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Priceline.com:
Priceline.com Agrees to Acquire KAYAK Software Corporation  —  Priceline.com Incorporated (NASDAQ: PCLN) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement for the Priceline Group to acquire KAYAK in a stock and cash transaction.  Under the terms of the agreement …
Michael Abramson / Sequoia Capital:
Creating room in a crowd  —  Sometimes it's never too late to join a crowded market.  Just ask Paul English and Steve Hafner, who today announced an agreement to sell Kayak to Priceline for about $1.8 billion.  —  Today, Kayak's promise of ‘One and Done’ is well known as befits a company …
Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
AT&T's flip-flop on FaceTime over cellular should scare you  —  A ‘cautious approach’ exposes the FCC's greatest shortcoming  —  Weeks after taking enormous heat from consumers, public interest groups, and the media (like us), AT&T is doing an about-face on its controversial decision …
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
AT&T Expands FaceTime Over Cellular Access to More Customers  —  AT&T announced today that it is planning to allow any customer “with an LTE device” on a “tiered data plan” to use iOS 6's FaceTime over Cellular feature.  Previously, only customers with a Mobile Share plan could use the feature.
Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
Facebook open sources Corona — a better way to do webscale Hadoop  —  Facebook is at it again, building more software to make Hadoop a better way to do big data at web scale.  Its latest creation, which the company has also open sourced, is called Corona and aims to make Hadoop more efficient …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvidia CEO: Consumers realize a great tablet is better than a cheap PC  —  Graphics chip giant Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang said in a conference call with analysts today that consumers realize “a great tablet is better than a cheap PC.”  —  That's an interesting statement coming …
More: CNET
DigiTimes:
Foxconn reportedly plans to set up plants in US  —  Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) reportedly plans to establish manufacturing plants in the US and is currently conducting evaluations in cities such as Detroit and Los Angeles, according to market watchers.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Google introduces six-month trial for Cloud SQL, ups storage 10x to 100GB, adds EU datacenter  —  Google today announced a major update to its Cloud SQL, which, as its name implies, is a MySQL database that lives in Google's cloud.  The highlights are this: 10 times more storage, faster reads …
FierceWireless:
Verizon's Shammo: We'll finish LTE buildout by mid-2013  —  Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) will finish its LTE deployment by the middle of 2013, according to Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo.  The timeline is about six months earlier than Verizon has previously stated.
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Invents Very Cool Next-Gen Dual Mode Headphones!  —  Apple has invented a very cool next-gen headphone design that could be operated in two modes.  The first mode is the normal every day in-ear design that all headphones offer.  The second mode is where the fun comes in.
More: Ubergizmo and CNET
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Facebook amps up Friendship Pages to highlight your online relationships  —  Facebook today announced a big visual update to its Friendship Pages to highlight the time you've spent with a family member or friend.  In effect, Facebook has essentially auto-created perfect lovey-dovey Timeline profile pages …
Chris Dannen / Fast Company:
The Magical Tech Behind Paper For iPad's Color-Mixing Perfection  —  In the new version of Paper released last week, you mix colors with your fingers, like it's paint—only somehow more beautiful.  This one magical feature burned a year of development time, resurrected the work of two dead German scientists, and got Apple's attention.
Emma Turpin / The Official Google Blog:
JAM with Chrome: Play music live with your friends online  —  If you ever dreamed of playing in a band, now's your chance to be a rock star.  JAM with Chrome is an interactive web application that enables friends in different locations to play music together in the Chrome browser on their computers.
Mike Wehner / TUAW:
Apple proposing new Bonjour sharing standard  —  In order to remedy the woes many universities are experiencing using Apple's Bonjour zero-configuration Multicast DNS technology on large scale networks, NetworkWorld reports that the company is proposing a new standard that can be built to support huge numbers of users at once.
Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blogcast:
The New Evernote 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch  —  Our apps never stop evolving.  Every few weeks, we release an update that adds something new or improves an existing feature.  It's not often that we launch a complete redesign.  In fact, it happens only once every few years.
John Callaham / Neowin:
IE10 Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 differences detailed  —  As we have mentioned already today, Friday is turning out to be a big day for Microsoft and Windows Phone 8 as the first devices running the mobile OS go on sale to the public in the US.  The people who are first to get the Nokia …
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
After a 5-year beta period, Wikipedia finally moves into the video era with an HTML5 player  —  With more than half-a-billion monthly visitors, Wikipedia needs little introduction.  —  But while the not-for-profit is renowned for its crowdsourced, text and image-based online encyclopedia …
Shara Tibken / CNET:
Amazon uncorks wine service, delivers to your door  —  Customers in certain states — sorry, East Coasters, Southerners and people in a lot of other regions — can now pay $9.99 to ship up to six bottles from wineries around the U.S.  —  Customers can order almost anything through Amazon, and that now includes wine.
Rachael King / The CIO Report:
Stuxnet Infected Chevron's IT Network  —  Stuxnet, a sophisticated computer virus created by the United States and Israel, to spy on and attack Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities in Natanz also infected Chevron 's network in 2010, shortly after it escaped from its intended target.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Friendster Founder Jonathan Abrams Raises $1.7M To Start Hiring At Social News Reader Nuzzel  —  Social news startup Nuzzel has raised more than $1.7 million in seed funding.  —  I say “startup,” but at this point the only person working full-time on the project is Jonathan Abrams …
More: VentureBeat and CNET.  Tweets: @georgezachary.  Thanks:@ryanlawler
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Traffic Increases 40% in Half a Year  —  Many Internet traffic reports have been published over the years.  Back in 2004, long before the BitTorrent boom began, studies indicated that BitTorrent was responsible for an impressive 35% of all Internet traffic.
More: TechPounce

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