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Week of 12/5/11 – Flipboard for iPhone, Siri backlash, Twitter has a new HQ

Flipboard for iPhone was released.

Some people are losing patience with Siri.

Jawbone is offering refunds on their UP health/fitness device. Letter from the CEO: The Up No Questions Guarantee (Jawbone)
HP will open source WebOS and announces that they might make WebOS devices in 2013.
Twitter launched a new version of their web site and showcased their new location on Market Street.

Week of 11/28/11 – Tech News Roundup

The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook is targeting an IPO between April – June 2012 (VentureBeat)

Spotify launches a music platform (Evolver.fm)

Complaints pop up for Jawbone’s UP wearable health/fitness device (All Things D)

RIP Napster. Napster officially merged with Rhapsody. (Mashable)

It was a bad week for Mozilla. Chrome overtakes Firefox (ZDNet) and their deal with Google is ending (ZDNet)

Acquisitions:

Path launches the 2.0 version of their app and got mostly positive reviews. Some concerns were raised about the feature that automatically tracks your location.

Robert Scoble interviews Path founders Dave Morin and Dustin Mierau: