Bing / Search Blog:
Bringing the Best of Web Video to You at Bing Videos  —  Turn off the lights (literally), share with your friends and kick back…you are about to see the latest Bing videos experience.  —  Starting today and rolling out over the next few days Bing videos will provide a new unified […]

Om Malik / GigaOM:
Logitech Takes on Cisco, to Buy LifeSize for $405M  —  Logitech, a Swiss maker of peripherals for computers and digital consumer devices, is buying 6-year-old Austin, Texas-based video conferencing device maker LifeSize Communications for $405 million in cash.

Chris Lambert / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Latitude, now with Location History & Alerts  —  Since the launch of Google Latitude earlier this year, we’ve been getting a lot of feature requests.  One of the most popular ideas was for Latitude to keep track of location history, allowing you (but not your friends) to see […]

Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google hopes to remake programming with Go  —  Google software luminaries including Unix co-creator Ken Thompson believe they can help boost both computing power and programmers’ abilities with an experimental programming language project called Go.  —  And on Tuesday, they’re taking the veil …

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: Adobe To Cut 9 Percent Of Workforce  —  We’ve confirmed with Adobe that the company is cutting 9 percent of its workforce, or 680 employees.  Adobe filed an 8-K with the SEC today reporting the layoffs.  Earlier today we heard multiple reports that layoffs were taking place at Adobe.

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Layoffs Reported At Adobe  —  We’ve heard multiple reports that layoffs are taking place at Adobe today.  One source reports that Adobe is laying off 15 percent of its staff, but this is unconfirmed.  There are also Tweets about the layoffs on Twitter.  Last December, Adobe laid off 600 workers … […]

Jeremy Wagstaff / loose wire blog:
Hundreds of Facebook Groups Hacked  —  A hacker, or group of hackers, has found a back door into taking over Facebook groups, and is now doing so, claiming it to be a public service.  It has taken over up to 300 different Facebook groups so far.  —  This is […]

Christine McConville / Boston Herald:
For now, ‘illegal’ Apple billboard dropped  —  A controversial Apple billboard has come down, leaving many questions and some large whales in its wake.  —  This weekend, Planet Storage on Traveler Street removed its iPod Touch sign and revealed to drivers on Interstate 93 the ocean-inspired public art.

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
AOL: Small Layoff Today, a Voluntary Buyout and, Then…the Big One  —  Essentially-although AOL is located in New York and not California, it’s going to be like tremors before the Big One at the online company today, as about 100 employees are laid off.  —  Sources said the cuts …

Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Expect Caffeine after the holidays  —  Back in August we mentioned a developer preview of Caffeine, which is new technology that improves our indexing infrastructure.  The feedback on Caffeine has been very positive, so we’re ready to move from the developer preview to the next stage of the […]