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November 19, 2012, 11:55 PM

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Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Color Labs And Bill Nguyen Sued By Ex-Employee Alleging Retaliation, Emotional Distress — Today, Adam Witherspoon, a former employee of Color Labs who was laid off during the photo and video sharing startup's recent wind-down period filed suit against the company and its CEO Bill Nguyen alleging retaliation …

More: The Verge, digitaltrends.com, TUAW, App Advice, SlashGear, Betabeat, CNET, VentureBeat and iPhone Hacks

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Sources: Apple Paid $7 Million For Color Labs

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @panzer

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Color Inc. lawsuit confirms ‘key assets’ being sold to Apple

More: GigaOM. Thanks:@bradmccarty

Chris Dixon:

a16z — VCs are experts at analyzing industries and identifying new opportunities, which is why it's odd that the VC industry itself has so stubbornly resisted change. — Two years ago I wrote a post where I argued that innovative new VC firms are finally starting to change this:

More: Betabeat, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Betabeat and Forbes

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Hunch, SiteAdvisor Founder And Angel Investor Chris Dixon Leaves eBay To Join Andreessen Horowitz As General Partner — Hunch and SiteAdvisor founder, and prolific angel investor Chris Dixon is leaving his current position at eBay to join Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner.

More: Business Insider, bizjournals, Venture Capital Dispatch, pmarca, PE Hub Blog and NYT Bits

Tweets: @semil, @spolsky and @hunterwalk

Thanks:@joshconstine

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Google after antitrust: The good, the bad, and the ugly — U.S. and European antitrust regulators are poised to crack down on the dominant search company. What changes to Google search might the cases trigger? — Tim Carter was blindsided when his home-improvement site AsktheBuilder.com fell …

More: Inside Google

Danny Sullivan / CNET:

Why Google ‘vertical’ search shouldn't face antitrust action

More: Google Analytics …

Brandon Bailey / SiliconBeat:

Google review by FTC has rivals, supporters weighing in

More: FairSearch.org, Politico, Reuters and Hillicon Valley. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Mat Honan / Wired:

Exclusive: Internal Videos Show Why Microsoft Kin Cratered — Do you remember the Microsoft Kin? It's okay if you don't-Microsoft certainly would like for you to forget it ever existed. Kin was a family of phones from Microsoft that launched to much fanfare in 2010, sold incredibly poorly …

More: BGR, GeekWire, TechCrunch, CNET, Neowin, WinBeta, VentureBeat, The Verge, Engadget and Gizmodo

Intel:

Intel CEO Paul Otellini to Retire in May — SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 19, 2012 - Intel Corporation today announced that the company's president and CEO, Paul Otellini, has decided to retire as an officer and director at the company's annual stockholders' meeting in May …

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Who's Next to Run Intel? A Look at the Internal and External Contenders.

More: Business Week, Quartz and ZDNet

Vinicius Vacanti / Entrepreneur:

The Depressing Day After You Get TechCrunched — If you're a first-time reader, you can get future posts by subscribing via email or following me on Twitter. — Note: This post is loosely based on our experience 2 years ago when TechCrunch covered Yipit's launch.

Tweets: @karaswisher, @joshconstine, @janaboruta, @drummel and @nicferrier

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple opens its first eBay store for a trial with select refurbished products — Seth Weintraub and Danny DeSilva contributed to this post. — Over the past few weeks we've been posting links to a mysterious Apple refurbished store that appeared on eBay about a month ago and has been hiding in plain site ever since.

More: CNET, TUAW, TeleRead and Gizmodo

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft investigating reported Windows Phone 8 reboots — Summary: Some Windows Phone 8 users (including yours truly) are experiencing spontaneous reboots and email sync problems. Microsoft officials say they are investigating. — Windows Phone 8 devices just started hitting the market …

More: The Register, BGR, Business Insider, DailyTech, Gotta Be Mobile, IntoMobile, Pocketnow, My Nokia Blog, TechnoBuffalo, Mac Weekend, Neowin, FierceMobileContent News and GadgeTell

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Starts Letting iOS Users Auto-Upload All Their Snapshots With Photo Sync — It's not just for Android anymore. Facebook has figured out how to enable background auto-uploads and is now testing Photo Sync with a few iOS users. A tipster got us a screenshot and Facebook confirms iOS Photo Sync …

More: CNET, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Inside Facebook, AllFacebook, TUAW and iPhone Hacks. Thanks:@ryanlawler

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Early builds of Apple's upcoming OS X 10.9 include Siri and Maps integration — Early builds in testing of the next-generation Mac operating system, OS X 10.9, point to Siri and Maps integration coming to Mac computers next year, according to our reliable sources.

