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4:20 PM ET, October 13, 2010

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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Bing, Now With Extra Facebook: See What Your Friends Like & People Search Results  —  At long last, Facebook's social data is coming to search in a big way.  Bing is now making use of it to show new “Liked By Your Friends” matches and Facebook-powered people search results.
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Bing / Search Blog:
Bing Gets More Social with Facebook  —  As you read in Satya's post, today we announced a significant expansion of our partnership with Facebook, where Bing will provide much more personalized experiences to you by allowing you to bring your Facebook friends into your search experience.
Satya Nadella / Bing Community:
New Signals in Search: The Bing Social Layer  —  The technology search engines employ to retrieve that needle in the information haystack is staggering and humbling; it's one of the things that get us fired up to come to work at Bing every day.  —  Today we announced an exciting expansion to our long-term partnership with Facebook.
Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
Apple holding ‘Back to the Mac’ event on October 20  —  This just in: Apple will be holding a media event titled “Back to the Mac” on October 20.  The invitation seems to indicate that the focus of the meeting will be on/around Mac OS X 10.7 — maybe to be called “Lion”? — and the Mac.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Microsoft announces Windows Phone 7 sync software for Macs due this year  —  Even though we kind of saw this coming, it's still nice to hear.  Microsoft has gone and done the (nearly) unthinkable, announcing this evening plans for a Mac compatible sync client for its soon-to-be-launched Windows Phone 7 devices.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Apple Patents Anti-Sexting Device  —  Today the US Patent and Trademark Office approved a patent Apple filed in 2008, which, get this, prevents users from sending or receiving “objectionable” text messages.  The patent's official title?  “Text-based communication control for personal communication device” …
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Mayer to Location: Big.  —  Today I was in a meeting with a number of consultants to a very large technology company.  Their job: market research, essentially.  They called to ask me my thoughts on the media and technology world, in particular as it might play out in the next five or so years.
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David Benoit / Wall Street Journal:
Zuckerberg's Residence at Issue in Facebook Suit  —  Lawyers for a man who claims he is entitled to 84% of Facebook Inc. argued Wednesday that the social-networking site's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, lives a transient life out of a duffel bag.  —  In a hearing in a federal courthouse in Buffalo …
Discussion: Gawker
Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
#100%  —  As of today, everyone who uses Twitter now has access to the new Twitter.  Whether you're just signing up today or you've been a user for years, this new experience is finally real for everyone - all 160 million of you - and in six languages to boot.
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
People With Cell Phones, The FCC Has Your Back  —  The Federal Communications Commission may be struggling in its attempts to create real network neutrality rules, but it's having better luck with pushing consumer-friendly reforms in the wireless business.  Tomorrow, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski plans …
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Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
AT&T, Verizon May Have to Warn Mobile-Phone Users Topping Limits
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Toby Padilla / TweetDeck's posterous:
Android TweetDeck 1.0: Ready for Market  —  It's been a crazy couple months here at TweetDeck.  We announced our public beta of Android TweetDeck on August 12th and since then we've done 11 releases, crushed millions of bugs and listened to a tonne of feedback.
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
I Like to Dislike!  Facebook Introduces Comment Voting, Threads  —  For those of you tirelessly campaigning for a dislike button, it looks like it's arrived, at least in some format.  Facebook has upgraded its comments plugin and now allows users to up- and down-vote other comments …
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
CarWoo unveils a better way to buy a car  —  As the influence of the Internet creeps into more and more of our lives, the car-buying process is one of the few areas that remains untouched — at least, that's what Tommy McClung, cofounder and chief executive of CarWoo, argues.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Target next in line to sell Apple's iPhone, following Sam's Club  —  Discount chain Target will be the next major American third-party retailer to team up with Apple to promote the iPhone, AppleInsider has been told.  —  Target  —  According to people familiar with the matter …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
By the Numbers: Seed Funding Is the New Black  —  If Angelgate didn't prove it, then the following data will; there's a tinge of mania when it come to early- and seed-stage funding.  The latest data from CB Insights, a market research firm that tracks the venture capital industry …
eMarketer:
Email Still Tops Facebook for Keeping in Touch  —  Only 18- to 24-year-olds use the social networking site more than email for passing items on  —  Content-sharing has become a staple of internet usage for most online adults.  Research from Chadwick Martin Bailey found that three-quarters …
Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon's Android Success Augurs Well for Its iPhone  —  Verizon Wireless's embrace of Google Inc.'s Android operating system did more than provide the carrier with devices to compete with the iPhone.  It also gave the company experience dealing with the data hogs who can hobble a wireless network.
