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AllThingsD:
The Facebook Phone: It's Finally Real and Its Name Is Buffy — This is the first in a series of posts this week about the Facebook phone. — After years of considering how to best get into the phone business, Facebook has tapped Taiwanese cellphone maker HTC to build a smartphone …
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MG Siegler / parislemon:
Facebook Not Building A Phone* — *No Facebook employee is actually on an assembly line building phone hardware. — There are two things I like about the AllThingsD (or as John Gruber likes to call them “some website") report on the “Facebook Phone”. — 1) The complete and utter lack …
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Facebook:
Anatomy of Facebook — Think back to the last time you were in a crowded airport or bus terminal far from home. Did you consider that the person sitting next to you probably knew a friend of a friend of a friend of yours? In the 1960s, social psychologist Stanley Milgram's …
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Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Facebook is bringing people closer, users now separated by 4.74 degrees
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Double FacePalm: HP Blew Billions on webOS — Hewlett-Packard's decision to acquire Palm and “double down” on its webOS operating system has so far proven a regrettable and costly mistake. How costly? — HP investors, grab your Mylanta ... HP spent $1.2 billion to buy Palm in 2010.
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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
As Palm bidding continues, HP wants a sweet deal to keep webOS in printers (exclusive) — For some strange reason, HP is still really hot on the idea of mating webOS with its printers — to the point where it has become a crucial part of its negotiations to sell off its Palm assets.
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Michael Gorman / Engadget:
HP releases Q4 2011 earnings: $9.7 billion operating profit for fiscal year
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AllThingsD, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Register, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Electronista, eWeek, The Tech Trade, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, @emilychangtv, Tech Trader Daily and CNET News
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Google just used its Search app to sneak most of Chrome OS onto the iPad — With the announcement of its new Search app, Google gave iPad users more than just a slick and well-made native search app that bests the experience on any Android tablet. It also managed to squeeze the core elements of Chrome OS into Apple's ecosystem.
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Daniel Fish / Google Mobile Blog:
The new Google Search app for iPad
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Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters:
Samsung in last-stage talks to launch Google TV: president — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the world's top TV maker, is in last-stage talks with Google to roll out Google TV, the head of Samsung's TV division told reporters on Tuesday. — Yoon Boo-keun, president of Samsung's TV division …
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Announces (Black Friday) Holiday Sale for Friday, November 25th — As noted by MacStories, Apple has started posting teaser announcements about their Black Friday holiday sale for Friday, November 25th. The teaser first appeared on their Australian online store and will likely be propagating around the world.
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MacStories, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, RazorianFly, AppleInsider, Techie Buzz, App Advice, Redmond Pie and Pulse2
Megan Dickey / LAUNCH:
Bezos Gone Wild! Amazon Selling Every Non-iPhone Smartphone for One Penny — Through next Monday, Amazon is selling all non-iPhones for one penny with a new two-year contract. — Smartphones on sale for $0.01 include the Motorola Droid Razr, which Verizon sells for $299 with a two-year contract …
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Pulse2, Kindle Review and Computerworld
Todd Ogasawara / Inside Mobile Apps:
Piper Jaffray's Estimate of Android Vs. iOS Ecosystem Revenue is Flawed — Piper Jaffray produced one of the first cracks from a research firm at overall revenue for developers from the iOS and Android platforms today, saying that Google's platform has generated 7 percent of the gross revenue that Apple's has for developers.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Piper Jaffray: Android app revenue is 7% of iPhone's
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GeekWire, AppleInsider, Tech Trader Daily, Macgasm, PadGadget, MacRumors, CNET News and IntoMobile
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
YouTube's HTML5 Player Gets Better — YouTube's HTML5 player has improved a lot lately and it's almost ready to replace the Flash player. You can enable annotations and captions, the contextual menu lets you copy the embedding code and the video's URL, YouTube now offers 480p and 1080p options …
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Business Insider, Pulse2, Softpedia News, The Next Web and Electronista
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
NETFLIX: Oh, And By The Way, We're Going To Lose Money Next Year — Five months ago, Netflix was a $300 stock. — Now it's a ~$75 stock. — It's raising $400 million at its new, clobbered stock price to fund all its new content investments. — And... it's going to lose money next year!
