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Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Google likely to face FTC complaint over ‘Search Plus Your World’ — A privacy watchdog group probably will complain to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that a new Google search feature raises privacy and antitrust concerns. — Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy …
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Scripting News, SiliconFilter, CNET, Andy Beard, Computerworld, ZDNet, Interactive Marketing, Gizmodo, paidContent, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Between the Lines Blog, Marketing Land, TechFlash, SlashGear and PC World
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Real-Life Examples Of How Google's “Search Plus” Pushes Google+ Over Relevancy — The new Google “Search Plus Your World” feature — which I'm now simply calling “Search Plus” — has just gone live for me. Huge debate erupted yesterday over whether it somehow favors Google+.
Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
Google+ Search = A Way To Call The Feds In On IPO-Bound Facebook (?) — Like everyone else, I've been trying to get my head around why Google has force-integrated its Google+ social network into its main search feed at the expense of leading social services like Facebook and Twitter.
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Ben Parr's Entrepreneurial …, Mashable! and The Huffington Post
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google And The Monopoly Paradox
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iCrossing, Daring Fireball and parislemon
John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:
Compete To Death, or Cooperate to Compete?
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Business Insider, Search Engine Land, WebProNews and TechCrunch
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple announces special event in New York on Jan. 19 — Apple on Wednesday sent out an invitation to The Loop and other media outlets to attend a special event being held in New York City next week. — Apple says the event will be about an education announcement and will take place on January 19 at the Guggenheim Museum.
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The Apple Core Blog, AppleInsider, AllThingsD, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Pulse2, AppleTell, iPhone, T3 News, Neowin.net, TUAW, VentureBeat, Macgasm, PhoneArena, ZDNet, BGR, TUAW, Redmond Pie, Apple Bitch, eCampus News, Mercury News, everythingiCafe, TechCrunch, MacStories, CNET, MacRumors, MacNN, Between the Lines Blog, Engadget, The Next Web, Gizmodo and Edible Apple, Thanks:kevinmcelligott
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Nick Wingfield / Bits:
Apple Aims to Take On the Textbook Market — Apple is expected to begin a much-anticipated foray into the textbook market at an event in New York next week. — The company sent invitations to reporters on Wednesday for an event at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York on Jan. 19.
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Digits, Softpedia News, Mashable!, Digital Trends, The Register, MacRumors, The Digital Reader, App Advice, GottaBeMobile, WebProNews, Media Decoder and Epicenter, Thanks:nickwingfield
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Nokia Could Sell 37 Million Windows Phones This Year — If 2011 was the year of Windows Phone's slow slog to market, 2012 may be the year of its breakout. — With a decent selection of handsets in the marketplace — including Nokia's newly announced LTE device, the Lumia 900 …
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The Verge, CNET, The Next Web, Communities Dominate Brands, NBC Bay Area, Pulse2, BGR, My Nokia Blog, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, BetaNews, WMPoweruser, Neowin.net, www.pocketgamer.biz and PalmAddicts
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
The Year of Microsoft — How the former tech giant can reclaim its throne in 2012.
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Nokia Conversations, Geek News Central and BrianMadden.com
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Said Planning Marketing Shakeup — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is making plans for a companywide restructuring of its marketing operations, a move that may include hundreds of job cuts, according to people familiar with the matter. — The plans haven't been settled and could change …
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Neowin.net, LiveSide.net, All about Microsoft Blog, Tech Trader Daily, Pulse2, GeekWire and TechFlash
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Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Hundreds Of Microsoft Employees Could Be Getting The Axe Soon
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Google Enterprise Blog, @asymco, ITworld.com and WebProNews
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Grab Your Cash and Warm Up the Wagon — ICANN Domain Rush Kicks Off Tomorrow — The domain name landgrab begins tomorrow. — That's when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — the organization charged with managing the Internet's domain name system …
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John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Why Samsung Is The Next Apple — For most of the ten years I've been coming to CES, every presentation, every booth, has had one goal: to create an ecosystem in order to encourage consumer to lock in. Year after year, presentation after presentation, someone has come out to show how the phone …
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Macgasm, MacStories and Business Insider
Facebook:
Bringing Facebook Comments to Mobile — Today we're launching the Comments Box plugin for mobile to make it easier for media sites to engage people across the web and mobile devices, and for people to comment on news regardless of where they're reading it. — If your website has the Comments Box …
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Engadget, Inside Facebook, TechCrunch, The Next Web, WebProNews, Pulse2, ReadWriteWeb, Friending Facebook Blog, All Facebook and VentureBeat
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
The MacBook Air Samsung SSD is about to get twice as fast — I had a chance to meet with Samsung Storage solutions at CES 2012 this week and got the low down on its new OEM SSDs that Apple tends to buy in large numbers. Samsung and Toshiba are the OEMs that provide the SSDs in MacBook Airs.
