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Shayndi Raice / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Targeting 2nd-Quarter IPO Date — Facebook is targeting dates between April 2012 and June 2012 for an initial public offering of its stock. The company is exploring raising $10 billion in an IPO that could value Facebook at more than $100 billion. — Interactive: Track Tech IPO Performance
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Silver Lake Consortium Is Said to Seek Yahoo Stake — A consortium of investors led by Silver Lake and Microsoft is one of several parties that will be submitting a plan to take a minority stake in Yahoo, according to people briefed on the matter. — TPG Capital is also expected to submit a proposal …
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Will Marc or Won't He? Andreessen Mulling Yahoo Leadership Role in Bid — As bidders ready their offers for all or parts of Yahoo this week, a lot of the eyes for one of the more aggressive ones will likely be on well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur and powerful VC Marc Andreessen.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple seeds first iOS 5.1 beta, Xcode 4.3 beta (release notes included) — Apple has just seeded iOS 5.1 to developers, a pre-release version of iOS that runs on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. In addition, Apple has released Xcode 4.3 beta to developers, a required version of Xcode …
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9to5Mac, BGR, MacRumors, Engadget, PhoneArena, everythingiCafe, TUAW, The Next Web, IntoMobile, Electronista and App Advice
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Jason Lewis / Telegraph:
Facebook faces a crackdown on selling users' secrets to advertisers — Facebook is facing a crackdown on how it exploits vast amounts of its users' most personal information to create bespoke advertising. — Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg must address privacy concerns or face fines under a new EC Directive
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ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Land, Bloomberg, Pulse2, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Mashable!, All Facebook, The Blog Herald and The Verge
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Katya Kazakina / Bloomberg:
Apple Founding Contract Signed by Jobs Could Fetch $150,000 at Sotheby's — On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs got together with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne to draft a three- page contract that established Apple Computer Co. — Next month, the contract, with the three founding partners' signatures, hits the auction block in New York.
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Engadget, MacRumors, iPhone, The Verge, Macgasm, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, The Register, CNET News, Edible Apple, PC Magazine and MacNN
Ritchie / Ritchies Room:
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime - First Look — Welcome to the first ever Ritchie's Room TV segment! Here we take a look at the new Transformer Prime from Asus. Read on below for lots more detail and images. — The Transformer Prime is easily the most hyped of all upcoming tablets.
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Ubergizmo, SmartKeitai, AndroidOS.in, MobileSyrup.com, The Digital Reader and Phones Review, Thanks:ivmodo
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Amar Toor / Engadget:
ASUS Transformer Prime pre-order page points to December 8th release date
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MobileWhack.com, BGR, IntoMobile, Android and Me and Android Phone Fans
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Apple iPhone spontaneously combusts aboard flight in Australia — An Apple iPhone spontaneously began smoking and emitting a red glow while aboard an airplane in Australia. Passengers aboard Regional Express flight ZL319 were welcomed to their destination in Sydney, Australia on Friday by a frightening ordeal.
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App Advice, The Register, CNET News, Gizmodo, TUAW, Softpedia News, Phones Review, Geek.com, TechEye, msnbc.com, iClarified, BetaNews, Mashable! and The Next Web
Abigail Holtz / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Catalogs is now available for Android tablets — For many of us, the arrival of piles of catalogs marks the start of the holiday shopping season. But what if you could have all your favorite catalogs in one place, with the latest issues always available at your fingertips?
Ben Gomes / The Official Google Blog:
The evolution of search in six minutes — This summer we posted a video that takes a peek under the hood of search, sharing the methodology behind search ranking and evaluation. Through this methodology, we make roughly 500 improvements to search in a typical year.
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PC Magazine, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, NBC Bay Area, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, WebProNews, ReadWriteWeb, LAUNCH and WinBeta
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
“Music Everywhere”: Spotify's “New Direction” — Hey! Remember last week, when Spotify sent out that cryptic announcement about a press conference they're holding this week, and said they're headed in a “new direction”? — Here's what the music service is likely to announce …
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Horace Dediu / asymco:
How many iOS devices will be sold in 2012? — There are several methods I turn to when estimating device sales. — Top-Down Demand analysis — The first is to look at so-called top-down views of the demand. This method takes a view of the overall phone market and assumes share for smart devices and …
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Richi Jennings / Computerworld:
Confirmed: Verizon Galaxy Nexus LTE release date; pre-order Tuesday — What's the deal with the LTE Galaxy Nexus on Verizon Wireless? When's the release date, and when can we pre-order it? After all the foggy rumor shenanigans over Black Friday, we now have enough triangulation to be confident.
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Digital Trends, Washington Post, CNET News, BGR, MobileWhack.com, PhoneArena, WebProNews, GottaBeMobile, DroidDog Android Blog, Android Phone Fans and Electronista, Thanks:richi
Electronista:
Best Buy cancels BlackBerry PlayBook orders, pulls listings — Best Buy sheds PlayBook as others follow — Best Buy raised questions on Thanksgiving weekend after it suddenly started cancelling Blackberry PlayBook orders. Shoppers have frequently reported orders being dropped …
Amazon.com:
Best Black Friday Ever for Kindle Family: Kindle Sales Increase 4X Over Last Year — Holiday shoppers made Kindle Fire the bestselling product across all of Amazon.com on Black Friday — Kindle Fire now the bestselling product across Amazon for 8 weeks running - ever since its introduction on September 28
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VatorNews, 9to5Google, Associated Press, parislemon, Nieman Journalism Lab, Electronista, paidContent, TechCrunch, Digits, GigaOM, WebProNews, Android and Me, TechFlash, GottaBeMobile, Computerworld, eWeek, Reuters, Mashable!, Forbes, VentureBeat, CNET News, Engadget, BGR, Liliputing, Technologizer and Between the Lines Blog
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Twitter Acquires Moxie Marlinspike's Encryption Startup Whisper Systems — The hacker and security researcher who goes by the name Moxie Marlinspike has spent the last years building a few of the most noteworthy inventions in applied cryptography, some independently and some for his mobile security startup, Whisper Systems.
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Clare Jim / Reuters:
HTC says to tough out downturn, new models coming — (Reuters) - HTC Corp promised competitive new models early next year and said it would stick to its strategy in the face of its biggest challenge since rising to prominence in the smartphone market. — HTC has become the worst performer …
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mocoNews, BGR, FierceWireless, VentureBeat, DailyTech, MobileSyrup.com, FOSS Patents, Digital Trends, Techie Buzz and ITProPortal
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Google I/O Moved to June and Extended to 3 Days, Developers Will Have to Code for Tickets — In October, Google announced the dates for its annual developer conference Google I/O. Now, however, the company has decided to postpone the event in order to extent it to three days instead of two.
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Google Code Blog, The Verge, IntoMobile, Techie Buzz, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Android Phone Fans, Softpedia News, GottaBeMobile and Electronista
Annalyn Censky / CNN Money:
Malls stop tracking shoppers' cell phones — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Two malls are axing their plans to track shoppers' cell phones, after a U.S. senator raised privacy concerns over the weekend. — As CNNMoney first reported last week, the Promenade Temecula in southern California …
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CNET News, The Not-So Private Parts, Ars Technica, Epicenter, Electronista and Consumer Reports News
Christina Cacioppo / Union Square Ventures:
What comes next — Now is a great time to be an internet entrepreneur. While much of the global economy sputters, tech companies post growth numbers other industries haven't seen in years. Their success hasn't gone unnoticed, and the pace of tech-company creation has quickened.
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