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November 28, 2014, 10:30 AM

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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

EU Parliament passes resolution supporting unbundling of search engines from other commercial services, calls for creation of single digital market — Oh No They Didn't: European Parliament Calls For Break Up Of Google — Today many Americans are busy preparing Thanksgiving meals …

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James Kanter / New York Times:

E.U. Parliament Passes Measure to Break Up Google in Symbolic Vote — BRUSSELS — Europe's resentment of the American technology giant Google reached a new noise level on Thursday as the European Parliament passed a nonbinding vote to break up the company. — Although merely symbolic …

Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review:

Of 458 patented inventions and designs credited to Steve Jobs, 141 were approved posthumously — Steve Jobs Lives on at the Patent Office — Years after his death, the former Apple CEO still wins more patents than most. — What is Steve Jobs's legacy?

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

IBM: Thanksgiving Online Sales Up 14%, One-Third Of Sales On Mobile Led By iOS — Black Friday is traditionally thought of as the first day of holiday shopping in the U.S., but with more buying options (and promotions) becoming available online, many are now starting their shopping a day earlier, on Thanksgiving.

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Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Sony Pictures hackers release list of stolen corporate files — On Monday, employees at Sony Pictures Entertainment—the television and movie subsidiary of Sony Corp.—discovered that their internal corporate network had been hijacked. A message from an individual or group claiming responsibility appeared …

More: Business Insider

Issie Lapowsky / Wired:

Startup studios gain popularity as tech elite look for ways to pursue multiple projects simultaneously, reduce risk when any one product fails — The Next Big Thing You Missed: Tech Superstars Build ‘Startup Factories’ — The startup world is driven by a familiar formula: you get an idea …

More: The Equity Kicker. Tweets: @daniel_hurst, @bill_fischer and @jsessenhausen

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple Watch site refreshed to highlight Timekeeping, New Ways to Connect, and Health & Fitness — Apple has quietly refreshed its Apple Watch microsite with a few changes including more details about the upcoming wearable and newly added interactive images of the device.

More: iMore, SiliconANGLE, iMore, Pocketnow, The Register, iPhone in Canada Blog, iLounge, Neowin, App Advice, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Apple Gazette and TUAW

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

UK High Court orders ISPs to block access to 32 more piracy sites, including Demonoid, Isohunt and more — UK Piracy Blocklist Expands With Demonoid, Isohunt, IPTorrents and More — The list of websites that are blocked in the UK for facilitating copyright infringement is getting longer and longer.

More: BBC, The Register, BetaNews, Inquirer and Channel EYE

Sheelah Kolhatkar / Businessweek:

How Anita Sarkeesian is battling sexism and gamergate harassment in the $25B video game industry — The Gaming Industry's Greatest Adversary Is Just Getting Started — One night in October, before the media critic Anita Sarkeesian was scheduled to give a speech at Utah State University …

More: Upstart Business Journal. Tweets: @cshirky. Thanks:@srikardr

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Syrian Electronic Army hacks websites via Gigya's login service — Visitors to some large media and entertainment websites on Thursday — including NBC, The Independent and NHL.com — were greeted by pop-up messages that said those sites had been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army.

More: Techvibes Global News, The Independent, The Next Web, Guardian, Gigya's Blog, NEWS.com.au and CIO.com. Thanks:@mathewi

Washington Post:

Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina is actively exploring a 2016 presidential run but faces criticism from prominent Republicans amid failed 2010 Senate race — Carly Fiorina actively explores 2016 presidential run but faces GOP critics — On a Republican presidential debate stage expected …

More: PC Magazine, The Register, Ars Technica, Re/code and Computerworld

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