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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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Techie Buzz, John Battelle's Searchblog, CNET News, New York Times and Guardian, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:beet_tv
Guardian:
US embassy cables: browse the database
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Gawker, New York Times, TeleRead and Spiegel Online, more at Mediagazer »
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
WikiLeaks And The Failure Of Cyberattacks As Censorship
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Guardian, The Atlantic Online, V3.co.uk, Ben Metcalfe Blog, Techie Buzz and BBC, Thanks:forbestech
Thor Muller / Social Studies Blog:
When businesses attack...their customers — Get Satisfaction is better known these days for providing a platform for companies to “love their customers,” but at times it's also a channel for consumers to make their voices heard to companies that actively spurn them.
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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.
David Segal / New York Times:
For DecorMyEyes, Bad Publicity Is a Good Thing
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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 …
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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The Next Web, Thanks:jasonlbaptiste
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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Gizmodo, PhoneArena and TG Daily
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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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 …
Tal Ater / Green Any Site:
Is Facebook Preparing to Launch Video Chatting In a Partnership with Skype? — While working on the Green Any Site facebook application, and digging around facebook, I noticed a curious little object in their code which wasn't there a few days ago. — The object, which is simply called VideoChat …
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Geek.com, BlogsDNA, All Facebook, The Next Web, Pulse2, Techie Buzz, Gizmodo and Technically Incorrect
Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:
George W. Bush to answer live questions from Facebook HQ tomorrow — Former US president George W. Bush will be live from Facebook headquarters tomorrow answering questions about his new book “Decision Points”. — Facebook announced the news this afternoon and after just 35 minutes …
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Comcast internet down across parts of the eastern seaboard, fix on the way — Twitter's abuzz with angry Comcast customers tonight, as internet service is down in Boston and parts of the eastern United States, a situation the company's since confirmed at its official Twitter account.
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Computerworld, Faster Forward and msnbc.com
