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November 28, 2012, 12:55 PM

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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:

Windows 8 - 40 Million Licenses Sold — As we pass the one month anniversary of the general availability of Windows 8, we are pleased to announce that to-date Microsoft has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses. Tami Reller shared this news with industry and financial analysts …

More: GeekWire, Seattle Times, Inquirer, Wired, The Register, Washington Post, DailyTech, Geek.com, Ars Technica, Techie Buzz, ExtremeTech, Winsyde, TechSpot, MSDN Blogs, Ed Bott, Guardian, Telegraph, gHacks Technology News, PhoneArena, Winsyde, Pocketables, ZDNet, digitaltrends.com, The Age, Windows 8 Beta, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, Reuters, Gear Live and Redmond Pie

Tweets: @stevesi and @edbott

Eva Dou / Digits:

Windows 8 Touchscreen Laptops See Slow Start

More: Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, ZDNet, Gizmodo, TechEye and Computerworld

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Ballmer says Windows 8 users ‘get it, and like it’

Martyn Williams / Computerworld:

Exclusive: Nokia seeks to block sale of some RIM products — Nokia wants a US court to enforce an arbitration agreement that could affect most of RIM's smartphones — Nokia has asked a California court to enforce an arbitration award that would prevent Research In Motion from selling products …

Tarmo Virki / Reuters:

BlackBerry maker RIM loses patent dispute with Nokia — * Nokia files cases seeking to enforce the ruling — * Could lead to sales ban on BlackBerry phones — * Analysts say deal for RIM to pay royalties more likely (Releads, adds analyst comment, details)

More: AllThingsD, Forbes, InvestorPlace, MobileBurn.com and iDownloadBlog.com

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows Blue is Microsoft's future low-cost OS with yearly updates — Microsoft is busy preparing its next-generation Windows client, shortly after shipping Windows 8 in October. The Verge has learned from several sources familiar with Microsoft's plans that the company is planning …

More: BGR, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, Techie Buzz, WinBeta, Neowin and Winsyde

Tweets: @tomwarren and @maryjofoley

BBC:

‘Piracy’ student Richard O'Dwyer avoids US extradition — Mr O'Dwyer faced a maximum sentence of five years in prison if found guilty in the US — A student facing trial and possible imprisonment in the United States has struck a deal to avoid extradition, the High Court has been told.

More: The Register, ZDNet, TorrentFreak, CNET, Plagiarism Today, Inquirer, ITProPortal, PC Pro, Softpedia News and Guardian. Tweets: @iankatz1000. See also Mediagazer

Loek Essers / Computerworld:

Apple gets sales ban on some Samsung Galaxy products in the Netherlands — Dutch court bans sale of Samsung products that infringe on an Apple patent on navigating images in a photo gallery — A Dutch court has banned sales of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy products that infringe …

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, The Register, SiliconANGLE, CNET, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, Reuters, iPhone Hacks, Macgasm, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, iLounge and Wall Street Journal

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft's launches ‘Scroogled’ anti-Google Shopping website — Microsoft is launching its latest anti-Google campaign this week. A new Scroogled site has emerged that directly attacks Google's “unfair pay-to-rank shopping practices” says Microsoft. “Simply put, all of their shopping results …

More: BetaNews, Bing, GeekWire, 9to5Google, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Mashable!, SlashGear and WebProNews

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Marissa Mayer's First Live Interview (Which ATD Had to Virtually Sneak Into): God. Family. Yahoo. — Tonight, new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gave her first public interview since becoming the leader of the troubled Silicon Valley Internet giant. — Not to cranky me, of course …

More: Fortune, CNET, SiliconBeat, Business Insider, SocialTimes, AdAge and Mashable!. Tweets: @fortunempw. See also Mediagazer

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

Andrew Mason: It Would Be Weird If The Board Wasn't Discussing If I was The Right Guy For The Job — Yesterday we learned from Kara Swisher and other sources that Groupon CEO Andrew Mason could be on his way out soon. — At our IGNITION conference, Mason spoke with Henry Blodget on the matter.

More: CNET, TechCrunch, AllThingsD and Business Insider

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Is Andrew Mason on the Bubble as CEO of Groupon?

