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• 07 December 2010

• Video: PC Advisor's top tech quotes of 2010

  Quotes from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer and Lady Gaga

• Video: 'Elephant trunk' robotic arm wins 2010 Future Prize

  Robotic arm design was inspired by elephant's trunk

• News: Google buys two companies, but not Groupon

  Google has reportedly failed to acquire Groupon, but it did buy two companies on Friday, one focused on online video and the other on speech technology.

• 03 December 2010

• Video: Wikileaks founder Assange under attack

  Plus: Google and Pirate Bay in the dock, and more headlines

• News: Amazon invests $175 million in Groupon rival

  Groupon rival Living Social has landed a $175 million investment from online retail giant Amazon.

• 02 December 2010

• News: Online retailers 'unprepared' for Christmas

  Online retailers were not prepared for the first big shopping day of the year, says Site Confidence.

• News: Amazon pulls the plug on WikiLeaks

  Amazon has stopped hosting Wikileaks, after the US Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee asked the company to explain its decision to host the site

• 01 December 2010

• News: US presidential hopeful calls for WikiLeaks execution

  Whoever leaked thousands of US State Department documents to WikiLeaks should be executed for treason, says former presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee.

• Video: nVidia CEO on bringing Cuda to mobile

  Chip giant looking to expand Cuda parallel-processing architecture to mobile devices, says Jen-Hsun Huang

• Video: Google target of EU antitrust investigation

  Has Google abused its dominant position in search?

• Video: nVidia CEO on delays to court battle with Intel

  Chip giants are trying to reach settlement, says Jen-Hsun Huang

• News: P2P alternative to DNS hopes to challenge ICANN

  A group led by former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde is forming to develop a peer-to-peer-based alternative to today's ICANN-controlled DNS system.

• News: More Google antitrust investigations on the way?

  The European Commission's antitrust investigation into Google could spur further inquiries into the search engine's practices, say industry analysts.

• 30 November 2010

• Video: European Hylas-1 broadband internet satellite launches

  Hylas-1 will cover UK, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and eastern Europe

• News: EU launches investigation into Google

  Google is being investigated by the EU following complaints of favouritism from price comparison sites.

• 29 November 2010

• News: Report: Google buys Groupon for $2.5bn

  Google has purchased Groupon for $2.5 billion, according to a report quoting an 'unnamed insider'. Neither Google nor Groupon would comment on the report posted on vator.tv, but the report chimes in with several prevous rumours, and the site claims it source 'is reliable'.

• News: Online group buying taking off in China

  China is seeing an explosion of Groupon-like websites as more companies and entrepreneurs hope to get in on the group buying trend.

• News: Hylas-1 broadband internet satellite launched by UK firm

  A satellite that promises to bring broadband Internet to several areas of Europe was successfully launched late Friday.

• News: Sharp's Galapagos e-book tablet to launch December 10

  Sharp will launch its Galapagos e-book tablets in Japan on Dec. 10, but overseas launch plans are still under consideration, it said Monday.

• News: Vodafone slashes data prices for travellers to Europe

  Vodafone is to make it cheaper for UK customers to use smartphones when in mainland Europe, in all Vodafone's European countries, plus France, Belgium, Switzerland and Austria.

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