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Yelp Spurns Google's $500M Advance, LG's 'World's Thinnest' LCD TV

by Warren Riddle on December 21, 2009 at 11:58 AM



Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
  • Last week, reports emerged that Google was hoping to purchase the business review site Yelp for $500 million. Somehow, the Yelp folks have decided to back out of that astronomical deal, and the site will remain independent. [From: TechCrunch]
  • TVs were one of the hottest selling items on Black Friday. Now that thousands of people have brand new flat-screens, manufacturers are, of course, rolling out newer, slimmer, and lighter models to make them obsolete. LG, in particular, is now claiming to provide the "world's thinnest" LCD in its 0.1-inch thin, 42-inch, 1080p model. [From: Engadget]
  • Owners of the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader may get an early Christmas present tomorrow. The gadget will reportedly be receiving an update which will improve various issues, including page refresh rate. [From: Engadget]
  • Man, talk about a Debbie Downer. A Twitter-promoted snowball fight in Washington, D.C. came to a terrifying, and disgusting, end on Saturday when a perturbed undercover cop climbed out of his Hummer and started waving a gun around. Since the event was promoted virally, plenty of people were on hand to film and photograph the cop who apparently hates freedom and Christmas. [From: Mashable]
  • Google's quest to preserve the world's literature through a massive digital library has hit another French snag. French publisher Le Martiniere has won a copyright infringement case against the search engine, as Google must now pay over $400,000 for scanning the firm's books without its permission. [From: BBC]
  • Twitter's worth has previously been valued at $1 billion, but analysts are torn when forecasting the site's ability to actually produce tangible revenue. Twitter is beginning to address those concerns, and will end 2009 in the black, as the site has signed on with Google and Microsoft (for $25 million) to make tweets searchable. [From: Business Week]

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