Techmeme: Google Acquires Waterloo-Based E-Commerce Startup, Amazon Locker Competitor And YC Graduate BufferBox (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

November 30, 2012, 7:55 PM

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Google snaps up Waterloo startup BufferBox — BufferBox Inc. is moving on up to Google Inc. Quite literally. — That's because home base for the team behind the Waterloo, Ont.-based startup — which includes founders Mike McCauley, Aditya Bali and Jay Shah — is currently the VeloCity Garage inside …

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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Google Acquires Waterloo-Based E-Commerce Startup, Amazon Locker Competitor And YC Graduate BufferBox — Google today announced their acquisition of YC alumni BufferBox, a Waterloo-based startup that specializes in providing users with temporary lockers for to receive delivery of packages from online e-commerce retailers.

More: BufferBox blog, GeekWire, BetaNews, Business Insider, ZDNet and WebProNews

David Pierce / The Verge:

Apple iMac and Mac mini review (late 2012) — From its smallest desktop to its largest, Apple's computers get a 2012 refresh — As soon as it was unveiled on stage in October, I started looking forward to getting the new iMac in for review. See, my main machine is a 13-inch MacBook Air, which I mostly love.

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Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Apple's new redesigned iMacs go on sale in the US, 21.5-inch models shipping in 1-3 days

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James Cowie / Renesys Blog:

Could It Happen In Your Country? — How hard is it to disconnect a country from the Internet, really? — That's the number one question we've received about our analysis of the Egyptian and Syrian Internet blackouts, and it's a reasonable question. If the Internet is so famously resilient …

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Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Google reactivates Speak2Tweet for Syrian Internet cutoff

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Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Official Syrian Web Sites Hosted in U.S.

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Mike Hibberd / Telecoms.com:

Apple vetting operators on LTE network performance — Apple is vetting networks before allowing operators to offer the iPhone 5 as an LTE device — Apple is not allowing mobile operators to offer the iPhone 5 as an LTE device unless they pass the Californian vendor's own …

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Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

Apple introduces variable cost iTunes Gift Cards to third party retailers for the holidays — Rolling out to your favorite supermarket or retail store this holiday season are new Apple iTunes gift cards that can be bought in any denomination between $15 and $500.

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Court Rules Yahoo Must Pay $2.7 Billion For Mexican Yellow Pages Breach Of Contract — Yahoo says it “will vigorously pursue all appeals” of a non-final judgement by a Mexico City court ruling Yahoo must pay $2.7 billion for breaching its contract with Ideas Interactivas and its parent company Worldwide Directories.

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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Fab Has Its First Million-Dollar Day; Sold More Than $6.5M Worth Of Products This Past Week — Design-focused e-commerce site Fab released a number of data this morning, and it's impressive to say the least. Fab has sold more than $6.5 million worth of product this past week, up from $1.7 million during the same period last year.

More: VentureBeat, PandoDaily and CNET

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Facebook launches Photo Sync automatic picture uploading feature for Android and iOS — Facebook on Friday announced it is rolling out photo sync, a feature that makes it easier to share photos from your phone. If you turn it on, up to 2GB of photos from your phone can be synced automatically …

More: Facebook Newsroom, Forbes, digitaltrends.com, VentureBeat, MacRumors, CNET, Inside Facebook, BuzzFeed, The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, WebProNews and Electronista. Tweets: @joshconstine

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Productivity App Evernote Gets Another $85M, ~$64M In Secondary Financing, Led By London's AGC Equity — Evernote, the personal data and productivity app that now has over 45 million users, is today announcing it has raised another $85 million, with 75% of that, $63.75 million, in the form of a secondary investment.

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Ron Lieber / New York Times:

A Warning for Airbnb Hosts, Who May Be Breaking the Law — Back in September, Nigel Warren rented out his bedroom in the apartment where he lives for $100 a night on Airbnb, the fast-growing Web site for short-term home and apartment stays. His roommate was cool with it …

More: PandoDaily. Tweets: @bjbernstein and @gregsiegal

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

comScore: Samsung increases lead as top US mobile device maker, Apple passes LG for second place — In the US, Samsung remains the top mobile OEM, although Apple is attempting to catch up as it moves into second place. Rounding out the top five are LG, Motorola, and HTC, all of which are losing market share.

More: comScore, Inc., GeekWire, Engadget, ZDNet, VentureBeat and Tech Trader Daily

Reuters:

Insight: How a desperate HP suspended disbelief for Autonomy deal — (Reuters) - For Leo Apotheker, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, a July 2011 meeting with Autonomy founder Mike Lynch at a chic seaside resort in France was pivotal to his effort to remake a storied technology giant.

BBC:

Facebook given 72 hours to remove paedophile monitoring page — A convicted sex offender has won a High Court order for the removal of a Facebook page set up to monitor paedophiles in Northern Ireland. — A judge ruled some content amounted to prima facie harassment of the man and risked infringing his human rights.

More: The Verge, Daily Dot, WebProNews, The Next Web and The Register

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Judge says “no fundamental right to use Facebook,” tosses antitrust case — A federal judge ruled that Facebook has the right to exclude users if they install a program that alters the look of its website and swaps out its ad offerings. — In a ruling issued Thursday in San Diego …

More: Inside Facebook, Venture Chronicles and ECPM BLOG

David Goldman / CNNMoney.com:

New Verisign deal blocks .com price hikes — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Verisign, the operator of the .com domain name registry for the World Wide Web, will be forbidden from regularly raising registration prices over the next six years. — The company renewed its contract with the U.S. Commerce Department …

More: ReadWrite, Bloomberg, Forbes, Domain Name Wire, TheDomains.com and Reuters

TechCrunch:

With 1B Pageviews Under Its Belt, UGC Giant Wikia Raises $10.8M From IVP, Bessemer & Amazon — User generated content company Wikia is breaking the news of its raise of over $10.8 million in Series C funding today, in a press release soon to be sent out to tech media.

More: bizjournals, PR Newswire, peHUB, The Next Web, silicontap.com and VentureBeat

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Tor operator charged for child porn transmitted over his servers — Enlarge / A court order served on Austrian Tor operator William Weber. — An Austrian operator of Tor servers—that were used to anonymously route huge amounts of traffic over the Internet—has been charged with distributing child pornography.

More: Techdirt, Examiner, FierceCIO:TechWatch News, Web Host Industry Review, BBC, Raided for operating …, All Discussions and ZDNet. Tweets: @csoghoian

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Network Giants Argue In Appeals Court: Aereo Should Be Treated Like A Cable Company — Today the Southern District Court of NY heard the oral argumentsfrom Fox, ABC, Univision and a handful of other cable broadcast providers who wish to see streaming network TV startup Aereo's business shut down.

More: Hollywood Reporter and Thomson Reuters News …. Thanks:@alexia. See also Mediagazer

Andrew Auernheimer / Wired:

Forget Disclosure — Hackers Should Keep Security Holes to Themselves — Editor's Note: The author of this opinion piece, aka “weev,” was found guilty last week of computer intrusion for obtaining the unprotected e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T's website, and passing them to a journalist.

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