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November 18, 2013, 1:50 AM

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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Apple Aiming at PrimeSense Acquisition, but Deal Is Not Yet Done — Several sources confirm that Apple is in talks to buy 3-D sensing company PrimeSense, following a report in the Israeli publication Calcalist. However, those sources stressed that the deal is not yet done …

More: The Verge, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Digits, Forbes, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, Polygon, CNET, Engadget, Softpedia News, Electronista, iClarified, Mashable and PE Hub Blog

Tweets: @danprimack and @jyarow

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Apple reportedly acquires PrimeSense, company behind original Kinect 3D sensor tech, for $345 million — Apple reportedly buys Kinect tech-creator PrimeSense — Apple has reportedly acquired PrimeSense, the motion-tracking company responsible for the technology in the original Xbox 360 Kinect …

More: Reuters, MacRumors, GeekTime, Business Insider, iMore, everythingiCafe, iDownloadBlog.com, WinBeta, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, Yankee Sabra Limey and App Advice

Tweets: @joshblake and @markgurman

Farhad Manjoo / Wall Street Journal:

Young people aren't reliable predictors of tech trends. So where does that leave Snapchat? — We all tend to assume that young people are on the technological vanguard, knowing what ‘the next big thing’ will be. But they are often wrong.

More: New York Times. Tweets: @mikeisaac, @alex, @mikeisaac, @ezraklein, @mat, @danprimack, @mikeisaac, @drew, @reddy, @fmanjoo and @drew

New York Times:

Rejected bid for Snapchat underscores difficulties Facebook has in keeping its cachet — Facebook, Still Dominant, Strives to Keep Cachet — When Evan Spiegel peered into a crystal ball to divine a future for his company, Snapchat, he did not see Facebook.

More: The Next Web, TIME and NYT Bits

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Salesforce.com Launches Salesforce1, A New CRM Platform For Connecting Apps, Services Like Dropbox And the Internet of Things — Salesforce.com is launching Salesforce1, its next-generation CRM platform that it has designed for developers, independent software vendors and customers to connect apps …

More: The Next Web, ZDNet, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Bloomberg and Little Bird. Tweets: @bnara75

Max Raskin / Bloomberg:

DOJ and SEC to note legitmate uses for Bitcoin in Senate hearing — U.S. Agencies to say Bitcoins Offer Legitimate Benefits — The Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission are telling a U.S. Senate committee that Bitcoins are legitimate financial instruments …

More: USA Today, TIME, SlashGear, Wired and CoinDesk

Jon Matonis / CoinDesk:

US has Already Ceded Dominance in Bitcoin Trading — Expertise and dominance in a particular industry sector doesn't come about by decree. It is achieved over years through repeated practice and creative experimentation. — During the first three-and-a-half years of bitcoin's development …

More: Tech in Asia and Trends. Tweets: @shak and @coindesk

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Google's Broken Promises & Who's Running The Search Engine? — For two years in a row now, Google has gone back on major promises it made about search. The about-faces are easy fodder for anyone who wants to poke fun at Google for not keeping to its word.

More: Dare Obasanjo's weblog and Erik McClure. Tweets: @nilofer, @felixsalmon and @owenthomas. Thanks:@sidharthdassani

Violet Blue / ZDNet:

Forced Google Plus integration on YouTube backfires, petition hits 112,000 — Summary: The backlash against Google forcing YouTube commenters to use Google Plus is now too big to ignore. But will Google listen? OPINION. — Violet Blue — Google's war on anonymity during its involvement …

More: Hank's Tumblr, Adrian Holovaty, Andi S - Google+, Edward Morbius, Rocket Jump, howto.cnet.com, The Switch, Search Engine Watch, CNET, WebProNews and TIME

Tweets: @totalbiscuit, @matthewkeyslive, @notch, @caseynewton and @hueypriest

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple Stores to implement iBeacon location technology to improve service, boost sales — iOS 7's flashy launch earlier this year with an entirely new design and streaming music functionality overshadowed a breakthrough new feature: iBeacons, a location-based technology with profound implications for industries such as retail.

More: iMore, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, Redmond Pie, CNET, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, I4U News, iClarified and MacRumors

Tweets: @howardlindzon, @markgurman and @markgurman

PR Newswire:

PlayStation 4 Sales Surpass 1 Million Units In North America In 24 Hours — Gamers Immerse Themselves In a New Era of Gaming and Entertainment Only Available on the PS4 system—Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today announced that the highly anticipated launch of the PlayStation®4 …

More: The Verge, Digits, Bloomberg, IGN, Joystiq, Reuters, HotHardware.com News, GeekWire, destructoid, Softpedia News and Engadget

Tweets: @yosp, @amboyes and @iconmaster

Adario Strange / Mashable:

Some PlayStation 4 Owners Reporting Defective Consoles

More: The Verge, SlashGear, Tapscape and The Next Web

Agam Shah / PC World:

Dell's Sputnik 3 touchscreen laptop has Ubuntu Linux, Intel's Haswell — Dell has started selling a thin and light touchscreen laptop called the XPS 13 Developer Edition, which will have Ubuntu Linux OS and Intel's fourth-generation Core processors, code-named Haswell.

More: Maximum PC, Liliputing, HotHardware.com News, The Register and SlashGear

James Chapman / Daily Mail:

Google and Microsoft to improve filtering of results for child porn queries — Google block on child porn: At last! Internet giant axes links to vile sex-abuse websites in stunning victory for Mail campaign — Internet search results linked to child abuse are to be blocked across the world in a stunning U-turn by Google.

More: CNET, Engadget, The Next Web, AllThingsD, BBC, The Independent and Guardian

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