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2:20 PM ET, December 6, 2011

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Dirk Dougherty / Android Developers Blog:
10 Billion Android Market Downloads and Counting  —  [This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem.  —Dirk Dougherty]  —  One billion is a pretty big number by any measurement.  However, when it's describing the speed at which something is growing, it's simply amazing.
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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Gowalla Founders v. Gowalla Investors  —  Location based service Gowalla is going to shut down at the end of January.  The two founders, Josh Williams and Scott Raymond, will be heading off to Facebook.  Loyal Gowalla users will be stranded as the service shuts down.
JR Raphael / Computerworld:
Confirmed: Verizon Galaxy Nexus won't support Google Wallet (but will receive Google updates)  —  With the launch of Verizon's Galaxy Nexus growing closer, rumors about the device are starting to pour out at a breakneck speed.  As such, I thought now might be a good time to do a quick round of fact vs. fiction.
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Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog:
Facebook flaw allows access to private photos  —  Summary: A flaw in Facebook allows users to access private photos that are hidden from view, through no less than the social network's own image reporting tool.  —  Reporting features in Facebook apparently can allow users to access personal …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Why Europe's trustbusters targeted Apple's e-book ‘cartel’  —  The antitrust probe dates back to a deal Steve Jobs cut with five publishers in Jan. 2010  —  The language of the European Commission's press release Tuesday announcing the start of a formal antitrust investigation of Apple …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
EC Opens Antitrust Proceedings To Investigate Apple, E-book Publishers ‘Cartel’
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
The BBC's global iPlayer expands to iPhone and iPod Touch  —  Five months after BBC Worldwide launched its global iPlayer app to 11 Western European countries on iPad, the commercial arm of the UK broadcaster has announced that it's making the app available on iPhone and iPod Touch too.
Robert Scoble / Google+:
Yahoo News is seeing huge returns from Facebook's Open Graph, is this the future of Flickr?  —  Here Mike Kerns, who runs social and personalization at +Yahoo! News talks to me about the effects Yahoo has seen thanks to the inclusion of Open Graph technology from Facebook (AKA “frictionless sharing").
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:   Hey Facebook, Where's That Timeline and Open Graph You Promised?
Levi Sumagaysay / GMSV:
PayPal regrets Regretsy holiday-donation flap  —  PayPal is being branded a Scrooge over the news that it is forcing Regretsy to refund donations it had collected for poor children for the holidays.  —  Regretsy, a Southern California-based website that bills itself as “the fail blog of hand crafts …
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Chris Morran / The Consumerist:
PayPal Rains On Regretsy's Secret Santa Campaign Over Use Of Wrong Button
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Cisco solidifies cloud strategy, launches CloudVerse  —  Summary: Cisco goes public with its cloud strategy, a framework called CloudVerse that's designed to cater to all flavors of cloud computing.  —  Cisco on Tuesday publicly rolled out its cloud computing strategy dubbed CloudVerse …
Discussion: eWeek, AllThingsD and Bits
Mat Honan / Gizmodo:
Siri Is Apple's Broken Promise  —  A long time ago, I made a compact with Apple.  “You can control my entire technological life, from my computer to my phone to my stereo.  I'll pay premium prices.  I'll dive into your product ecosystem, and buy books and music and movies and apps from you.
Discussion: Technologizer and blog.chron.com
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
‘Steve Jobs’ Becomes Amazon's Best-Selling Book of 2011  —  As predicted by Amazon following its release, Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs has become the retailer's best-selling book of 2011.  The milestone is a remarkable one given that the book did not debut until late October.
Lance Whitney / CNET News:
Amazon Kindle Fire owners reporting Wi-Fi bug  —  Some Kindle Fire users are complaining of Wi-Fi and Internet access issues.  —  Just three weeks after the debut of the Kindle Fire, some users are complaining of problems accessing Wi-Fi networks and the Internet.
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Anne-Gabrielle Dauba Pantanacce / European Public …:
Inaugurating our new French headquarters  —  Last year, our Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt promised to open a research and development and culture centre in France.  Today, Eric returned to Paris to inaugurate our new 10,000-square meter office in a refurbished 19th century Second Empire building near the St. Lazare Train Station.
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
How the iPad 2 Became My Favorite Computer  —  My iPad 2 and ZaggFolio, in the press room at IFA in Berlin, September 2011.  —  Can the iPad replace a PC?  —  Ever since Apple announced its tablet nearly two years ago, the Internet has been awash in discussion of this question.
Discussion: PalmAddicts and MacStories, Thanks:harrymccracken
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
The Nerdy Address Of Facebook's New Headquarters?  1 Hacker Way  —  Apple has 1 Infinite Loop, Genentech has 1 DNA Way, and now Facebook has its own vanity headquarters address: 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, 94025.  Seen here on a brand new business card of a Facebook employee …
Reuters:
Chinese court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name  —  (Reuters) - A court in southern China has rejected a lawsuit by Apple Inc, accusing a Chinese technology company of infringing its iPad trademark, a newspaper reported on Tuesday, the latest move in a protracted tug-of-war over the name.
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple television rumored to come in 3 sizes, including 32" and 55"  —  Apple's full-fledged television set will arrive at the end of 2012 in three screen sizes, maxing out at 55 inches, a new rumor claims.  —  Citing sources in Japan, Australia's SmartHouse reported this week …
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Amazon invests in Foxit to boost PDF support in Kindle devices and apps  —  Major online retailer Amazon has invested in Foxit Corporation, announcing today that it will work with the company to build out PDF support in its Kindle devices and also its Kindle reading applications.
 
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Julia Angwin / Digits:
WikiLeaks Associates Seek Injunction on Twitter Data
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch Europe:
HP acquires German web-to-print software solutions company HIFLEX
Discussion: HP, AllThingsD, Gizmodo and Silicon Republic
Roger Cheng / CNET News:
Sprint says 4G LTE devices coming in second half of next year
Barb Darrow / GigaOM:
New Node.js blocked by Great Firewall of China
Discussion: The Next Web
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Longtime Google Policy Guy Andrew McLaughlin Headed to Tumblr
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Behind RIM's $485M Write-off
Discussion: AllThingsD
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Battles Brain Drain
Discussion: Between the Lines Blog and GMSV
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
The Rise of Google, the Ascent of Facebook and the Decline of Everyone Else
 

 
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