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December 5, 2014, 4:55 PM

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Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
Apple antitrust lawsuit could be halted: Apple claims plaintiffs did not buy affected iPods  —  Apple iPod Suit May Lack One Thing: A Plaintiff  —  A class-action lawsuit is usually meant to represent a group of people believed to have been harmed in some way.
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Judge rejects Target's bid to throw out banks' lawsuits; ruling makes clear that banks have right to go after retailers that were negligent in security  —  Banks' Lawsuits Against Target for Losses Related to Hacking Can Continue  —  A federal judge on Tuesday handed an early victory …
Klint Finley / Wired:
Joyent-led Node.js forked by top contributors into Io.js to shift project toward an open governance model  —  Future of Popular Coding Tool In Doubt After Public Split  —  Node.js, a popular and influential tool for building and running modern internet services, has split in two.
Martin Beck / Marketing Land:
Chartbeat changes how it tracks mobile apps traffic to better measure dark social referrals  —  Chartbeat Shines A Light On Dark Social, Finds Missing Mobile Referrers  —  Sites with high Facebook referral traffic are seeing a bump of 40% in traffic attributed to Facebook mobile after the real …
Jim Duffy / Network World:
Cisco files patent and copyright infringement suits against Arista Networks, a rival founded by former Cisco executives  —  Cisco slaps Arista Networks with patent, copyright infringement suits  —  Cisco today filed two lawsuits against data center switch competitor Arista Networks for allegedly violating its intellectual property.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Github to honor Russian censorship requests in effort to get unblocked, will post the takedown notices to a public repository  —  To Get Off Russia's Blacklist, GitHub Has Blocked Access To Pages That Highlight Suicide  —  GitHub is slowly navigating the tricky waters of Internet censorship in Russia …
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