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November 20, 2012, 12:15 PM

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Paul Sandle / Reuters:

Ex-Autonomy CEO “flatly-rejects” HP charges — (Reuters) - Mike Lynch, the former chief executive of Autonomy, on Tuesday “flatly rejected” allegations made by the company's new owner Hewlett Packard regarding “serious accounting improprieties”. — In a brief statement released to Reuters …

More: Business Insider, Associated Press, SlashGear, Quartz and AllThingsD. Tweets: @eldon

Barb Darrow / GigaOM:

HP requests fraud investigation into Autonomy claims — Updated: Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman said “outright misrepresentations” about the state of Autonomy's financial health led to HP overpaying for that company last year and Whitman is recommending civil and criminal investigations into that issue.

More: BetaNews, Betabeat, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Forbes, Telegraph, HotHardware.com News, Deal Journal, Deal Journal and TechPinions

Tweets: @cnbc and @nero

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

HP Beats Street Amid Sales Declines, Takes $8.8 Billion Charge — Hewlett-Packard's Q4 results just crossed the wires, and they're bad, but not quite as bad as some of the more cynical had expected. — The good news: Earnings per share were $1.16, beating the consensus view of $1.14.

More: SiliconANGLE, Tech Trader Daily, Bloomberg, The Register, ZDNet, Computerworld, Forbes, The Register, BBC, VentureBeat, HP, Digits, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Business Insider, ZDNet, Inquirer, Guardian, BGR, CNNMoney.com, The Next Web, The Verge, DealBook, Reuters, InfoWorld, Beyond Search, WebProNews, Mashable!, Engadget, TechCrunch and CNET. Tweets: @qthrul

Scott Austin / Digits:

Leo Apotheker: Due Diligence of Autonomy Was Meticulous — Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker, who orchestrated the company's acquisition of Autonomy last year, said he was “both stunned and disappointed” to learn of Autonomy's alleged accounting inproprietaries.

More: Gizmodo, Business Insider, Business Insider and Computerworld

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

What Exactly Happened at Autonomy?

Mari Saito / Reuters:

HTC “happy” with Apple settlement, slams media estimates — (Reuters) - Taiwan's HTC Corp is happy with its patent settlement with Apple Inc, but regards media reports on details of the licensing agreement as “outrageous”, chief executive Peter Chou told reporters on Tuesday.

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: BGR, 9to5Google, Redmond Pie, Pocket-lint, iPhone Hacks, Evolver.fm, Macgasm, Android Authority, WebProNews, CNET, MacRumors and iClarified

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Nokia's Here Maps out now for iOS, the wait for a true Google Maps replacement continues — The perfect iOS maps app is not Here — Nokia's new Here Maps app for iOS has made its way to the App Store today, promising free turn-by-turn voice navigation, public transit information, and rich traffic reports.

Owen Thomas / Business Insider:

Color, The $41 Million App, Really Is Shutting Down Now — Color, a startup which raised $41 million for a photo-sharing service, only to be racked by executive turmoil and consumer anomie, is shutting down its app, the company just announced via its website.

More: Betabeat, VentureBeat, Mashable!, everythingiCafe and CNET

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Color Labs And Bill Nguyen Sued By Ex-Employee Alleging Retaliation, Emotional Distress

More: SiliconANGLE, PC Magazine, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, TUAW, SlashGear, VentureBeat and Forbes

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Sources: Apple Paid $7 Million For Color Labs

More: Business Insider, WebProNews, memeburn and The Next Web. Tweets: @panzer

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: TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com, everythingiCafe, CNET, VentureBeat, WebProNews, iPhone, App Advice, TUAW, Gizmodo, iPhone Hacks, Inside Facebook, AllFacebook and MacRumors. Thanks:@ryanlawler

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 last 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 sight ever since.

More: Los Angeles Times, digitaltrends.com, iPhone Hacks, CNET, SlashGear, Telegraph, Pocketnow, TUAW, TeleRead, Gizmodo and App Advice

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

Twitter Restores @NYTOnIt Parody Account — Twitter has restored popular New York Times parody account @NYTOnIt after it was taken offline for about 12 hours beginning Tuesday night. The account was suspended after The Times filed a trademark complaint against its owner — who is …

More: TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Betabeat and Poynter. See also Mediagazer

David Meyer / GigaOM:

Why big data could sink Europe's ‘right to be forgotten’ — Europe's proposed ‘right to be forgotten’ has been the subject of intense debate, with many people arguing it's simply not practical in the age of the internet for any data to be reliably expunged from history. — Well, add another voice to that mix.

