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Thanksgiving Day retail traffic increased 71% in 2012 — Thanksgiving Day online traffic increased 71% in 2012 versus 2011 as the top 500 retail sites received more than 181 million total US visits. So far this Holiday week of online traffic to the top retail sites is up 8% on average.
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Smarter Commerce Blog, The Next Web, I4U News, Reuters, VentureBeat, GeekWire and Neowin
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
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PC Magazine, The PayPal Blog, CNET, eBay Ink, VentureBeat, internetretailer.com, Softpedia News, Mercury News, Business Insider, PC Magazine and TechCrunch. Tweets: @hitwise_us
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple adds six Samsung products including Note II, S III mini and Galaxy Tab 2 to California lawsuit — Both Apple and Samsung keep exercising their rights under the Northern District of California's permissive rules governing the timing of infringement contentions.
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AppleInsider, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie, iPhone Hacks, The Verge and Mashable!
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Droidfooding: After Years Of Giving Employees iPhones, Posters At Facebook HQ Beg Them To Test Android — “In the early days we gave employees iPhones primarily”, a Facebook spokesperson tells me. That decision and the rise of Android has left Facebook scrambling to get employees dogfooding its apps for Google's OS.| Gareth Beavis / TechRadar.com: |
LG admits reason behind dropping 4G in Nexus 4 — Because it's secretly another phone … The redundant 4G chip in the Nexus 4 caused confusion, but now LG has told TechRadar why it's there. — The presence of the LTE connectivity hardware in the Nexus 4 caused some to believe that it could be next-gen speed-enabled in the future.
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VentureBeat, Softpedia News, The Verge and AnandTech
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
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Techie Buzz, Android Authority, Android Community, TechCrunch, Gadgetsteria, BGR, Business Insider, TEK.GADG, Examiner, MobileSyrup.com, Gizmodo, Inquirer, Electronista and TechCrunch. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Rafat Ali / Skift: |
What happens when your pivot goes horribly wrong? — Travel is among the most pivot-friendly categories in the startupland. What happens when a well-liked-but-limited app, focused on a nice but commodity niche, attempts to pivot into a larger company, attempting to “reinvent travel”?| Julian Pecquet / Hillicon Valley: |
Gaza violence leads lawmakers to call for shuttering terror groups on Twitter — The past week's violence in Gaza has rekindled calls for Twitter to shutter the accounts of U.S.-labeled terror groups such as Hamas. — Seven House Republicans asked the FBI in September to demand that Twitter …
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New York Times, AJE, The Raw Story, The Next Web and The Verge
| Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows: |
Windows Phone Team: This is No Way to Treat Early Adopters — Once seen as a nice gesture, Windows Phone 7.8 is now seen for what it is — When Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7.8 in June, I knew it was too good to be true. At the time, it seemed like Microsoft was throwing a bone …
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parislemon, wpcentral.com and The Next Web
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Former Nokia exec Damian Dinning announces he's headed to Jaguar Land Rover — The sudden departure of Nokia imaging head Damian Dinning caught many by surprise earlier today, but now he's announced where his next post will be: Jaguar Land Rover. In an explanation posted at PureView Club …
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PhoneArena, Unwired View, PureView Club, Techie Buzz, Nokiapoweruser, My Nokia Blog, PetaPixel, WMPoweruser, SlashGear, The Verge, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, PureView Club, Pocketnow, The Register, Neowin, Engadget, Business Insider, The Next Web, MobileBurn.com, Amateur Photographer and AllThingsD. Tweets: @phonedaz
| Paul Kunert / channelregister.co.uk: |
Barclays Bank buys 8,500 Apple iPads in one go — Bank's ranks thank bosses for fondle-slabbin' workplace — Barclays Bank has bought no less than 8,500 Apple slabs of fondling loveliness in one go, The Channel can reveal. — The buy, made with dealer Insight UK, is believed …
| Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal: |
Can Police Locate Wireless Internet Moochers Without a Warrant? — Beware, wireless Internet moochers. A federal court in Pittsburgh has ruled that the government can track you to your location, sans search warrant, using free anti-moocher software. — The courts have ruled …
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Business Insider and digitaltrends.com
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
G.E. Looks to Industry for the Next Digital Disruption — SAN RAMON, Calif. — When Sharoda Paul finished a postdoctoral fellowship last year at the Palo Alto Research Center, she did what most of her peers do — considered a job at a big Silicon Valley company, in her case, Google.| Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
284 Pakistani domain names reportedly hijacked, affecting Google, Apple, and Microsoft — More than 280 popular “.pk” domain names, including that of the Pakistani Google homepage, have reportedly been hijacked by a Turkish hacking crew known as “eboz.” Addresses including Apple.pk … Sponsor Posts
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