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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Ebay's Got A Hunch, For Around $80 Million — Breaking this morning: Ebay will announce the acquisition of New York based startup Hunch, say sources. The price tag will be somewhere around $80 million. — Hunch was founded by Chris Dixon, Caterina Fake (who left last summer to start …
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Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
eBay Acquires Hunch In Quest To Further Personalize Site
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Chris Burns / SlashGear:
Google Confirms no Flash for Ice Cream Sandwich, for the time being — If you lucky owners of the Galaxy Nexus in these first days of its release complete with the first iteration of Ice Cream Sandwich, you'll notice that you do not have Adobe Flash Player installed, nor do you have access …
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Adobe: Flash for Android 4.0 before end of 2011, no Flash for Android 5.0 — Adobe has confirmed to Pocket-lint that it plans to release Flash for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich by the end of 2011, but it will be the last update going forward. That means that there will be a Flash-free future for Android beyond ICS.?
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Danny Ocean / 9to5Mac:
Grand Central Apple Store, the biggest in the world, scheduled to be announced this Tuesday — We reported on the construction progress of the future Apple grand Central store earlier this month and have since received further information and pictures from our trip to the location and from the tech blog, Techfootnote.
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PC Magazine, MacRumors, Digits, VentureBeat, techfootnote, Business Insider, Electronista, The Next Web, Betabeat, Edible Apple, The Verge, PalmAddicts, RazorianFly, PhoneArena, Tech Cocktail, iClarified and Softpedia News
Quentin Hardy / New York Times:
Mixed Results as Google Enters Microsoft's Turf — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Michael O'Brien, vice president for information technology at Journal Communications, would prefer not to have the employees of the Milwaukee media company use Microsoft's Office software any more.
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Seattle Times
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Oh, You Don't Have A Galaxy Nexus Yet? Because Woz Does. — Woz Spotting. It's something of a tradition amongst tech circles — or, at least, amongst my particularly geeky tech circle. Any time someone spots Woz wozzin' his way around the Valley, it feels weird not to tell everyone you know.
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Kirill Grouchnikov, The Next Web, The Verge, Ars Technica, IntoMobile, Android Phone Fans, 9to5Google and Business Insider
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Feature: Can the iPhone 4S replace a “real” digital camera? Ars investigates — When Apple announced the iPhone 4S, the company certainly talked up the improvements made to the smartphone's integrated camera hardware. With 8 megapixels of resolution, a redesigned lens …
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MobileSyrup.com, MacStories and @nytimesbits
Amy Vernon / SourceForge Community Blog:
The OS Wars: We Have A Winner — It's clear who has won the OS wars: The user. — Just a few short years ago, Apple computers were little more than afterthoughts outside of artists' circles. They certainly were not the go-to computers for anyone serious about programming or software development.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
A Personal Appeal TO Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales — So we meet again Wales ... Yes I know, another holiday season, another reason to poke fun at your silly, scopophobia-inducing banner ads belying the very noble cause of raising $29.5 million for an unlimited supply of constantly updated knowledge …
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FAIL Blog, The Oatmeal and @djazzit
Cade Metz / Wired Enterprise:
Man Survives Steve Ballmer's Flying Chair To Build ‘21st Century Linux’ — Mark Lucovsky was the other man in the room when Steve Ballmer threw his chair and called Eric Schmidt a “f**king pussy.” Yes, the story is true. At least according to Lucovsky. Microsoft calls it a “gross exaggeration …
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Thomas Ricker / The Verge:
8.9-inch Kindle Fire to launch in Q2 of 2012, says DigiTimes — DigiTimes cites supply chain sources in claiming that Amazon's followup to the 7-inch Kindle Fire will measure 8.9-inches and launch at the end of the second quarter of 2012. That's a bit more specific than its original report …
Paul Roberts / threatpost:
Hacker Says Texas Town Used Three Character Password To Secure Internet Facing SCADA System — In an e-mail interview with Threatpost, The hacker who compromised software used to manage water infrastructure for South Houston, Texas, said the municipality said the district had HMI …
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Softpedia News, Gizmodo and The Hacker News
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
McAfee: Nearly All New Mobile Malware In Q3 Targeted At Android Phones — Intel-owned McAfee has released its third quarter security report, which shows that malware targeted towards phones running on the Android operating system continues to be on the rise.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
The trials and tribulations of HTML video in the post-Flash era — Adobe reversed course on its Flash strategy after a recent round of layoffs and restructuring, concluding that HTML5 is the future of rich Internet content on mobile devices. Adobe now says it doesn't intend to develop …
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Disruptions: For Teenagers, a Car or a Smartphone? — The auto industry has a lot of problems. It has to worry about workers' pension and health care costs, too-frequent recalls and the rising cost of gas. I think there is something else that should concern the automakers. — It's the iPhone.
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Expedia Buying Out RenRen To Grab More Of Chinese Travel's eLong — Expedia is buying Chinese social network Renren out of its stake in global travel site eLong. — Expedia first invested in eLong in 2004 has owned a majority of the site since May, when it bought an eight percent stake for $41.2 million …
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TechFlash, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE and Dow Jones Newswires
Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
No One's Noticing Twitter's New Ad Experiment, Which Is a Good Thing — Just over two weeks after announcing its intentions, Twitter is starting to drop ads — ahem, “promoted tweets” — into users' timelines. Despite months of hemming and hawing over the danger of polluting the sacred Twitter feed …
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Ben Parr / Ben Parr's Entrepreneurial Musings:
2,446 Articles Later, A Goodbye to Mashable — Dear friends, family, colleagues and supporters, — Friday, November 18, was my last day at Mashable. I want to thank the Mashable team for 3+ amazing years. They truly have been the best years of my life. — I also want to thank everybody who has been part of my journey.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
iPad Magazine Readers to Publishers: More, Please — After an initial wave of excitement about iPad magazines, some publishers have dialed back their enthusiasm. But the readers who have actually downloaded them like them quite a bit. — So says a survey commissioned by a publishers' trade group …
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Fast Company, Electronista and PalmAddicts
Electronista:
Study: 65% of tablet buyers want an iPad, 22% a Kindle Fire — ChangeWave says Kindle Fire 1st non-iPad to matter — Amazon's Kindle Fire is the first tablet outside of the iPad to get any meaningful demand, ChangeWave said in a new study. Although Apple was still by far the dominant pick …
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ReadWriteWeb, BGR, SplatF, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, CNET News, ZDNet, Business Wire and The Register
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Copyright is Failing, Who Feeds the Artists? Asks EU Commissioner — European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes has once again spoken out against the so-called copyright monopolies. — Last year at the Forum d'Avignon she noted that if media companies want to tackle piracy …
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Inquirer, ZDNet, Softpedia News, TechRadar.com, Tech Europe and The Register
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
RunKeeper Raises $10 Million From Spark Capital, Steve Case, And OATV — The race is on to create a new class of consumer-driven health companies. One of the most popular health and fitness apps on the iPhone, RunKeeper, is started tackling by making it easy for people to measure their exercise …
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VatorNews, VentureBeat, GigaOM, AllThingsD, RunKeeper, bijan sabet and The Next Web