Matthew Scott / DailyFinance:
FourSquare Co-Founder: Credit Card Links and More User Rewards Likely  —  Dennis Crowley, co-founder of social networking website FourSquare, says businesses may soon offer consumers the option to link their credit card to their favorite social networking website, or the opportunity to earn …
Discussion: MediaPost and Internet2Go
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Sony's GoogleTV lineup: $400-$1,400  —  At a press event in New York today, Sony is showing off its lineup of GoogleTV products, including a Blu-ray player and Wi-Fi TVs with the Google software built in.  —  I'm not there but am watching the live coverage and company releases.
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Sam Biddle / Gizmodo:
How It Feels to Use Sony's First Google TV
Michael Kan / Computerworld:
Microsoft Bing partners with Alibaba's Taobao search engine  —  Microsoft has found a new partner to promote it's Bing search engine technology in China by working with the country's largest online retailer Taobao.com to power web results for its new Etaosite.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Big media wants more piracy busting from Google  —  Filmmaker Ellen Seidler shows how a visit to a site that offers her pirated movie also displays ads via Google.  —  When it comes to fighting online piracy, some music and film industry executives think Google could be doing more to help.
Discussion: The Next Web and PlagiarismToday
Jonny Evans / Jonny Evans's blog:
Apple-hate myth: ‘Glass-gate’ makes headlines  —  Post ‘antenna-gate’, Apple-haters have a new myth.  This morning's anti-iPhone info-blip sees claims that the “iPhone 4 breaks 82 percent more than iPhone 3Gs”.  Which sounds like quite a headline — particularly given the mind-share wars between Apple …
Mark Boslet / PE Hub Blog:
Moritz's Provocative Claim: Silicon Valley Needs Just $400M a Year  —  A lot of venture capitalists are concerned about how their industry is shrinking, but Michael Moritz isn't one of them.  —  A partner at Sequoia Capital, Moritz was one of several VCs at yesterday's DLA Piper Global …
AppleInsider:
Apple shares crack $300 en-route to new all-time high  —  Apple stock rose roughly 1% in pre-marketed trading Wednesday to a new all-time high, surpassing the $300 milestone for the first time in the company's history.  —  Shares of the Mac and iPhone maker have been on a tear in recent weeks …
Steve McClellan / Adweek:
NBC, Google Abort TV Ad-Sales Pact  —  The partnership launched amid much fanfare in 2008  —  NBC Universal and Google have discontinued their ad sales partnership begun in 2008, the companies have confirmed.  The split deprives Google's TV ad sales unit of one of its major alliances …
 
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Ash Rust / The Official Klout Blog:
Do you have Facebook Klout?  —  Today I'm excited to announce …
Discussion: TechCrunch
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Kills “Clear Chat History” Feature, Users Go Crazy
Discussion: TechCrunch and msnbc.com
Niall Harbison / Simply Zesty:
Bit.ly Adds Impressive Automatic QR Code Generation To Shortened Links
Discussion: The Next Web, AppScout and Mashable!
Chris Kanaracus / Computerworld:
Oracle pledges support for OpenOffice.org
Discussion: The Register
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
xAD Raises $4 Million For Local Mobile Advertising Network
Discussion: alarm:clock, Internet2Go and mocoNews
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Search Share Up After Instant, Yahoo Down After Bing Transition
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Beyond LinkedIn: 7 Degrees' visual, open social graph as business tool
Discussion: TechCrunch
 Earlier Items: 
Electronista:
Samsung debuts 3bit, 20nm 64GB NAND flash storage
Discussion: Macworld, Softpedia News and TechEye
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Conduct Unbecoming A Public Company Board Of Directors
Erica Naone / Technology Review:
Microsoft's 3-D Strategy
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Ning Everywhere Debuts With Third-Party Extensions, Mobile Apps And More
Michael Hirschorn / The Atlantic Online:
Truth Lies Here  —  How can Americans talk to one another …
Paul Thurrott / Windows Phone Secrets:
Windows Phone 7 and removable storage
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Kleiner Perkins Harvests Over $100 Million From Ngmoco Acquisition
Discussion: Edge Magazine
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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