Techmeme: Apple and Google Talk Arbitration in Smartphone Spat (John Paczkowski/AllThingsD)

November 17, 2012, 8:05 PM

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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 …

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Reuters:

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

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Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry International:

Xbox Live Turns 10: Reflecting On An Online Revolution — We chat with members of the original Xbox team and Bungie in this special look back at the origins of a service that forever changed console gaming — Ten years ago today, Microsoft officially launched Xbox Live.

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Harry McCracken / TIME:

It's Too Early to Judge Early Windows 8 Sales — Three weeks after Windows 8′s launch, Windows guru/newshound Paul Thurrott says that one of his Microsoft sources has confided that the new software isn't meeting the company's sales expectations. Thurrott gives several explanations, including: Windows 8.

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iFixit:

Nexus 4 Teardown — The Nexus 4 landed in our inbox just in time for a Friday teardown-a-rama. Questions that linger in our minds: Is it good as a phone? No idea. We dived right into the Nexus 4for science! Will it blend? We'll let Tom answer that one. How repairable is it?

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Into the vault: the operation to rescue Manhattan's drowned internet — Hurricane Sandy's storm surge flooded Verizon's downtown office, rendering miles of copper wiring useless — At Broad Street, near the tip of Lower Manhattan, the situation is far from normal.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Twitter and developers, a love story — To say that Twitter and third-party developers have had an ambivalent relationship over the last couple of years is a massive understatement. Twitter has been undergoing a deep transformation of its business to one that makes sustainable sense as a public company.

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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.

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