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December 1, 2013, 11:52 AM

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New York Times:

Inside the Race to Rescue a Health Site, and Obama — WASHINGTON — As a small coterie of grim-faced advisers shuffled into the Oval Office on the evening of Oct. 15, President Obama's chief domestic accomplishment was falling apart 24 miles away, at a bustling high-tech data center in suburban Virginia.

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Bloomberg:

Obamacare Website Getting Fixes as Repair Deadline Passes — President Barack Obama's administration was making more hardware and software fixes to the flawed federal health-insurance website as yesterday's deadline to repair it passed. — “The site is performing well today …

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Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag:

Kanye West Courts Silicon Valley Investors, But VCs Don't Want DONDA — Nucleic rapper Kanye West, embodiment of the New Uncanny, appears to have found himself in the same position as many an entrepreneur before him: long on ideas and short on financing. And what better place to look …

More: StartupBook. Tweets: @mdudas, @runchal and @om

Jaclyn Trop / New York Times:

Secret Weapon in Mall Battle: Parking Apps — Phoebe Scott of Orange County, Calif., has a new routine before heading to the mall. — She checks the parking lots on her ParkMe smartphone app “so that I can see what I'm up against, or if I need to change my plans.” If a lot is below 90 percent full, the trip is on.

Tweets: @jn_seattle, @l_lysakowski and @briantimoney

Claire Gordon / Al Jazeera America:

How Google is transforming disaster relief … Since Haiti, the Google Crisis Response team has responded to 25 more disasters. When Japan was ripped up in 2011 by the biggest earthquake in its history, Person Finder was live within 90 minutes. The tool compiled more than 600,000 names …

Tweets: @americatonight

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

What Piracy? Removing DRM Boosts Music Sales by 10 Percent — For more than a decade the music industry has been struggling with online piracy. — To prevent music from spreading like wildfire all the major labels have experimented extensively by adding DRM to digital music files.

More: Boing Boing. Tweets: @schestowitz and @glynmoody

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Sony SmartWatch 2 review: attractive design let down by frustrating and clumsy software — Sony SmartWatch 2 review — Baby steps towards the watch of the future — Time and again we've heard the same story: wearables are the next big thing in personal technology.

Tweets: @voxmediainc, @reckless and @verge

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.

More: SlashGear, MyTechSkool, AllThingsD and ITworld.com. Tweets: @erikbryn

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.

More: Business Insider, StartupBook, PandoDaily and Valleywag

Tweets: @russellbrandom, @carlfranzen, @mikeindustries, @jimray, @marcelweiss and @benpopper

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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: @ryan and @ghaff

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Thanksgiving 2013 mobile shopping: PayPal sees 91% increase, eBay Enterprise sees orders rise 127% — PayPal and eBay Enterprise today revealed some statistics for yesterday's holiday craze. Between 2012 and 2013, both companies saw big jumps, although not as large as between 2011 and 2012.

More: The Official PayPal, Softpedia News, eBay Enterprise, TechCrunch, eBay Inc, internetretailer.com, VentureBeat, Data Center Knowledge and VatorNews

Tweets: @flytip and @guypod

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Amid Some Fistfights, Walmart Sells 1.4M Tablets On Thanksgiving, iPad Mini A Top Seller

More: The Next Web, Forbes, VentureBeat, Walmart Corporate, CNET, internetretailer.com, AllThingsD, PhoneArena, Fortune, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, Examiner, TechCrunch and Digits

Economist:

Bitcoin's success is putting it under growing strain — Bitcoin under pressure — Virtual currency: It is mathematically elegant, increasingly popular and highly controversial. Bitcoin's success is putting it under growing strain — From the print edition

Tweets: @jocke, @glennf and @digiphile

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 …

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