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Microsoft's Share Of The Search Market Is Finally Bigger Than Yahoo's — Microsoft has poured billions of dollars into its search engine, and this is what it has to show for it. — It is now the second largest search engine in the U.S., just edging past Yahoo …
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eWeek, Engadget, Seattle Times and comScore, Inc.
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Sharp is Reportedly Out of the Race for iPad 3 Display Production — According to Korea's Electronic Times Internet News, it's been confirmed that Samsung Electronics and LG Display will supply LCD panels for Apple's iPad 3, which is scheduled to be unveiled as early as in Q1 this year.
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english.etnews.com, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET and 9to5Mac
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Christian Zibreg / 9to5Mac:
Pegatron and Foxconn reportedly begin assembly of iPad 3 with Sharp display, launching in early-March
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Examiner, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, Mobile Marketing Watch, Redmond Pie, Geek.com, MacRumors, TUAW, PadGadget, Softpedia News, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Apple Bitch, Electronista and Business Insider
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Exclusive: Microsoft Web TV subscription plan on hold — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has put its talks with media companies about an online subscription service for TV shows and movies on hold, according to people familiar with the discussions. — The technology giant had been in intense talks …
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Engadget, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Home Theater Blog, MediaFile, TechFlash, Neowin.net, The Verge, SlashGear, Business Insider, Electronista, VG247 and Kotaku, more at Mediagazer »
Kevin May / Tnooz:
Hotel giants come together to launch Room Key search site — Massive development in the hotel sector with six of the biggest hotel chains on the planet uniting to launch Room Key, a new online hotel search platform. — Choice Hotels International, Hilton Worldwide, Hyatt Hotels …
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AllThingsD, VatorNews and TechCrunch
Alicia Eler / ReadWriteWeb:
Study: Your Facebook Personality Is The Real You — If you think you're different on Facebook than you are in real life, you've got some explaining to do. — A 2011 study from the University of Texas at Austin's Department of Psychology called “Manifestations of Personality in Online Social Networks …
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Mat Honan / Gizmodo:
Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter — I trudge past several million dollars worth of 3DTVs, looking for a good place to take a s**t. The toilets are all filthy. CES attendees are overwhlemingly men. Men are filthy, especially when they've been drinking too much coffee and eating Vegas buffets.
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AllThingsD and Macgasm
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Homeland Security watches Twitter, social media — (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks and news and gossip sites including the Huffington Post and Drudge Report, according to a government document.
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Boing Boing
Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:
Google+ Hangouts Add Screen Sharing to List of Collaboration Tools — Hangouts, the versatile video chat that continues to be the standout feature of Google+, got a visual and functional update today. The primary video feed is now bigger and better emphasized.
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VentureBeat, Christopher Johnson, Techie Buzz, 9to5Google, SlashGear, Pulse2 and Lifehacker
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
U.S. PC Shipments Slip 6 Percent In Q4, While Apple's Jump 21 Percent — The PC industry is in decline. Or hadn't you noticed? According to Gartner, PC shipments in the U.S slipped 5.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011. (Microsoft also warned earlier this week that Q4 PC shipments were down).
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Bloomberg, MacRumors, Gartner, Digital Trends, IDC, Computerworld, Electronista, Between the Lines Blog, Bits and parislemon
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Shazam launches new app to replace iOS music player — Shazam has gotten a lot of mileage out of its music tagging application, which has been snapped up by 165 million users since launching in 2008. But now the company is rolling out its first new app called Shazam Player …
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