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More News Links for 13 December 2011 including a report of Verizon chasing Netflix, Google building a siri competitor and a potential mobile driving ban.

Financial news links for 6 December 2011 featuring stories on MF Global, Facebook, class divides and retail sales.

Apple has introduced a 'music locker' service which does away with the need to upload most of your music. I have tried it out in addition to Amazon and Google's competing services and I like it, especially the part about not having to…

Sean Parker: "Little Startups Are Ridiculously OverFunded" | TechCrunch It's gotten so bad that, says Parker, "Now institutionally-backed venture funds are backing other venture funds in order to stay close to the…

Here’s a spoof video of how Facebook is monetising its site. Genius.

If you are a shareholder, should you be heartened by this about-face or alarmed? At Hewlett Packard for instance, when the board of directors fired Leo Apotheker, markets were not excited by seeing Meg Whitman in his seat even though the…

Influential tech blogger Robert Scoble talked to Bloomberg earlier in the week about the social media scene. The main message I took away is that he believes Google+ is a successful product for Google which could spell trouble for Facebook…

Rick Bookstaber opines about a future world in which the flood of information being produced will be filtered by third parties like Facebook and Google with as yet unpredictable consequences for society. Perhaps these filters are just…

Remember when I said that Google would get to scale "much,much faster than Facebook? Well this chart shows you this quite vividly. Wow!

Rick Bookstaber asks whether LinkedIn anything more than a resume warehouse? Is it simply a web-based Rolodex to make it easier to stay up with your business contacts? He doesn't know the business model for the company, and doesn't have any…