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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
PayPal VP On Blocking WikiLeaks: State Department Said It Was Illegal — Milo Yannopoulos' very first question on stage to PayPal's VP of Platform Osama Bedier was about why PayPal blocked WikiLeaks payments and froze its account. The question was met with boos from the mostly European audience.
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Search Engine Watch, ZDNet, The Register, Guardian, Mashable!, Boing Boing, The Lede, Techland, Geek.com, Pulse2, Gawker, THINQ.co.uk, Neowin.net, ITProPortal, Bloomberg, PSFK, TG Daily, TechCrunch Europe, CrunchGear and The Huffington Post
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Why Wouldn't Google Mirror Wikileaks? — Consider: Your mission is to “organize the world's information and make it universally accessible.” You thumbed your nose at Wall Street, and you proved them wrong. You've stood up to the entire media industry by purchasing YouTube and defending fair use …
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Esther Addley / Guardian:
MasterCard site partially frozen by hackers in WikiLeaks ‘revenge’
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Examiner, New York Times, BBC, TechCrunch, Netcraft, CNET News, The Next Web, Fast Company, Telegraph, Neowin.net, SAI, Naked Security, News: News blog, Wall Street Journal, Switched, THINQ.co.uk, The Atlantic Online, ITProPortal and msnbc.com
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Media Comes To The Defense Of WikiLeaks At LeWeb: “The Leakers Will Win”
Jameson Berkow / FP Tech Desk:
Visa being targeted for cyberattack: report
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Netcraft, Computerworld, Mashable! and The Huffington Post
DigiTimes:
Inventec ships 60,000 Chrome OS netbooks to Google — Alongside Google's announcement of its new Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) operating system as well as Chrome OS on December 7, Inventec confirmed that it has already shipped about 60,000 Chrome OS-based netbooks to Google, which are expected to be used for testing.
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Fortune, Liliputing, GigaOM, ZDNet, The Toybox Blog, LaptopMemo, CrunchGear, SlashGear, The Next Web, GottaBeMobile, Softpedia News, Pulse2, TechEye, Engadget, Geek.com, Googling Google Blog, Appolicious Advisor and TechCrunch, Thanks:michaelkroker
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Network Computer Arrives...Finally!
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Ars Technica, Venture Capital Dispatch, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal and OStatic blogs, Thanks:ryanlawler
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Google: Chrome OS laptops won't dual boot with Windows, live …
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Newlaunches.com, Softpedia News, Inquirer and Go Rumors
Bloomberg:
Apple, Google Asked to Pay Up as European Operators Inundated by Data — Google Inc., Apple Inc., and Facebook Inc. need to pitch in to help pay for the billions of dollars of network investments needed for their bandwidth-hogging services, European phone operators say.
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GigaOM, CNET News, Tech Trader Daily, Daring Fireball, Electronista, 901am, Pulse2, ITworld.com, MacRumors, TechEye, DSLreports, everythingiCafe, Engadget, GottaBeMobile, IntoMobile, iLounge and TUAW
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212 Million In Cash — Salesforce.com has just announced that it is acquiring Heroku, which provides a Ruby application platform-as-a-service, for approximately $212 million in cash. — That's one hell of an exit for the startup, which was founded in 2007 and has raised only $13 million in funding.
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James Lindenbaum / Heroku:
The Next Level — What if enterprise apps were built the way you'd build an agile Ruby app? What if they were a pleasure to work with, deploy, and manage? What if big companies could adopt the philosophies of Heroku and the Ruby community? What if your company actually preferred you use Heroku to build apps?
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Force.com Blog, Computerworld, GigaOM, Tim Anderson's ITWriting and NewEnterprise
Lauren A. E. Schuker / Wall Street Journal:
Movies at Home, for $20,000 — A proposed service aims to bring movies to homes the same day they hit theaters, a milestone that Hollywood has long anticipated with a mixture of fear and fascination. — But there's a catch: At the prices currently being discussed by Prima Cinema Inc. …
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Reuters, BloggingStocks, Engadget, Techland, Gizmodo and Tech Report, more at Mediagazer »
Rose Yao / Facebook Blog:
More Control on Mobile — Over 200 million people use Facebook on their mobile phones to share photos, access applications and stay connected with friends. In October, we added a dashboard to give you a way to clearly see and control the ways applications use your information.
