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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 …
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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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 …
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9to5Mac, MacNN, MacStories, hbr.org and Mashable!
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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ReadWriteWeb, @anildash, @mathewi, @carnage4life, @anildash, FASTGUSH, the Econsultancy blog and rc3.org
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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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Mix Sponsored Stories Ads With Content In The Site-Wide Ticker — Facebook has classically been very reluctant to adulterate its social content streams with advertisements. But today, Facebook begins showing its Sponsored Stories ad units in the site-wide Ticker of real-time social activity stories.
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Stamped Blog:
Introducing Stamped — Today, after months of hard work, we're very excited to announce that Stamped is now available in the App Store. It's been a fun journey building this product, and we wanted to take a moment to explain why we made it. — We built Stamped because we think social products can be useful, as well as fun.
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9to5Mac, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Betabeat
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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Tech Trader Daily, Apple Bitch and The Apple Core Blog
Vanessa Grigoriadis / New York Magazine:
Maharishi Arianna — Atop AOL, hiring and borrowing freely from the old media, a new age news guru is building her grandest temple yet. — On a recent Sunday afternoon, Arianna Huffington, the 61-year-old editorial director of the newly merged AOL-Huffington Post …
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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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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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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MacRumors, GigaOM, CNET News, The Loop and IntoMobile
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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Digits, The Verge, mocoNews, VentureBeat, Between the Lines Blog, AllThingsD, NBC Bay Area, The Official Google Blog, Engadget, @edzitron, Softpedia News, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web and SlashGear, Thanks:chrisvelazco
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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Business Insider, New Yorker, Epicenter, AllThingsD and Boing Boing
Ville Heiskanen / Bloomberg:
AT&T Tells Users of ‘Organized and Systematic’ Hack Attempt — Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. telephone company, notified customers of an effort by hackers to collect online account information. “We recently detected an organized and systematic attempt to obtain information …
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Gizmodo, Bloomberg and MobileBurn.com
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.
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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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Zero Day Blog, Help Net Security, Internet Evolution and SecurityNewsDaily
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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eMarketer:
One in Three Online Consumers to Use a Tablet by 2014 — 90 million Americans will use a tablet device in 2014 — Tablet devices, in their current incarnation, have only been available for a couple years, but the iPad has propelled them to rapid increases in ownership and usage. eMarketer estimates …
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TechCrunch, mocoNews, GigaOM and Marketing Pilgrim, Thanks:clarkf
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Former Color Co-Founder Peter Pham Heads to Former Myspace CEO's L.A. Tech Studio (Video) — Well-known tech entrepreneur Peter Pham will be joining the Los Angeles-based start-ups lab, which was just launched by former Myspace CEO Mike Jones. — Pham, who was recently helming the high-profile …
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
HP Turns It Around With Earnings Beat, Stock Rises 3% — It looks like HP is back on track after what's been a mostly awful year. — HP just reported Q4 earnings of $0.12 per share on revenue of $32.12 billion. Not including one-time events, EPS would have been $1.17
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft reveals its online upgrade experience for Windows 8 — Microsoft detailed a number of changes in its Windows 8 setup experience on Monday. — Microsoft's planning of Windows 8 involved looking closely at the setup experience on its next-generation operating system.
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, MSDN Blogs, CodenameWindows and Microsoft News, Thanks:tomwarren
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:
Robert Holleyman / BSA TechPost:
SOPA Needs Work to Address Innovation Considerations — When House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith and his bipartisan cosponsors last month introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), I said in a press statement that the bill would have to balance key innovation, privacy and security considerations …
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