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Twitter Blog:
Let's Fly — Today we introduce a new version of Twitter. We've simplified the design to make it easier than ever to follow what you care about, connect with others and discover something new. You'll see this new design both on Twitter.com and mobile phones, so that you'll have a familiar experience any time, anywhere.
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
All new official Twitter iPhone app arrives: faster, new interface, new Connect menu — Today, Twitter announced an all new online version of Twitter, and to complement this new site, the popular micro blogging service launched a re-designed iPhone application.
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TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Mercury News, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, MobileSyrup.com, GottaBeMobile and @gruber
Cotton Delo / AdAge:
Twitter Joins Facebook, Google, Launches ‘Brand Pages’ For Marketers — Brands Get a Home on Twitter With More Functionality — Twitter is looking to strengthen its relationship with advertisers by launching brand pages that will be unveiled today as part of a more comprehensive redesign.
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Marketing Pilgrim and Mashable!
Jacob Schulman / The Verge:
Twitter gets major design overhaul for web, iOS, and Android
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Electronista
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Google's News Reader — Now Called Currents — Finally Coming — I was wrong about the rollout timing — I had reported mid-November (sorry, Sean!) — but Google's entrant into the news reader space is finally set to launch as early as tomorrow. Sources said the product …
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CNET News, Business Insider, WebProNews, SlashGear and Softpedia News
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Facebook Does A Major Reorg Around Key Products — Facebook has done a major corporate reorganization in an effort to be more nimble, sources said. — The new structure integrates design, product and engineering teams around key product areas such as privacy and communication.
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Friending Facebook Blog, The Register, @emilychangtv, Business Insider, CNET News, WebProNews and Electronista
Brian Caulfield / Shiny Objects:
Apple's New Campus Will Put On A Spectacular Show Every Year, Starting On Steve Jobs' Birthday — The City of Cupertino published more details on Apple's enormous new circular headquarters Tuesday. And if you're looking for ‘one last thing,’ that final flourish Apple Chief Steve Jobs was known for …
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The Verge and WebProNews
Nathan Beach / Google Mobile Blog:
Tablet image results in new carousel view — In July, we started to evolve the Google design and experience on Android and iOS tablets by updating features like larger touch targets and enhanced image viewing to make searching faster and easier. Today, we're building on that foundation …
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TechCrunch, Softpedia News, MarketingVox News & Trends, Android Phone Fans, Android and Me and 9to5Google
John Cook / GeekWire:
Retail association pissed about Amazon.com's Price Check app — The Retail Industry Leaders Association isn't too happy about Amazon.com's Price Check app and a new promotion that the Seattle online retailer is unveiling this Saturday. — The company announced this week that shoppers who perform a …
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IntoMobile and the Econsultancy blog
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Acer CEO: We're Going to Stop Selling Cheap, Unprofitable Crap — Acer CEO J.T. Wang has settled on a turnaround strategy for the company, one that will return it to profitability after two consecutive quarters of net losses. Acer is going to pin its hopes on the ultrabook.
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BetaNews, CNET News, Digital Trends, Computerworld, Dow Jones Newswires, Electricpig.co.uk, Neowin.net, MacNN and MacDailyNews
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
French court denies Samsung request for iPhone 4S ban — Via Twitter I just learned that the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris, the first-instance court for all French patent lawsuits, has denied Samsung's request for a preliminary injunction against the iPhone 4S.
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Jim Finkle / Reuters:
Verizon Wireless blames technical issue for outage — (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless blamed technical problems for an outage on its recently launched high-speed, 4G network, which prevented some U.S. customers from accessing the Internet for about 24 hours. — The disruption lasted …
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VentureBeat, Between the Lines Blog, Computerworld, GottaBeMobile, Daring Fireball, CNET News and dailywireless.org
Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Research predicts iMac losing the title of the world's top-selling all-in-one system — Even though all the growth in Apple's Mac business is in MacBooks that accounted for nearly three-quarters of all the computers Apple sold during the September quarter, the iMac has been by far their most popular desktop.
