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Slater Tow / Facebook Blog:
Timeline: Now Available Worldwide — We recently announced our plans to introduce Facebook Timeline, an entirely new kind of profile. — Timeline gives you an easy way to rediscover the things you shared, and collect your most important moments. It also lets you share new experiences …
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Mick Johnson / Facebook Blog:
Timeline Now Available on Mobile — Timeline gives you an easy way to see the things you've shared, and collect all your best moments in a single place. In addition to making timeline available on the web , today we're also launching timeline on Android and m.facebook.com.
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TechCrunch, Gadget Lab, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, MobileSyrup.com, LAUNCH, MobileBurn.com, IntoMobile and Business Insider
Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog:
Facebook Timeline goes live: Gives users seven-day grace
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Friending Facebook Blog
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Source Reveals Facebook Is Swimming In Cash — A well-placed mole has forwarded us the Silicon Valley equivalent of hard-core pornography: an explicit look at Facebook's finances. They're even more staggering than we expected. A gusher of profits has left the social network with a cash hoard …
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Guardian, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Pulse2, VatorNews, Friending Facebook Blog, PC Magazine, Adotas and Business Insider
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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Facebook's Revenue Numbers Just Leaked, And The Numbers Look Underwhelming — Gawker's Ryan Tate just published what he says “a source with knowledge of Facebook's finances” tell him are...Facebook's finances. — The numbers look a little light. — Facebook was supposed to generate …
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Digiday
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
SOPA votes derailed by politician's ‘offensive’ tweet — A marathon debate today in the House of Representatives on the Stop Online Piracy Act wasn't derailed by procedural questions, even though not one hearing had been held on how the law would actually work.
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Guardian, Sunlight Foundation …, Ars Technica and paidContent
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
The nightmarish SOPA hearings — Last night I had a horrifying dream that a group of well-intentioned middle-aged people who could not distinguish between a domain name and an IP address were trying to regulate the Internet. Then I woke up and the Judiciary Committee's SOPA hearings were on.
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@digiphile, Kotaku, Felix Salmon and Plagiarism Today, more at Mediagazer »
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress — An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress — Today, a group of 83 prominent Internet inventors and engineers sent an open letter to members of the United States Congress, stating their opposition to the SOPA …
Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:
Horses**t — Last night I tweeted at John Gruber and MG Siegler: “What a load of horses**t. All due respect, but horses**t.” The tweet was in reference to a post on Daring Fireball citing MG's “review” of the Galaxy Nexus. Now, I won't take issue with his review overall.
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Network World, Action at a Distance, @edbott, @anildash, @timbray, @gaberivera, @parislemon, @parislemon, @fxshaw, @erickschonfeld, @dannysullivan, @ldignan, @jesusdiaz, @chronic and @manan
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
CashVille: Zynga finally goes public in a triumph for social games — After months of delay, social game maker Zynga is finally going public in an initial public offering. The company priced its stock moments ago at $10 a share, the upper end of the price range.
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Business Insider, Inside Social Games, Social Markets and Pulse2
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Nick Turner / Bloomberg:
Zynga Elaborates on Its IPO Risks After Google's Eric Schmidt Praises CEO
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@emilychangtv, Gamasutra, Social Markets and MediaFile
Lee Spears / Bloomberg:
Zynga Said to Price 100M Shares at $10 in IPO
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GeekWire, TechCrunch and Company Town
Ryan Gavin / The Windows Blog:
IE to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 — Everyone benefits from an up-to-date browser. — Today we are sharing our plan to automatically upgrade Windows customers to the latest version of Internet Explorer available for their PC.
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Digital Trends, ExtremeTech, Geek.com, msnbc.com, Softpedia News, CNET Download.com, TechFlash, Gizmodo, TechSpot, The Laws of Vulnerabilities, TechCrunch, The Ed Bott Report Blog, The Verge, MSDN Blogs, AnandTech, Computerworld, ITProPortal, VentureBeat, Techie Buzz, BetaNews, Naked Security, The Register, WebProNews, Washington Post, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Webmonkey, PC Magazine, SC Magazine US, ConceivablyTech, Boing Boing and Datamation.com
Nielsen Wire:
New Mobile Obsession: U.S. Teens Triple Data Usage — Teens have officially joined the mobile Data Tsunami, more than tripling mobile data consumption in the past year while maintaining their stronghold as the leading message senders. Using recent data from monthly cell phone bills …
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ReadWriteWeb, Bits, Washington Post, VentureBeat, Fortune, The Tech Trade, Mashable!, WebProNews, Between the Lines Blog, TechCrunch and The Next Web
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
RIMM Slips 7%: Q4 BB Shipments Falling to 11M to 12M — Research in Motion (RIMM) this afternoon reported fiscal Q3 revenue per share in line with a pre-announcement earlier this month, and earnings per share in line with its reduced range, but forecast Q4′s results below expectations.
