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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? [Update: Yes] — For a couple of days now, we've been hearing rumors that the Yahoo layoffs included the entire Delicious team. Now Former Yahoo employee and Upcoming founder Andy Baio has tweeted out the above Yahoo! product team meeting slide that seems …
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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Following Layoffs, Yahoo Cuts Products: MyBlogLog, Delicious, Yahoo Buzz — At an all-hands meeting for the Yahoo product team following a round of layoffs yesterday that significantly impacted that group, EVP of Americas Ross Levinsohn and Chief Product Officer Blake Irving announced plans to …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me — Social bookmarking service Delicious announced five years ago last Thursday that it had been acquired by Yahoo The first comment posted on the blog entry announcing the deal was from TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, saying “Congratulations!
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Confirmed: Yahoo Closing Buzz, Traffic APIs - Maybe Delicious & AltaVista
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Feds charge five in Silicon Valley with insider trading of tech stocks — Federal prosecutors charged five Silicon Valley people with illegal insider trading today. The people charged traded on information they obtained about technology companies such as Dell, Apple, Advanced Micro Devices and Flextronics International.
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Macworld, Wall Street Journal, Network World, Law Blog, Deal Journal, Gothamist and NewEnterprise
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Michael Siliski / The Official Google Blog:
The next generation of mobile maps — I'm excited to announce Google Maps 5.0 for Android, with two significant new features: 3D interaction and offline reliability. We launched Google Maps for mobile a little more than five years ago. Since then, we've added dozens of features …
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Android and Me, PC World, Examiner, WebProNews, Android Apps, Engadget, Gizmodo, Geek.com, msnbc.com, Faster Forward, Techland, Techie Buzz, Eurodroid, MobileTechWorld, Know Your Cell, Download Squad, Thoughts from the Sidelines, The Next Web, AndroidGuys, Android News, Rumours …, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, IntoMobile, Switched, Electronista, Google Operating System and MobileBurn.com
ifixit:
Nexus S Teardown — Nearly one year after the release of the Nexus One, Google, in partnership with Samsung, has released its second official phone the Nexus S. It has some fancy gimmicks features that separate it from other Android phones on the market, such as a curved display and the newest 2.3 Gingerbread update.
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, Fortune, SlashGear, Google Mobile Blog, CrunchGear, Erictric and Android Phone Fans
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Nexus S has been rooted, let the madness commence!
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Carlos Pizano / Google Chrome Blog:
Safer plug-ins, faster search, and richer graphics — Last week, we previewed several upcoming features that will be available to users on Chrome and Chrome OS. Today we're excited to introduce a few of these new security, speed, and open web platform features into Chrome's beta channel.
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Computerworld, Google Operating System, Softpedia News and 901am
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Kenneth Russell / Chromium Blog:
WebGL now in Beta: here comes the 3D web!
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PC World, Gizmodo, WebProNews, Web Browsers, Softpedia News, DailyTech and VizWorld.com
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Chrome Browser Sandboxes Flash To Protect Against Malware
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Paul Tarjan / Facebook Developer Blog:
Making registration simple and social in just a few steps — Today we're launching a new registration tool that gives website owners the ability to offer quick, easy and social options for sign-up. It is an excellent alternative to using Facebook Login (formerly Facebook Connect) when …
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VentureBeat, PC World, TechCrunch, Gawker, SelectStart, ReadWriteWeb, All Facebook and Mashable!
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook's New User Registration Tool for Websites: Implementation …
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WebProNews and SelectStart
Apple:
Apple's Mac App Store to Open on January 6 — Apple® today announced that the Mac® App Store℠ will open for business on Thursday, January 6. By bringing the revolutionary App Store experience to Mac OS® X, the Mac App Store makes discovering, installing and updating Mac apps easier than ever.
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AppleInsider, Inquirer, PC World, VatorNews, Softpedia News, Bits, MacStories, Joystiq, Bloomberg, TUAW, TechCrunch, Computerworld, GMSV, GottaBeMobile, DailyTech, Appolicious Advisor, Business Wire, I4U News, Digital Daily, Covering Web, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, Download Squad, Mobile Marketing Watch, ReadWriteWeb, Gadget Lab, Gearlog, eWeek, VentureBeat, GigaOM, CNET News and Ars Technica
Bloomberg:
Groupon Said to Seek New Funding After Rebuffing Google's $6 Billion Offer — Groupon Inc., owner of a daily coupon website with 40 million subscribers, is seeking funds after rejecting a takeover offer from Google Inc., three people familiar with the matter said.
