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Chris Yeh / delicious blog:
What's Next for Delicious — Many of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We're genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users. While we can't answer each of your questions individually …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Has Hit Rock Bottom And Is In “Absolute Disarray” — Yahoo has hit rock bottom. They've now, finally, had their layoffs. Those that are left are keeping their resumes fresh and don't expect to stay there over the long term. Everything we hear from employees boils down to this - the company is in “absolute disarray.”
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GigaOM, Computerworld, CNNMoney.com, SmoothSpan Blog, Regular Geek, TUAW, eSarcasm and virtualeconomics
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Trying To Unload Del.icio.us, Not Shut It Down — Yesterday, a leaked internal Yahoo slide brought us the news that Yahoo will soon be shuttering Del.icio.us, the bookmarking service it bought a few years back. Today, Yahoo has released a statement on the group's blog.
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This is going to be BIG!, The Next Web, Computerworld, ProgrammableWeb, MediaPost, digiphile and Lifehacker
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo, You Flubbed News About The Future Of Delicious, Not The Press
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msnbc.com, Bruce Clay Blog, Tea & Tech, paidContent and Faster Forward
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Google Takes Another Big Step to Retain Employees: Autonomous Business Units — There's a lie that companies and entrepreneurs tell themselves in order to commit to an acquisition. … It usually works for a little while, but big company bureaucracy- whether it's HR, politics or just endless meetings- almost always creeps in.
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SAI, Gizmodo, Electronista and Pulse2
Gideon Wald / Google Webmaster Central Blog:
New hacked site notifications in search results — Today we've added a new notification to our search results that helps people know when a site may have been hacked. We've provided notices for malware for years, which also involve a separate warning page.
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Search Engine Land, The Register, Krebs on Security, MediaMemo, eWeek, Erictric, The Official Google Blog, Pulse2 and CNET News
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: Tumblr Raises $25 Million [Update: It's Actually $30 Million] — For the past several weeks there's been reports of blogging platform Tumblr raising a boatload of money. That was confirmed today in a SEC filing with numbers on the round. $25 million to be exact.
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GigaOM, paidContent, VentureBeat and SAI
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google To Expand And Market Movie Streaming Service In 2011 — Google is expanding its feature film streaming service, says a source who's been briefed on the product. The service will likely be an expansion of the current movie rental/streaming test launched by Google earlier this year.
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GigaOM, SAI and Electronista, more at Mediagazer »
Andrew Miller / Google Mobile Blog:
Under the hood of Google Maps 5.0 for Android — Yesterday we introduced Google Maps 5.0 for Android with two significant new features: 3D interaction and offline reliability. In order to create these features, we rebuilt Maps using vector graphics to dynamically draw the map as you use it.
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Droid Life, Pocket-lint, SiliconANGLE, GT Mobiles, Android Phone Fans, Softpedia News, Inquirer, Search Engine Roundtable and AppScout
Alastair Goldfisher / PE Hub Blog:
Facebook To Make About 15 Talent Acquisitions in 2011 — Next year, look for Facebook to make plenty of small acquisitions to beef up its engineering expertise, like it did with Hot Potato and Drop.io this fall. — That was the message from Michael Brown, corporate development manager at Facebook …
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Social Business Blog, All Facebook, Social Medium, ReadWriteWeb and The Atlantic Online
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Rupert Murdoch's “Daily” iPad Newspaper Set for January Launch — Want to get a gander at “the Daily,” Rupert Murdoch's much-discussed but still sorta-secret iPad newspaper? Wait a month. — News Corp. plans to launch the publication the week of January 17, multiple sources tell me.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
RIM In Talks To Buy Gist — RIM, the company behind the iconic mobile-messaging platform BlackBerry, is said to be in talks to acquire Seattle-based startup Gist, according to industry sources. While the deal is said to be nearly done, there is always a fair chance that the two parties might not come to an agreement.
