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Vlad Savov / The Verge:
AT&T pulls T-Mobile application from FCC, records provisional $4bn loss — The FCC's decision to request a formal administrative hearing into AT&T's proposed takeover of T-Mobile USA has caused the US carrier to take drastic action: AT&T and Deutsche Telekom have just announced …
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Cornelius Rahn / Bloomberg:
AT&T to Record $4 Billion Costs This Quarter on T-Mobile Risks — AT&T Inc. (T), whose proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) is facing U.S. challenges, plans to record costs of $4 billion in the event the deal doesn't go through.
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Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple Removes Big Fish Game Subscription Service From Its App Store — Apple Inc. (AAPL) removed Big Fish Games Inc.'s subscription service from its App Store, reversing a move that would have given iPad users access to dozens of video games for a monthly fee.
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The Register, Gizmodo, The Appside, The Verge, MacNN, PadGadget, Mobile Entertainment, PhoneArena, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, The Verge, Kotaku, VG247, CNET News, thinq_, Neowin.net, paidContent, iPhone Hacks, Business Wire, TechCrunch, IndustryGamers, App Advice, Daring Fireball, VentureBeat and TechFlash
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Investors Are Un-Friending Social Media — Tech IPOs floated like butterflies. Now they're stinging like bees. — Limiting the share float as part of their initial public offerings helped Groupon, LinkedIn and Pandora Media achieve bubbly valuations early on.
Royal Pingdom:
Ubuntu Linux losing popularity fast. New Unity interface to blame? — Don't panic Ubuntu fans but your favorite desktop Linux distribution has fallen to fourth place in DistroWatch's latest ranking. — Ubuntu has been overtaken by Fedora, Mint, and openSUSE.
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Inquirer, The Register, ServicesANGLE, DistroWatch.com, OStatic blogs and Softpedia News, Thanks:pingdom
Kellex / Droid Life:
DROID 4 Scheduled to Launch December 8, Same Day as the Galaxy Nexus? — Could the DROID 4 find its way into stores on December 8 alongside the Galaxy Nexus? According to the latest info from our friends at Verizon, that's exactly what the plan is. Well, the Nexus is still up in the air …
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Engadget, PhoneArena, Fonehome, Softpedia News, SlashGear, IntoMobile, Phones Review, Pocketables, GottaBeMobile, Android Phone Fans, Unwired View and Electronista
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More — Since January 2011, Google has been filtering “piracy-related” terms from its ‘Autocomplete’ and ‘Instant’ services. — Google users searching for terms like “torrent”, “BitTorrent” and “RapidShare” will notice that no suggestions …
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TechSpot, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, SlashGear and Pulse2
Felix Salmon:
Why Apple's customers cripple its user experience — Apple products have always cost more than the equivalent products elsewhere. It's one of the reasons that Apple has historically had very high brand loyalty and very low market share — a classic luxury-good combination.
Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:
Microsoft's Craig Mundie On Siri: Been There, Done That (Video) — Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie isn't nearly as impressed with Siri, the voice recognition interface for the Apple iPhone 4S, as a lot of other people. Mundie, in fact, contends that Apple …
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Electronista, Gizmodo UK, TechEye, 9to5Mac, WinRumors, Pulse2, istartedsomething, parislemon, The Next Web, AppleInsider, Daring Fireball, WMPoweruser, Neowin.net, WinBeta and MacDailyNews
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Wary Of SOPA, Reddit Users Aim To Build A New, Censorship-Free Internet — Users of the social news and community site Reddit don't like the way the government seems to be muscling in on the Internet. So they plan to build a new one. — Redditors have flocked over the last week …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Oink Hits 100K Downloads, With 100K Items Added In Under Three Weeks — In two and a half weeks since its launch, micro-recommendation app Oink has clocked in a 100k downloads, with a symmetrical 100k items added and tagged. A product of Kevin Rose's Milk Studios, Rose tells me that the app …
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Globe and Mail, Business Insider, The Next Web and The Appside
Rich Trenholm / Crave:
Europe rules your ISP can't be forced to block pirate sites … Good news from Europe: your ISP can't be forced to monitor or block you from using the Web. A European court has ruled that record labels and film studios can't use the courts to instruct your broadband company to track you or try to block you.
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BBC, TorrentFreak, TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Register, Associated Press and Wall Street Journal
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Barack Obama Joins Google+, White House Itself Still Not There — First Britney Spears takes the top Google+ spot away from Google CEO Larry Page today. Now the President of the United States, Barack Obama, has opened an account. — Not Yet Verified, But Yes, Real — Is it really him?
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Zinio Raises $20 Million For Digital Newsstand — Zinio, which bills itself as the world's largest digital newsstand and bookstore, has raised $20 million in new funding according to an SEC filing. — Zinio provides global access to thousands of magazine titles from most major publishers in a variety of languages.
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VentureBeat, The Appside, Business Insider, FierceMobileContent, VatorNews and paidContent
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft's Black Friday: $100 Kinect, free Windows Phone, discounts on Office and games — Microsoft's growing retail footprint, in stores and online, comes with an obligation to participate in the annual Black Friday sales — at least if it wants to keep up with the competition in the madness …
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PhoneArena and I4U News
Business Week:
Palantir, the Vanguard of Cyberterror Security — The Silicon Valley up-and-comer fuses fingerprints, DNA, video, and manifold other data to provide the best heads-up technology yet — In October, a foreign national named Mike Fikri purchased a one-way plane ticket from Cairo to Miami, where he rented a condo.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs Exhibit on Display at U.S. Patent Office Museum — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week opened a new exhibit honoring Steve Jobs at its museum in Alexandria, Virginia. Located in the atrium of the office's Madison Building headquarters, the free museum offers interactive exhibits …
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Pulse2, The Next Web, Macgasm, SlashGear, iClarified, Bits and MacNN
Caroline Ross / MIT:
Important step toward computing with light — Research at MIT produces long-sought component to allow complete optical circuits on silicon chips. — David L. Chandler, MIT News Office — There has been enormous progress in recent years toward the development of photonic chips …
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Softpedia News, Electronista, Network World and ExtremeTech
Carl Franzen / TPM Idea Lab:
Hackers Leak Facebook Law Enforcement Guidelines — A group of hackers claiming to represent Anonymous's Antisec movement hijacked two Gmail accounts belonging to a retired California Department of Justice cybercrimes investigator, now a private investigator, and on November 18 published 38,000 private emails …
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TechCrunch, Public Intelligence and Between the Lines Blog
Sarah McBride / Reuters:
IPOs stoke San Francisco housing market — (Reuters) - Adam Holm has been looking to sell his three-bedroom Victorian house in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood all year, but he needs one thing to happen first: gaming-company Zynga's initial public offering.
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Cisco to HP: Please Stop Suing Those Employees We Poach — Networking giant Cisco Systems would like to stop hearing so often from lawyers at rival Hewlett-Packard. More specifically, it would like HP to stop suing ex-HP employees seeking jobs at Cisco. — In a Cisco blog post …
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J.B. / Fusible.com:
Google going after YouTube typo domains that lead to survey scams — Google is going after several popular typos of the web address YouTube.com, all owned by the same person. — Each typo domain leads unsuspecting users to a site that looks confusingly similar to the official YouTube site …
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Silicon Republic and TechCrunch
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Carrier IQ retracts cease and desist letter sent to security researcher, says it doesn't track Android users — It looks like the unabashed fury of the Android hacking community was too much for data-collection developer Carrier IQ to take: the company has apologized and retracted the cease …
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Inquirer, Electronic Frontier Foundation, TechCrunch, SlashGear, The Register and 9to5Google
