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3:50 PM ET, November 21, 2011

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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Ebay's Got A Hunch, For Around $80 Million  —  Breaking this morning: Ebay will announce the acquisition of New York based startup Hunch, say sources.  The price tag will be somewhere around $80 million.  —  Hunch was founded by Chris Dixon, Caterina Fake (who left last summer to start …
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Adobe: Flash for Android 4.0 before end of 2011, no Flash for Android 5.0  —  Adobe has confirmed to Pocket-lint that it plans to release Flash for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich by the end of 2011, but it will be the last update going forward.  That means that there will be a Flash-free future for Android beyond ICS.?
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Chris Burns / SlashGear:
Google Confirms no Flash for Ice Cream Sandwich, for the time being  —  If you lucky owners of the Galaxy Nexus in these first days of its release complete with the first iteration of Ice Cream Sandwich, you'll notice that you do not have Adobe Flash Player installed, nor do you have access …
Daniel Fish / Google Mobile Blog:
The new Google Search app for iPad  —  (Cross posted on the Inside Search Blog)  —  Today, we're very pleased to be launching a significant redesign for the Google Search app for iPad.  As you can see in our video, whether you're doing research and comparing results, or exploring beautiful imagery …
Danny Ocean / 9to5Mac:
Grand Central Apple Store, the biggest in the world, scheduled to be announced this Tuesday  —  We reported on the construction progress of the future Apple grand Central store earlier this month and have since received further information and pictures from our trip to the location and from the tech blog, Techfootnote.
Anil Dash:
Facebook is gaslighting the web.  We can fix it.  —  Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden into openly attacking its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest of the web.  The evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace Facebook technologies is overwhelming …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Spotify Says It's Headed in a “New Direction”  —  Apple launched its newest music offering a week ago.  Google went a few days later.  Now Spotify says it has something up its sleeve, too: The streaming music service just sent out a mysterioso invitation to a Nov. 30 press event in New York.
Ron Johnson / HBR.org:
What I Learned Building the Apple Store  —  This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The Future of Retail.  —  When I announced that I was leaving Apple to take the reins as CEO of J.C. Penney this month, the business press (and lots of others) began speculating about whether …
Discussion: 9to5Mac, hbr.org and Mashable!
Charlie Demerjian / SemiAccurate:
Exclusive: Apple swaps GPU suppliers again  —  Never means 3 years in Cupertino  —  Remember when we said that AMD's (NYSE:AMD) Llano loss in the MacBook Air had repercussions?  Sources point to that deal as a big part of the reason why Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) is in the next round of MacBooks, quite the repercussion.
Quentin Hardy / New York Times:
Mixed Results as Google Enters Microsoft's Turf  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Michael O'Brien, vice president for information technology at Journal Communications, would prefer not to have the employees of the Milwaukee media company use Microsoft's Office software any more.
Discussion: TechFlash and Seattle Times
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Mix Sponsored Stories Ads With Content In The Site-Wide Ticker  —  Facebook has classically been very reluctant to adulterate its social content streams with advertisements.  But today, Facebook begins showing its Sponsored Stories ad units in the site-wide Ticker of real-time social activity stories.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Peter Thiel To The New Yorker: “I Don't Consider [The iPhone] To Be A Technological Breakthrough”  —  Peter Thiel is a grump, but a special kind of grump.  He is a dystopian utopian (if such a person can exist).  The investor who wrote the first check for Facebook both believes in the power …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
iPad Magazine Readers to Publishers: More, Please  —  After an initial wave of excitement about iPad magazines, some publishers have dialed back their enthusiasm.  But the readers who have actually downloaded them like them quite a bit.  —  So says a survey commissioned by a publishers' trade group …
Ben Parr / Ben Parr's Entrepreneurial Musings:
2,446 Articles Later, A Goodbye to Mashable  —  Dear friends, family, colleagues and supporters,  —  Friday, November 18, was my last day at Mashable.  I want to thank the Mashable team for 3+ amazing years.  They truly have been the best years of my life.  —  I also want to thank everybody who has been part of my journey.
Matt Burns / TechCrunch:
Google Drops The Price Of Chromebooks to $299 And Polishes The Interface  —  Happy holidays, everyone!  Yours Truly, the Google Chromebook team!  —  Google just announced several Chromebook updates that should wash away the holiday blues.  First off, prices are dropping.
