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November 29, 2013, 4:05 PM

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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 …

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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

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Tweets: @kouroshk and @mikeindustries

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Over 400 Retailers Are Offering Deals On New “Bitcoin Black Friday” Website

More: Techdirt, Inquirer, Telegraph, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, PC Magazine, The Verge, Mashable, Lifehacker, Digital Music News, Gotta Be Mobile, NBCNews, Daily Dot and The Tell. Tweets: @gyft

Chris Welch / The Verge:

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

Lucian Constantin / PC World:

Google Nexus phones vulnerable to denial-of-service attack via SMS — Attackers could force phones from Google's Nexus line to reboot or fail to connect to the mobile Internet service by sending a large number of special SMS messages to them. — The issue was discovered by Bogdan Alecu …

More: The Verge, Android Authority, PhoneArena, pocketnow.com, Android Beat, SlashGear, Phandroid and Softpedia News

Reuters:

Vietnam announces big fines for social media ‘propaganda’ — (Reuters) - Vietnam will hand out fines of 100 million dong ($4,740) to anyone criticizing the government on social media, under a new law announced this week, the latest measure in a widening crackdown on dissent by the country's communist rulers.

More: AllThingsD, ZDNet, The Verge, Tech in Asia, Softpedia News and The Next Web. Tweets: @threatintel

Jamie Rigg / Engadget:

A closer look at the Jolla phone: good intentions, bad delivery (video) — Jolla's self-titled and first smartphone launched in partnership with Finnish carrier DNA this week, with a few hundred handsets finding their way to early pre-orderers. Today, a couple of familiar faces …

More: The Verge, The Next Web and Forbes

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

While Mulally/Nadella Remain the Favorites, Bates Is Silicon Valley's Choice for Microsoft CEO — About 10 days ago, AllThingsD reported once again that Ford CEO Alan Mulally was in the lead position to take over as CEO of Microsoft, with one internal exec as the No. 2 choice.

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Thanksgiving Digest (IBM E-Commerce Edition): Mobile 43% Of All Traffic, Over 25% Of All Online Sales — For many years, Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving - marked the start of the holiday shopping rush. But with many (not all) physical stores closed on Thanksgiving …

More: www-01.ibm.com, The Next Web, AllThingsD, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, CNET, Data Center Knowledge, VatorNews, internetretailer.com, eBay Inc and MarketWatch

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

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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:

Mobile rules Walmart: Accounted for 53% of Thanksgiving traffic, new mobile customers up 3X — Black Friday is just beginning, but Walmart has already seen some impressive stats from shoppers on Thanksgiving day — especially when it comes to mobile. — The retail giant announced this morning …

More: Walmart Corporate and GeekWire

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

Why Did 9,000 Porny Spambots Descend on This San Diego High Schooler? — A voyage into the strange underworld of spambots, shady marketing, and non-human intelligence. — It was around 5pm last Thursday when Olivia, a San Diego high school student, noticed that something interesting was going on with her Twitter account.

More: Reuters. Tweets: @legalnomads

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: @bankoff and @bizopy

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Instagram says Thanksgiving 2013 was its busiest day so far, but fails to share exact figures — Instagram today announced that Thanksgiving 2013 in the US was “the busiest day on Instagram so far,” thanks to a massive flood of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah-related photos and videos.

More: Instagram Blog, The Verge, PhoneArena, App Advice, Yahoo! News and Social Media Examiner

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