It’s really sad to see this sort of thing play out: a previously-promising partnership dissolving into an ugly morass of “he-said-she-said” squabbling. Full Article at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

They still have not returned our calls or emails. But they have spoken to press, and say that their side of the story has two key elements. First, that none of this was a surprise and we knew they were likely to break ties with us. Full Article at TechCrunch

Yahoo Pipes is a way to mash up RSS feeds and Web pages into combined information, apply rules and filters, and publish it. When it launched Feb. 7, 2007, the Pipes API worked fine in principle. Full Article at Information Week

This week’s big story – unless you count news that matters outside the world of TechCrunch – is the End the CrunchPad. Killed, says Arrington, by ‘greed, jealousy and miscommunication’. Full Article at TechCrunch

Our last Friday Giveaway was a Sonos S5 Wireless Music System. This week Kodak was kind enough to hand us a Zi8 pocket video camera, and one of you is going to have it in your hands shortly. Here’s how you can get the device. Full Article at TechCrunch

Just when you thought it was gone for good, the controversial CrunchPad is scheduled to make its debut on Monday. Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan will participate in a video call when he will speak to the media and show the device in action. Full Article at MSNBC

Innovative real-time document collaboration software company AppJet, makers of Etherpad, has been acquired by Google. TechCrunch broke the news and AppJet promptly confirmed it. Full Article at ReadWriteWeb

AUSTIN, TX -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 12/04/09 -- A record breaking number of people took advantage of Cyber Monday this year, producing sales 13.7% higher than last year. Full Article at Street Insider

As the ecosystem around iPhone apps continues to explode, the opportunity for advertising and monetization grows simultaneously. Full Article at TechCrunch

Los Angeles, 9:27 AM Fri Dec 4 22 posts in the last 24 hours New: Breaking news and daily top stories via email 15512 Subscribers Send a link to this post '' via email: Please enter your name. Please enter a valid email address. Full Article at Lifehacker

Just when you thought it was gone for good, the controversial CrunchPad is scheduled to make its debut on Monday morning for reporters and industry analysts. Full Article at PC World

At Microsoft’s PDC event a few weeks ago, Microsoft Live Labs introduced a new technology, called Pivot, to make sense of interconnectedness between objects on the web. Full Article at TechCrunch

Why did the CrunchPad die? Full Article at Fast Company

TechCrunch writes that Vente-Privee has become “a powerhouse of a new wave in Europe: online private sales clubs involving designer fashion brands.” The site writes that Vente-Privee is “on target” for 650 million Euros in sales this year, and has more... Full Article at Barron's Online

If you’re not following Mike Butcher on Twitter, you’re missing out! He writes for TechCrunch – but only for a specific part! Full Article at Chris Pirillo

Over on TechDirt, Mike Masnick writes an editorial blog post in which he talks about companies’ attempts to get “equal time” when blogs cover them. Full Article at TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

Bing went offline for about 30 minutes. I captured a screen shot of Microsoft's search engine having issues about mid-way through. Here it is: TechCrunch said it was down for about 30 minutes. Full Article at Search Engine Roundtable

TechCrunch has it's own version for the reasons Google entered the DNS business: In 2008 OpenDNS was making $20,000/day in revenue when they were resolving just 7 billion daily queries. Full Article at LXer

TechCrunch reports that sometime in the past few hours, the Mac Detailed Status page on the Chromium’s Web site has been changed to the “Mac OS X Roadmap.” The change is because Google’s Chrome for Mac team has squashed the last of the blocker bugs... Full Article at ZDNet