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Facebook Stock Sold At $56 Billion Valuation In “Significantly Oversubscribed” Auction — Private shares market Sharespost just sold 165,000 Facebook shares for $25 each. That price implies a $56 billion valuation of Facebook. — In an email to members, Sharespost said that because the auction was …
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VatorNews, All Facebook, Shades of Green and Pulse2
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple bulking up iOS development team with navigation software experts — Apple this week put out a call for a number of new software engineers for its iOS development team, indicating it wants candidates that have experience developing navigation software.
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SAI, MacRumors, pocketnow.com, RCR Wireless News, Gizmodo, TUAW and MobileBurn.com
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Palm's tablet is codenamed ‘Topaz,’ keyboard accessory leaks out — Okay, it's not exactly the new webOS hardware we've been waiting for, but we just got this shot of a Palm Bluetooth keyboard from a trusted source — we're told it's an accessory for Palm's upcoming tablet, which is codenamed “Topaz.”
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CNET News, PhoneDog.com, SlashGear, PreCentral.net, Everything webOS, Erictric and Electronista
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Connecticut Jabs Google Over Data — Connecticut's attorney general said Friday his office may take legal action against Google Inc. after the Internet company rejected his request to turn over personal data it inadvertently collected from wireless networks.
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paidContent, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, Mercury News, Electronista, Reuters and SAI
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
MSE 2.0 arrives with heuristic scanning, network traffic inspection — Following a four-month beta program, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) 2.0 has been released. The new version adds a heuristic scanning engine, improved Windows Firewall integration, and network traffic inspection.
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LiveSide.net, internetnews.com and TechSpot
John Hilvert / iTnews:
UN mulls internet regulation options — WikiLeaks sparks push for tighter controls. — The United Nations is considering whether to set up an inter-governmental working group to harmonise global efforts by policy makers to regulate the internet. — Establishment of such a group …
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Vint Cerf / The Official Google Blog:
Governments shouldn't have a monopoly on Internet governance
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Judge kills massive P2P porn lawsuit, kneecaps copyright troll — Only 10 days after a federal judge in Washington, DC sharply limited the US Copyright Group's mass file-sharing lawsuits there, a federal judge in West Virginia has come down even harder on another set of mass lawsuits.
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Jim Wolf / Reuters:
U.S. code-cracking agency works as if compromised — (Reuters) - The U.S. government's main code-making and code-cracking agency now works on the assumption that foes may have pierced even the most sensitive national security computer networks under its guard.
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Horace Dediu / asymco:
92 percent of RIM's sales growth came from outside the US — First, a round-up of the quarter's numbers: — 14.2 million devices shipped, sell-through: 12.3 million — expect to ship 14.5 to 15 million units in the next quarter — ASP of approximately $315 — US, UK and Canada are 56% of sales
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GigaOM, IntoMobile, SiliconANGLE, PhoneDog.com, MediaPost, PC World and mocoNews
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Android 2.3 Gingerbread's source code now available — Want to dig through 2.3 and see what all the fuss is about for yourself? Well, you're in luck, because Gingerbread has just hit the Android Open Source Project's repository, which means you can set up your machine to download the code.
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Droid Life, BGR, Inquirer, MobileWhack.com, Android Phone Fans, Electronista and Know Your Cell
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Prepping for iWork '11 Mac App Store Launch? — According to a report from 9to5Mac, stock of iWork '09 is running low at retail Apple Stores. Meanwhile, Apple's online store auto-completes “iWork 11” as a possibility when searching for “iWork”. While none of these findings …
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Christopher Finke / Less Talk, More Do:
Tapsure: Better password input on mobile devices — Typing passwords on mobile devices sucks. If you have even a reasonably strong password (one that includes letters, numbers, and special characters), it can take more than a few seconds to type it out on a phone's keypad or on-screen keyboard.
Jim Romenesko / Poynter Online:
Memo: 'Gawker tech team didn't adequately secure our platform' — “On several fronts — technically, as well as customer support and communication — we found ourselves unprepared to handle this eventuality,” says Gawker chief technology officer Thomas Plunkett's memo to staff.