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Computerworld, DigiTimes, Softpedia News, Electronista and iClarified
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Verizon And RedBox Planning Major Partnership For Early 2012 Launch — Yesterday, it was reported that Verizon was planning a Netflix competitor and in talks with various content producers to provide the streams and downloads. TechCrunch has obtained additional information on this story …
Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Facebook Countersues Timelines.com — On the same day that Facebook announced the launch of Timeline in New Zealand, the company took another decisive step in rolling out its digital scrapbook feature in America. On Tuesday, it filed a counter lawsuit against a small Chicago company …
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Friending Facebook Blog, Business Insider, All Facebook, Techland, Silicon Republic and WebProNews
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Apple TV updates stream purchased TV shows to Australia, Canada and the UK — Apple TV users (the hockey puck, not the pie in the sky rumored flat panel with magic fairy dust inside and an extra unaired season of Firefly) in Canada, Australia and the UK were gifted a download today …
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Mac Prices Australia, paidContent, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, MacStories, Mashable!, MacNN and iClarified, more at Mediagazer »
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple lists top apps, music, movies of 2011 — Apple on Thursday posted iTunes Rewind 2011 and App Store Rewind 2011, which lists the best and top downloaded music, apps, TV shows, books, movies and podcasts of 2011. — visit site to read more]
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TechCrunch, Hollywood Reporter, Associated Press, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider, MobileSyrup.com and Macgasm, Thanks:jdalrymple
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Marissa Mayer at LeWeb: Google+ Was a Pleasant Surprise — Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president for local, as well as maps and location services, was interviewed by Crunchfund's MG Siegler on stage at the LeWeb conference in Paris this morning. This wide-ranging interview touched upon everything …
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ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, WebProNews, Business Insider, The Next Web, 9to5Google and TechCrunch
Lee Chyen Yee / Reuters:
Google to invest $300 million in Hong Kong data centre — (Reuters) - Google Inc said it will invest $300 million in its Hong Kong data centre, due to come online in early 2013 after the company broke ground on Thursday. — The $300 million investment includes the cost of land …
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The Tech Trade, 9to5Google, ZDNet, Associated Press, Data Center Knowledge, Agence France Presse, Bloomberg and VR-Zone
Jessica Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Start-Ups Aim to Teach Coding — With computer programmers in demand, new start-ups that aim to train people in coding skills are also becoming hot properties. — Ventures that teach computer programming, design and other once-nerdy skills to the masses are surfacing nationwide and drawing interest from Bay Area investors.
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Venture Capital Dispatch
Electronista:
Nokia may drop Vertu luxury phones altogether — Company said to be selling off Vertu division — Nokia is reportedly attempting to step away from the luxury market, which it had engaged for more than a decade through the Vertu brand. The Finnish phone maker is said to be seeking a buyer …
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ZDNet, SlashGear, The Nokia Blog, BGR, X-bit labs, Reuters, Financial Times, Financial Times, WMPoweruser, Engadget, My Nokia Blog, TechEye, Inquirer, Light Reading, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, The Register, Mobile Entertainment, PhoneArena, Ubergizmo and VR-Zone
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
IBM buys DemandTec for $440 million, adds to analytics, commerce line-up — Summary: For Big Blue, the DemandTec purchase represents another pillar in its smarter commerce effort and another software as a service play. — IBM said it will acquire DemandTec, a cloud based company focused on pricing …
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eWeek, PR Newswire, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Tech Trader Daily, TechEye, The Tech Trade, internetretailer.com, Reuters, Business Insider and StreetInsider.com
Laura Sydell / NPR:
How Twitter's Trending Algorithm Picks Its Topics … Occupy Wall Street protesters meditate while a sign bearing their Twitter hashtag hangs from a railing in Zuccotti Park in October. Some activists accused Twitter of censorship because #OccupyWallStreet wasn't appearing on trending lists.
Yun-Hee Kim / Wall Street Journal:
ZTE to Launch High-End Smartphone in U.S. — HONG KONG—ZTE Corp. plans to launch a high-end smartphone in the U.S. in the middle of next year, an executive said, marking a change from its low-cost emphasis and putting it in head-to-head competition with the likes of Apple Inc., HTC Corp. …
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CNET News, TechCrunch, Digits, L.A. Times Tech Blog, paidContent, FierceWireless, FierceWireless and IntoMobile
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Hulu ‘Face Match’ feature attaches an actor's entire history to their mug — It seems like facial recognition is popping up everywhere these days, and now it's even on Hulu. We last checked in with Hulu Labs when it launched a ten-foot UI for PC viewers, and now it's back putting clickable squares …
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft and GE creating new health care company in Seattle region, employing 750 to start — Updated with additional details from Microsoft. — In a surprise joint venture between two corporate giants, Microsoft and General Electric plan to form a new health-care technology company …
Scott Gilbertson / Webmonkey:
Google Adds Google+ Info to Gmail Contacts — Google now includes Google+ profile information within contacts lists, both in Gmail and in the standalone Google Contacts manager. In addition to Google+ information about your contacts any Google+ circles you've set up will now be available inside the contacts manager.
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Gmail Blog and Google Operating System
Read It Later Blog:
Who Are the ‘Most-Read’ Authors? — Saving a story for later can tell us a lot about loyalty, longevity and quality—and it changes the way we think about the most popular stories on the web — If we're to believe Woody Allen, “80 percent of success is showing up.”
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Felix Salmon, Media Decoder and paidContent, more at Mediagazer »
Stoyan Stefanov / Facebook Developers:
Introducing the Subscribe Button for Websites — In September we introduced Subscribe to make it easier for people who want to share their public updates with more than just friends build an audience of subscribers. Today we're launching the Subscribe button for websites …
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All Facebook
Bloomberg:
Zynga Gets Enough Orders to Cover IPO Shares — Zynga Inc., the biggest maker of games on Facebook, received enough orders to cover all the shares being sold in its initial public offering, said two people with knowledge of the situation. — The people declined to be identified as the process is private.
Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Is Verizon even allowed to discriminate against NFC apps like Google Wallet? — Verizon Wireless has been careful to point out that it is not technically blocking the Google Wallet app/service from the new Galaxy Nexus phone, and that it is still negotiating with Google.
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9to5Google and O'Reilly Radar