Amar Toor / Engadget:
Developer creates proxy server for Siri, controls thermostat with his voice (video)  —  Now that Siri's protocol has been freshly dissected and laid bare for the world to behold, hackers have been busy finding ways to move Apple's personal assistant beyond the realm of the iPhone 4S.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Piper Jaffray: Android app revenue is 7% of iPhone's  —  Apple to retain a 70%+ share of mobile app dollars, despite Android's 50%+ market share  —  Using data from Apple's public announcements and AndroLib (an Android app discovery tool), Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster has analyzed the mobile app market and determined that:
Discussion: GigaOM, CNET News, The Loop and IntoMobile
Paul Roberts / threatpost:
Hacker Says Texas Town Used Three Character Password To Secure Internet Facing SCADA System  —  In an e-mail interview with Threatpost, The hacker who compromised software used to manage water infrastructure for South Houston, Texas, said the municipality said the district had HMI …
Jamie Keene / The Verge:
Western Digital ordered to pay $525 million to Seagate in settlement  —  Storage manufacturer Seagate has been awarded $525 milion as a settlement in its dispute with Western Digital.  The pair have been in arbitration over allegations of misappropriated confidential information and use …
Thomas Ricker / The Verge:
8.9-inch Kindle Fire to launch in Q2 of 2012, says DigiTimes  —  DigiTimes cites supply chain sources in claiming that Amazon's followup to the 7-inch Kindle Fire will measure 8.9-inches and launch at the end of the second quarter of 2012.  That's a bit more specific than its original report …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Site Explorer Closing Down Monday, November 21st  —  As expected Yahoo will be closing down Yahoo Site Explorer this year.  Yahoo has just announced the date for the closure.  This coming Monday, November 21, 2011, Site Explorer will cease to exist.  —  The short Yahoo blog post reads:
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Alleged WikiLeaks Source Bradley Manning Has A Court Date: 569 Days After His Arrest  —  One year, six months, and three weeks after he was first jailed in a military brig in Kuwait, alleged WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning will have his day in court: According to a blog post Monday …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Former Color Co-Founder Peter Pham Heads to Former Myspace CEO's L.A. Tech Studio (Video)  —  Well-known tech entrepreneur Peter Pham will be joining the Los Angeles-based start-ups lab, which was just launched by former Myspace CEO Mike Jones.  —  Pham, who was recently helming the high-profile …
Amy Vernon / SourceForge Community Blog:
The OS Wars: We Have A Winner  —  It's clear who has won the OS wars: The user.  —  Just a few short years ago, Apple computers were little more than afterthoughts outside of artists' circles.  They certainly were not the go-to computers for anyone serious about programming or software development.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft, Intel Hit by Government Tech Cuts  —  Seattle's chief technology officer, Bill Schrier, is bracing for a 6 percent budget cut in 2012, bigger than this year's, a sign of tighter spending that indicates slower sales gains for Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Intel Corp. (INTC)
Discussion: TechFlash
Vanessa Grigoriadis / New York Magazine:
Maharishi Arianna  —  Atop AOL, hiring and borrowing freely from the old media, a new age news guru is building her grandest temple yet.  —  On a recent Sunday afternoon, ­Arianna Huffington, the 61-year-old editorial director of the newly merged AOL-Huffington Post …
 
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Stamped Blog:
Introducing Stamped  —  Today, after months of hard work …
Discussion: TechCrunch
Ville Heiskanen / Bloomberg:
AT&T Tells Users of ‘Organized and Systematic’ Hack Attempt
Discussion: Bloomberg and MobileBurn.com
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Progress against SOPA
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Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
No One's Noticing Twitter's New Ad Experiment, Which Is a Good Thing
Discussion: Business Insider
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Disruptions: For Teenagers, a Car or a Smartphone?
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
McAfee: Nearly All New Mobile Malware In Q3 Targeted At Android Phones
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
The trials and tribulations of HTML video in the post-Flash era
Discussion: The Register
Cade Metz / Wired Enterprise:
Man Survives Steve Ballmer's Flying Chair To Build ‘21st Century Linux’
Discussion: Business Insider
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Feature: Can the iPhone 4S replace a “real” digital camera? Ars investigates