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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Groupon Board Will Meet Tomorrow To Decide On Google Deal — Amidst everyone in the world writing about the rumored $5.3 billion dollar Google Groupon offer at the moment, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the deal has not yet been sealed and that Groupon's board of directors is holding …
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Local Onliner, InformationWeek, SAI, Deal Journal, Mashable!, The Huffington Post, Insights on the tech industry and BoomTown
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Wall Street Journal:
Google in Talks to Buy Groupon
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Googling Google Blog, Digits and SAI
George Ou / Digital Society:
Level 3 outbid Akamai on Netflix by reselling stolen bandwidth — Level 3 communications raised a lot of eyebrows earlier this month when it outbid rival Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider Akamai to deliver Netflix content to large parts of the United States.
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ZDNet, Level 3 Communications, CNET News, GigaOM, VideoNuze.com and Fortune, more at Mediagazer »
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J T. Ramsay / Comcast Voices:
How Internet Peering Works — In the last couple of days, since Level 3 challenged Comcast's “Internet peering” practices and said they violated the principles of “net neutrality,” a lot of people have been trying to understand just how “Internet peering” works.
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paidContent, Computerworld, CableTechTalk, Between the Lines Blog, GigaOM, Telecom Trends, Digital Society and Business Wire
Wall Street Journal:
Web-Traffic Tension Rises — U.S. regulators are looking into a dispute between two large companies that shuttle traffic around the Internet, a business invisible to most consumers but increasingly fraught with tension. — The issue gets to the heart of a longstanding argument: Who should pay for the Internet?
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eWeek, Comcast Voices, Free Press, Between the Lines Blog, ITworld.com, SiliconANGLE, dailywireless.org, Media Decoder and GigaOM
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Feature: How Comcast became a toll-collecting, nuke-wielding hydra — Wharton Business School professor Kevin Werbach dubs Comcast's actions this week a “turning point in US Internet policy.” Law professor Susan Crawford calls Comcast a terrifying, hat-wearing hydra—and she's looking for a Hercules to cut it down to size.
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savetheinternet.com/blog, GigaOM, Media Decoder, Susan Crawford blog and Comcast Voices
Vijay Sankaran / Nokia Siemens Networks Blog:
New iPhone OS supports our network technology to boost smartphone performance — With its latest iPhone iOs 4.2 software, it looks like Apple is joining efforts to cut smartphone signalling down to size. Tests by Nokia Siemens Networks have shown that iPhone iOs 4.2 supports …
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AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, Engadget, GigaOM, Electronista, Communications …, Light Reading, iClarified and IntoMobile
Wall Street Journal:
Google Set to Launch E-Book Venture — Google Inc. is in the final stages of launching its long-awaited e-book retailing venture, Google Editions, a move that could shake up the way digital books are sold. — The long-delayed venture—Google executives had said they hoped to launch this summer …
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CNET News, paidContent, Kindle Review and The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The Incredible Stupidity Of Investigating Google For Acting Like A Search Engine — I did a search at Google today for “cars” and was shocked. Rather than list links allowing me to search for “cars” on Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Voila, Naver and Yandex, Google instead favored its own search results.
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EU Press Room:
Antitrust: Commission probes allegations of antitrust violations by Google
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eWeek, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, InformationWeek, paidContent, Telegraph, Internet Archive News, Mashable!, Computerworld, TechFlash, New York Times, PC World, MacDailyNews, Tnooz, BetaNews, TechCrunch Europe, Adotas, Financial Times, The Register, VentureBeat, Neowin.net, Inside Google, PC Magazine, Post Tech, V3.co.uk, CNET News, Search Engine Watch, GigaOM, THINQ.co.uk, Search Engine Land and SlashGear
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs: AirPlay Video Streaming Coming to Safari and Third-Party Apps in 2011 — One of the major new features deployed in iOS 4.2 last week was AirPlay, Apple's solution for streaming video, audio, and photos from portable iOS devices to the new Apple TV for display on users' televisions.
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Computerworld, BlogsDNA, TiPb, Gizmodo, MacStories, Gadget Lab, App Advice, Netputing, TUAW, BGR, iClarified, Edible Apple and everythingiCafe
Nick Denton / Lifehacker:
Why Gawker is moving beyond the blog — The 2011 template represents the most significant change in the Gawker model since the launch of Gizmodo and Gawker in 2002. One could go further: it represents an evolution of the very blog form that has transformed online media over the last eight years.
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VentureBeat, CNET News and SAI, more at Mediagazer »
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures — The domain seizures by the United States authorities in recent days and upcoming legislation that could make similar takeovers even easier in the future, have inspired a group of enthusiasts to come up with a new, decentralized and BitTorrent-powered DNS system.
