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November 29, 2013, 11:10 AM

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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Apple's U.S. and Canadian Black Friday Sales Go Live Online With Gift Card Deals — Apple's online stores for the United States and Canada have just come back online for Black Friday's one-day shopping event, and like its stores in Australia and New Zealand, the company is using bonus gift cards rather …

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J.D. Levite / The Wirecutter:

The Best Deals We Can Find — Because we think we can make a small difference by being picky, here are some great deals on solid pieces of gear. … We'll always put the newest deals at the top of the page. We've also redesigned the deals page to be a more permanent addition to the site …

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Over 400 Retailers Are Offering Deals On New “Bitcoin Black Friday” Website — Bitcoin burning a hole in your pocket? Probably. If so, a new site has popped up to help you spend your digital currency during this hectic holiday shopping week: “Bitcoin Black Friday.”

More: PC Magazine, SiliconANGLE, Telegraph, The Verge, Mashable, Lifehacker, Digital Music News, Gotta Be Mobile, NBCNews, Daily Dot, The Tell, Entrepreneur and On Bitcoin. Tweets: @gyft

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Apple offers Black Friday savings in Europe, gift cards in Australia

Andrew Zajac / Bloomberg:

Apple Objects to Monitor's Fees in E-Books Antitrust Case — Apple Inc. said a monitor appointed by a judge to oversee antitrust compliance in its electronic books price-fixing case is charging too much money. — “Of all all known past Apple matters,” no lawyer has had a higher rate …

More: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, App Advice and Softpedia News. Tweets: @danieleran. See also Mediagazer

Shane Cole / AppleInsider:

Apple's iOS brings developers 5x more revenue per download than Android — Despite Android's significantly larger installed base, iOS continues to dominate in monetization with a five-times-greater return rate for developers — a sign that Cupertino's market segmentation strategy is paying dividends for application creators.

More: Business Insider, Ubergizmo, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, PadGadget, MacNN, TUAW, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog and ITworld.com

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Suddenly, Upworthy Clones Are Everywhere And Millions Of People Are Reading Them — On March 26, 2012, a new media startup called Upworthy launched. Now it has 50 million monthly unique readers. — Almost all of its readers come from Facebook. The headlines, which Upworthy's editors toil over …

More: PandoDaily. Tweets: @bizopy

Chris Bell / Telegraph:

The internet mystery that has the world baffled — For the past two years, a mysterious online organisation has been setting the world's finest code-breakers a series of seemingly unsolveable problems. But to what end? Welcome to the world of Cicada 3301

Tweets: @prwerdel, @mathewi and @jpbarlow

Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:

Thinkspace Pioneers hunt for the next teenage Mark Zuckerberg — A group of Plymouth teenagers is hoping to ‘mould and inspire the next generation of digital thinkers, makers and doers’ — Thinkspace Pioneers aims to find the next digital Richard Branson or Mark Zuckerberg.

More: The Next Web and Telegraph

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Who Will Own The Next Great Instant Messaging Service? — The social media era was about what we make public. Now, it's about what we don't. The race to own the next great back channel. — Instant messaging is the center of the internet. Everything else is a temporary distraction.

More: TechCrunch and Business Insider

Kevin Begos / Phys.org:

New research aims to teach computers common sense — Researchers are trying to plant a digital seed for artificial intelligence by letting a massive computer system browse millions of pictures and decide for itself what they all mean. — The system at Carnegie Mellon University is called NEIL, short for Never Ending Image Learning.

More: Science Recorder and BBC

David Meyer / Gigaom:

Bitcoin payments with a simple tap? Multi-purpose nio Card gets added functionality — A British startup called Bluenio has revealed what it claims is the world's first Bitcoin payment smartcard - or at least it will be if no others have popped up by the time it ships in March.

More: Crave and Pocket-lint. Thanks:@baggyrabbit

David Meyer / Gigaom:

Want Android and Firefox OS in one phone? Geeksphone has something lined up for you — Spain's Geeksphone is a scrappy little manufacturer that started off making Android handsets for open-source cognoscenti before becoming the first creator of Firefox OS developer devices.

More: CNET, The Mozilla Blog, Softpedia News, Guardian, The Irish Times, TechRadar.com, The Droid Guy, Digital Trends and The Next Web

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