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Covering Web, Social Medium and The Next Web
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Tracked Down: Google Just Quietly Launched An Official Latitude iPhone App — I guess Google really is in a feisty mood tonight. After the Chrome Web Store, Chrome OS, some leaked Google +1 information, and a Google Groups re-launch, we've just gotten word that Google has launched an official Latitude app for the iPhone.
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IntoMobile, ReadWriteWeb, Electricpig.co.uk, PhoneArena, Engadget, MacStories, Electronista, SlashGear, The Next Web, 9 to 5 Mac, TiPb, Go Rumors, everythingiCafe and Black Web 2.0
Jason Roberts / Codus Operandi:
How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition — I began building a web-based version of PowerPoint called Preezo back in the Spring of 2005 after switching the direction of my angel-funded startup for the third time in less than a year. Prior to that I had been working on a web collaboration concept akin …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Marissa Mayer's Next Big Thing: “Contextual Discovery” — Google Results Without Search — Today at LeWeb '10 in Paris, France, our own Michael Arrington took the stage to talk with Google's Marissa Mayer. Mayer recently took a new job within Google. Technically, she's now the head of consumer products for the company.
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VatorNews, Search Engine Land, Tech Report, Engadget, The Register, ThinkMobile and DroidDog Android Blog
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Intellectual Ventures sues nine tech firms for patent infringement — Intellectual Ventures, a Bellevue, Wash.-based firm that's amassed a huge trove of technology patents over the years, has sued nine technology companies for patent infringement. It's the first time Intellectual Ventures …
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Wall Street Journal, The Seattle Times, VentureBeat, Bits and The Microsoft Blog, Thanks:johnhcook
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs: MobileMe to ‘Get A Lot Better’ Next Year — Apple's MobileMe service has been a bit of a mixed bag with consumers, with some seeing value in the service's email, photo/file hosting, and syncing capabilities while others feel that the $99 annual list price for the service is too high.
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Digits, PC World, lalawag, AppleBitch, TiPb, Electricpig.co.uk, 9 to 5 Mac, Apple Gazette, ITProPortal, AppleInsider, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, App Advice, Gizmodo Australia, MacStories and Ubergizmo
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
CBS Interactive Head Neil Ashe Stepping Down — Neil Ashe (pictured here), president of CBS Interactive, is stepping down from his post. — CBS confirmed the move after BoomTown made inquiries recently, after hearing of various executives who had been contacted by the media giant about the position.
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Erica Sadun / TUAW:
iTunes adds international promo codes, push notification security upgraded — A couple of big changes occurred today in the iOS ecosystem. First, application promo codes may now be used internationally, instead of being limited to US store customers only.
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MacRumors iPhone Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, MacStories and The Next Web
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Intel Girds For Netbook and Tablet Wars — Intel has formalized its interest in the new crop of computing devices that have the caught the attention of consumers and even office workers. — The chip giant has created a new business unit that it calls the netbook and tablet group.
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PC World, SAI, Between the Lines Blog, VentureBeat, Mobilized, Electronista, SlashGear and Engadget
Andrea James / Boing Boing:
Facebook Community Council quietly closes — Last year, I mentioned that I was one of about 350 people tapped to participate in Facebook Community Council, an experiment in crowdsourced content moderation. We'd slog through profiles and sites tagged as inappropriate by other users …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter VP Of Product Jason Goldman Steps Down (At Le Web) — Our very own MG Siegler interviewed Jason Goldman, VP of Product at Twitter, at Le Web 10. — Our notes: — Siegler started off by asking about the new integrations Twitter launched yesterday.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Mashable!, SelectStart, Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
(Not so) Crazy Microsoft Rumors: Microsoft store for NYC coming in 2011 — As part of my job as a full-time Microsoft watcher, I get a lot of tips about Microsoft from customers, competitors, partners and even Softies themselves. However, ever since I worked for PCWeek more than 15 years ago …
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GeekSmack, The Next Web and WinRumors
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Google Android phones biggest network hogs: study — (Reuters) - Users of Google's Android phones, such as Samsung's Galaxy S, use more data services than those with other smartphones, threatening to choke wireless network capacity, an industry study showed.
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Newlaunches.com, Android Phone Fans, IntoMobile and Android Community
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
4Chan's Moot Joins Lerer Ventures As An Advisor — Christopher Poole, aka Moot, the founder of 4chan and still stealthy Canvas Networks, is now a venture advisor. He just joined Lerer Ventures, the New York City seed fund started by Ken and Ben Lerer. While he is not a formal partner, he will have the ability to greenlight deals.
