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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
What's Really Behind the Rupe-a-Dope With Google and Microsoft? Here Are Five Possibilities! — Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — There certainly is a lot of noisy swirl of late around the escalating fight between Google and some traditional media companies over content online.
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Bloomberg:
News Corp. Joined By Rivals Considering Pulling Their Stories From Google — Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) — Publishers of the Denver Post and the Dallas Morning News may pull some of their stories from Google Inc.</a>'s news site, a move that would emulate News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch.
Bill Tancer / Hitwise Intelligence:News Corp. - If You de-Index Will They Still Come?
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Creates Dual-Class Stock Structure — Facebook Inc. has established a dual class stock structure, a move that helps lay the groundwork for an eventual initial public offering. — The company is in the process of converting all current shareholders to Class B stock …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Amazon bolsters battery life for Kindle; Adds native PDF reader — Amazon on Tuesday said it has improved the battery life of the Kindle and added a native PDF reader. — The statement appears to be timed to get holiday shoppers off the fence about the Kindle as rivals like Barnes & Noble …
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Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
Amazon Upgrades Users' Kindles, Automatically — Owners of new Amazon Kindles are about to get two improvements to their e-readers. They won't have to do anything; indeed, they might not even notice the upgrade. — AFP/Getty Images — The changes — to software called firmware …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Leaked Video: Swyping Versus iPhone Typing. (Swype For Android Is Next). — A year ago, Swype launched a new way to type on a touchscreen phone at TechCrunch50. Swype was created by the inventor of the T9 predictive typing system used on most phones today because he felt that new text input methods …
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Take-down notices going after Microsoft Cofee — You'll recall that CrunchGear broke the news regarding the leak of Microsoft Cofee, a suite of applications used by law enforcement officials for their own devices. The leak came from a popular BitTorrent site, and then spread to The Pirate Bay and all over the Internet.
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Dropbox Raises $7.25M, Crosses 3M Users — You don't go into file backup and syncing for the fame and glory, but that's what it seems to be yielding for 2-year-old Dropbox. Simply put, people — including my GigaOM coworkers and I — love Dropbox because it works.
Mark Harris / Times of London:
The Googlephone: Google gears up for attack on mobile-phone market — The internet giant is about to launch a system offering free calls - along with the mother of all handsets. — Google is gearing up for an all-out assault on the mobile-phone market that will include a new …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Microsoft CFO Liddell Leaving; Replaced By Peter Klein — Microsoft (MSFT) this afternoon announced that CFO Chris Liddell is leaving the company at the end of 2009, and will be replaced by Peter Klein, who is now CFO of the Microsoft Business Division. — Liddell joined the company in May 2005 …
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Kevin Purdy / Lifehacker:
Hands-On Look at What's New in Office 2010 — Now that we've had some time to play with the Office 2010 Professional Beta, we thought we'd share what's new and useful inside Microsoft's big suite. Take a gander at the pictorial evidence below. — Overall, Office 2010 is not the kind …
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Susan Wojcicki / The Official Google Blog:
New search ad formats — At Google, we're committed to giving you the information you want — regardless of the form in which it might appear. — Text is often useful, but sometimes videos and pictures are a more effective way to receive information. For example, if you want to learn a magic trick …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YC-Funded WakeMate Helps You Kiss Groggy Mornings Goodbye — Ah, the curse of the groggy morning. You may have followed all the rules: no caffeine before bed, an early bedtime, and all the rest. But your best efforts are oftentimes for naught, foiled by the mysterious ways of sleep cycles.
