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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple acquired mind-blowing 3D mapping company C3 Technologies, looking to take iOS Maps to the next level — A 3D model of Las Vegas Strip created by Apple purchased C3 — Since the original iPhone's debut in 2007, Apple's iOS devices have made use of an Apple-built Google Maps application …
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Gizmodo and Electronista
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Google's Big Video Push Is Here: YouTube Getting More Than 100 New Channels — Google is launching more than 100 new YouTube channels with exclusive video content commissioned from media companies and celebrities. — Providers with their own channels will include Thomson Reuters …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
YouTube and Hollywood Finally Link Up: Here Come the Channels
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Wall Street Journal, CNET News, TechCrunch, New York Times, paidContent and Engadget, more at Mediagazer »
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Oh S**t, I'm A Racist — “I don't think Mike Arrington is a racist” - Angela Benton — It's never a good day when people you don't know are having a raging Internet debate about whether or not you're a racist. But that's exactly what's happening, thanks to CNN.
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Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
Arrington, Race, and Silicon Valley
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@lyneka and Black Web 2.0
Laurie Segall / CNNMoney.com:
War of words breaks out over Silicon Valley diversity debate
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@jonfortt and @nealcarter
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Nobody Gives A Damn About Your Klout Score — Remember that time that astrologers decided that they had gotten all the zodiac signs off by one, and everyone was so bewildered because all of a sudden you were NO LONGER AN ARIES BUT A PISCES and it seemed like everything you had believed for so long was untrue.
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CenterNetworks, VatorNews, VentureBeat, Internet Evolution and Business Week
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Marshall Kirkpatrick's Blog:
Why Klout is Really and Truly Valuable — Social media scoring system Klout did a big refresh tonight and it is clearly broken because it said I am less influential than it said I was before. But is it worthless? Is this a meaningless arbitrary number that deserves nothing but mockery? No.
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TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, @james_mayes and @the_spinmd
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Should you care how high your Klout score is?
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The Official Klout Blog, USA Today, Yahoo! Advertising Blog, @imjustmike and @scobleizer
Dane Schiller / Houston Chronicle:
Online hackers threaten to expose cartel secrets — An international group of online hackers is warning a Mexican drug cartel to release one of its members, kidnapped from a street protest, or it will publish the identities and addresses of the syndicate's associates, from corrupt police to taxi drivers …
Thanks:dsilverman
John Markoff / New York Times:
In Surprise, China Unveils Supercomputer Based on Its Own Chips — China has made its first supercomputer based on Chinese microprocessor chips, an advance that surprised high-performance computing specialists in the United States. — The announcement was made this week at a technical meeting held …
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CNET News, Wall Street Journal and HPC Wire
Matt Lynley / Business Insider:
Steve Ballmer Torched This Ex-Microsoft Employee's Chance To Work On iCloud For Apple — In April news broke that Apple had poached Microsoft employee Kevin Timmons to help build out its cloud-computing services. — Then in October, it turned out Timmons wasn't at Apple.
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AppleInsider, Electronista, The Next Web and iClarified
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook's Hybrid News Feed May Be Helping Big Brands, Hurting Local Businesses — Initial analysis of the Facebook's move from a two-tab news feed to a single hybrid news feed showed Page posts receiving fewer impressions but more Likes and comments — overall a positive change.
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All Facebook and EdgeRank Checker
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
All prospects for an internal HP webOS largely destroyed — HP announced yesterday that it would retain its PC business while deflecting questions about the future of webOS for at least another month, but insiders note that HP has already destroyed the viability of the project moving forward internally …
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Business Insider, eWeek and mocoNews
AppleInsider:
Adobe Photoshop CS6 to adopt Aperture-like theme, new 3D functionality — Early betas of Photoshop CS6, an update to Adobe's flagship digital imaging software due next year as part of Creative Suite 6.0 (CS6), show off a darker interface theme, new 3D capabilities, autosave …
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WinBeta, O'Grady's PowerPage, iClarified and Electronista, Thanks:beijingdou
Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
The World Is Surprisingly Angry About the End of Google Reader — The demise of Google Reader's share features is affecting everyone from RSS-junkies to Iranian freedom fighters, and many of them are very displeased. Google Reader itself is very much alive and well, and in fact …
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amirhm.com, Washington Post and TechCrunch
Brad Linder / Liliputing:
$150 HP TouchPads coming to Best Buy... with purchase of a PC — Best Buy will begin selling dirt cheap HP TouchPad tablets again on Tuesday, November 1st. You'll be able to pick up a 32GB model for $149.99. — That's the good news. — The bad news is that in order to get that price you'll need …
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Reuters, PreCentral.net, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, Android Community, Android Phone Fans, TechCrunch and Gizmodo
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Bye, bye $99 TouchPad: HP says tablet officially out of stock
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Engadget, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Everything webOS and Examiner
