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November 7, 2012, 6:55 PM

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Exclusive: Microsoft Office for iPhone, iPad, and Android revealed — Office Mobile will arrive in early 2013 — Microsoft's Office for iPad, iPhone, and Android is a reality. Although Office Mobile has been rumored and reportedly spotted in the wild, Microsoft has remained persistently quiet about its plans for the product.

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft Office for iOS, Android to have Office 365 subscription tie-in: Report

More: The Next Web and Apple Bitch

Michael Scherer / TIME:

Inside the Secret World of Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win — “The cave” at President Obama's Election headquarters in Chicago — In late spring, the backroom number crunchers who had powered Barack Obama's campaign to victory noticed that George Clooney had an almost gravitational tug on West Coast females ages 40 to 49.

More: AllFacebook, Reuters, Network World, The Monkey Cage, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Poynter, The Verge and Washington Examiner. Tweets: @alexismadrigal. See also Mediagazer

Daniel Terdiman / CNET:

Obama's win a big vindication for Nate Silver, king of the quants — Despite some incredulous political pundits, the FiveThirtyEight statistician appears to have correctly predicted the winner in all 50 states in the presidential election. — In the end, big data won.

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

On Election Day 2012, Twitter Kills the Great White Fail Whale — In one pithy, three-word sentence, Twitter creative lead Doug Bowman summed up the microblogging service's election day perfectly: — “RIP Fail Whale.” — Indeed, all throughout Nov. 6, that cutesy, once-ubiquitous cartoon …

More: Twitter Blog, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Business Insider, CNN, Mashable!, Business Insider, Gizmodo UK, Los Angeles Times, PC Magazine, Tech Daily Dose, Gizmodo, Quick Online Tips, SocialTimes and AllTwitter. Tweets: @dickc. See also Mediagazer

Mazen Rawashdeh / Twitter Engineering:

Bolstering our infrastructure — Last night, the world tuned in to Twitter to share the election results as U.S. voters chose a president and settled many other campaigns. Throughout the day, people sent more than 31 million election-related Tweets (which contained certain key terms and relevant hashtags).

More: Business Insider, NYT Bits, VentureBeat, CNET, The Next Web and Mashable!

Dan Frommer / ReadWrite:

Twitter Is Now The Best Way To Follow Election Results

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Reuters:

Foxconn's Gou says tough to cope with iPhone demand — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group said on Wednesday the company's flagship Hon Hai unit is finding it difficult to cope with the massive demand for Apple Inc's iPhones. — “It's not easy to make the iPhones.

AppleInsider:

Apple's Eddy Cue joins Ferrari board of directors — Eddy Cue, Apple's head of Internet software and services, has joined the Ferrari board of directors, in a move that could hint that Apple is interested in moving into users' vehicles. — Ferrari announced in a statement on Wednesday that Cue has joined its board.

More: AllThingsD, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, CNET, The Next Web, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Ferrari and iDownloadBlog.com

Roger Cheng / CNET:

AT&T will spend $14B to pump up wireless, wireline network — The telecommunications giant is investing heavily in its infrastructure in a bid to spark accelerating growth. — AT&T today laid out a broad plan to upgrade both its wireline and wireless networks and keep its growth moving.

More: AT&T, Reuters, GigaOM, Engadget, Dow Jones Newswires, The Next Web, SlashGear, The Verge, Bloomberg, TechCrunch and ZDNet

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Is AT&T's plan to end landline phone service crazy, or just crazy enough?

More: GigaOM, PC Magazine and dailywireless.org

Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News:

Apple officially in ‘bear market’ following postelection sell-off — CUPERTINO — Apple (AAPL) shares plunged to a five-month low Wednesday in the midst of a postelection sell-off, pulling shares to 20 percent below the peak reached less than two months ago, which investors term a “bear market.”

