Techmeme: YouTube Adds 60 More Web Video “Channel” Deals In Europe, US (Peter Kafka/AllThingsD)

October 8, 2012, 5:40 AM

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Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:

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Roger Cheng / CNET:

Motorola confirms death of Webtop, laptop accessories — The company said adoption wasn't strong enough to justify additional resources. — Motorola Mobility's Webtop concept, which enabled its phones to act as the brains of a laptop or television entertainment hub, has quietly been killed off, the company confirmed to CNET today.

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

YouTube Adds 60 More Web Video “Channel” Deals In Europe, US — YouTube is ramping up its channel experiment. — Google is funding a new batch of video-makers to join the 100 it launched in the last year. And it's making an international push, by adding content for the UK, German and French versions of the site.

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Steven Musil / CNET:

Apple reportedly orders 10M iPad Minis for fourth quarter — Component makers in Asia say they have received orders for the unannounced tablet that eclipse Amazon's orders for the Kindle Fire, The Wall Street Journal reports. — Apple is apparently thinking big for its iPad Mini …

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EBay Battles Back With Mobile, Local, Personalization, And A More Streamlined PayPal — It's not easy for a $63 billion company to make a successful pivot, but if eBay manages to pull it off, it will be one for the history books. The e-commerce giant has been shifting focus from being primarily …

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Google Launching AdWords Business Credit Card To Boost SMB Search Ad Spend, Starting First In UK, Extending To U.S. — When small businesses need to make investments in IT or other operations, it's often the companies selling them the goods that help with financing solutions.

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Lauren Schuker Blum / Wall Street Journal:

Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles — As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, they're reshaping the real-estate landscape — Andrew Frame, founder of the Internet-telephone company Ooma …

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Tom Simonite / Technology Review:

Google Puts Its Virtual Brain Technology to Work — A powerful new approach to artificial intelligence is ready to improve many Google products. — This summer Google set a new landmark in the field of artificial intelligence with software that learned how to recognize cats, people …

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