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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
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 …
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:
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 …
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 …
Shane Roberts / Gizmodo:
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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.
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.
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 …
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 …

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Max Tani / Semafor:
The Daily Mail hires Mike Rothman, most recently president of The Dispatch, as general manager to oversee its North American business and video expansion

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
The MPA reaches an MOU with ByteDance to establish “strong guardrails” in its products like Seedance, TikTok, and CapCut to protect Hollywood IP and likenesses

Sharon Udasin / The Times of Israel:
Alyssa Katz, who became EIC of Jewish newspaper The Forward in January, has left; she previously worked in editorial positions for The City and NY Daily News

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Ian Paul / PC World:
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DOJ used 225-year-old law to get federal court to order manufacturer to bypass phone password
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter to Start Tracking Which Apps Its Users Have Downloaded
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