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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Amid Some Fistfights, Walmart Sells 1.4M Tablets On Thanksgiving, iPad Mini A Top Seller  —  Walmart is already crowing about Black Friday and we're only a couple of hours into the actual day itself.  That's because depressingly, Black Friday has somehow subsumed Thanksgiving Thursday and become the Day That Spans Many Days.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Thanksgiving Digest (IBM E-Commerce Edition): Mobile 43% Of All Traffic, Over 25% Of All Online Sales
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
New Linux worm targets routers, cameras, “Internet of things” devices  —  Researchers have discovered a Linux worm capable of infecting a wide range of home routers, set-top boxes, security cameras, and other consumer devices that are increasingly equipped with an Internet connection.
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.
Andy / Backblaze Blog:
Hard disk drive prices finally settle down two years after Thailand flood crisis  —  Farming hard drives: 2 years and $1M later  —  We are two years removed from the horrific flooding that caused the Thailand Drive Crisis that created a worldwide shortage of hard disk drives.
More: ExtremeTech.  Tweets: @ghaff
Derrick Harris / Gigaom:
The fall (and rise?) of Yahoo: How the web giant crumbled and built some great tech in the process  —  At one point not so long ago, Yahoo was one of the top technology companies in the world.  “The only exception [was] Google,” Bassel Ojjeh, a former senior vice president of data technologies …
Tweets: @dannysullivan and @tomkrazit.  Thanks:@om
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.
More: Reuters.  Tweets: @legalnomads
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 …
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 …
Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:
A profile of Snapchat's 23-year-old CEO Evan Spiegel  —  Snapchat's Evan Spiegel: Saying no to $3B, and feeling lucky  —  Like many a young man, Evan Thomas Spiegel is enamored of expensive cars.  Unlike many young men, he can afford them.  —  A little more than two years …

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Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Sources: the Pentagon fired Stars and Stripes' publisher, EIC, and a Middle East reporter for insubordination; the publisher earlier announced his retirement

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Sources: Paramount reps are expected to meet Monday with the California AG's office to discuss a possible settlement of the antitrust suit blocking the WBD deal

Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Chris Aronson, ex-president of domestic theatrical distribution at Paramount, sues the company, claiming breach of contract and age discrimination

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