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November 8, 2012, 11:35 PM

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Priceline.com:

Priceline.com Agrees to Acquire KAYAK Software Corporation — Priceline.com Incorporated (NASDAQ: PCLN) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement for the Priceline Group to acquire KAYAK in a stock and cash transaction. Under the terms of the agreement …

More: Mashable!, CNET, Skift, ZDNet, AllThingsD, Tnooz, TechCrunch, DailyFinance.com, GeekWire, AndroidSPIN, Xconomy, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, Forbes, The Verge and Mass High Tech

Tweets: @mercbizbreak and @rafat

Michael Abramson / Sequoia Capital:

Creating room in a crowd — Sometimes it's never too late to join a crowded market. Just ask Paul English and Steve Hafner, who today announced an agreement to sell Kayak to Priceline for about $1.8 billion. — Today, Kayak's promise of ‘One and Done’ is well known as befits a company …

Rafat Ali / Skift:

BREAKING: Priceline to buy Kayak for $1.8 billion — A bomb just dropped in the online travel world: Priceline the world's largest travel company, has agreed to acquire travel meta-search company Kayak, for about $1.8 billion. — Major deal points: — Priceline is offering $40 per share of Kayak …

More: GigaOM, Quartz, Tnooz, The Next Web and Betabeat

Tweets: @pkedrosky, @cnbc, @vacanti and @danprimack

Dennis Schaal / Skift:

Kayak reaps $3.5 million in mobile revenue in Q3 as overall revenues rise 30 percent

More: Yahoo! Finance and Forbes

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

AT&T's flip-flop on FaceTime over cellular should scare you — A ‘cautious approach’ exposes the FCC's greatest shortcoming — Weeks after taking enormous heat from consumers, public interest groups, and the media (like us), AT&T is doing an about-face on its controversial decision …

More: Public Knowledge, AT&T Public Policy Blog, Wired, Gear Live, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, Ubergizmo, ITworld.com, PhoneNews.com, Macgasm and BuzzFeed

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

AT&T Expands FaceTime Over Cellular Access to More Customers — AT&T announced today that it is planning to allow any customer “with an LTE device” on a “tiered data plan” to use iOS 6's FaceTime over Cellular feature. Previously, only customers with a Mobile Share plan could use the feature.

More: PR Newswire, Business Insider, Digits, AllThingsD, The Verge, TUAW, DailyTech, TechnoBuffalo, CNET, Ars Technica, Engadget, Mashable!, Reuters, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, BGR, parislemon and 9to5Mac

Tweets: @jlgolson and @mattbuchanan

Thanks:@jlgolson

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

AT&T fires up a tablet subsidy model, offering $100 off LTE iPads, other models with 2 year Data Plan — AT&T has made an interesting announcement today that, at first, looks like a nice sale. It's offering $100 off any tablet purchased with a 2 year data plan either online or in one of its stores starting November 9th.

More: AT&T Cell Phones …, Gizmodo, TUAW, The Verge, Business Insider, IntoMobile, iDownloadBlog.com, PadGadget and iPhone Hacks

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Nvidia CEO: Consumers realize a great tablet is better than a cheap PC — Graphics chip giant Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang said in a conference call with analysts today that consumers realize “a great tablet is better than a cheap PC.” — That's an interesting statement coming …

More: CNET

Ian King / Bloomberg:

Nvidia Third-Quarter Earnings Top Estimates on Tablet Orders

More: Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet and Forbes

Derrick Harris / GigaOM:

Facebook open sources Corona — a better way to do webscale Hadoop — Facebook is at it again, building more software to make Hadoop a better way to do big data at web scale. Its latest creation, which the company has also open sourced, is called Corona and aims to make Hadoop more efficient …

More: The Register, InfoWorld, ReadWrite, Facebook, VentureBeat, The Next Web and TechCrunch

DigiTimes:

Foxconn reportedly plans to set up plants in US — Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) reportedly plans to establish manufacturing plants in the US and is currently conducting evaluations in cities such as Detroit and Los Angeles, according to market watchers.

More: digitaltrends.com, Examiner, SlashGear, InvestorPlace, Macgasm, HotHardware.com News, PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, WebProNews, Guardian, iDownloadBlog.com, The Seattle Times, iPhone Hacks, The Register, Computerworld, Forbes and CNET

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google introduces six-month trial for Cloud SQL, ups storage 10x to 100GB, adds EU datacenter — Google today announced a major update to its Cloud SQL, which, as its name implies, is a MySQL database that lives in Google's cloud. The highlights are this: 10 times more storage, faster reads …

More: Google Enterprise Blog

Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:

Verizon's Shammo: We'll finish LTE buildout by mid-2013 — Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) will finish its LTE deployment by the middle of 2013, according to Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo. The timeline is about six months earlier than Verizon has previously stated.

More: BGR, TechnoBuffalo, GadgeTell, iDownloadBlog.com, AndroidGuys, Ars Technica, Gotta Be Mobile, GigaOM, dailywireless.org, IntoMobile, Android and Me, 9to5Mac, Droid Life, Engadget, PhoneArena and The Verge

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Invents Very Cool Next-Gen Dual Mode Headphones! — Apple has invented a very cool next-gen headphone design that could be operated in two modes. The first mode is the normal every day in-ear design that all headphones offer. The second mode is where the fun comes in.

