It was a light news week because of the Thanksgiving holiday.
- Google releases the Google Search app for the iPad. Reviews were positive:
- Why Google’s Search App Is Its Best iOS App By Far (ReadWriteWeb)
- Google’s iPad App: Almost Chrome and Trouble for Apple (TIME TechLand)
- Google just used it’s Search app to sneak most of Chrome OS on to the iPad (The Next Web)
- The Facebook Phone: It’s finally real and it’s name is Buffy (All Things D)
- Ex-Googlers launch recommendation engine Stamped, with help from Google Ventures (VentureBeat)
- In some virtual worlds, the thrill is gone (BusinessWeek)
- Black Friday E-Commerce Spending Up 26 Percent To A Record $816M; Amazon Most Visited Retailer (TechCrunch)
- eBay buys Hunch (All Things D)
- Steve Jobs and NeXT: Rare PBS Documentary circa 1986 (brain pickings)
- Groupon Shares Plunge Below IPO Price 3 Weeks After Offering (BusinessWeek)
Here’s the video for the new Google Search iPad app:
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