Asked to Pay Up as European Operators Inundated by Data — Google Inc., Apple Inc., and Facebook Inc. need to pitch in to help pay for the billions of dollars of network investments needed for their bandwidth-hogging services, European phone operators say.
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GigaOM, CNET News, Tech Trader Daily, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, Electronista, 901am, Pulse2, TechEye, ITworld.com, DSLreports, Engadget, everythingiCafe, GottaBeMobile, IntoMobile, iLounge and TUAW
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212 Million In Cash — Salesforce.com has just announced that it is acquiring Heroku, which provides a Ruby application platform-as-a-service, for approximately $212 million in cash. — That's one hell of an exit for the startup, which was founded in 2007 and has raised only $13 million in funding.
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James Lindenbaum / Heroku:
The Next Level — What if enterprise apps were built the way you'd build an agile Ruby app? What if they were a pleasure to work with, deploy, and manage? What if big companies could adopt the philosophies of Heroku and the Ruby community? What if your company actually preferred you use Heroku to build apps?
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Computerworld, GigaOM, Force.com Blog, Tim Anderson's ITWriting and NewEnterprise
Rose Yao / Facebook Blog:
More Control on Mobile — Over 200 million people use Facebook on their mobile phones to share photos, access applications and stay connected with friends. In October, we added a dashboard to give you a way to clearly see and control the ways applications use your information.
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Social Medium and The Next Web
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Intellectual Ventures sues nine tech firms for patent infringement — Intellectual Ventures, a Bellevue, Wash.-based firm that's amassed a huge trove of technology patents over the years, has sued nine technology companies for patent infringement. It's the first time Intellectual Ventures …
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VentureBeat, Bits, The Seattle Times and The Microsoft Blog, Thanks:johnhcook
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Tracked Down: Google Just Quietly Launched An Official Latitude iPhone App — I guess Google really is in a feisty mood tonight. After the Chrome Web Store, Chrome OS, some leaked Google +1 information, and a Google Groups re-launch, we've just gotten word that Google has launched an official Latitude app for the iPhone.
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IntoMobile, ReadWriteWeb, Electricpig.co.uk, PhoneArena, MacStories, Engadget, SlashGear, Electronista, The Next Web, 9 to 5 Mac, TiPb, Go Rumors, everythingiCafe, Black Web 2.0 and Gizmodo
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Marissa Mayer's Next Big Thing: “Contextual Discovery” — Google Results Without Search — Today at LeWeb '10 in Paris, France, our own Michael Arrington took the stage to talk with Google's Marissa Mayer. Mayer recently took a new job within Google. Technically, she's now the head of consumer products for the company.
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Search Engine Land, Engadget, The Register, ThinkMobile, DroidDog Android Blog and Pulse2
Rebecca Kuo / DigiTimes:
Coretronic reportedly to supply BLUs for iPad 2 — Coretronic has reportedly entered the supply chain for the second generation iPad, and will supply BLUs to Chimei Innolux (CMI) and LG Display. — Coretronic has declined to comment. — The second generation iPad is expected to hit …
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Digital Daily, SlashGear, AppleInsider, GigaOM, PadGadget, NBC Bay Area, Pulse2, MacStories, App Advice, MacNN, MacRumors, Phones Review, TUAW, everythingiCafe and MacDailyNews
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs: MobileMe to ‘Get A Lot Better’ Next Year — Apple's MobileMe service has been a bit of a mixed bag with consumers, with some seeing value in the service's email, photo/file hosting, and syncing capabilities while others feel that the $99 annual list price for the service is too high.
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Digits, PC World, lalawag, AppleBitch, TiPb, 9 to 5 Mac, Electricpig.co.uk, Apple Gazette, AppleInsider, ITProPortal, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, App Advice, MacStories, Ubergizmo, TUAW, iClarified, Gizmodo and Edible Apple
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
CBS Interactive Head Neil Ashe Stepping Down — Neil Ashe (pictured here), president of CBS Interactive, is stepping down from his post. — CBS confirmed the move after BoomTown made inquiries recently, after hearing of various executives who had been contacted by the media giant about the position.
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paidContent and SAI
Lauren A. E. Schuker / Wall Street Journal:
Movies at Home, for $20,000 — A proposed service aims to bring movies to homes the same day they hit theaters, a milestone that Hollywood has long anticipated with a mixture of fear and fascination. — But there's a catch: At the prices currently being discussed by Prima Cinema Inc. …
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Reuters, BloggingStocks, Engadget, Techland, Gizmodo and CrunchGear, more at Mediagazer »
Jason Roberts / Codus Operandi:
How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition — I began building a web-based version of PowerPoint called Preezo back in the Spring of 2005 after switching the direction of my angel-funded startup for the third time in less than a year. Prior to that I had been working on a web collaboration concept akin …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter VP Of Product Jason Goldman Steps Down (At Le Web) — Our very own MG Siegler interviewed Jason Goldman, VP of Product at Twitter, at Le Web 10. — Our notes: — Siegler started off by asking about the new integrations Twitter launched yesterday.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Mashable!, Computerworld, SelectStart, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
(Not so) Crazy Microsoft Rumors: Microsoft store for NYC coming in 2011 — As part of my job as a full-time Microsoft watcher, I get a lot of tips about Microsoft from customers, competitors, partners and even Softies themselves. However, ever since I worked for PCWeek more than 15 years ago …
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GeekSmack, The Next Web and WinRumors
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Twitter Adds More Ways to Say Where You Are — Twitter is quietly improving its Places location feature, by allowing developers to access an expanded database of locations for tweets associated with a specific place. The company has allowed users to include their location on tweets since this summer …
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Google Android phones biggest network hogs: study — (Reuters) - Users of Google's Android phones, such as Samsung's Galaxy S, use more data services than those with other smartphones, threatening to choke wireless network capacity, an industry study showed.
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Newlaunches.com, Android Phone Fans, IntoMobile and Android Community
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
4Chan's Moot Joins Lerer Ventures As An Advisor — Christopher Poole, aka Moot, the founder of 4chan and still stealthy Canvas Networks, is now a venture advisor. He just joined Lerer Ventures, the New York City seed fund started by Ken and Ben Lerer. While he is not a formal partner, he will have the ability to greenlight deals.
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Yahoo CEO: Don't Judge Me Until 2012 — Carol Bartz has been CEO of Yahoo for almost two years now. That's long enough for some people to declare her ineffective and call for her to be replaced. But to hear Bartz tell it, not only is it premature to demand her resignation now — it will still be premature 12 months from now.
