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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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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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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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Daniel Fish / Google Mobile Blog:
The new Google Search app for iPad — (Cross posted on the Inside Search Blog) — Today, we're very pleased to be launching a significant redesign for the Google Search app for iPad. As you can see in our video, whether you're doing research and comparing results, or exploring beautiful imagery …
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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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Anil Dash:
Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. — Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden into openly attacking its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest of the web. The evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace Facebook technologies is overwhelming …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Spotify Says It's Headed in a “New Direction” — Apple launched its newest music offering a week ago. Google went a few days later. Now Spotify says it has something up its sleeve, too: The streaming music service just sent out a mysterioso invitation to a Nov. 30 press event in New York.
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Ron Johnson / HBR.org:
What I Learned Building the Apple Store — This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The Future of Retail. — When I announced that I was leaving Apple to take the reins as CEO of J.C. Penney this month, the business press (and lots of others) began speculating about whether …
Charlie Demerjian / SemiAccurate:
Exclusive: Apple swaps GPU suppliers again — Never means 3 years in Cupertino — Remember when we said that AMD's (NYSE:AMD) Llano loss in the MacBook Air had repercussions? Sources point to that deal as a big part of the reason why Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) is in the next round of MacBooks, quite the repercussion.
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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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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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Matt Burns / TechCrunch:
Google Drops The Price Of Chromebooks to $299 And Polishes The Interface — Happy holidays, everyone! Yours Truly, the Google Chromebook team! — Google just announced several Chromebook updates that should wash away the holiday blues. First off, prices are dropping.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Peter Thiel To The New Yorker: “I Don't Consider [The iPhone] To Be A Technological Breakthrough” — Peter Thiel is a grump, but a special kind of grump. He is a dystopian utopian (if such a person can exist). The investor who wrote the first check for Facebook both believes in the power …
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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.
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Amar Toor / Engadget:
Developer creates proxy server for Siri, controls thermostat with his voice (video) — Now that Siri's protocol has been freshly dissected and laid bare for the world to behold, hackers have been busy finding ways to move Apple's personal assistant beyond the realm of the iPhone 4S.
Jamie Keene / The Verge:
Western Digital ordered to pay $525 million to Seagate in settlement — Storage manufacturer Seagate has been awarded $525 milion as a settlement in its dispute with Western Digital. The pair have been in arbitration over allegations of misappropriated confidential information and use …
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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 …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Piper Jaffray: Android app revenue is 7% of iPhone's — Apple to retain a 70%+ share of mobile app dollars, despite Android's 50%+ market share — Using data from Apple's public announcements and AndroLib (an Android app discovery tool), Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster has analyzed the mobile app market and determined that:
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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.
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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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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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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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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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft, Intel Hit by Government Tech Cuts — Seattle's chief technology officer, Bill Schrier, is bracing for a 6 percent budget cut in 2012, bigger than this year's, a sign of tighter spending that indicates slower sales gains for Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Intel Corp. (INTC)
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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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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Site Explorer Closing Down Monday, November 21st — As expected Yahoo will be closing down Yahoo Site Explorer this year. Yahoo has just announced the date for the closure. This coming Monday, November 21, 2011, Site Explorer will cease to exist. — The short Yahoo blog post reads:
