TripAdvisor CEO Says Wall Street Underestimates Its Value Now That It’s Flying Solo

TripAdvisor’s co-founder and CEO Stephen Kaufer talks to AllThingsD about the media company’s prospects for growth now that it has broken off from Expedia and is an independently traded company.
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TripAdvisor Dips Lower on First Day of Trading

TripAdvisor, which has collected more than 50 million reviews from travelers around the world, is facing a critique of its own on its first day trading on the Nasdaq.
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The New Yorker Likes Sony’s “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” and Sony is Furious

A story about embargoes. No, wait! Where are you going?
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Google Cries Bing and Yelp Yelps, as Senate Antitrust Hearings Commence Today

Giant Google is scared of tiny Bing — no, really. Or so its chairman could say later today.
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OpenTable Investors Queasy After Google-Zagat Meal, Er, Deal

OpenTable’s shares tumbled more than 10 percent during the day, following the announcement that Google was buying local review site Zagat.
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Former Top Editor Makes Another Talent Raid on AOL’s Engadget for New Competing Gadget Site

I love the smell of blog wars in the morning! Acting as Facebook often does to Google, a new site started by former Engadget editor Josh Topolsky just hired away yet another passel of tech journalists from the giant gadgets news and reviews organization. It is Topolsky’s second major talent raid since he left his editor-in-chief job there in March, for a new gadget property aimed at unseating Engadget.
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Chewsy Tells Us What We Really Want to Know: What’s Good to Eat Nearby

My most frequent use of location-based apps like Foursquare and Yelp is to look up reviews of what’s the most awesome dish to order at a restaurant. The iPhone app Chewsy drills down on that problem specifically, and is a bit more useful in that it shows the best dishes at all the venues in a neighborhood before you pick where to eat.
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Exclusive: Yahoo Nabs Jai Singh From AOL's HuffPo as Editor-in-Chief

According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo has grabbed one of Huffington Post’s top editors, Jai Singh, to become its editor-in chief. Before moving to the HuffPo as managing editor in 2009, which is now the key content unit of AOL, Singh ran CNET.
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App Way to Gripe (or Praise) About Service

Katie looks at Tello, a new website and mobile app that encourages users to chime in on their customer-service experiences, good or bad.

What’s In Store for Technology in 2011

Walt looks at the products and competitive positions of key contenders as they enter a new year.