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4:10 PM ET, November 3, 2010

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Erick Tseng / Facebook Blog:
Making Mobile More Social  —  Life happens in real time, and so should sharing.  Today's mobile phones allow people to connect on the go and to share interesting moments as they happen all around them.  —  Earlier this week, when the Giants won the World Series, revelling baseball fans took to the streets of San Francisco.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Big Deal: Facebook Emerges As Major Player In Mobile And Location-Based Services  —  The world of location-based services changed dramatically today.  And the changes that Facebook announced place the company firmly in the center of that very dynamic universe and ecosystem.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Revamps The Mobile Log-In Process With Single Sign-On  —  Today at Facebook's event in Palo Alto, CA the company wanted to talk about mobile.  First, CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a few updates to both Facebook's Android and iPhone apps.  But the real key to all of this is the platform, he said.
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Facebook has 200 million active mobile users, improves iOS and Android applications  —  Today, at the company's mobile media event, social networking giant Facebook announced that it has roughly 200 million active users on its Facebook mobile products; up from 65 million last year.
Discussion: CNET News, SAI and Reuters
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Why Facebook Still Doesn't Have An iPad App
Discussion: SAI and SelectStart
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Gives All Developers Access To Full Set Of Places APIs …
Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Nokia Gets Support of ITC Staff in Apple Smartphone Trial  —  Nokia Oyj shouldn't be found liable of infringing Apple Inc.'s patents, the staff of the U.S. International Trade Commission said as a trial started.  —  “The evidence will not establish a violation” of Apple patent rights …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Twitter Promoted Tweets Come To Google  —  In a first ever move, Google is now carrying ads from someone else's ad network — Twitter's, as Google integrates Twitter's new Promoted Tweets into Google Realtime Search.  —  It's quite a coup for Twitter.  Not only did the company get Google …
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
LG Pad coming in Q1 2011, with Android Honeycomb, dual-core Tegra 2, and 8.9-inch screen  —  Want some specificity about LG's super-duper tablet roadmap?  Last we heard from the Korean tech giant, it was canning plans for a Froyo slate and looking forward to a more suitable iteration of Android …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
At My Wit's End: Jason Calacanis Threatens To Sue Us  —  Jason Calacanis, our former partner on our TechCrunch50 events, is threatening to sue us.  His demand letter and draft complaint are embedded below.  In a nutshell, he wants part of the proceeds from our sale to AOL.
Paul Marks / New Scientist:
Aircraft bomb finds may spell end for in-flight Wi-Fi  —  The long-awaited ability to use a cellphone or Wi-Fi connection on an aircraft might become a casualty of the latest aviation security threat.  —  It was revealed on 29 October that parcels containing a powdered explosive packed …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
The big tech pedigree doesn't help: Whitman and Fiorina go down in flames  —  Perhaps tonight's elections in California should be a lesson for technology executives at big tech companies.  The pedigree of being an executive at a major tech company isn't necessarily a winning background for California politics.
Zach Epstein / BGR:
The 4G forgery  —  T-Mobile does not have a 4G network.  Sprint, which first launched WiMAX in June of 2009, does not have a 4G network.  Verizon Wireless will flip the switch on LTE later this year and when it does, it will not have a 4G network.  AT&T is taking its time with LTE and it won't fire anything up until next year.
Discussion: InformationWeek, Thanks:aharpaz
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
T-Mobile roasts AT&T in debut of ‘Largest 4G Network’ campaign
E.B. Boyd / Fast Company:
Google Tool May Have Had Wrong Polling Place Locations for Hundreds of Thousands of Voters  —  Political technology and info company Aristotle says flaws in Google's poll finder tool are widespread.  —  After a Fast Company editor got a wrong address from Google's polling place locator this morning …
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Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Sent Users to Wrong Polls? Nope, Board of Elections Did
Discussion: Fast Company and Switched
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Andreessen Horowitz Doubles Down, Raises $650 Million Fund  —  The fundraising crunch doesn't seem to be hitting venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which announced today that it has raised $650 million for a second fund, more than doubling the $300 million it raised 16 months ago.
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Ben Horowitz / ben's blog:
Why Andreessen Horowitz Just Raised $650,000,000
Discussion: RCR Wireless News
Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
Facebook's Initial Crew Moving On  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, the most successful start-up of the last decade, is only six years old, and an initial public offering is still a way off.  —  But a number of Facebook's early employees are giving up their stable jobs, free food and laundry service to build their own businesses.
Kunal / Samsung Hub:
Galaxy Tab will receive the Gingerbread and Honeycomb updates  —  Not a surprise but if you're looking for some official confirmation, Samsung India at an event yesterday confirmed that Galaxy Tab will be blessed with Android's future updates.  Samsung will release Gingerbread (Android 2.3) …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Ministry of Sound Forced To Suspend File-Sharing Shakedown  —  World famous nightclub and independent music label Ministry of Sound have been forced to suspend their planned shakedown of tens of thousands of alleged file-sharers.  The company had planned to send 25,000 letters demanding hundreds …
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Google's Obsession With Speed Comes to the Web Server  —  Google has been obsessed with speeding up the web for quite a while now.  The company's most recent efforts towards this goal include Google Instant for speeding up search, the Page Speed tool for developers and webmasters …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
SurveyMonkey Lands Massive $100 Million Debt Financing  —  One of the unsung heroes among Web startups is SurveyMonkey, the company that offers online surveys.  Today, it is announcing a very large round of senior debt financing: $100 million from a syndicate led by Bank of America Merrill Lynch and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
comScore: Android Continues To Close In On Apple, RIM  —  comScore has released its monthly smartphone mobile report today and like last month's data, Android is continuing its assault on Apple and RIM's share of users.  The data, which measured smartphone usage from June until September of this year …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Tweeting Your iPhone Angst?  AT&T is Listening... on Twitter  —  AT&T is tracking Twitter updates to aid in its understanding of network failures and glitches, according to a new report from MIT's Technology Review this morning.  Using software developed internally by its own researchers …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple Can Sell 100M iPhones, 48M iPads in 2011, Analyst Says  —  Just how big can Apple (AAPL) get in the smart phone and tablet markets?  Pretty darn big.  —  Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair on Tuesday issued some absolutely stunning forecasts on the prospects for Apple in 2011.
Quentin Hardy / At Your Servers:
HP's Move on IBM  —  The competition for the world's biggest tech contracts just kicked in harder.  —  Hewlett Packard is announcing a comprehensive reconfiguration of how it sells large, complex computing systems to its biggest clients.  The program, the first big move by HP chief Leo Apotheker …
Discussion: TechEye
 
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Jason Morse / Google Mobile Ads Blog:
Bringing Google ads to AdMob publishers
Discussion: VentureBeat, mocoNews and TechCrunch
Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
BREAKING: Skyfire for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch Now Available for Download !
Discussion: SAI and MobileCrunch, Thanks:taimurasad
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
State of the Blogosphere: More bloggers are doing it with their phones
Discussion: Technorati and Fast Company
Nick Saint / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Groupon Releases A Mobile App For Merchants To Handle Redemptions
Discussion: Mashable! and Business Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Startups play poker, big companies play chess
Thanks:gapingvoid
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Facebook Tests Smaller Font In News Feed, Users Retaliate On Twitter
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Federated Media targets moms with its first big acquisition
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Regarding the Idea of iPad Apps Running on Mac OS X
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple to Extend iTunes Song Previews to 90 Seconds in U.S.