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Faith Merino / VatorNews:
Google buys Groupon for $2.5 billion? — While neither company has confirmed the story, the acquisition follows a week of buyout rumors — Google has just purchased Groupon for $2.5 billion, according to an unnamed insider who spoke with VatorNews. Neither Google nor Groupon …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google M&A Lead Congratulates Groupon CEO On Um, Something — Rumors of a Google Groupon acquisition are circling through the blogosphere this Sunday night/Monday morning and for good reason, the scrappy little Vator.tv has come up with a 2.5 billion dollar acquisition price for the deal, according to sources.
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Microsoft in talks for new TV service: sources — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) has held talks with media companies to license TV networks for a new online pay-television subscription service through devices such as its Xbox video game console, two people familiar with the plans told Reuters.
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Gizmodo:
WikiLeaks Diplomatic Bombshell Reveals Strange Tech Snooping Schemes — Today's not a good morning to wake up as an American diplomat. The weekend's WikiLeaks disclosure of covert communications has revealed some strange tech plots surrounding world figures—Bluetooth bugs implanted in prisoners.
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New York Times:
Cables Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
WikiLeaked Diplomatic Cables Confirm China's Politburo Was Behind …
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
WikiLeaks And The Failure Of Cyberattacks As Censorship
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TechEye, Netcraft, CrunchGear, Wikileaks, Computerworld UK's News, Guardian, p2pnet, CNET News, V3.co.uk, Wired.co.uk, Ben Metcalfe Blog, Global Voices in English, msnbc.com, BBC, Techie Buzz and Boing Boing, Thanks:forbestech
Bloomberg:
Apple Lawyers Up for Patent Showdowns With Nokia, Motorola, HTC — Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) — Steve Jobs made Apple Inc.'s iPhone one of the best-selling smartphones on the market with its touch screen, fast Web connection and access to more than 300,000 downloadable applications. Now he's adding lawyers to the mix.
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Graham Cluley / Naked Security:
Can you really see who viewed your Facebook profile? Rogue application spreads virally — Once again, a rogue application is spreading virally between Facebook users pretending to offer you a way of seeing who has viewed your profile. — As we've described a couple of times before …
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Courtney Comstock / SAI:
Morgan Stanley's Legendary Tech Analyst Mary Meeker Moving To Kleiner Perkins — Kleiner Perkins just poached Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley's star tech analyst, says CNBC, citing WSJ. — Meeker has been a huge name since the .com days, and every year comes out with a hugely influential report/overview of the industry.
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Now a Giant, Google Works to Retain Nimble Minds — When a product manager at Google told his bosses this year that he was quitting to take a job at Facebook, they offered him a large raise. When he said it was not about the money, they told him he could have a promotion …
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Paul Marks / New Scientist:
Microsoft develops shape-shifting touchscreen — Microsoft this week filed a patent application covering a novel way to construct a “tactile” touchscreen - a display that uses technical tricks to convince users they are actually touching the ridges, bumps and textures of a displayed image.
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Computerworld, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Inquirer, Gizmodo, WinRumors and PhoneArena
Thor Muller / Social Studies Blog:
When businesses attack...their customers — Get Satisfaction is better known these days for providing a platform for companies to “love their customers,” but at times it's also a channel for consumers to make their voices heard to companies that actively spurn them.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google's “Gold Standard” Search Results Take Big Hit In New York Times Story
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
What should Google do? — Twitter was abuzz last night …
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Tiernan Ray / Barron's Online:
Will Tablets Kill the PC Star? — The proliferation of iPads and other tablets is starting to curtail sales of laptops. — THE AGE OF THE TABLET COMPUTER is upon us, and Wall Street stepped up its efforts this week to gauge just how destructive the trend will be to the traditional personal-computer market.
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Gartner Forecasts: PC Shipments Down, Tablets Up
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Fortune, Between the Lines Blog, TechCrunch, Gartner, Electronista, Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters and Softpedia News
Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
For PayPal, the Future Is Mobile — SAN JOSE, Calif. — When Scott Thompson, the president of PayPal, chats with executives at its parent, eBay, he is diplomatic about the size of his business compared with eBay's marketplace. — “I hope — honestly, genuinely — that we never get bigger than you,” he tells them.
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Samsung Nexus S reappears at the FCC with a pair of new antennas — Thinking that the not-yet-announced Samsung GT-i9020T (a.k.a. Nexus S) might be delayed due to a last minute addition of a dual-core processor, as recently seen in the seemingly similar i9100?
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Dan Nystedt / Computerworld:
Asustek unveils low-cost Eee Note e-reader, notepad — IDG News Service - Asustek Computer on Monday unveiled the Eee Note EA-800, an e-reader with a stylus for taking notes on its 8-inch touchscreen. The device will be available in Taiwan later this week for the suggested retail price of NT$6,999 (US$228), Asustek executives said.
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