This week we begin the slide into the Holidays with Black Friday & Cyber Monday, Microsoft & Apple drop key team members, Apple patents the page turn, Nintendo launches the Wii U, and real (and hoax) Facebook changes make users nervous.

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Headlines

• Thanksgiving breaks Instagram records: Over 10M photos shared at a rate of up to 226 per second
• Black Friday online sales up nearly 21%
  • E-Commerce Spending On Black Friday Tops $1B For The First Time; Amazon Is The Most Visited Retailer
• Cyber Monday sales up 17% to nearly $2 billion, exceeding forecast
• Google expands max Gmail attachment size to 10GB, thanks to Google Drive
• Windows Head Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft
  • Who is Julie Larson-Green? Meet the new head of Windows
  • Sinofsky speaks, denies he tried to take over Windows Phone division
• Microsoft: We’ve sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses to date
• Apple Said to Fire Maps Manager as Flaws Hurt IPhone 5

Audible Book of the Week

• SEAL Team 666 by Weston Ochse

Musical Interlude: Turn The Page by Metallica

More Headlines

• Google Preps Maps App for Apple iPhones
• Apple Patents the Virtual Page Turn
• Nintendo: 400K Wii U units sold, 1.2M devices total
  • Nintendo’s Wii U Takes Aim at a Changed Video Game World
• Grand Theft Auto V Trailer #2

• Ubisoft’s upcoming ‘Watch Dogs’

• Facebook Asks Users If It Can Abolish Their Right To Vote On Future Site Governance
• snopes.com: Facebook Privacy Notice
• Fact Check – Facebook Newsroom

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.