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January 6, 2013, 7:50 PM

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Sarah Silbert / Engadget:

Lenovo announces multi-user Horizon Table PC for $1,699 and up (video) — In addition to announcing some traditional all-in-ones today, Lenovo is introducing the IdeaCentre Horizon 27 Table PC. It too is a full-fledged, battery-powered desktop, but it can collapse into table-top mode …

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, VentureBeat, PC World, Inquirer, LAPTOP Magazine, Ars Technica, SlashGear and Mashable!

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Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Lenovo announces the IdeaPad Yoga 11S with Ivy Bridge, Windows 8; arrives in June for $799+ — That headline says it all, doesn't it? The Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11S is like the Yoga 11, except instead of an ARM chip, it has a laptop-grade Ivy Bridge processor.

More: LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, The Verge and SlashGear

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Lenovo updates its laptops and all-in-ones with multitouch for Windows 8

More: Engadget, The Verge, Engadget, HotHardware.com News and Mashable!

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Vizio debuts its first Windows 8 tablet, an 11.6-inch slate with a 1080p display, AMD processor — After breaking into the PC market last year, it was only a matter of time before Vizio released its first Windows 8 tablet. The company just announced the Vizio Tablet PC …

More: Digits, LAPTOP Magazine, Mashable!, Pocket-lint, The Verge, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Neowin and Inquirer

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Reddit Rumored To Be Raising Money, At A $400 Million Valuation — Welcome to yet another Rumor Sunday™. In 2011, Reddit was spun out of Conde Nast as a standalone company, but the publishing giant kept full ownership. At the time, Peter Kafka of AllthingsD reported that Conde Nast …

Caleb Hannan / Business Week:

Dish Network, the Meanest Company in America — For 2012, the website 24/7 Wall St. determined that the worst company to work for in America was the Dish Network (DISH), the Englewood (Colo.)-based company that provides satellite TV to more than 14 million subscribers.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

HBO Renews Universal Deal Through 2022 — HBO has renewed a pact with Universal Pictures, which will keep the studio's movies, like “Ted” and “Bourne Legacy” on the pay cable channel through 2022. — HBO, which normally plays up the value of its original productions like “Game of Thrones …

More: TechCrunch, CNET, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, The Verge and atmaspheric

Tim Wu / The New Republic:

Why Does Everyone Think Google Beat the FTC? — In the aftermath of the FTC's settlement with Google yesterday, too many reporters fell for the line that Google used some fancy combination of executive charm and lobbying prowess to beat the federal government at its own game.

More: The Verge and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @binarybits and @mcandrew

Richard Lai / Engadget:

Lenovo to split into Lenovo Business Group and Think Business Group, effective in April — Lenovo's done pretty well since its acquisition of IBM's personal computer business in 2005, but in an internal e-mail earlier today, CEO Yang Yuanqing admitted that despite some attempt …

More: PC Magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, Pocket-lint and The Verge

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Google says Maps redirect on Windows Phone was a product decision, and will be removed — Today, a Google spokesperson provided The Next Web with a statement indicating that the company intends to remove the redirect that it has in place for Windows Phone users who attempt to access the Google Maps product …

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

The Strange Explanation Of Why Windows Phone Users Lost Access To Google Maps

More: The Verge, PhoneArena, WMPoweruser and Neowin. Tweets: @fxshaw

Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:

Google's New Director Of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, Is Building Your ‘Cybernetic Friend’ — World-renowned artificial intelligence expert and Google's new Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, wants to build a search engine so sophisticated that it could act like a ‘cybernetic friend,’ who knows users better than they know themselves.

Agence France Presse:

Iran designing software for controlled social media access — TEHRAN — Iran is designing “intelligent software” that would give citizens restricted and controlled access to banned social networking sites, local media on Sunday quoted police chief Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghadam as saying.

More: The Next Web, CNET, The Verge, Gizmodo and Associated Press

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Vizio refreshes its PC lineup: all new models have touchscreens, quad-core CPUs — When Vizio entered the PC market last year, we weren't gushing about its computers, per se, but we found ourselves rooting for the company anyway: for all it got wrong (flaky trackpads, poor battery life), it did a lot of things right.

More: Pocket-lint, IGN and The Verge

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