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Mike Isaac / Social Medium:
Facebook and Twitter Suspend Operation Payback Accounts — Apparently, Wikileaks has a posse. — Or rather, those who support the ideals behind Wikileaks, and the spreading of information. On Tuesday, my colleague Andy Greenberg reported on how the hacker group Operation:Payback …
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SAI, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, The Firewall, Mashable!, Techie Buzz and The Huffington Post
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Guardian:
WikiLeaks: Who are the hackers behind Operation Payback? — The MasterCard website was forced offline for several hours today, following an online assault led by a shadowy group of hackers protesting against the card issuer's decision to block payments made to the WikiLeaks website.
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Netcraft, Babbage, BBC, Examiner, Fast Company, New York Times, The Lede, SocialTimes.com, CNET News, TechCrunch, GigaOM, DailyTech, Telegraph, Neowin.net, Naked Security, Wall Street Journal, SAI, Switched, THINQ.co.uk, News: News blog, Bloomberg, Boing Boing and The Next Web
The PayPal Blog:
Updated Statement about WikiLeaks from PayPal General Counsel, John Muller
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Netcraft and CrunchGear
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Why Wikileaks Will Never Be Closed Or Blocked
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CNET News, Guardian, The Register, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Washington Post, Mashable!, msnbc.com, The Lede, Gawker, Techland, Switched, The Huffington Post, Boing Boing, Geek.com, VentureBeat, THINQ.co.uk, Neowin.net, ITProPortal, TG Daily, New York Times, Pulse2 and ReadWriteWeb
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Why Wouldn't Google Mirror Wikileaks?
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The Huffington Post and 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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Engadget, Liliputing, blogs.chron.com, SlashGear, GigaOM, The Toybox Blog, Fortune, CrunchGear, GottaBeMobile, Softpedia News, LaptopMemo, ZDNet, The Next Web, Geek.com, Pulse2, Googling Google Blog and TechEye, Thanks:michaelkroker
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Network Computer Arrives...Finally!
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PC World, MediaPost, Ars Technica, Venture Capital Dispatch, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal and OStatic blogs, Thanks:ryanlawler
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Google: Chrome OS laptops won't dual boot with Windows, live …
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SAI, Newlaunches.com and Softpedia News
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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eWeek, Inside Facebook, SAI, All Facebook, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, SiliconANGLE, Social Medium, Covering Web, The Next Web and Download Squad
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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The Register, CNET News, Electronista, Engadget, 901am, IntoMobile, Pulse2, GigaOM, DSLreports, MacRumors, ITworld.com, Tech Trader Daily, TUAW, iLounge, Daring Fireball, TechEye, GottaBeMobile and everythingiCafe
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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Bloomberg, PR Newswire, Irregular Enterprise Blog, The Enterprise System …, Force.com Blog, James Governor's Monkchips, GigaOM, internetnews.com, SmoothSpan Blog, eWeek, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Between the Lines Blog, Reuters, The Diversity Blog, Computerworld, SAI, Mashable!, alarm:clock, Pulse2, Under the Radar and The Register
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James Lindenbaum / Heroku:
The Next Level — What if enterprise apps were built …
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Force.com Blog, GigaOM, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, Computerworld and NewEnterprise
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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Engadget, I4U News, Gizmodo, Gizmodo Australia, Techland, Reuters, BloggingStocks, virtualeconomics and Company Town, more at Mediagazer »
Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
To Trend or Not to Trend... Since Twitter first introduced the Trends feature in the summer of 2008, one frequently asked question has been “Why isn't X trending?” This question has come up around a variety of subjects, from #justinbieber and #adamlambert to #flotilla, #iranelection and #demo2010.
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SelectStart, Social Medium and The Next Web
The Smoking Gun:
Porn Site Gave Federal Agents Free Rein — Investigators secretly monitored Free6.com users for 16 months … The operators of a notorious pornography web site granted federal agents administrative access to the site, giving investigators the ability to monitor traffic and public …
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The Not-So Private Parts
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Why Groupon Said No To Google's $6 Billion — Each and every Groupon board member stood to gain millions, hundreds of millions, or even more than a billion dollars by accepting Google's $6 billion offer to acquire the company. — Groupon cofounders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky might …
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Tech Trader Daily
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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CNET News, Intellectual Ventures Home, paidContent, Patent Law Blog, Wall Street Journal, The Seattle Times, VentureBeat, Bits, The Microsoft Blog and Pulse2, Thanks:johnhcook
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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SiliconANGLE, ClickZ, Pulse2 and paidContent, more at Mediagazer »
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, VatorNews, Tech Report, The Register and Search Engine Land
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 …
Bill Rigby / Reuters:
Google says shut out of USDA cloud computing deal — (Reuters) - Google Inc didn't get the chance to compete for the largest federal government “cloud computing” deal yet announced, according to the Web firm, adding to its concerns that government agencies are unfairly favoring rival Microsoft Corp.
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
BlackBerry PlayBook hands-on video demo — We promised a hands on demo video of the BlackBerry PlayBook, and that's what you're going to get from us — almost 10 minutes of 1080p joy. As we said previously, we were pretty impressed seeing the PlayBook demo'd in person right in front of us, and well, we could go on for days.
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CrackBerry.com blogs, PhoneDog.com, Electronista, BlackBerry Leaks and CrunchGear
Kevin May / Tnooz:
Google Places blocked from using TripAdvisor reviews — Now here is an interesting development - Google is no longer able to stream in reviews from TripAdvisor to Places pages after the user review giant blocked it. — TripAdvisor confirmed the move today in an email …
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Search Engine Roundtable and Understanding Google …
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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Electronista, The Next Web, GeekSmack and WinRumors
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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Geek.com, Android Phone Fans, Android Community, IntoMobile and Newlaunches.com
Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blogcast:
Sponsored Accounts: A way to get Evernote Premium for groups of any size — Now you can give an Evernote Premium account to everyone in your company, school, organization, or family. We've been getting frequent requests for this ever since launching Evernote.
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SiliconANGLE, GottaBeMobile and Xconomy, Thanks:keithdsouza
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Intel Girds For Netbook and Tablet Wars — Intel has formalized its interest in the new crop of computing devices that have the caught the attention of consumers and even office workers. — The chip giant has created a new business unit that it calls the netbook and tablet group.
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SAI, VentureBeat, Between the Lines Blog, Mobilized, Crave, Engadget, Electronista and SlashGear
