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European Parliament:

EU Parliament urges EU Commission to unbundle search engines from other commercial services — MEPs zero in on internet search companies and clouds — PLENARY SESSION Press release - Free movement of services / Information society − 27-11-2014 - 12:58

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David Meyer / Gigaom:

EU Parliament calls on Commission to consider Google break-up — Credit: Shutterstock / Markus Pfaff — Credit: Shutterstock / Markus Pfaff — As expected, the European Parliament has passed a resolution that calls on the European Commission to consider a break-up of Google …

Washington Post:

Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina is actively exploring a 2016 presidential run but faces criticisms 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 …

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

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Appears To Pre-Announce Its Purchase Of Email Startup Acompli — Whoops. Welcome to literal fait accompli. — A short, unfinished blog listed as written by Microsoft corporate vice president Rajesh Jha hit the RSS wires earlier today. Here's what it looked like:

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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

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. — This week a new High Court ruling orders Sky, BT, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk …

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Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Obama signs E-Label Act, allowing manufacturers to put labels such as FCC symbols in software menus instead of on hardware — The US bill to phase out wonky symbols on the back of gadgets is now a law — The legislation designed to do away with printing various symbols and regulatory compliance numbers …

More: The Hill, MacRumors, Android Police, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, BetaNews, PandoDaily, Neowin, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com and iMore

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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: The Independent, The Next Web, Guardian, ABC News, PC World and Gigya's Blog. Thanks:@mathewi

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Tiger Global Raises $2.5 Billion For New Deals — Investment firm Tiger Global has been hunting down deals all year, and now it has a lot more cash to run down new prey. — According to an SEC filing, the firm closed $2.5 billion in new funding, that comes a little more than 6 months after it raised a $1.5 billion fund in April.

More: Reuters, Silicon Republic and VCCircle. Tweets: @jonrussell

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Eyeing Up O2, BT Is Also In ‘Exploratory Discussions’ To Buy EE — Earlier this week, it emerged that BT was eyeing up buying a mobile carrier to expand its existing fixed line business, and that O2 was one of the two under consideration. Today we have confirmation of the other one …

More: Reuters, orange.com and The Next Web

Pocket Blog:

Apple's new phones taking screen time from iPads; iPhone 6+ owners open 65% more articles and videos than those with smaller phones — The Screen-Size Debate: How the iPhone 6 Plus Impacts Where We Read & Watch — Every day, millions of articles, videos and web pages are saved and viewed …

More: TechCrunch, Gigaom, Quartz, PandoDaily, MobileSyrup.com, SlashGear, BetaNews, GeekWire, MacRumors, The Next Web, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac and MacStories

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