Huffington Post:
SAN FRANCISCO — The Sacramento Monarchs folded on Friday, a shocking and disappointing development for the WNBA and one of its original eight franchises.The decision was largely based on the Maloof family's desire to focus al (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Nobel Prize winner and former vice president Al Gore gave a wide-ranging, passionate talk at VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 2009 conference yesterday in San Mateo about combating global warming. We already liveblogged Gore’s talk, b (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Max BlumenthalProgressive Book Club/Media Matters for America reviewIn August 2008, when then-senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said the media had held her under a "sharper microscope" because she was a woman (Read More)
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French mobile phone games publisher Gameloft said it is giving up on the Google Android platform.The company said it is cutting back investment in making games and other apps for Android-based cell phones, even though Android (Read More)
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Welcome to The Next Web’s Weekly Recap.*** If you have a story we should include in our Weekly Recap please tweet it and include the hashtag #tnwrecap.This week saw the first unveiling of Google’s Chrome OS, some big Microsof (Read More)
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MONACO — The governing body of track and field is working behind the scenes with Caster Semenya and the South African government to resolve issues about the 18-year-old runner's gender and career.The IAAF said Friday it canno (Read More)
India Times:
The international conference of communist and workers' parties began amidst a call to intensify popular struggles and expand solidarities in the wake of the current world capitalist crisis. (Read More)
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The Atlantic Coast Conference has selected its first social media winner and will be adding more in a drawing on Tuesday, November 24. User of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter will be eligible for the next drawing. (Read More)
mocoNews.net:
The iPhone store is processing about five times more downloads than its Android counterpart, and according to sentiments from mobile gaming company Gameloft, it’s a trend that w (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
The sudden surge in interest in Android (largely due to all of the hype surrounding the Droid) has caused a lot of developers to reconsider the platform. Atleast one major development house, however, isn't impressed.Earlier (Read More)
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I spent a lot of time this week (unintentionally) tuned into Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff’s extremely enthusiastic – and extremely long – DreamForce keynote address and (intentionally) thinking about the implications of t (Read More)
L.A. Times - Opinion Blog:
America's Roman Catholic bishops aren't completely obsessed by abortion and gay marriage. My former colleague Ann Rodgers, one of the best religion reporters around, reports in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that bishops have be (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
CHICAGO — Alabama's Rolando McClain, Florida's Brandon Spikes and Missouri's Sean Weatherspoon are once again finalists for the Butkus Award, given annually to the nation's top linebacker.South Carolina's Eric Norwood and Tex (Read More)
Skype Journal:
Stream videos at Ustream Skype and live voice/video conversations haven't been part of anything in this event, or the others like it. I blame Skype's branding problem: Skype is antisocial software, not a place or way to (Read More)
VentureBeat:
French mobile phone games publisher Gameloft said it is giving up on the Google Android platform.The company said it is cutting back investment in making games and other apps for Android-based cell phones, even though Android (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Seesmic is having a huge week. The startup that develops Twitter and Facebook clients for the web and desktop just unveiled a native Windows client at Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference earlier this week. At the Re (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Never one to shy away from hyperbole, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) insisted on Friday that the Department of Justice's decision to try terrorist suspects in civilian court will result in a growth in domestic terrorism and the inc (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Today at the RealTime CrunchUp Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff took the stage to talk about the social enterprise with Erick Schonfeld and Steve Gillmor (he also introduced us to a new real-time Salesforce Chatter platform). Ben (Read More)
Andrew McAfee:
I’ve been thinking about what to write in the wake of the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference. One more summary seems unnecessary, since there have been so many good ones already. And the debates are starting to feel a little tr (Read More)
SF Gate:
Catherine Ashton: International woman of mystery Ashton is Europe's first foreign policy chief, the international representative of half a billion people, with a 7 billion euro ($10.5 billion) budget and a salary of more than (Read More)