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• Weekend Update 12.05.09- Tis Better to Give Edition

  
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  As AllThingsD gets its holiday hat on, the reporting team brought a little news cheer our way this week in the form of some acquisitions, freaky gadgets and reassurances that Google was not born with a heart two sizes too small. Boom Town went Bing early in the week at the Microsoft (MSFT) event that showcased a ...
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• Is the New Droid Ad Anti-Women and Anti-Gay or Just Plain Idiotic? Actually, All Three!

  
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  What in the world can one make of the new ad for the Droid, the Motorola (MOT) smartphone with Google (GOOG) Android software on the Verizon Wireless (VZ) network, which apparently put out this commercial? Here’s what: It aggressively calls the Apple (AAPL) iPhone a dumb blonde and then a prissy dude in need of a ...
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• MicroHoo Signs on the Dotted Line: Final Agreement Done

  
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  Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) finally dotted all their i’s and crossed all their t’s today on the final definitive agreement for their search and online advertising partnership. Somewhere a lawyer got his briefs. No one but tech reporters and hair-trigger Wall Street analysts care, but the pair had to extend ...
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• Freaky Geek Bear, Nooks, 3D Cameras, Head Massages and a Facial for BoomTown: The Churchill Club GadgetFest Video!

  
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  Last night, Walt Mossberg and I hosted our seventh annual “ What’s Hot and What’s Not in Personal Technology” program for the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley. Every year, we show off a range of new tech toys to the crowd, helped by our regular gadget freak, Greg Harper, and also guest “tech geek” ...
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• Google To Hold an Anything-Bing-Can-Do-We-Can-Do-Better Search Event (and Singalong?) Monday

  
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  Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Google answered BoomTown’s blatantly begging plea to call, write or just say hi, after being inundated in news of Bing search from Microsoft (MSFT) this week–emailing yesterday about an “search event” to be held Monday in Silicon Valley. It will ...
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• Another Legal Tussle for eBay–and Its Not Skype This Time!–as Former CEO and Calif. Guv Hopeful Whitman Kicks Off Craigslist Trial Monday

  
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  Auction giant eBay is headed to court again on Monday and, for once it is nothing to do with the litigious Skype co-founders. Instead, it’s a battle in Delaware with craigslist, the San Francisco online classified powerhouse that eBay holds a minority ownership position in. That stake is actually precisely ...
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• Two Microsoft Search Dudes Talk About Bing! (BoomTowns Flip Is Waiting by the Phone for the Google Search Gurus Call!)

  
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  Yesterday, BoomTown liveblogged a demo session that Microsoft held for reporters about some new features on its Bing search service, a glimpse at what Twitter and Facebook integration will look like and also the debut of a nifty new beta of its online map service. It is still the bazillion-dollar question–and I ...
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• BoomTown Can Count on Scooby-Dooby-Dont for Laughs: The Roast Video

  
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  Sadly, due to the sniffles and some minor hacking (thanks, kids!), BoomTown had to miss the roast of well-known blogger Robert Scoble that Startup2Startup had for its holiday party last night on Pier 38 in San Francisco. I was skedded to be one of the roasters, though, so I sent along a video of all the various video ...
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• Microsoft Slides of Bing Demo: Mapping and Mash-Ins

  
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  This morning, Microsoft (MSFT) showed off some new features of Bing and reviewed how the search service has been doing since its launch. Here are the slides that the company’s top search execs used in the presentation, which included not much new stuff, except for a cool update to its mapping and getting ...
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• Microsoft to Newspaper Publishers: Seriously. Were Not Bailing You Out

  
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  Just in case newspaper publishers were still fantasizing about cashing big Bill Gates checks in exchange for bailing on Google, Microsoft wants to be clear: Don’t count on us. Yes, there could be some kind of deal between Microsoft (MSFT) and some publishers. And yes, that might involve some kind of payment. But ...
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• Yahoos "Project Rushmore" Begins with Massive Facebook Connect Deployment Across Internet Giant

  
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  A few weeks ago, several sources at Yahoo begin telling BoomTown about a mysterious “Project Rushmore,” which was described as a massive integration of major social networking sites across the giant Internet portal. Now, the first unveiling of that comes with this morning’s announcement that Yahoo (YHOO) will ...
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• Bing Keeps Up the New Features Rollouts–BoomTown Will Liveblog a Microsoft Showcase at 10 am PT!

  
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  This morning, a passel of top Microsoft search execs is rolling into downtown San Francisco to show off even more new features for Bing. They include: Satya Nadella, SVP for research and development for the Online Services Division; Harry Shum, a corporate VP who is leading core search development; MSN Corporate VP ...
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• Lets Make a Deal! Groupon Nabs $30 Million in Funding

  
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  Groupon, a group-buying social e-commerce service, has nabbed $30 million in its second round of funding, led by Accel Partners. The innovative Chicago-based service, which launched only a year ago, had previously gotten $4.8 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates, as well as $1 million from an angel ...
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• Nice Comment.

  
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  BoomTown gets guff about a lot of stuff, but none are more passionate than those who wanted us to make our comment system better. And they were right. So, while we never move fast enough, even for ourselves, tonight we have launched a new comments tool to improve the user experience on AllThingsD.com . It lets ...
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• Dont Miss the Annual GadgetFest at Churchill Club Thursday, Featuring Facebook Celeb Geeks

  
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  This Thursday, my All Things Digital partner, Walt Mossberg, and I are hosting–for the seventh year running–the annual “What’s Hot and What’s Not in Personal Technology” program for the Churchill Club. This year, our guest “tech geek” celebs–drawn from the gadget-mad players of Silicon ...
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• A Bing Bug? If Not, How Did This Dude Beat Out Megan Fox and the Even Prettier Robert Pattinson for Most-Searched Celeb?

  
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  Since Bing only debuted at mid-year (and launched at the D: All Things Digital conference too), BoomTown is willing to cut it some slack. Until the Microsoft (MSFT) search service revealed on its blog last night that Perez Hilton–the irksome entertainment gossip blogger–beat out “Transformers” hottie ...
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• Yahoo Mobile Head David Ko Takes Over Audience Job Too (But Mobile Product Development Moves Under Balogh)

  
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  David Ko (pictured here), head of Yahoo’s mobile division, has added the Internet giant’s vast media properties in the U.S. to his portfolio, according to several sources. BoomTown recently reported that Ko was the likely person to take over as North American Audience head at Yahoo (YHOO), reporting to U.S. EVP ...
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• Viral Video: A "Twilight" Spoof With an Actual "Twilight" Star

  
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  There has been plenty of online hay made over the latest of the “Twilight” movies, “New Moon,” which has turned out to be a blockbuster for Hollywood over the last two weekends, pulling in $474 million in worldwide box office. Of course, there are the spoofs, including this pretty funny one about what’s ...
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• 11.28.09 Weekend Update–Black Friday, Blue Saturday Edition

  
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  Everyone in the retail world was waiting with bated breath yesterday to find out if the current economic pinch would make consumers fight harder in the discount trenches or simply sound the retreat. Either way, the AllThingsD team was at its post this week bringing you tech and trends to keep you ahead of the pack. ...
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• Katherine Boehret on "Martha" Today

  
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  Although BoomTown is still in a tryptophan coma of turkey, I will not be missing one of our All Things Digital columnists on “The Martha Stewart Show” today. That would be Katherine Boehret of The Mossberg Solution , who will be appearing on the television program this morning (check times for your area) to ...
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