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November 29, 2013, 11:20 PM

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Thanksgiving Digest (IBM E-Commerce Edition): Mobile 43% Of All Traffic, Over 25% Of All Online Sales  —  For many years, Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving - marked the start of the holiday shopping rush.  But with many (not all) physical stores closed on Thanksgiving …
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Mobile rules Walmart: Accounted for 53% of Thanksgiving traffic, new mobile customers up 3 times  —  Black Friday is just beginning, but Walmart has already seen some impressive stats from shoppers on Thanksgiving day — especially when it comes to mobile.  —  The retail giant announced …
Lucian Constantin / PC World:
Google Nexus phones vulnerable to denial-of-service attack via SMS  —  Attackers could force phones from Google's Nexus line to reboot or fail to connect to the mobile Internet service by sending a large number of special SMS messages to them.  —  The issue was discovered by Bogdan Alecu …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
While Mulally/Nadella Remain the Favorites, Bates Is Silicon Valley's Choice for Microsoft CEO  —  About 10 days ago, AllThingsD reported once again that Ford CEO Alan Mulally was in the lead position to take over as CEO of Microsoft, with one internal exec as the No. 2 choice.
Chance Miller / 9to5Google:
Moto G now available on Amazon, ships December 4  —  Motorola's ultra-afordable Moto G finally became available in the United States earlier this week from the company's website, and now the device is available via Amazon (via Android Central).  The online retailer is selling the device …
Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review:
Google's Growing Patent Stockpile  —  The search giant says patents are rubbish.  Yet it's accumulating more of them than ever.  —  Over the last few years, Google executives have had plenty to say about patents.  According to Google, patents, particularly software patents, are mostly bogus …
Ben Popper / The Verge:
Demolition Man: why does Fab's CEO keep building big companies that suddenly implode?  —  Is Jason Golberg doomed to repeat his mistakes?  —  If you ask employees when they started to notice that something was wrong at Fab, they will usually mention the bike locks.
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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Why Did 9,000 Porny Spambots Descend on This San Diego High Schooler?  —  A voyage into the strange underworld of spambots, shady marketing, and non-human intelligence.  —  It was around 5pm last Thursday when Olivia, a San Diego high school student, noticed that something interesting was going on with her Twitter account.
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Jamie Rigg / Engadget:
A closer look at the Jolla phone: good intentions, bad delivery (video)  —  Jolla's self-titled and first smartphone launched in partnership with Finnish carrier DNA this week, with a few hundred handsets finding their way to early pre-orderers.  Today, a couple of familiar faces …
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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