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P2P Dns, mygadgetnews.com, DSLreports, Computerworld, Business Wire, DomainIncite.com, Techdirt, Techie Buzz, Gizmodo, OSNews and CircleID
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Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:
Fed up with ICANN, Pirate Bay cofounder floats P2P DNS system
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Royal Pingdom:
Mobile OS usage splits the world (chart) — Where do you think Apple's iPhone is the most popular? Where does Nokia's Symbian phones dominate? How is it going for Android in different parts of the world? What about Blackberry? — We're going to answer all of those questions and more in this article …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Winamp Wants To Be The iTunes Of Android; Now Out Of Beta With Wireless Sync — Today Winamp for Android is coming out of beta, a month after its initial launch and more than 500,000 downloads later. The public Android release lets you manage your music downloads on your Android and will offer …
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Winamp Blog, Engadget, Pulse2, mygadgetnews.com, BGR, pocketnow.com, ReadWriteWeb, Electronista, Technologizer, Newlaunches.com, IntoMobile, TechSpot, Android Phone Fans, Download Squad, SAI, Examiner and ConceivablyTech
Emre Peker / Bloomberg:
JPMorgan Gives Bankers IPads, Signaling Danger to RIM — JPMorgan Chase & Co. will give its investment bankers iPads to provide an additional mobile tool as Apple Inc. expands its domain to Wall Street, threatening Research in Motion Ltd. in a market it traditionally dominated.
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InformationWeek, MacStories, Electronista, eWeek, SAI, Clusterstock and The Huffington Post
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Facebook Engineering Director Aditya Agarwal Departs — Facebook director of engineering and very early employee Aditya Agarwal is leaving the company after more than five years, he announced last night. — In a note published on his Facebook profile, Agarwal said:
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google Cuts Off AppNexus, and the Ad Tech World Shudders — AppNexus, a high-flying ad technology start-up, just had a bad few days. The next few weeks could be rough, too. — That's because over the weekend, Google suspended the company's access to the ad giant's “real time” ad exchange.
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Sui-Lee Wee / Reuters:
China arrests hundreds of hackers, says situation “grim” — (Reuters) - China has arrested more than 460 hackers from start of this year to the end of November, but the prospects to prevent future assaults on computer security remain grim, the ministry of public security said.
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Wins Multiple Touch & MacBook Tablet Patents — In a second wave of granted patents published by the US Patent and Trademark Office for Apple Inc. today, we see that they've won several key touch related patents including two relating to virtual keyboards.
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TUAW and CrunchGear
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter Trusts, No Longer Verifies — On the Internet no one knows you're a dog. And on Twitter, no one knows if you're really Kim Kardashian. Unless Twitter says so, via its “verified account” badge. — But that system, introduced by Twitter back in June 2009, is going away.
Nick Bilton / Bits:
For Start-Ups, the Ultimate Goal: Becoming a Verb — When starting a new Web site or Internet service, most technologists are aiming to sell to a larger company or gain hundreds of millions of users. But for some there is an even bigger glory than cash: their company name becomes a verb.
Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:
Microsoft exec says Google is ‘failing’ in the enterprise — In Q&A, Microsoft's Tom Rizzo says Google doesn't understand business needs — Computerworld - Raising the stakes in its war of words, Microsoft today said Google simply doesn't understand what businesses need, and is failing at pushing its way into the enterprise.
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WinRumors and The Next Web, Thanks:hornokplease
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Motorola to finally split on January 4th — Motorola announced Tuesday that its board has approved a reverse stock split ratio of 1-for-7, and the company will finally split into two separate entities on January 4th, 2011. In just over a month, Motorola will change its name to Motorola Solutions …
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PR Newswire, PhoneArena, Engadget, SAI, Neowin.net, Electronista, Between the Lines Blog, Tech Trader Daily and Reuters
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Dell Inspiron Duo review — When Dell first demoed the Inspiron Duo and its vertically rotating screen on stage at IDF in September, our mouths nearly hit the floor. It looked like a plain old netbook until its 10.1-inch capacitive touchscreen did a magical backflip and folded down over its keyboard to morph into a tablet.
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GottaBeMobile, SAI and Liliputing
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Report: In-Game Purchases To Blow Mobile Games Revenues Past $11 Billion By 2015 — A new report from Juniper Research forecasts global mobile games revenues to surpass $11 billion by 2015, nearly double what they were in 2009. — All in all, it's a fairly conservative prediction in my opinion …
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Mobile Marketing Watch, Market Wire, VatorNews and TechEye
Daniel Rubino / WPCentral.com:
Rumor: January Windows Phone 7 update to be massive, catches up with iPhone — We've been covering the rumored software update for Windows Phone 7 for sometime now, even having our forum members add some info to the mix. So far, the update is suppose to have the following features:
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Gearing Up For A Chrome Web Store Launch (For Real This Time) — Back in August, at a conference in Europe, Google showed a little preview of the Chrome Web Store and noted that a launch would probably take place in October. While there were some hints of it coming along in October …
