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November 28, 2014, 4:25 AM

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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

EU Parliament passes resolution supporting unbundling of search engines from other commercial services, calls for creation of single digital market — Oh No They Didn't: European Parliament Calls For Break Up Of Google — Today many Americans are busy preparing Thanksgiving meals …

More: VatorNews, European Parliament, Tech.eu, Gigaom, VentureBeat, MacNN, PC Magazine, BetaNews, Ars Technica, PC Advisor, SlashGear, Mashable, Neowin, TechCrunch and The Next Web

Tweets: @monkbent and @howardlindzon

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James Kanter / New York Times:

E.U. Parliament Passes Measure to Break Up Google in Symbolic Vote — BRUSSELS — Europe's resentment of the American technology giant Google reached a new noise level on Thursday as the European Parliament passed a nonbinding vote to break up the company. — Although merely symbolic …

Shane Roberts / Gizmodo:

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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:

Startup studios gain popularity as tech elite look for ways to pursue multiple projects simultaneously, reduce risk when any one product fails — The Next Big Thing You Missed: Tech Superstars Build ‘Startup Factories’ — The startup world is driven by a familiar formula: you get an idea …

More: The Equity Kicker. Tweets: @jsessenhausen, @bill_fischer and @daniel_hurst

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Sony Pictures hackers release list of stolen corporate files — On Monday, employees at Sony Pictures Entertainment—the television and movie subsidiary of Sony Corp.—discovered that their internal corporate network had been hijacked. A message from an individual or group claiming responsibility appeared …

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

Sheelah Kolhatkar / Businessweek:

How Anita Sarkeesian is battling sexism and gamergate harassment in the $25B video game industry — The Gaming Industry's Greatest Adversary Is Just Getting Started — One night in October, before the media critic Anita Sarkeesian was scheduled to give a speech at Utah State University …

More: Upstart Business Journal. Tweets: @cshirky. Thanks:@srikardr

Washington Post:

Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina is actively exploring a 2016 presidential run but faces criticism 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: @om, @harrymccracken, @pmarca and @dangillmor

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, Guardian, The Next Web, Gigya's Blog, PC Advisor and NEWS.com.au. Thanks:@mathewi

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

UK High Court orders ISPs to block access to 32 more piracy sites, including Demonoid, Isohunt and more — 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.

More: BetaNews, Inquirer and Channel EYE

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, MobileSyrup.com, GeekWire, Gigaom Research, Neowin, Windows Phone Central, Business Insider, WinBeta, The Verge, App Advice and Forbes

Tweets: @chrisfralic, @katie_roof and @raju

Ron Miller / TechCrunch:

Over 40% IT pros in survey chose Dropbox as preferred enterprise sync and share tool, leading OneDrive's 25% and Google's 20% — The Most Popular Enterprise Sync and Share Product Might Surprise You — 451 Research released a report this week with details on the enterprise sync and share market and what they found may surprise you.

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