More: The Next Web, ENISA, Help Net Security, TechnoLlama and Softpedia News

Gizmodo:

All the Black Friday Deals: 2012 — It's the biggest shopping day of the year. There are tons of deals—and not-really-deals—out there. So we combed through every one we could find, and ranked them all. Here's your Ultimate Black Friday guide: happy hunting.

More: The Verge, The Verge, BGR, SlashGear, Wired, TIME, TUAW, ABCNEWS, The Verge, CNET, MacRumors, Mashable! and CNET

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

President Obama Chats About Kim Dotcom — President Obama arrived at the East Asia Summit in Cambodia yesterday to discuss key issues with other world leaders. — While the criminal case against Megaupload and Kim Dotcom are not listed on the agenda, the topic was brought …

More: Stuff.co.nz and Softpedia News. Tweets: @kimdotcom

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Highlight Launches Android App And New iOS App With Expanded Profiles, “High Fives,” And Improved Notifications — Can you believe it's been less than 10 months since social-local-mobile app Highlight first launched? We've watched it go from an overhyped launch to an overhyped SXSW update …

More: CNET, SiliconBeat, The Next Web and Mashable!

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo Is Among Those Mulling a TVGuide.com Bid for About $20 Million — According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo is among the companies taking a serious gander at TVGuide.com, the online entertainment listings, video and news site and mobile app. — Earlier today …

More: CNET, VentureBeat, Business Insider and Deadline.com. See also Mediagazer

Long Zheng / istartedsomething:

Windows 8 UI vision mockups from 2010 — A friend recently forwarded me a MetroTwit for Windows 8 cameo in a UX Week 2012 presentation by Microsoft's Jensen Harris from the Windows design team. Watching through the entire presentation, I noticed that Jensen showed off something I've never seen before …

More: CNET, Geek News Central, Ubergizmo, The Verge and WinBeta

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

Chris Dixon is not only joining Andreessen Horowitz; he's leaving New York — Chris Dixon has long been one of the most vocal advocates of the New York tech scene. — He's heavily involved with HackNY a program that promises to “keep kids off the street” — Wall Street that is.

More: GigaOM and TechCrunch. Tweets: @cdixon and @aweissman

Chris Dixon:

a16z — VCs are experts at analyzing industries and identifying …

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

Tweets: @cdixon and @spolsky

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Microsoft's Skype Takes Its Gift Cards International, Now In 44 Countries, As It Continues Retail Rollout — In an effort to get more people using Skype Credits and paid services on the site, today the Microsoft-owned Internet calling giant Skype is expanding its Gift Cards: as of today these are now live to buy online in 44 countries.

More: CNET, BetaNews, Electronista, Neowin, SlashGear and The Big Blog

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: @dens, @artgillespie, @prhaig and @dalmaer

Damon Lavrinc / Wired:

Google Poaches Deputy Director of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — Google's autonomous driving program might have engineers, technicians and lobbyists working overtime to bring self-driving cars to the world, but it's been missing one very important post: a government policy expert.

More: Betabeat, Business Insider, Engadget and WebProNews. Tweets: @marshallk

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Skype version 3.0 arrives on Android devices: Microsoft login, refreshed tablet UI (hands-on) — Arriving just after its debut on Windows Phone 8, Skype's updated its Android app, with a focus on improving the tablet experience. Surely thanks to improved Google tablet sales …

More: TechCrunch

Jeffrey Grubb / VentureBeat:

PlayStation Mobile is now open to all developers; Sony wants to work with indies on Vita and more — Sony announced today that is opening up the PlayStation Mobile store to developers. — The publisher is adding an open ecosystem while continuing to work with what it calls “managed titles.”

More: Engadget, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Inquirer, SlashGear and The Verge

Ev Williams / Medium:

Medium's director of content: Kate Lee — I'm happy to announce the addition of Kate Lee to Medium's team. Kate has spent most of her career as a literary agent at ICM, discovering authors on the web (among other places) and helping get books published, from conception through production.

More: CNET, Business Insider, TechCrunch and SocialTimes. Tweets: @katelaurielee

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants — Proposed law scheduled for a vote next week originally increased Americans' e-mail privacy. Then law enforcement complained. Now it increases government access to e-mail and other digital files.

More: DailyTech and WebProNews

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: Business Insider, Fortune and memeburn

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