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EU telecom ministers aim to end bandwidth favoritism (Reuters)

Reuters – EU ministers urged the European Commission and regulators to check on telecom operators who prioritize bandwidth for certain services, giving leverage to complaints about mobile firms around the world blocking Web-call services such as Skype.

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Adtran to buy NSN broadband access unit (Reuters)

Reuters – Struggling telecom network equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks has agreed to sell its fixed-line Broadband Access business unit to U.S.

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Expedia shareholders to gain from spinoff: report (Reuters)

Reuters – Shares of TripAdvisor, the largest Internet travel site, will likely trade well after the business is spun off from Expedia, Barron’s financial newspaper said in its Dec 12 edition.

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Should Your Job Title Be More Creative? (Mashable)

Mashable – This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

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HP opens webOS mobile software to others (Reuters)

Reuters – Hewlett Packard Co has decided to open its webOS mobile operating system to developers and companies, potentially taking on Google Inc’s free Android platform that is popular with handset makers.

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India wants websites to screen derogatory content (AP)

AP – India’s top telecommunications official said Tuesday that Internet giants such as Facebook and Google have ignored his demands to screen derogatory material from their sites, so the government would have to act on its own.

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India urges social media sites to block offensive content (Reuters)

Reuters – India has asked operators of social media networks, including Facebook and Google, to screen user content and remove any offensive material, the information and telecoms minister said on Tuesday, but denied the move was censorship.

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Flipboard app launches first international edition in China (Reuters)

Reuters – Popular Apple iPad news application, Flipboard, said on Tuesday it has partnered with China’s Sina Corp and Renren Inc to launch a Chinese edition of the application to woo users in the world’s largest Internet market.

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Mulling Meg Whitman: HP considers CEO shakeup (AP)

AP – As trial balloons go, Hewlett-Packard’s not-so-secret handwringing _over whether to dump CEO Leo Apotheker and replace him with former eBay CEO Meg Whitman_ was a success. Investors like the idea. News that the company’s board is mulling a leadership change pushed the stock up more than 7 percent on Wednesday.

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HP may oust CEO, hire eBay veteran: source (Reuters)

Reuters – Hewlett-Packard Co’s board convened on Wednesday to consider ousting Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker after less than a year on the job and replacing him temporarily with former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, a source familiar with the matter said.

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