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European Parliament:

EU Parliament urges EU Commission to unbundle search engines from other commercial services — MEPs zero in on internet search companies and clouds — PLENARY SESSION Press release - Free movement of services / Information society − 27-11-2014 - 12:58

More: Search Engine Land, New York Times, Ars Technica, Tech.eu, VentureBeat, Electronista, PC World, The Next Web, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Mashable and Neowin

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @howardlindzon

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David Meyer / Gigaom:

EU Parliament calls on Commission to consider Google break-up — Credit: Shutterstock / Markus Pfaff — Credit: Shutterstock / Markus Pfaff — As expected, the European Parliament has passed a resolution that calls on the European Commission to consider a break-up of Google …

Washington Post:

Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina is actively exploring a 2016 presidential run but faces criticisms from prominent Republicans amid failed 2010 Senate race — Carly Fiorina actively explores 2016 presidential run but faces GOP critics — On a Republican presidential debate stage expected …

More: PC Magazine, The Register, Ars Technica, Re/code and Computerworld

Tweets: @harrymccracken, @pmarca and @dangillmor

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple Watch site refreshed to highlight Timekeeping, New Ways to Connect, and Health & Fitness — Apple has quietly refreshed its Apple Watch microsite with a few changes including more details about the upcoming wearable and newly added interactive images of the device.

More: The Register, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, Neowin, App Advice, MacRumors, Apple Gazette and TUAW

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Appears To Pre-Announce Its Purchase Of Email Startup Acompli — Whoops. Welcome to literal fait accompli. — A short, unfinished blog listed as written by Microsoft corporate vice president Rajesh Jha hit the RSS wires earlier today. Here's what it looked like:

More: BetaNews, GeekWire, WinBeta, Neowin, Gigaom Research, The Verge, App Advice, Forbes, Business Insider and Windows Phone Central

Tweets: @chrisfralic, @katie_roof and @raju

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Obama signs E-Label Act, allowing manufacturers to put labels such as FCC symbols in software menus instead of on hardware — The US bill to phase out wonky symbols on the back of gadgets is now a law — The legislation designed to do away with printing various symbols and regulatory compliance numbers …

More: The Hill, MacRumors, Android Police, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, PandoDaily, BetaNews, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Neowin, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com and iMore

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

UK Piracy Blocklist Expands With Demonoid, Isohunt, IPTorrents and More — The list of websites that are blocked in the UK for facilitating copyright infringement is getting longer and longer. — This week a new High Court ruling orders Sky, BT, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk …

More: Inquirer and Channel EYE

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Syrian Electronic Army hacks websites via Gigya's login service — Visitors to some large media and entertainment websites on Thursday — including NBC, The Independent and NHL.com — were greeted by pop-up messages that said those sites had been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army.

More: The Independent, The Next Web, Guardian, PC World and Gigya's Blog. Thanks:@mathewi

Shane Roberts / Gizmodo:

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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Tiger Global Raises $2.5 Billion For New Deals — Investment firm Tiger Global has been hunting down deals all year, and now it has a lot more cash to run down new prey. — According to an SEC filing, the firm closed $2.5 billion in new funding, that comes a little more than 6 months after it raised a $1.5 billion fund in April.

More: Reuters. Tweets: @jonrussell

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Eyeing Up O2, BT Is Also In ‘Exploratory Discussions’ To Buy EE — Earlier this week, it emerged that BT was eyeing up buying a mobile carrier to expand its existing fixed line business, and that O2 was one of the two under consideration. Today we have confirmation of the other one …

More: Reuters, orange.com and The Next Web

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Singapore marketplace app Carousell raises $6M series A led by Sequoia for Asia expansion — Mobile Marketplace Carousell Raises $6M Series A Led By Sequoia Capital — Carousell, a mobile app marketplace that lets sellers upload items with a few taps on their smartphones …

More: ZDNet

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