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, Bloomberg, Digits, DailyFinance.com, Reuters and Forbes

Susan Decker / Bloomberg:

Apple Told to Pay $368.2 Million to VirnetX in Trial

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Adobe, now ‘married’ to Microsoft, moves Flash updates to Patch Tuesday — Will sync Flash security updates with partner's monthly schedule — Adobe on Tuesday announced that it will pair future security updates for its popular Flash Player with Microsoft's Patch Tuesday schedule.

More: ZDNet, Naked Security, The Next Web, TechNewsDaily.com, HotHardware.com News, The Register and WinBeta

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Airbnb Partners With NYC.gov To Provide Free Housing For Hurricane Sandy Victims — Last week, Airbnb waived fees for users affected by Hurricane Sandy. It also encouraged hosts with listings in affected areas to lower their prices and take in those without food, power, or housing.

More: CNNMoney.com, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Airbnb Blog, PandoDaily, Betabeat, PC Magazine, The Next Web, Mashable!, The Airbnb Blog, Gothamist, SocialTimes and Business Week

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft to fold in-memory database technology into SQL Server Next — Summary: Hekaton, Microsoft's coming in-memory database engine, will be built into the next version of SQL Server. And SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now generally available. — Just a few months after launching SQL Server 2012 …

More: TechNet Blogs, The Register and InfoWorld

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Me.ga Hackers: We're Real Pirates & We'll Sell Dotcom's Domain To Universal — On January 20, 2013 Kim Dotcom is set to launch the successor to Megaupload, along with a promise for it to be bigger and better than before. — In anticipation of opposition, Dotcom previously revealed …

More: Wired, Techdirt, Ars Technica, ITworld.com, Geekosystem, VentureBeat, Betabeat, The Domains, The Next Web, PC Magazine, digitaltrends.com and Gizmodo

Victoria Barret / Forbes:

Payroll Tax Be Gone: Angel Investor Ron Conway Discusses Election Victory In San Francisco — “This is about jobs,” angel investor Ron Conway told me earlier today as he anxiously awaited the vote tally on the proposition he backed in San Francisco. Conway might just be tech's most prolific early-stage investor.

More: Business Insider

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Did Apple use $2 billion to bail out Sharp last quarter? — Explaining a curious discrepancy in Apple's projected and actual capital expenditures — FORTUNE — Sharp was in serious trouble last summer. — It had hemorrhaged 103 billion yen ($1.3 billion) in cash in the first half of 2012.

More: MacRumors, asymco, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, HotHardware.com News, Computerworld and 9to5Mac

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix Has Big Usage Lead on Amazon, Hulu, HBO, says Sandvine Report — Netflix has plenty of competitors selling streaming video on the Web. — So far none of them is remotely close to challenging Reed Hastings and company. — That's a reasonable conclusion to draw from a new report …

More: Sandvine Press Releases, CNET, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, GigaOm, FierceOnlineVideo News and SlashGear. See also Mediagazer

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

DC Comics Announces Deals To Sell Digital Comics In Big Three E-Bookstores, Says Digital Sales Have Grown 197% — DC Comics is announcing the next big step in its digital plans today, saying it will sell monthly comics in the Kindle Store, iBookstore, and Nook Book Store.

More: Ars Technica, CNET, CNET, The Verge, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, Associated Press and Mashable!. See also Mediagazer

Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

AT&T selling Nokia's Lumia 920 for $450 off-contract — It's an understatement to say that the Lumia 920 is priced “to sell,” and that doesn't just mean with AT&T's carrier subsidy. If you'd prefer to own your smartphone outright, you can snag the handset for $449.99 …

More: CNET, DailyTech, Phones Review, Gotta Be Mobile, BetaNews, Nokia Conversations and TechnoBuffalo

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Microsoft's Xbox SmartGlass app now out for iOS — It's been a couple of weeks since the Android app launched, but Xbox-owning iOS users can finally get their first look at SmartGlass in action today. Microsoft has released SmartGlass as an update to its existing Xbox Live app …

More: GeekWire, BGR, CNET, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo, WebProNews, 9to5Mac and iPhone Hacks

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