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Shayndi Raice / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Targeting IPO For Between April and June 2012 — Facebook is targeting dates between April 2012 and June 2012 for an initial public offering of its stock. The company is exploring raising $10 billion in an IPO that could value Facebook at more than $100 billion. — Interactive: Track Tech IPO Performance
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Why Greedy Stockholders and A $100 Billion IPO Could Hurt Facebook — Facebook will IPO in April or June 2012, right on time with our prediction and when it would need to start filing public financial reports, according the the Wall Street Journal. The outlet's sources say Facebook …
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ReadWriteWeb and Deal Journal
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple's next-generation Apple TV moves closer to reality, assigned J33 codename — iOS release history tells us that as a product in development moves even closer to release, it is assigned a proper codename. Not only an identifier like “3,1″ but a codename such as N94 (iPhone 4S) or K48 (original iPad).
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Oliver Haslam / Redmond Pie:
iOS 5.1 Beta References Next Generation iPhone, iPad, Apple TV
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The Verge, MacRumors, iLounge, 9to5Mac, WebProNews, Mashable!, MobileSyrup.com, MacStories, Gizmodo UK, iClarified, App Advice and Lifehacker
Jeff Bowen / WordPress.com News:
Introducing WordAds — Over the years one of the most frequent requests on WordPress.com has been to allow bloggers to earn money from their blog through ads. We've resisted advertising so far because most of it we had seen wasn't terribly tasteful, and it seemed like Google's AdSense was the state-of-the-art, which was sad.
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9to5Google, TechCrunch, The Next Web, memeburn, Mashable!, thinq_, WebProNews, Changing Way and Black Web 2.0, Thanks:ed
Jamie Zawinski / jwz:
Watch a VC use my name to sell a con. — Normally I just ignore navel-gazing tech-industry articles like this, but people keep sending it to me, so I guess this guy is famous or something. Michael Arrington posted this article, “Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining” …
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StartupMuse, @ryanwi, @davidhornik, Learn to Duck, @jwz, @al3x, Unfiltered Opinion … and @karaswisher
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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Burnouts, VC Cons And Slave Labor: A Marxian Drama
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
iTether App Offers Internet Tethering On Your iPhone for One Time Fee — Tether.com has somehow gotten App Store approval for their iPhone companion application “iTether”. The $14.99 App Store app allows users to share their iPhone's internet connection with their Mac or PC computer over USB.
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Alastair Sharp / Reuters:
RIM to offer security features on iPhone, Androids — (Reuters) - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is seeking to cash in as companies switch to rival smartphones with a new tool that offers some of its important security features for sexier devices like the iPhone.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
RIM moves to higher mobile ground with BlackBerry Mobile Fusion: Is it too late? — Summary: The new plan for RIM revolves around focusing on what it does best for mobile device management software—asset management, configuration, security policies, group administration and centralized management.
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MacRumors, Macworld and Android Phone Fans
Richard Lai / Engadget:
Lenovo unveils the LePad S2007 and LePad S2010, both with Honeycomb and 1.5GHz dual-core chip — Oh no, it isn't just about the 5-inch tabletphone today. Announced at the same event in Beijing just now are a couple of larger tablets from Lenovo: the LePad S2007 and the LePad S2010.
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TechCrunch, Computerworld, PhoneArena, ITProPortal, Android Phone Fans, Techie Buzz, The Verge, Electronista, IntoMobile, Pocket-lint and Softpedia News
Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
AT&T's 11th-Hour Plan to Save Its Deal With T-Mobile — About an hour after AT&T announced its $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile in March on a Sunday afternoon, I got a call at home. It was Randall L. Stephenson , AT&T's chairman and chief executive. Mr. Stephenson, an affable man …
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TechCrunch, Reuters, The Verge, Android and Me, MobileBurn.com, blog.chron.com, CNET News, Techland, Android Phone Fans, Electronista, IntoMobile and The Wrap
DealBook:
Silver Lake Consortium Is Said to Seek Yahoo Stake — A consortium of investors led by Silver Lake and Microsoft is one of several parties that will be submitting a plan to take a minority stake in Yahoo, according to people briefed on the matter. — TPG Capital is also expected to submit a proposal …
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WinRumors and Business Insider
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Will Marc or Won't He? Andreessen Mulling Yahoo Leadership Role in Bid.