More: CNET, Mashable!, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, TechSpot, HotHardware.com News, Los Angeles Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, WebProNews, TechnoBuffalo, Phones Review, LAPTOP Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile and GigaOM

Paul Graham:

How to Get Startup Ideas — The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. — The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want …

Tweets: @dalmaer, @prhaig and @artgillespie

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

LEAKED: MySpace's Master Plan To Raise $50 Million And Relaunch As A Spotify Killer — The parent company of MySpace is trying to raise $50 million in order to re-launch MySpace as a direct competitor to Spotify and Pandora in 2013. — This is according to documents obtained by Business Insider, which we have included in this post.

More: PandoDaily, CNET, VatorNews, TechCrunch, digitaltrends.com, TechSpot, VentureBeat, hypebot and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Yahoo shares reach 18-month high as investors warm to new CEO — (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc shares reached their highest level in a year and a half, as investor confidence grows that new Chief Executive Marissa Mayer can pull off a comeback that eluded three of her predecessors.

More: WebProNews, Business Insider and TechCrunch

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Oprah's attempt to promote the Microsoft Surface backfires: iPad used to send tweet — Oprah is out plugging the Surface for Microsoft, stating that she is buying several of the devices as gifts. — However, in sending out that specific tweet, she, or whoever was running her account that day …

More: Business Insider, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, Zagg, Geek.com, PadGadget, Examiner, VentureBeat, Mashable!, iPhone Hacks, Betabeat, Neowin, Windows 8 Beta, The Daily Caller, GeekWire and nbcnews.com

Tweets: @oprah, @qthrul, @davepell and @dannysullivan

Mark Hachman / ReadWrite:

Windows 8 ‘Slow Going,’ But 2013 Should Be Better, Top Retailer Says — A senior executive at popular retailer NewEgg described the Windows 8 launch so far as not the “explosion” that the company originally planned for, but as slow and steadily improving. — From a software perspective …

More: The Tech Report, Alertbox, ExtremeTech, The Register, WinBeta, T3 News, Engadget and HotHardware.com News

Tim Stevens / Engadget:

Amazon Kindle Fire HD review (8.9-inch, 4G LTE) — What a difference a generation makes. While the original Kindle Fire impressed, there was only one thing that really made it worth considering: it was cheap. Really cheap. But, when we got our hands on the 7-inch …

More: TechCrunch, Powerbook Medic Blog, The Next Web, Phones Review and Tech Trader Daily

Dominic Patten / Deadline.com:

Disney Pulls Plug On Online Movie Service — Disney Movies Online will cease to exist at the end of the year, Disney announced today. The little-known Internet movie service will close as of December 31, said the company in an email to users and on the site.

More: The Next Web

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Google wants to take on Apple with an open AirPlay alternative — Google is working on an open alternative to Apple's AirPlay, and it's hoping to bring a number of device and software vendors on board to provide the industry with an open technology to exchange data between second screens and TV-connected devices.

More: CNET

Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:

Samsung pulls YouTube ad depicting computer ‘puppies’ being smashed — Samsung has removed an ad that featured computers that looked like puppies being destroyed by their owners. (YouTube) — How do you get people to buy a staid computer storage device?

More: digitaltrends.com, CNET, Business Insider, Mashable!, Neowin, The Consumerist, BGR and WebProNews

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple's redesigned iMac launches not delayed until 2013, still on track for November-December — According to our sources, Apple's already announced plans for November and December launches of the redesigned 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac lines are still on track.

More: AllThingsD, SlashGear, TUAW, TechSpot, Mac Weekend, Neowin, iPhone Hacks, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Macworld Australia, PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, Ars Technica and The Register

Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:

Microsoft building clean powered data center at waste water plant — Microsoft has unveiled details of an experimental small data center that it's building next to a waste water treatment plant in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The tiny data center will be powered by a fuel cell that uses biogas …

More: Engadget, GeekWire, Data Center Knowledge and ZDNet

Diane Bartz / Reuters:

U.S. ITC will review Apple, Samsung patent decision — (Reuters) - The U.S. International Trade Commission will review a judge's decision which found that Apple did not violate patents owned by Samsung Electronics in making the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad. — An administrative law judge …

More: AllThingsD, Bloomberg and Mac Weekend

Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:

Tiger Global Hedge Fund Takes 9.9% Stake in Groupon — Tiger Global Management LLC, the $8 billion hedge fund run by Chase Coleman and Feroz Dewan, acquired a 9.9 percent stake in daily deal site Groupon Inc. (GRPN) as it bets on technology companies attempting turnarounds.

More: Associated Press, The Next Web and Chicago Tribune

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