Brad Stone / New York Times:
Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web  —  PALO ALTO, Calif. — Facebook, the Internet’s largest social network, wants to let you take your friends with you as you travel the Web.  But having been burned by privacy concerns in the last year, it plans to keep […]

Randall Stross / New York Times:
Only the Rich Can Afford It.  Should Taxpayers Back It?  —  THE Tesla Roadster is an electric car that goes fast, looks sensational and excites envy.  The seductive appearance, however, obscures some inconvenient truths: its all-electric technology remains woefully immature and don’t-even-ask expensive.

Zephoria / apophenia:
reflections on Lori Drew, bullying, and solutions to helping kids  —  The involvement of Lori Drew (an adult) in the suicide of Megan Meier has been an unavoidable topic.  Last week, Drew was tried on three counts of accessing computers without authorization, a legal statute meant to stop hackers.

Jessica Wohl / Reuters:
Black Friday Web sales jump  —  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Online sales jumped on Black Friday as consumers searched for electronics such as the Wii video game console and Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch, according to eBay Inc and Amazon.com Inc.  —  Amazon.com and eBay had both forecast a weaker holiday … […]

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
10,000 iPhone Apps  —  148Apps, which tracks and reviews iPhone Apps, says 10,000 applications have now been released on the iPhone App store (the site is named after the fact that you can add up to 148 applications to an iPhone or iPod touch).  —  A tribute page shows a mini […]

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
“Total Fiction”: There Is No $20 Billion Microsoft Deal To Buy Yahoo Search (Not Yet, At Least!)  —  A report in the Times of London in which Microsoft would buy Yahoo’s search business in a convoluted $20 billion deal that would include well-known Internet execs Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn … […]

MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
A new, elaborate $20 billion deal for Microsoft to buy Yahoo Search?  [Update: Levinsohn says no]  —  Updated with a quote from Levinsohn below.  —  Stop me if you’ve heard this before: There’s a report out there that Microsoft is in talks with Yahoo.  The report, by the UK-based Times Online […]

Arn / MacRumors:
‘Push’ Notifications Coming in iPhone 2.2.1?  —  RussianiPhone.ru claims that they have seen iPhone 2.2.1 Beta 1 and that it implements Push notifications as well as over-the-air MobileMe syncing with Notes support.  —  As proof they’ve posted a screenshot showing the Notes and Calendar applications …

John Waples / Times of London:
Microsoft in $20bn Yahoo deal  —  SOFTWARE giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business for $20 billion (£13 billion).  —  The proposal forms the centrepiece of a complex transaction that would see Microsoft support a new management team to take control of Yahoo.

John Markoff / New York Times:
You’re Leaving a Digital Trail.  What About Privacy?  —  HARRISON BROWN, an 18-year-old freshman majoring in mathematics at M.I.T., didn’t need to do complex calculations to figure out he liked this deal: in exchange for letting researchers track his every move, he receives a free smartphone.