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CNET News
Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
Exclusive: THL eyes buyout of Yahoo's U.S. business
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The Register
Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
British Library newspaper archive puts 300 years of history online — Sixty-five million historic newspaper articles, covering the most significant events over the last 300 years, are now fully available online from today in a new archive created by the British Library.
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Fast Company, The Register, Inquirer, Guardian, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo UK, BBC and The Verge
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Consumers' interest in Windows tablets plummets, study claims — Summary: Users' interest in Windows tablets is waning and Microsoft has missed the peak of consumer desire for a Windows 8-based iPad competitor, a new study claims. — Just a couple months after one study claimed the majority …
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GigaOM, TechFlash, mocoNews, TechCrunch, Forrester Blogs, Bits, Softpedia News, SlashGear and WinRumors
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Software to Rate How Drastically Photos Are Retouched — From left to right, photographs show the five levels of retouching in a system by Hany Farid of Dartmouth. The effect, from slight to drastic, may discourage retouching. “Models, for example, might well say, 'I don't want to be a 5.
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PC World, Nature, The Independent and The Next Web
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
“Music Everywhere”: Spotify's “New Direction” — Hey! Remember last week, when Spotify sent out that cryptic announcement about a press conference they're holding this week, and said they're headed in a “new direction”? — Here's what the music service is likely to announce …
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Gizmodo, Mashable!, paidContent and Electronista
Bloomberg:
Chipmakers Lose Billions as IPad Challenges Computers — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPad is the bane of computer-memory makers, worsening the industry's losses as consumers choose the hand-held device that uses about 75 percent fewer of the chips than a typical laptop.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Grooveshark email: How we built a music service without, um, paying for music — Grooveshark deliberately set out to build a huge online following without paying for the music it streamed and shared in order to establish a stronger negotiating position with record labels, according to internal emails included in court records.
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The Register, hypebot, Electronista and Business Insider
Jennifer Baker / IT World:
Free Software activists to take on Google with new free search engine — Peer-to-peer search offers an alternative to the big incumbents — Free software activists have released a peer-to-peer search engine to take on Google, Yahoo, Bing and others. — The free, distributed search engine, YaCy, takes a new approach to search.
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Internet Evolution, @dannysullivan, FSFE, The Register and TG Daily
Avram Piltch / LAPTOP Magazine:
Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Drive Tested: 750GB at Near-SSD Speeds — Last year, Seagate threw the storage world a curve when it released the original Momentus XT, a 7,200 rpm 250 or 500GB hard drive with the ability to cache your most commonly-used files on its 4GB of Flash memory for faster app opens, boots, and other frequent reads.
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Inquirer, VentureBeat, CNET News, Between the Lines Blog, Engadget, Electronista, The Verge, The Register, BetaNews, Gizmodo and Tech Trader Daily
Mike Snider / USA Today:
Nintendo sees skyward sales on Black Friday — Super Mario 3D Land and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword helped Nintendo to a successful kickoff of the holiday sales season. — The new Nintendo 3DS game, Super Mario 3D Land, which landed in stores Nov. 11, has become …
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Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Fortune, VG247, The Next Web, SlashGear, Game|Life, Joystiq, Electronista and The Verge
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Windows-on-ARM platform to join notebook competition in June 2013 — Windows on ARM (WoA), a combination of Windows 8 and ARM-based processors, is expected to make an official appearance at the end of 2012 and will try to compete in the notebook market as soon as June 2013, according to sources from notebook vendors.
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Tech Trader Daily, The Verge, Neowin.net, WinRumors and SlashGear, Thanks:michaelkroker
Michael Kan / PC World:
Protocol Deal to Bring Compatible Microsoft Apps to IOS, Android — Microsoft said on Tuesday it will license the protocols for many of its enterprise systems to a company that will develop compatible applications for non-Microsoft mobile operating systems, including Google's Android and Apple's iOS.
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TechFlash, Microsoft, Softpedia News, Reuters and WinRumors
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
What the death of Cyber Monday says about our broadband habits — Updated: The effort to figure out the biggest online shopping day of the year is still in flux with Thanksgiving, so far, seeing the peak traffic for the shopping season according to Akamai. Update: Akamai noted on Monday night …
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TechCrunch, The PayPal Blog, SmartBear Blog and The Akamai Blog
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
HP Wants to Optimize Your Information, Whatever That Means — Ever since Hewlett-Packard announced that it would spend $11.7 billion to acquire the British software firm Autonomy, there have been questions regarding how that company will fit within HP. — HP will answer some of those questions today …
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GigaOM, Reuters and MarketWatch
