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Faith Merino / VatorNews:
Google buys Groupon for $2.5 billion? — While neither company has confirmed the story, the acquisition follows a week of buyout rumors — Google has just purchased Groupon for $2.5 billion, according to an unnamed insider who spoke with VatorNews. Neither Google nor Groupon …
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New York Times:
Cables Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels — WASHINGTON — A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
WikiLeaked Diplomatic Cables Confirm China's Politburo Was Behind Google Hacking Incident — Details about the U.S. State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks are starting to come out. Although WikiLeaks itself may be under a denial of service attack, it provided several newspapers around …
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The Register, TechnoLlama, Inquirer, Gizmodo, BlogsDNA, Engadget, Geekword, ZDNet, Techie Buzz, The Tech Herald …, John Battelle's Searchblog, CNET News, New York Times, msnbc.com and Gawker, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:beet_tv
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
WikiLeaks And The Failure Of Cyberattacks As Censorship
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Wikileaks, Computerworld UK's News, Wired.co.uk, V3.co.uk, The Atlantic Online, Ben Metcalfe Blog, CNET News, Techie Buzz, Erictric, msnbc.com, The Lede, BBC, Guardian and Boing Boing, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:forbestech
Paul Marks / New Scientist:
Microsoft develops shape-shifting touchscreen — Microsoft this week filed a patent application covering a novel way to construct a “tactile” touchscreen - a display that uses technical tricks to convince users they are actually touching the ridges, bumps and textures of a displayed image.
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SlashGear, Inquirer, Gizmodo, WinRumors and PhoneArena
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google's “Gold Standard” Search Results Take Big Hit In New York Times Story — The New York Times has a great, detailed story out today about a merchant with an unusual marketing strategy: be mean to customers. Any publicity, even negative publicity, means a win with Google's ranking algorithms.
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Thor Muller / Social Studies Blog:
When businesses attack...their customers
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
What should Google do? — Twitter was abuzz last night …
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Bloomberg:
Apple Lawyers Up for Patent Showdowns With Nokia, Motorola, HTC — Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) — Steve Jobs made Apple Inc.'s iPhone one of the best-selling smartphones on the market with its touch screen, fast Web connection and access to more than 300,000 downloadable applications. Now he's adding lawyers to the mix.
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Now a Giant, Google Works to Retain Nimble Minds — When a product manager at Google told his bosses this year that he was quitting to take a job at Facebook, they offered him a large raise. When he said it was not about the money, they told him he could have a promotion …
Graham Cluley / Naked Security:
Can you really see who viewed your Facebook profile? Rogue application spreads virally — Once again, a rogue application is spreading virally between Facebook users pretending to offer you a way of seeing who has viewed your profile. — As we've described a couple of times before …
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Lifechanger: Happiness Is a Loaded Sonos — Magic is a singing home. — But piping music all over a house has always been unreasonably hard. Or just primitive. — Over the last 10 years, I liked music, but it was an inconvenience. I had to drape wires through holes we we knocked …
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Etsy's Facebook-Powered “Shop For A Friend” Site Is Awesome — Finally, a productive use of Facebook! — Etsy lets you log in with your Facebook credentials, pick a friend, and see Etsy products for sale that match things that your friend likes, based on their profile information.
Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
For PayPal, the Future Is Mobile — SAN JOSE, Calif. — When Scott Thompson, the president of PayPal, chats with executives at its parent, eBay, he is diplomatic about the size of his business compared with eBay's marketplace. — “I hope — honestly, genuinely — that we never get bigger than you,” he tells them.
comScore, Inc.:
Black Friday Boasts $648 Million in U.S. Online Holiday Spending, Up 9 Percent vs. Year Ago — Thanksgiving Day Surges 28 Percent to $407 Million as Consumers Increasingly Use Day for Online Shopping — comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
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