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| Mollie Vandor / Twitter Blog: |
Your Twitter archive — It's no secret: You make Twitter what it is. And if you tweet, you may have found yourself wanting to go back in time and explore your past Tweets. Maybe you wanted to recall your reaction to the 2008 election, reminisce on what you said to your partner on your 10th anniversary …
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CNN, HubSpot's Inbound …, Guardian, Dave Winer, GadgeTell, Engadget, CNET, Digits, SiliconANGLE, BuzzFeed, SocialTimes, Marketing Pilgrim, The Verge, Brian Solis, VatorNews, Wired and PC Magazine
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Facebook Stops Its Long-Awaited Ad Network Before It Starts (For Now) — Looks like we'll have to wait a bit longer to see Facebook's much-anticipated ad network. — The social giant is putting the brakes on a test it launched earlier this year that let it place its own ads on other developer's mobile apps.| Jonathan Rochelle / Google Enterprise Blog: |
Quickoffice + Google Apps = better document conversion and an iPad app — Posted by Jonathan Rochelle, Director of Product Management, Google Drive — Since the Quickoffice team joined Google a few months ago, we've been working to make it easier for you to work with your legacy Microsoft Office files … | Lev Grossman / TIME: |
TIME Person of the Year Runner-Up: Tim Cook, the Technologist — He inherited the most valuable company in the world from one of the greatest innovators in history. In 2012 he made Apple his own. Runner-Up: Tim Cook, the Technologist | TIME.com.
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MacNN, MacRumors, Computerworld, TUAW, PC Magazine, iPhone Hacks, Business Insider, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com and Fortune
Tweets: @owenthomas and @tim
See also Mediagazer| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Acquires Snapjoy And Puts Photos Into Its Focus — Less than one week after Dropbox aqui-hired Audiogalaxy to beef up its cloud music ambitions, today comes news of another acquisition, this time focused on another form of media, photos: the cloud-storage giant is buying Snapjoy …
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Snapjoy Blog, CNET, VentureBeat, VatorNews, GigaOM, PetaPixel, ZDNet, The Next Web, Forbes and Electronista. Thanks:@chrisvelazco
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
eBay to Stop Advertising Inside Mobile Apps: “It's Not Worth It.” — EBay is ecstatic about mobile, just not about mobile advertising. — Devin Wenig, eBay's president of global marketplaces, said in an interview that next year the company will stop running mobile ads inside of its applications.
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TUAW, The Verge, InformationWeek and bizjournals
| Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: |
U.S. Expands Child Online Privacy Law to Cover Apps, Social Networks — The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday updated its decade-old rules governing children's online privacy to reflect the growth of social networks and smartphone apps, but backed away from earlier proposals … | Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: |
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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Another Apple patent rejected by US Patent Office, but its fate is far from certain — The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected several Apple patents in recent months, and today it added one more to the list — but that doesn't mean the patent is no longer valid.
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CNET, Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, Mercury News, AllThingsD, GigaOM, Slate, VentureBeat, MacRumors, ZDNet and OSDir.com. Tweets: @panzer
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Tumblr launches its long-awaited app for iPad — Tumblr just pushed out an update to its iOS app which adds full compatibility with the iPad and iPad mini. Tumblr built for the big screen doesn't look a whole lot different than if you were browsing Tumblr.com inside Safari …
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CNET, MacRumors, Engadget, The Next Web and parislemon
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google sells Motorola Home to Arris for $2.35 billion in cash and stock — Google announced today that it has sold the Motorola Home business that it acquired earlier this year to the Arris Group for a sum of $2.35 billion in cash and stock.
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CNET, TechCrunch, ARRIS, AllThingsD, The Next Web, GigaOM, 9to5Google, Reuters, TechCrunch, Engadget, Tech Trader Daily, Electronista, Reuters and Android Police
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Kodak Agrees To Sell Digital Imaging Patent Portfolio For $525M To Consortium Of 12 Licensees, Including Apple, Google, Facebook — Kodak has agreed to sell its digital imaging portfolio to a consortium of 12 licensees for $525 million, organized by patent-holding company Intellectual Ventures … | Beth Jinks / Bloomberg: |
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Stockwatch, Reuters, Wired, InvestorPlace and 9to5Google
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Now Highlights Its Indoor Street View Imagery On Search Results Pages — A while back, Google started bringing its Street View technology indoors under the name Google Business Photos. These images, however, were often hard to find and somewhat buried on Google's local listings and Google Maps.
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CNET and 9to5Google
| Anil Dash: |
Rebuilding the Web We Lost — We have the obligation to never speak of our concerns without suggesting our solutions. I've been truly gratified to watch the response to The Web We Lost over the last few days; It's become one of the most popular things I've ever written and has inspired great responses.
| Paul McDougall / InformationWeek: |
Dell, HP Windows 8 ‘Atom’ Tablets Delayed Until 2013 — Dell Latitude 10 among Windows 8 systems not yet available, as tablet makers struggle with drivers for energy-efficient Intel Clover Trail chip. — Dell and other vendors have pushed back until January the launch of Windows 8 tablets that use a new …
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BGR, Softpedia News, Neowin and SlashGear
| Erin Bury / BetaKit: |
With 3M Parking Spots Across the U.S., ParkWhiz Adds $2M in Series A Funding — Today Chicago-based startup ParkWhiz announced it has closed $2 million in funding, led by Hyde Park Venture Partners with participation from investors including Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Y Combinator partner Garry Tan, and several others.
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Chicago Sun Times, Tech Cocktail, Betabeat, Mashable! and GigaOM
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Mark Cuban and Minecraft Creator Notch give $500k to EFF for software patent reform — Minecraft creator Markus Persson, aka Notch, and entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban have donated $500,000 to the EFF for software patent reform. — The announcement, made on the EFF's site … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
uTorrent Makers Distance Themselves From Piracy — BitTorrent Inc. has an image problem, or at least that's what some people appear to believe. — Today the San Francisco company launched a website to answer the question of whether or not BitTorrent equals piracy.
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Softpedia News and The Next Web
| Rich Brown / CNET: |
MakerBot purges 3D printable gun parts from Thingiverse — Citing its Terms of Service, MakerBot has removed designs for AR15 and other weapon components from its 3D printing file library. — As of a day ago, MakerBot's Thingiverse Web site hosted the plans for a key component of an AR15 semi automatic rifle.| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Online ad spending up 18 percent from a year ago, hits $9.26B in Q3 — In 2012, publishers worried about how to make money from the growing tide of audiences who are consuming media on mobile devices. No clear answers have emerged to the mobile morass but the good news is that the overall online ad pie is growing rapidly.
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IAB, CNET, The Next Web, Internet2Go, Fortune, Marketing Land and SocialTimes
| Brian McClendon / The Official Google Blog: |
Count down to Christmas Eve with Google Santa Tracker — While millions of people eagerly await Christmas Day, Santa and his elves are keeping busy at the North Pole. They're preparing presents, tuning up the sleigh, feeding the reindeer and, of course, checking the list (twice!) … | Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Verizon's Redbox Instant launches in private beta: Unlimited streaming, 4 DVD credits a month — Redbox Instant by Verizon, a joint venture between Redbox and Verizon Communications, is now gradually rolling out to users in private beta after being teased earlier this month.
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CNET, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, GeekWire, PC Magazine, Ubergizmo, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors and SlashGear. Tweets: @redboxinstant
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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
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“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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