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November 17, 2012, 10:20 AM

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Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:

Windows 8 Sales Well Below Projections, Plenty of Blame to Go Around — Uncertainty could turn Windows 8 into the next Vista — Sales of Windows 8 PCs are well below Microsoft's internal projections and have been described inside the company as disappointing.

More: The Verge, The Next Web, Softpedia News, WinBeta, CNET, Business Insider, Neowin, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and BetaNews

Tweets: @qthrul and @parislemon

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Forrester finds mixed prospects for Windows 8 in the enterprise

More: Softpedia News, SiliconANGLE, Forbes and BetaNews

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Apple's stock price falls to lowest point in six months — While short-term challenges remain, analysts are bullish on Apple's long-term. — On Friday Apple's stock price closed at $527.68 per share, the lowest it's been in six months. Since September, the company has lost about 25 percent …

Reuters:

High-flying Apple falls to earth as investors fret over taxes

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Reuters:

Samsung goes after HTC deal to undercut Apple-filing — When Apple Inc and HTC Corp last week ended their worldwide legal battles with a 10-year patent licensing agreement, they declined to answer a critical question: whether all of Apple's patents were covered by the deal.

More: The Verge, CNET, Pocketnow, Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, VentureBeat, BGR, 9to5Mac and iDownloadBlog.com

Bloomberg:

Apple, Google Consider Arbitration Over Standard Patents

More: The Verge, AllThingsD, Forbes, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, bizjournals, ZDNet, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, TechCrunch, GigaOM, GamesIndustry International and 9to5Mac

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Anonymous takes down over 650 Israeli sites, wipes databases, leaks email addresses and passwords — When the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) this week began taking military action in the Gaza strip against Hamas (as the IDF announced on Twitter), Anonymous declared its own war as part of #OpIsrael.

More: ZDNet, NYT Bits, PandoDaily, Anon Relations, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, SecurityWeek, BBC, Betabeat and nbcnews.com

Dalton Caldwell:

Twitter is pivoting — Peter Chernin had this to say during his days as President of News Corp, owners of MySpace, in 2006: … This was the justification and mentality that MySpace employed as they blocked various fast-growing platform partners that they felt impinged in MySpace's core user experience.

More: TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, GigaOM, digitaltrends.com, Digits and AllThingsD

Tweets: @mparekh, @techsoc and @mathewi

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix CEO: Amazon Losing Up to $1 Billion a Year on Streaming Video — Reed Hastings says that, one day, Amazon will provide real competition for Netflix. — But the Netflix CEO says Jeff Bezos will have to spend a lot of money before that happens: Hastings says Amazon is losing between $500 million …

More: Wall Street Journal, CNET, Deadline.com, Business Insider, Engadget, Mashable! and bizjournals. Tweets: @danroth

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google:

Google-Dish wireless service is a go, plans for 2013 launch being hatched — Regarding the Google-Dish tie up that was reported last night, we just got word that this is really happening. While the details haven't been finalized, Google is already deep into development on plans to roll …

More: The Inquisitr, Pocketnow, Droid Life, BGR, 9to5Mac and Wall Street Journal

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo CEO Mayer Cuts End-of-Year “Week of Rest” for Employees, While Prepping Plans to Cull Bottom 20 Percent of Staff — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is now starting to unveil the flip side of free lunches and smartphones, with two employee-focused moves that are a little more tough love in nature.

More: CNET, PC Magazine, PandoDaily and Business Insider

Tweets: @pkafka and @karaswisher

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

AT&T exceeds LTE deployment plan ahead of schedule, now covers more than 150 million people in the US — Confirming the deployment of LTE networks in 24 new markets across the US today, AT&T today announced that it has surpassed its 2012 deployment plan ahead of schedule and is now covering more than 150 million people in the country.

More: Verizon Wireless, CNET, PR Newswire, 9to5Mac and SlashGear

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

The U.S. government is suing eBay over a hiring pact with Intuit — eBay agreed with Intuit to not hire its workers, even if they approached the company for work. For that pact, the U.S. government is suing the company as in breach of anti-trust laws. — According to a lawyer …

More: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, San Francisco Chronicle, CNET, The Register, PC World, The Verge and Reuters

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Explains The Four Ways It Sorts The News Feed And Insists Average Page Reach Didn't Decrease — Today Facebook addressed the controversy surrounding the news feed and a reduction in reach for some Pages. It outlined the four main factors that determine if a post shows up in the news feed …

More: Business Insider, GigaOM, CNET, AllFacebook, The Next Web, Forbes and We Are Social. Thanks:@chadwittman

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Microsoft begs Web devs not to make WebKit the new IE6 — Internet Explorer 10 is a fast browser with good standards compliance, and the version of Internet Explorer 10 included with Windows Phone 8 is no exception, as it's almost identical to its desktop sibling.

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Wireless charging blazes path toward mainstream — Heavyweights are backing the idea of wireless charging capabilities embedded in phones, and public charging stations are beginning to pop up. Differing standards, however, still make for a rocky adoption.

More: MIT Technology Review and DigiTimes

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

Wi-Fi networker Ruckus raises $126 million in IPO — Wireless networking startup Ruckus Wireless graduated to public company status on Friday, appearing on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker RKUS after clearing $126 million in an IPO. Ruckus sold 8.4 million shares at $15 a piece …

More: Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Network World

Eytan Bakshy / Facebook:

The 2012 Election Day Through the Facebook Lens — This year's presidential election was an exciting race, and activity on Facebook was no exception. Just as we did during the 2008 presidential election and the 2010 midterm election, Facebook allowed users to tell their friends they voted through …

More: MIT Technology Review, AllFacebook, Inside Facebook, TPM IdeaLab and WebProNews

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