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VatorNews, DailyFinance and VentureBeat
Emmanuel Orssaud / PlayStation Blog:
The Official PlayStation App, Coming Soon To iPhone And Android Handsets — I'm very happy to finally be able to announce on the PlayStation.Blog that we will launch the Official PlayStation App very soon. — The app will be available to download for iPhone and iPod Touch with OS 4 and above …
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Fortune, MacStories, 9 to 5 Mac, MobileCrunch, Eurodroid, Download Squad, Mashable!, MacRumors, mobiputing, App Advice, Touch Arcade, IntoMobile, Android Phone Fans, Redmond Pie, Macgasm, The Next Web, AndroidGuys, Erictric and Android and Me
Justin Mitchell / Facebook Blog:
Making Photo Tagging Easier — Every day, people add more than 100 million tags to photos on Facebook. They do it because it's an easy way to share photos and memories. Unlike photos that get forgotten in a camera or an unshared album, tagged photos help you and your friends relive everything …
Dick Craddock / The Windows Blog:
Hotmail introduces interactive email using Active Views — Starting today, Hotmail and select partners are introducing a new type of interactive and dynamic email that runs on the Hotmail Active Views platform. — Beginning in the late 90s, email services evolved from supporting just plain text …
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WebProNews, TechCrunch, GigaOM, VentureBeat, CNET News and LiveSide.net
Jon Orwant / The Official Google Blog:
Find out what's in a word, or five, with the Google Books Ngram Viewer — Scholars interested in topics such as philosophy, religion, politics, art and language have employed qualitative approaches such as literary and critical analysis with great success. As more of the world's literature …
DigiTimes:
Apple to upgrade MacBook Pro and iMac in 1H11 — In addition to iPad, Apple is set to launch upgraded MacBook Pro and iMac models in the first half of 2011, according to sources from upstream component makers. — The sources noted that Apple plans to launch at least four upgraded MacBook Pros …
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Digital Trends, Examiner, 9 to 5 Mac, Jonny Evans's blog, The Toybox Blog, CNET News, Macgasm and BGR
Sam Gustin / Epicenter:
Facebook Briefly Shuts Down After Code Leak — Facebook, one of the largest websites in the world, voluntarily shut itself down Thursday after the code for several new products was made public before the products were ready for launch, the company confirmed to Wired.com.
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The Next Web, Mashable!, Network World, WebProNews and Runnin' Scared
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Congress Hears WikiLeaks Is ‘Fundamentally Different’ From Media — The Justice Department would have no problem distinguishing WikiLeaks from traditional media outlets, if it decides to charge WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with violating the Espionage Act, a former federal prosecutor told lawmakers Thursday.
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Web Data Shows Windows Phone 7 Barely a Blip on the Radar — Microsoft's smartphone strategy isn't yet paying off in terms of sales, market share or user adoption, at least not from any measurable statistics, which are far and few between. The company hasn't offered even the slightest hint …
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Chitika, Inc., WMPoweruser.com, PhoneDog.com, Computerworld and The Next Web, Thanks:bytebot
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
About.Me Has 400,000 Beta Testers, Opens Doors To All — In September About.me started letting people reserve names for its personal profile page. They guaranteed your name (I'm about.me/mike, for example) and started letting those people in slowly in batches.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Q: Why No Twitter Board Seat for Kleiner's John Doerr? A: His Google Board Seat (Plus, Is the Star VC Looking at Spotify and Groupon Next?) — Yesterday, star venture capitalist John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins forked over $150 million in funding to Twitter.
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VatorNews, MediaPost, Pulse2 and SocialTimes.com
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
The new Facebook Fan pages are live. No tabs, cleaner interface and more features. — Update: It appears that Facebook pulled the updates, for the time being. These were apparently “prototype” features. See our post with full details. — We've waited and now they're here …
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iGeneration Blog, All Facebook, Mashable! and Jon Burg's Future Visions, Thanks:imgtxt
Nokia:
Nokia files patent infringement complaints against Apple in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands — Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced it has filed claims in the UK High Court, Dusseldorf and Mannheim District Courts in Germany and the District Court of the Hague, Netherlands …
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Engadget, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Law Blog, Tech Trader Daily, Wall Street Journal, Electricpig.co.uk, Between the Lines Blog, mocoNews, TUAW, Pulse2, BGR, Digital Trends and My Nokia Blog
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Who bought those 882 Novell patents? Not just Microsoft — The mysterious CPTN Holdings — the organization that bought the 882 Novell patents as part of the terms of the Attachmate acquisition of Novell — has been unmasked. — CPTN Holdings isn't just a front for Microsoft.
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Ars Technica, GigaOM, FOSS Patents, Digital Daily, The Microsoft Blog, Open Source Blog, MacRumors, Network World, The Next Web, The Register and CNET News
