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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iCloud beta website reveals plans for Notes and Reminders web apps, affirms iOS 6 beta coming soon  —  We know that Apple has been busy tweaking their iCloud.com website and testing new features like iOS 5-like notification banners, and now it appears that Apple is expanding the website's web-application library.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple's Coming Map App Will “Blow Your Head Off”  —  A 3-D view of San Francisco from C3 Technologies  —  Between 2009 and 2011, Apple acquired three mapping companies in quick succession: Placebase, in 2009; 3-D mapping outfit Poly9 in 2010; and in 2011, C3 Technologies, a second 3-D mapping company.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
iOS 6 “Sundance” And The Sunsetting Of Google Maps  —  For Google Maps, winter is coming.  Potentially.  —  As you've undoubtedly seen by now, with the upcoming iOS 6 software, Apple intends to replace the Google Maps aspect of their default Maps application with their own, in-house version.
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Sources: Google Is Close to Buying Meebo  —  Google is in talks to acquire Meebo, according to two sources close to the situation.  —  The price for the company would be about $100 million, according to one of the sources.  —  Meebo's latest product promises to help users cut through information overload.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Fleshes Out Privacy Policy To Comply With Data Protection Audits, Will Hold Q&A On Monday  —  Today Facebook will start sending the first of three billion notices to users about proposed changes to its privacy policy, which were made to comply with a Spring deadline …
Bloomberg:
Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO  —  Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill.
Brian Caulfield / Shiny Objects:
Intel To Build Chips Apple 'Can't Ignore,' For iPad, iPhone, CEO Says  —  Intel outlined its plan to catch up in the smartphone processor business at its annual investor day in Santa Clara, California, Thursday: crush competitors with the weight of its multi-billion-dollar fabs and the thousands …
Bangkok Post:
HP restarts tablet manufacturing  —  SHANGHAI : Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced it will resume production of consumer tablets but says it will run them on Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system.  —  The world's largest technology firm suspended its touchPad WebOS tablet production line last year on poor sales.
Brian X. Chen / Bits:
Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging, Report Says  —  Apple's iMessage, the free, Internet-based text-messaging service, isn't the only thing AT&T's chief executive should lose sleep over.  Facebook is also eating into text-messaging revenues for carriers, according to a report.
Reuters:
Insight: Salesforce's plan for opulent campus a costly debacle  —  (Reuters) - In early 2010, Marc Benioff, founder and chief executive of Salesforce.com, summoned several of his top real estate and finance executives to his San Francisco home to float a bold idea.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-free zone  —  A venture with $9 million in backing wants to establish a locked-down domain.  —  A security researcher has won investments of more than $9 million to incorporate a tightly policed section of the Internet reserved for banks …
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
LinkedIn Is NOT Buying Monster: Here's The Real Story  —  Just got off the phone with a source close to LinkedIn.  —  LinkedIn is not going to buy Monster, and it was never particularly interested in doing so.  —  Basically, a little while back, Monster's Bank of America bankers called LinkedIn …
Karen Weise / Business Week:
On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data  —  Sitting along Yankee Stadium's third base line during New York University's rainy graduation two years ago, Max Salzberg couldn't focus.  The phone in his pocket wouldn't stop buzzing.  With each notification, the NYU senior wiped water off …
More: AllThingsD.  Tweets: @dpritchett
Mark Milian / Bloomberg Tech Blog:
Video of Steve Jobs Parodying ‘Ghostbusters’ Surfaces  —  Apple fans must be dying to get a peek into Craig Elliott's attic.  After he released a video last week of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs acting as President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he aired another one exclusively on Bloomberg TV.

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Jazz Monroe / Pitchfork:
Sources: nearly all staff at music outlets BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine appear to have been laid off by Veeps, owned by Live Nation

Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
FuboTV reports Q3 revenue up 38% YoY to $1.48B, a $25.7M net loss, vs. a $38M loss a year earlier, and North American subscribers up 2% to 5.75M; FUBO jumps 12%

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Disney reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $25.2B, below $25.4B est., adjusted EPS of $2.06, above $1.85 est., and entertainment revenue up 6% to $11.3B

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