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Zachary Lutz / Engadget:
RIM: BlackBerry 10 smartphones won't arrive until end of 2012
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TechCrunch, CNET News, Business Insider, The Verge and Electronista
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
‘iPhone flaw’ that could cost you thousands? Not so fast, it's an Apple wording mistake — There is a bug that is being shopped around as a huge issue with Automatic Downloads over cellular data in iOS 5. The bug was discovered by Pocketlint and has been reported by sites like 9to5mac.
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9to5Mac, Thanks:alexbrooks
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Pocket-lint:
Revealed: The Apple iPhone bug that could cost you thousands
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GottaBeMobile and @grg, Thanks:stuartmiles
Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:
Zeitgeist 2011: How the world searched — This year marks our 11th annual look back at the searches that compose the year's Zeitgeist—the spirit of the time. With Zeitgeist, we look at the most popular and the fastest rising terms—the terms with the highest growth in 2011—in many categories across many countries around the world.
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Googling Google Blog, SlashGear, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Gawker, iPhone in Canada Blog, T3 News, CNET News, AllThingsD, Between the Lines Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, TUAW, TechEye, WebProNews, PC Magazine, 9to5Mac, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TechSpot, msnbc.com, Macgasm, Gizmodo, CNN and TechCrunch
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Verizon Galaxy Nexus hands-on — We finally got our hands on Verizon's Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and... well, it's almost identical to the HSPA+ version we reviewed last month. It's thicker, though we actually like holding and using the Verizon unit better because the slightly thicker case makes one-hand a bit more comfortable.
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Google Mobile Blog, GottaBeMobile, GigaOM, Ars Technica and 9to5Google
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Christian Science Monitor:
Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer — In an exclusive interview, an engineer working to unlock the secrets of the captured RQ-170 Sentinel says they exploited a known vulnerability and tricked the US drone into landing in Iran. — ISTANBUL, TURKEY
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The Register
Richard Nieva / Fortune:
Isaacson: Jobs biography could expand — The author discussed possible plans for expanding the 630-page book in the future with Fortune senior editor at large Adam Lashinsky. — By Richard Nieva, contributor — FORTUNE — Liked Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs? There may be more to come.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog and NBC Bay Area
Sydney Morning Herald:
Bill Gates Confirms He Won't Return To Microsoft — Bill Gates refutes a full-time return to Microsoft, the company he founded, to spend the rest of his life working for his foundation. — Bill Gates today ruled out ever returning to the helm of Microsoft and dismissed harsh barbs by his former arch-rival Steve Jobs.
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InfoWorld, Business Insider, Technologizer, AppleInsider, GeekWire, TechCrunch and Telegraph
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Salesforce Buys Social Performance Platform Rypple; Will Launch ‘Human Capital Management’ Unit Successforce — Salesforce.com has just announced the acquisition of social performance platform Rypple. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close early next year, were not disclosed.
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GigaOM and Between the Lines Blog
Royal Pingdom:
The most reliable (and unreliable) blogging services of 2011 — There are millions upon millions of blogs available today, and many of them are hosted on dedicated blogging services. These kinds of services have been around for a long time, with pioneers like Blogger paving the way for WordPress.com …
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AllThingsD and WebProNews
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft takes the wraps off its So.cl social-search project — Summary: Microsoft is taking the wraps off a new learning tool, it social-search research project known as So.cl, from its FUSE Labs division. — Perhaps the best way to explain what Microsoft's new So.cl project …
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Engadget, Microsoft Research, GeekWire, The Verge, Digital Trends, Network World, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Marketing Land and CNET News
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
French President's Residence ‘Busted’ For BitTorrent Piracy — Located near the Champs-Élysées in the French capital, Paris, the Élysée Palace is the official residence of President Sarkozy. As husband of ‘first lady’ and musician Carla Bruni …
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Mashable!, CNET News, The Verge and Softpedia News
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Open Source Blog:
OwnCloud: An open-source cloud to call your own — Want your own personal cloud? Check out ownCloud. — Everyone likes personal cloud services, like Apple's iCloud, Google Music, and Dropbox. But, many of aren't crazy about the fact that our files, music, and whatever are sitting on someone else's servers without our control.
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Business Insider, ReadWriteWeb and Digital Media Wire