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AllThingsD, paidContent, GigaOM and Business Insider
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Android Needs a Heart — There's not enough to love about Google's confusing, overstuffed mobile operating system. — Even Android 4.0's most-impressive new features don't feel like they're part of a well-thought-out vision — In mid-October, a big yellow truck pulled into the Google campus …
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Neowin.net, parislemon and Google Watch
Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
With iPad 3, Apple could ship more PCs than HP — According to new estimates by analyst firm Canalys, Apple could sell more PCs than current market leader HP during the first half of 2012. The key to Apple's market dominance, however, is counting the category-busting iPad in addition to Mac sales.
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Paul Foy / Associated Press:
Gates: Microsoft Word was better than WordPerfect — SALT LAKE CITY - Microsoft's Windows 95 rollout presented the most challenges in the company's history, leading to several last-minute changes to technical features that would no longer support a rival software maker's word processor …
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The Register, TechEye, Gizmodo UK, WinRumors, DailyFinance.com, Neowin.net, Mashable!, WinBeta and Computerworld
Eric Mack / CNET News:
BlackBerry PlayBook dropping to $199 in time for holidays — The Playbook's price has dropped $300 since its launch earlier this year. — It's official—the price of BlackBerry's PlayBook tablet will soon be dropping into the Kindle Fire range at a number of big-time retailers... for a limited time.
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TechSpot, The Verge, Phones Review and Softpedia News
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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Softpedia News, hbr.org, Computerworld, MacNN, MacStories, 9to5Mac, Mashable! and MacRumors
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Feature: AMD's Bulldozer server benchmarks are here, and they're a catastrophe — The desktop benchmark scores for AMD's new Bulldozer architecture didn't make happy reading for fans of the chip company, with the new design sometimes failing to beat AMD's own predecessor architecture, let alone Intel's comparable offerings.
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Matt Stempeck / MediaShift Idea Lab:
DontBreakTheInternet: How The Web Became a Political Force vs. SOPA — Good ideas aren't enough. They need champions and constant vigilance, or Congress will take them from you. — Many problems arise when your country's legislature is consistently more responsive to its donors than its constituents.
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CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, tech.li and Soshable
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Robert Holleyman / BSA TechPost:
SOPA Needs Work to Address Innovation Considerations
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Three Years Later, the Guardian Wants a Buyer for PaidContent — Three years after buying PaidContent, the Guardian Media Group has put the New York-based media news site and its parent company ContentNext Media on the block. — The British newspaper publisher has hired boutique bank Coady Diemar Partners to market the company.
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Chikodi Chima / VentureBeat:
Ex-Googlers launch recommendation engine Stamped, with help from Google Ventures — A team of former Googlers has launched an iPhone app, funded by Google Ventures, for recommending experiences you might want to partake in. — Stamped connects to your Facebook and Twitter networks.
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Pulse2, Stamped Blog, MacNN, GigaOM, The Next Web, TechCrunch and 9to5Mac
Matt Macari / The Verge:
Google's trying to get its own lock screen patent, facing difficulties — Despite being a very vocal opponent of software patents and how they're used, Google recently applied for a patent on its variant of a slide-to-unlock feature. If you've ever participated in, or even observed …
Roy Goldenberg / Globes Online:
Microsoft acquires video search co VideoSurf — VideoSurf was founded by four Israelis and investors include Pitango and Orbotech. — Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT) has acquired VideoSurf for tens of millions of dollars in an effort to improve its position in the online video search field.
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TechCrunch Europe, Bloomberg and Microsoft News
Nick Wingfield / Bits:
A Forward Step on Piracy in China, Software Makers Say — Software piracy in China isn't going away anytime soon, but the effort to fight it looks as if it got a bit — just a bit — more serious, according to representatives of one of the industry's main lobbying groups.
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Computerworld and Department of Commerce