More: GigaOM, Digits, Business Insider, Venture Capital Dispatch, Wall Street Journal, ValueWalk, Bloomberg, broadstuff, CNET, DealBook and Betabeat

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Amazon's Maps API now available to all developers, becomes part of Mobile App SDK — Amazon on Tuesday announced the release of its Maps API, now out of beta and integrated into the Amazon Mobile App SDK. The company is pushing for developers to get started using it for Kindle Fire …

More: TechCrunch, Amazon.com, Computerworld, TUAW, The H, All Points Blog, WebProNews and GadgeTell

Noel Randewich / Reuters:

AMD plans to sell Texas campus to raise cash — (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc plans to sell and lease back its Austin, Texas campus to raise cash and fund its chipmaking business as it diversifies beyond the troubled PC industry into new markets. — AMD expects to sell the 58-acre site …

More: X-bit labs, VentureBeat, Inquirer, Forbes, Softpedia News, Austin American-Statesman, TechEye and EE Times

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Yelp CEO: Yep, Google can be pretty evil — Jeremy Stoppelman, speaking during a Business Insider conference, also said doing anything local takes depth and time. — NEW YORK—Sure, Google can be pretty evil, Yelp Chief Executive Jeremy Stoppelman said. — Stoppelman, speaking …

Thanks:@lutherlowe

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

iPad And Android Tablet Market Share Margin Narrows Much Faster Than Originally Predicted — Apple continued to win out in terms of tablet market share this past quarter, according to the latest figures from ABI Research, with a 55 percent share of all shipments during the period.

More: ABI Research, CNET, Computerworld, digitaltrends.com, AndroidGuys, Android Community and Patently Apple

Dara Kerr / CNET:

Hackers steal and publish e-mails from U.N. nuclear agency — The IAEA confirms its servers were breached and a hacking group claims responsibility demanding an investigation into Israel's alleged nuclear proliferation program. — Hackers have made their way into one of the servers …

More: Ars Technica, The Verge, BBC, Reuters, ITProPortal, ZDNet and Softpedia News

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Telefonica, Mozilla and VCs Still Betting Big on HTML as They Pour $25 Million Into Everything.Me — For Mozilla to be successful with its Firefox OS, it needs a lot of good HTML5 apps and content. — Given that, it is not terribly surprising that Mozilla and carrier partner Telefonica …

More: The Mozilla Blog, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, WebProNews and TheDomains.com

Bloomberg:

Google Chief Page Said to Meet FTC Over Antitrust Probe — Google Inc. (GOOG) Chief Executive Officer Larry Page met with U.S. Federal Trade Commission officials today in Washington as the agency moves to wrap up its 19-month investigation of the company's business practices, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

More: Inquirer, Search Engine Land, TIME, The Register, CNET, WebProNews, Reuters, Forbes, Softpedia News and 9to5Google

Gary Marcus / The New Yorker:

Moral Machines — Google's driver-less cars are already street-legal in three states, California, Florida, and Nevada, and some day similar devices may not just be possible but mandatory. Eventually (though not yet) automated vehicles will be able to drive better, and more safely than you can …

More: Betabeat. Tweets: @radar

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Microsoft Says It Has Identified Windows Phone Rebooting Issue, Plans Fix for December — Microsoft said it believes it has identified a problem that was causing some Windows Phone 8 devices to reboot without warning. — The company said it hopes to deliver an over-the-air software fix next month.

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Rep. Darrell Issa introduces a 'don't mess with the Internet for two years' bill — If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Yet, when it comes to the Internet, there are plenty of politicians who believe something is broken. — Suffice it to say, the majority of active Internet users …

More: CNN, CNET, Techdirt, digitaltrends.com, OSDir.com, TechEye, Gizmodo, Hillicon Valley, ZDNet, WebProNews and Mashable!

Eva Dou / Digits:

HTC Calls Up a New Marketing Chief — Embattled smartphone maker HTC Corp. is trying to send a clearer signal to consumers. — The company, which has seen its popularity erode amid stiff competition, is shaking up its marketing. HTC announced Wednesday in a statement that Benjamin Ho …

More: CNET

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Launches Ads API, Enabling Custom Tools For Large-Scale Campaigns — LinkedIn is announcing a new Ads API, which could bring more large-scale social marketing campaigns to the professional networking site. — In a blog post that the company plans to publish on its marketing website later today …

Tweets: @spencerchen

Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:

Nokia Lumia 920 Review - High Quality But It's Heavy — Both Nokia and Microsoft were once titans in the smartphone world, but the pair have struggled to find favor with consumers, carriers and developers in the iPhone-Android era. Now, the two companies, which have become close partners …

More: PC World

Jack Shafer / Reuters:

Fake press releases are a public service — Yesterday, an enterprising clown used PRWeb to publish a fake press release about the purported purchasing of WiFi provider ICOA by Google for $400 million. The Associated Press, Business Insider, Forbes, Techcrunch and other websites ran stories …

More: InfoWorld

Matthew Lynley / Digits:

MyHeritage Raises $25 Million, Aquires Geni — MyHeritage.com, the company behind an online application that maps and tracks family trees, has raised $25 million in its fifth round of funding. — MyHeritage is also announcing that it is acquiring Geni, a rival formerly run by PayPal alumnus David Sacks …

More: TechCrunch and The Next Web. Thanks:@mattlynley

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