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Core i7 iMacs showing up DOA — including ours — Apple's new Core i7-based iMac might be a performance monster, but it looks like the whole family's having some problems getting out of the gate: in addition to the previously-noted performance issues with the Core 2 Duo models …
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John Koblin / New York Observer:
Time Inc.'s Squires Assembles Team of Rivals to Harness Digital Media — Some of the magazine industry's biggest names are on the verge of forming a new company that would allow them to take the digital future into their own hands. — The company would make up one of the biggest alliances …
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Hulu's Massive Traffic Bump? Thank ABC, New TV Season — Viewing Follows TV Patterns as Site Nears Fourth-Quarter Ad Sell Out — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Hulu nation is growing — and fast. — Fueled by the fall TV season and the addition of ABC shows to its library …
Associated Press:
Verizon opposes Sprint's “Most Dependable” claim — NEW YORK — A national advertising watchdog is asking Sprint Nextel Corp. to drop its ads calling itself “America's most dependable 3G network.” — The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus …
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook co-founder's Asana raises $9M from Benchmark, Andreessen-Horowitz — Asana, the productivity management startup from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and lead engineer Justin Rosenstein, has raked in $9 million from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz.
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Venture Capital Dispatch:
VC-Backed Co. Pushes Envelope With Postmarked Email Service — With more people emailing and fewer people sending physical mail in recent years, the U.S. Postal Service is taking steps to move into the digital world - and using a venture-backed company to do so.
Bill Gorman / TV by the numbers:
TiVo Loses 314,000 Subscribers, Worst Quarterly Subscriber Fall Yet, Now Below 3 Million — TiVo Loses 314,000 Subscribers vs. 146,000 in Previous Quarter Even by the standards of its continuing loss of subscribers, the last quarter was a particularly bad one for TiVo.
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Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Sony VAIO X gets OS X Snow Leopard — There's a lot to like about Sony's VAIO X ultraportable - its indecently-skinny build, the engineering intelligence that went into its design, and its lengthy battery life just to name a few things - but if you're less than inspired by Windows 7 then how about a Mac OS X version?
Chris Hall / Pocket-lint.com:
PHOTOS: First ELSE hands-on — “There are problems in the market. The First ELSE solves them”, says Amir Kupervas, ELSE CEO, boldly, launching a handset that promises to change the way we think about our phones. — Today saw the launch to press and business partners of the First ELSE handset …
Aza Raskin / Aza's Thoughts:
Identity in the Browser (Firefox) — Identity will be one of the defining themes in the next five years of the Web. Nearly every site has a concept of a user account, registration, and identity. Searching for “sign in” on Google yields over 1.8 billion hits.
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Tyler Tschida / App Advice:
Riptide Reveals Early In-App Purchase Results For Their Free Game Gravity Sling — Apple's decision on October 15th to allow free apps to include in-app purchases certainly generated a lot of buzz among developers, and now, thanks to iPhone game developer Riptide, we finally have some results …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics — Last week, Microsoft showed off some browser technology that could help Internet Explorer leapfrog the competition. But if Mozilla succeeds in its hope, Microsoft could be playing catch-up instead. — The technology in question …
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Canadian, Australian antitrust cops clear Microsoft-Yahoo deal — Updated 2:21 p.m.: Added more information and background. — The Canadian and Australian antitrust authorities have cleared Microsoft and Yahoo's proposed Web-search partnership, eliminating two potential barriers to combining Yahoo search and Bing.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Clearwire Raises Another $920M In Note Offering — Clearwire (CLWR) today announced that it will raise another $920 million via the sale of 12% senior notes due 2015 - that on top of the sale of another $1.85 billion of notes previously announced but priced today. — Confusing? A little.
Cody Barbierri / VentureBeat:
Siri raises $15.5M more for virtual personal assistant — For those of you awaiting the next generation of personal assistants, San Jose startup Siri, who's product aims to be a virtual personal assistant (VPA), has just raised $15.5 million in round two funding from Menlo Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures says VentureWire.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Joost: It coulda been a contender, or not — If you stepped in late, it sounds awfully dull. — An announcement Tuesday tells us all that “certain assets” of a “white-label” online video service called Joost have been acquired by Adconion Media, which calls itself “the largest independent global audience and content network.”