More: Ubergizmo and CNET

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Facebook amps up Friendship Pages to highlight your online relationships — Facebook today announced a big visual update to its Friendship Pages to highlight the time you've spent with a family member or friend. In effect, Facebook has essentially auto-created perfect lovey-dovey Timeline profile pages …

More: Facebook Newsroom, Mashable!, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, VentureBeat and AllThingsD

Chris Dannen / Fast Company:

The Magical Tech Behind Paper For iPad's Color-Mixing Perfection — In the new version of Paper released last week, you mix colors with your fingers, like it's paint—only somehow more beautiful. This one magical feature burned a year of development time, resurrected the work of two dead German scientists, and got Apple's attention.

More: The Verge and parislemon

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Groupon falls short of analyst expectations, reporting Q3 revenues of $568.6 million and earnings per share of $0.00 — Today Groupon reported its third quarter financial results, including top line revenue of $568.6 million, and earnings per share of $0.00.

More: TechCrunch, Screenwerk, Groupon, Inc., Forbes, WebProNews, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, DailyFinance.com, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, internetretailer.com and SiliconBeat

Emma Turpin / The Official Google Blog:

JAM with Chrome: Play music live with your friends online — If you ever dreamed of playing in a band, now's your chance to be a rock star. JAM with Chrome is an interactive web application that enables friends in different locations to play music together in the Chrome browser on their computers.

More: CNET, Softpedia News, Geekosystem, Evolver.fm, The Verge, Mashable!, TIME, SocialTimes, memeburn, PC Magazine, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, BetaNews, SiliconBeat, Engadget, Inquirer, SlashGear and VatorNews

Sarah McBride / Reuters:

Exclusive: Google Ventures beefs up fund size to $300 million a year — (Reuters) - Google will increase the cash it allocates to its venture-capital arm to up to $300 million a year from $200 million, catapulting Google Ventures into the top echelon of corporate venture-capital funds.

More: VentureBeat, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, NBC Bay Area, CNET, Venture Capital Dispatch, Fortune, VatorNews, dailywireless.org and Inquirer

Mike Wehner / TUAW:

Apple proposing new Bonjour sharing standard — In order to remedy the woes many universities are experiencing using Apple's Bonjour zero-configuration Multicast DNS technology on large scale networks, NetworkWorld reports that the company is proposing a new standard that can be built to support huge numbers of users at once.

More: The Next Web, Network World, Ars Technica and iPhone Hacks

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

After a 5-year beta period, Wikipedia finally moves into the video era with an HTML5 player — With more than half-a-billion monthly visitors, Wikipedia needs little introduction. — But while the not-for-profit is renowned for its crowdsourced, text and image-based online encyclopedia …

More: GigaOM, Wikimedia blog, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, SocialTimes and Softpedia News

Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blogcast:

The New Evernote 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch — Our apps never stop evolving. Every few weeks, we release an update that adds something new or improves an existing feature. It's not often that we launch a complete redesign. In fact, it happens only once every few years.

John Callaham / Neowin:

IE10 Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 differences detailed — As we have mentioned already today, Friday is turning out to be a big day for Microsoft and Windows Phone 8 as the first devices running the mobile OS go on sale to the public in the US. The people who are first to get the Nokia …

More: ATT Blogs, The Windows Blog, The Next Web and WinBeta

David Martin / CBS News:

7 Navy SEALs disciplined for role with video game — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — (CBS News) The U.S. Navy SEALs are part of an elite force that operates in the shadows, best known for killing Osama bin Laden. However, CBS News has learned a group of SEALs has been disciplined for revealing secrets.

More: CNET, The Verge, Reuters, GameSpot, gameinformer.com, BBC, Polygon, BuzzFeed and Kotaku

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Amazon uncorks wine service, delivers to your door — Customers in certain states — sorry, East Coasters, Southerners and people in a lot of other regions — can now pay $9.99 to ship up to six bottles from wineries around the U.S. — Customers can order almost anything through Amazon, and that now includes wine.

More: digitaltrends.com, AllThingsD, Business Wire, GeekWire, TechCrunch, TechSpot, The Next Web, Bloomberg, bizjournals and Gizmodo

Rachael King / The CIO Report:

Stuxnet Infected Chevron's IT Network — Stuxnet, a sophisticated computer virus created by the United States and Israel, to spy on and attack Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities in Natanz also infected Chevron 's network in 2010, shortly after it escaped from its intended target.

More: ZDNet, CNET, Wall Street Journal and Betabeat

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Friendster Founder Jonathan Abrams Raises $1.7M To Start Hiring At Social News Reader Nuzzel — Social news startup Nuzzel has raised more than $1.7 million in seed funding. — I say “startup,” but at this point the only person working full-time on the project is Jonathan Abrams …

More: VentureBeat and CNET. Tweets: @georgezachary. Thanks:@ryanlawler

Michael Rose / TUAW:

Made For iPhone manufacturers may have to comply with Apple's supplier responsibility code — There's no gaggle of satellite trucks or eager liveblogs documenting every moment, but one of the most important Apple-related events is going on right now in Shenzhen, China: the annual MFi …

More: MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac and App Advice. Thanks:@tuaw

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