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Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
Zynga's Tough Culture Risks a Talent Drain — Zynga's chief executive, Mark Pincus, got an earful from employees last month. — In dozens of e-mails to a companywide list, frustrated workers complained about the long hours and stressful deadline periods.
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Uncrunched, Kotaku and @karaswisher
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Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining … Suddenly everyone's complaining about how unfair things are in Silicon Valley. How hard everyone has to work so darn hard, and how some people don't get venture capital or a nice sale to Facebook or Google even though lots …
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Get Off My Internets, @dave_peck and @rafat
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
Apple's Black Friday Retail Store Sales were “off the charts” — We obviously had to white out numbers above - From Apple's Retail inventory system. — A source inside Apple Retail has shared with us the numbers for Apple's Black Friday sales event. Black Friday is always huge shopping …
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Electronista and I4U News
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Black Friday E-Commerce Spending Up 26 Percent To A Record $816M; Amazon Most Visited Retailer — As we heard on Saturday, IBM reported a 24 percent increase in online sales for Black Friday this year. ComScore is announcing even stronger results for e-commerce, with Black Friday seeing $816 million …
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Search Engine Land, AllThingsD, Examiner, comScore, Inc., GeekWire, CNET News, PC Magazine, ReadWriteWeb, WebProNews, MediaPost, Guardian, Electronista and Reuters
Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times:
Cyber Monday retail sales may hit record
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Hillicon Valley, Electronista and Social Media
Business Week:
In Some Virtual Worlds, the Thrill Is Gone — Zynga and other social game developers search for the next FarmVille-scale hit — Just a few weeks after Mafia Wars 2 went live on Facebook, Din Shlomi got tired of playing the game. A self-described hard-core gamer from northern Israel …
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VG247
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Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
Zynga Builds Its CastleVille Walls, As Its Facebook Traffic Flattens And Falls — New Facebook game CastleVille is one of Zynga's fastest-growing titles ever, as it announced a few days ago. That's good news for the company, but maybe not good enough when you consider the trajectory …
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Softpedia News, Thanks:eldon
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Disruptions: Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It's Not Clear Why — Millions of Americans who got on a plane over the Thanksgiving holiday heard the admonition: “Please power down your electronic devices for takeoff.” — And absolutely everyone obeyed. I know they did because no planes fell from the sky.
Brian X. Chen / Bits:
A Look at Apple's Spot-the-Shopper Technology — A Black Friday visit to the Apple Store in Palo Alto, Calif., offered a glimpse of the new technology Apple is using to speed purchases. — A store employee, Diego Aguirre, demonstrated an internal iPhone application that, for the last few weeks …
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CNET News, The Verge, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com and ifoAppleStore
Nate Bolt / TechCrunch:
Why Instagram Is So Popular: Quality, Audience, & Constraints — Editor's note: Guest contributor Nate Bolt runs the UX firm Bolt | Peters, teaches design research at SVA iXD, and made that one SF to Paris time lapse. — I get asked a lot why Instagram is so popular.
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Howard Lindzon
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Data Furnaces Could Bring Heat to Homes — TO satisfy our ever-growing need for computing power, many technology companies have moved their work to data centers with tens of thousands of power-gobbling servers. Concentrated in one place, the servers produce enormous heat.
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Examiner, GeekWire, Feld Thoughts and Gadgetopia
Kellex / Droid Life:
DROID 4 vs. DROID RAZR - The Evolution of DROID, Specs, and Official Pictures — The DROID 4 has come from out of no where to having us within just a couple of weeks away from launch. The current target date that we have seen from Verizon is December 8, the same day that we could potentially …
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Droid Life, Examiner, Engadget, AndroidOS.in, Business Insider, Neowin.net, Pulse2, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, Geek.com, 9to5Google, GottaBeMobile, MobileWhack.com and SmartKeitai
Om Malik / GigaOM:
My 10 years of blogging: Reflections, Lessons & Some Stats Too — Ten years is a long time. Sometimes it is so long that one forgets a lot more than one remembers — like the fact that it I have been blogging for a decade. I would have totally forgotten about the amount of time that has passed …
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parislemon, @scottbeale, @jason, @devindra, @cpen and @joshelman, Thanks:pkedrosky
