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Chris Yeh / delicious blog:
What's Next for Delicious — Many of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We're genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users. While we can't answer each of your questions individually …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Has Hit Rock Bottom And Is In “Absolute Disarray” — Yahoo has hit rock bottom. They've now, finally, had their layoffs. Those that are left are keeping their resumes fresh and don't expect to stay there over the long term. Everything we hear from employees boils down to this - the company is in “absolute disarray.”
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Webomatica, Computerworld, GigaOM, CNNMoney.com, SmoothSpan Blog, TUAW and Associated Press
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo, You Flubbed News About The Future Of Delicious, Not The Press — Yesterday, like many news outlets, we saw a leaked slide that suggested that Yahoo might be closing Delicious. We didn't publish until we had a statement from Yahoo. That statement clarified nothing.
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Newsome.Org, msnbc.com, Tea & Tech, Bruce Clay Blog, paidContent and Faster Forward
Wall Street Journal:
Your Apps Are Watching You — A Journal investigation finds that iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users. — Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the owner's real name …
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W.J. Hennigan / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Kinect sex game will not become reality, Microsoft says — Microsoft's Kinect motion controller has been out for less than two months and already there's an adult company looking to produce a 3-D sex game for the Xbox 360 console. — But Microsoft, maker of Kinect and Xbox …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Another Key Feature Of Google +1: Massive-Scale Social Video Conferencing — Over the past few weeks, we've been able to dig up a bunch of details about Google's secret forthcoming social service. The service, previously codenamed “Emerald Sea” but currently being called “+1” …
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Google Takes Another Big Step to Retain Employees: Autonomous Business Units — There's a lie that companies and entrepreneurs tell themselves in order to commit to an acquisition. … It usually works for a little while, but big company bureaucracy- whether it's HR, politics or just endless meetings- almost always creeps in.
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Electronista, Pulse2, Gizmodo and SAI
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: Tumblr Raises $25 Million [Update: It's Actually $30 Million] — For the past several weeks there's been reports of blogging platform Tumblr raising a boatload of money. That was confirmed today in a SEC filing with numbers on the round. $25 million to be exact.
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GigaOM, VentureBeat and paidContent
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Palm's tablet is codenamed ‘Topaz,’ keyboard accessory leaks out — Okay, it's not exactly the new webOS hardware we've been waiting for, but we just got this shot of a Palm Bluetooth keyboard from a trusted source — we're told it's an accessory for Palm's upcoming tablet, which is codenamed “Topaz.”
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Andrew Miller / Google Mobile Blog:
Under the hood of Google Maps 5.0 for Android — Yesterday we introduced Google Maps 5.0 for Android with two significant new features: 3D interaction and offline reliability. In order to create these features, we rebuilt Maps using vector graphics to dynamically draw the map as you use it.
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Droid Life, ThinkMobile, Android Phone Fans, Pocket-lint, SiliconANGLE, GT Mobiles, Softpedia News, Inquirer, Search Engine Roundtable and msnbc.com
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Thinking Out Loud: What's Driving Groupon? — In the current issue of the New Yorker, columnist James Surowiecki, who I generally admire, gets it exactly wrong when it comes to Groupon. — He writes: … Well, that's a defensible opinion, but after visiting CEO Andrew Mason this week in Chicago …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google To Expand And Market Movie Streaming Service In 2011 — Google is expanding its feature film streaming service, says a source who's been briefed on the product. The service will likely be an expansion of the current movie rental/streaming test launched by Google earlier this year.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Prepping for iWork '11 Mac App Store Launch? — According to a report from 9to5Mac, stock of iWork '09 is running low at retail Apple Stores. Meanwhile, Apple's online store auto-completes “iWork 11” as a possibility when searching for “iWork”. While none of these findings …
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9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, MacStories, Go Rumors, Softpedia News and iClarified
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple bulking up iOS development team with navigation software experts — Apple this week put out a call for a number of new software engineers for its iOS development team, indicating it wants candidates that have experience developing navigation software.
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Softpedia News, SAI, MacRumors, pocketnow.com, RCR Wireless News, Gizmodo, TUAW and MobileBurn.com
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
MSE 2.0 arrives with heuristic scanning, network traffic inspection — Following a four-month beta program, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) 2.0 has been released. The new version adds a heuristic scanning engine, improved Windows Firewall integration, and network traffic inspection.
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LiveSide.net, TechSpot and internetnews.com
Gideon Wald / Google Webmaster Central Blog:
New hacked site notifications in search results — Today we've added a new notification to our search results that helps people know when a site may have been hacked. We've provided notices for malware for years, which also involve a separate warning page.
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PC Magazine, The Register, Pulse2, The Official Google Blog, Search Engine Land, eWeek, MediaMemo, ZDNet, Erictric and Krebs on Security
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Judge kills massive P2P porn lawsuit, kneecaps copyright troll — Only 10 days after a federal judge in Washington, DC sharply limited the US Copyright Group's mass file-sharing lawsuits there, a federal judge in West Virginia has come down even harder on another set of mass lawsuits.
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PlagiarismToday and Gawker
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
French National Assembly Approves Internet Censorship Law — We were just talking about how Thai government officials were admitting that internet blacklists simply don't work, and along comes France's National Assembly to approve a law to set up a blacklist allowing the government to censor any website it doesn't like.
Jim Wolf / Reuters:
U.S. code-cracking agency works as if compromised — (Reuters) - The U.S. government's main code-making and code-cracking agency now works on the assumption that foes may have pierced even the most sensitive national security computer networks under its guard.
Ed Silverstein / TechZone360:
Remote Kill Switch Added to New Intel Processor — A remote switch can disable the Intel Sandy Bridge processor if it is ever lost or stolen, according to a recent report from Infowars. — Even when the operating system is not running, Anti-Theft 3.0 can disable systems over 3G networks.
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IT Business, TG Daily and Infowars
Alastair Goldfisher / PE Hub Blog:
Facebook To Make About 15 Talent Acquisitions in 2011 — Next year, look for Facebook to make plenty of small acquisitions to beef up its engineering expertise, like it did with Hot Potato and Drop.io this fall. — That was the message from Michael Brown, corporate development manager at Facebook …
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