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November 29, 2013, 7:10 AM

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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Apple's U.S. and Canadian Black Friday Sales Go Live Online With Gift Card Deals — Apple's online stores for the United States and Canada have just come back online for Black Friday's one-day shopping event, and like its stores in Australia and New Zealand, the company is using bonus gift cards rather …

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Over 400 Retailers Are Offering Deals On New “Bitcoin Black Friday” Website — Bitcoin burning a hole in your pocket? Probably. If so, a new site has popped up to help you spend your digital currency during this hectic holiday shopping week: “Bitcoin Black Friday.”

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

Apple offers Black Friday savings in Europe, gift cards in Australia — For several years, Apple has joined other retailers in discounting various products for Black Friday. Unfortunately for deal hunters, that's not the case this year. When shoppers visit the company's retail stores tomorrow …

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Andrew Zajac / Bloomberg:

Apple Objects to Monitor's Fees in E-Books Antitrust Case — Apple Inc. said a monitor appointed by a judge to oversee antitrust compliance in its electronic books price-fixing case is charging too much money. — “Of all all known past Apple matters,” no lawyer has had a higher rate …

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Chris Bell / Telegraph:

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Bloomberg:

Microsoft Board Said to Lean to Mulally, Nadella in CEO Hunt — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s board is focusing on Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally and internal executive Satya Nadella as part of a group of more likely candidates to become the next CEO of the world's biggest software company …

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Loek Essers / Computerworld:

Google's privacy policy violates Dutch data protection law, Dutch DPA says — Google's practice of combining personal data from different Google services violates the Dutch data protection act, the Dutch data protection authority (DPA) said Thursday. But Google will not face any enforcement actions for now.

More: Dutch DPA, Guardian, The Register, Reuters, Forbes, Inquirer, TechEye, Engadget, CNET, The Verge, Softpedia News, Quartz, Gigaom, Techie News, Bloomberg, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, State of Digital and Electronista. Tweets: @privacyfocused

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Suddenly, Upworthy Clones Are Everywhere And Millions Of People Are Reading Them — On March 26, 2012, a new media startup called Upworthy launched. Now it has 50 million monthly unique readers. — Almost all of its readers come from Facebook. The headlines, which Upworthy's editors toil over …

Tweets: @bizopy

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Who Will Own The Next Great Instant Messaging Service? — The social media era was about what we make public. Now, it's about what we don't. The race to own the next great back channel. — Instant messaging is the center of the internet. Everything else is a temporary distraction.

Shane Cole / AppleInsider:

Apple's iOS brings developers 5x more revenue per download than Android — Despite Android's significantly larger installed base, iOS continues to dominate in monetization with a five-times-greater return rate for developers — a sign that Cupertino's market segmentation strategy is paying dividends for application creators.

More: Business Insider, Ubergizmo, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, PadGadget, MacNN, TUAW, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog and ITworld.com

David Meyer / Gigaom:

Want Android and Firefox OS in one phone? Geeksphone has something lined up for you — Spain's Geeksphone is a scrappy little manufacturer that started off making Android handsets for open-source cognoscenti before becoming the first creator of Firefox OS developer devices.

More: CNET, The Mozilla Blog, Softpedia News, The Irish Times, TechRadar.com, The Droid Guy, Digital Trends and The Next Web

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