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November 17, 2012, 11:45 AM

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Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Apple's stock price falls to lowest point in six months — While short-term challenges remain, analysts are bullish on Apple's long-term. — On Friday Apple's stock price closed at $527.68 per share, the lowest it's been in six months. Since September, the company has lost about 25 percent …

Reuters:

High-flying Apple falls to earth as investors fret over taxes

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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Microsoft begs Web devs not to make WebKit the new IE6 — Internet Explorer 10 is a fast browser with good standards compliance, and the version of Internet Explorer 10 included with Windows Phone 8 is no exception, as it's almost identical to its desktop sibling.

More: The Windows Blog, WMPoweruser and Neowin

Dalton Caldwell:

Twitter is pivoting — Peter Chernin had this to say during his days as President of News Corp, owners of MySpace, in 2006: … This was the justification and mentality that MySpace employed as they blocked various fast-growing platform partners that they felt impinged in MySpace's core user experience.

More: Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, GigaOM, digitaltrends.com, Digits and AllThingsD

Tweets: @mparekh, @techsoc and @mathewi

Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:

Windows 8 Sales Well Below Projections, Plenty of Blame to Go Around — Uncertainty could turn Windows 8 into the next Vista — Sales of Windows 8 PCs are well below Microsoft's internal projections and have been described inside the company as disappointing.

More: The Verge, The Next Web, Softpedia News, WinBeta, Business Insider, CNET, Neowin, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and BetaNews

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Forrester finds mixed prospects for Windows 8 in the enterprise

More: Softpedia News, SiliconANGLE, Forbes and BetaNews

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Anonymous takes down over 650 Israeli sites, wipes databases, leaks email addresses and passwords — When the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) this week began taking military action in the Gaza strip against Hamas (as the IDF announced on Twitter), Anonymous declared its own war as part of #OpIsrael.

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Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google:

Google-Dish wireless service is a go, plans for 2013 launch being hatched — Regarding the Google-Dish tie up that was reported last night, we just got word that this is really happening. While the details haven't been finalized, Google is already deep into development on plans to roll …

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple and Google Talk Arbitration in Smartphone Spat — Apple and Google haven't yet buried their respective hatchets over the patent litigation between them, but evidently they are willing to put them aside for a moment in the hopes of negotiating a broader peace.

More: MacDailyNews and FOSS Patents

Bloomberg:

Apple, Google Consider Arbitration Over Standard Patents

More: The Verge, Forbes, iPhone Hacks, bizjournals, ZDNet, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, GigaOM, MacRumors, GamesIndustry International and 9to5Mac

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo CEO Mayer Cuts End-of-Year “Week of Rest” for Employees, While Prepping Plans to Cull Bottom 20 Percent of Staff — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is now starting to unveil the flip side of free lunches and smartphones, with two employee-focused moves that are a little more tough love in nature.

More: CNET, PC Magazine, PandoDaily and Business Insider

Tweets: @pkafka and @karaswisher

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Muhammad Lila / ABCNEWS:

Oops! Taliban Reveal Identities of Their Mailing List Members — Somewhere out there, Mullah Omar must be shaking his head. — In a Dilbert-esque faux pax, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week with one notable difference.He publicly CC'd the names of everyone on his mailing list.

More: CNET, Ars Technica, The Next Web, The Register, Techdirt, Betabeat, Liquidmatrix Security Digest and Gizmodo. See also Mediagazer

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

AT&T exceeds LTE deployment plan ahead of schedule, now covers more than 150 million people in the US — Confirming the deployment of LTE networks in 24 new markets across the US today, AT&T today announced that it has surpassed its 2012 deployment plan ahead of schedule and is now covering more than 150 million people in the country.

More: Verizon Wireless, CNET, PR Newswire, 9to5Mac and SlashGear

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix CEO: Amazon Losing Up to $1 Billion a Year on Streaming Video — Reed Hastings says that, one day, Amazon will provide real competition for Netflix. — But the Netflix CEO says Jeff Bezos will have to spend a lot of money before that happens: Hastings says Amazon is losing between $500 million …

More: Wall Street Journal, CNET, Deadline.com, Business Insider, Engadget, bizjournals and Mashable!. Tweets: @danroth

Reuters:

Samsung goes after HTC deal to undercut Apple-filing — When Apple Inc and HTC Corp last week ended their worldwide legal battles with a 10-year patent licensing agreement, they declined to answer a critical question: whether all of Apple's patents were covered by the deal.

More: Examiner, The Verge, CNET, Pocketnow, Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, VentureBeat, BGR, 9to5Mac and iDownloadBlog.com

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Explains The Four Ways It Sorts The News Feed And Insists Average Page Reach Didn't Decrease — Today Facebook addressed the controversy surrounding the news feed and a reduction in reach for some Pages. It outlined the four main factors that determine if a post shows up in the news feed …

More: Business Insider, AllFacebook, The Next Web, CNET, GigaOM, Forbes and We Are Social. Thanks:@chadwittman

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

Wi-Fi networker Ruckus raises $126 million in IPO — Wireless networking startup Ruckus Wireless graduated to public company status on Friday, appearing on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker RKUS after clearing $126 million in an IPO. Ruckus sold 8.4 million shares at $15 a piece …

More: Bloomberg, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Network World

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Wireless charging blazes path toward mainstream — Heavyweights are backing the idea of wireless charging capabilities embedded in phones, and public charging stations are beginning to pop up. Differing standards, however, still make for a rocky adoption.

More: MIT Technology Review and DigiTimes

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