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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
PayPal VP On Blocking WikiLeaks: State Department Said It Was Illegal — Of course Milo Yannopoulos' first question on stage to PayPal's VP of Platform Osama Bedier was why PayPal blocked WikiLeaks payments and froze its account. … The answer was met with boos from the mostly European audience.
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Esther Addley / Guardian:
MasterCard site partially frozen by hackers in WikiLeaks ‘revenge’ — ‘Operation: Payback’ hacks into MasterCard site over payment network's decision to cease taking donations to WikiLeaks — The website of MasterCard has been hacked and partially paralysed in apparent revenge …
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
4chan rushes to WikiLeaks' defense, forces Swiss banking site offline
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Digital Trends, The Register, Inquirer, TechCrunch, Neowin.net, Gearlog, Gawker, Renesys Blog, Threat Level, GMSV, OSNews, Computerworld, Budi Putra, VentureBeat, ITProPortal, TechnoLlama, fiercecio.comwatch and Guardian
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Why Wouldn't Google Mirror Wikileaks?
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Media Comes To The Defense Of WikiLeaks At LeWeb: “The Leakers Will Win”
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
WikiLeaks continues to fund itself via tech startup Flattr
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ReadWriteWeb, The Atlantic Online, Tea & Tech and The Australian, Thanks:mikebutcher
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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The Toybox Blog, GigaOM, Liliputing, GottaBeMobile, The Next Web, Softpedia News, ZDNet, LaptopMemo, SlashGear, CrunchGear, Engadget, TechEye, Googling Google Blog, Geek.com, The Official Google Blog 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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Venture Capital Dispatch, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, OStatic blogs, GMSV and SAI, Thanks:ryanlawler
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Google: Chrome OS laptops won't dual boot with Windows, live customer support for Cr-48 owners — We know there's a lot to digest after Google's Chrome OS event today, but following the shindig we caught a few minutes with Google VP of Product Management Sundar Pichai.
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Softpedia News, IndustryGamers, DroidDog Android Blog and Liliputing
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Google unveils Cr-48, the first Chrome OS laptop
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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.
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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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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AppleBitch, TiPb, 9 to 5 Mac, Apple Gazette, Electricpig.co.uk, App Advice, AppleInsider, IntoMobile, ITProPortal, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, MacStories, TUAW, Gizmodo, iClarified and Edible Apple
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.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
CONFIDENTIAL! Looks Like “Google +1″ Was Just Accidentally Revealed (Pic) — While we haven't 100 percent confirmed it yet (update: we've confirmed with a source), what you see above is what we do very much believe to be a picture of Google's latest social foray.
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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, AppleInsider, App Advice, GigaOM, MacRumors, NBC Bay Area, PadGadget, MacStories, MacNN, Phones Review, TUAW and everythingiCafe
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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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Engadget and GottaBeMobile
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Google Executive: No Time to Build, So We Buy — As news of Google's attempted acquisition of the daily deals site Groupon ricocheted around the Web, one big question loomed large: Wouldn't it be easier for Google to build out a similar service than pay several billion dollars for Groupon?
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Spencer Ante / Digits:
Google Executive Says Local Advertising Is Top Focus
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Search Engine Land, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Screenwerk, Internet2Go and The Praized Blog
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
RIM's PlayBook has its coming out party for developers: No functional browser yet — Research in Motion is talking about its PlayBook tablet a lot and showing off demos, but the companies aren't giving developers much to work with just yet. The biggest deliverable needed: A functional browser.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Netflix inks Disney, ABC streaming deal, CFO departs — Netflix said Wednesday that it has broadened it streaming media selection via a deal with Disney and its ABC Television unit. In addition, Netflix's chief financial officer left the company. — First, the streaming deal.
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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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SelectStart, The Next Web and Mashable!
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Texas Instrument announces dual-core OMAP4440 processor; 1.5GHz, 1080p stereoscopic 3D — Today, Texas Instrument announced a new, ARM-based, dual-core processor that has a lust-worthy specification sheet. The OMAP4440 processor, which is based on the Cortex-A9 MPCore, will have both cores clocked at 1.5GHz.
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IntoMobile, Droid Life, Electronista, Android Phone Fans, Engadget and Softpedia News
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.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
250 Million People Now Using Facebook Connect Every Month — Here at Le Web in Paris, Facebook head of platform Ethan Beard told our very own Mike Arrington that 250 million people are now connecting via the Facebook Connect ecosystem monthly. Over 100 million of those people started using Connect in the past year.
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