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Andrew Mason, founder and CEO of Groupon, attends his company's IPO at Nasdaq, Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 in New York. Groupon, the company that pioneered online group discounts, saw its stock climb by nearly a third in its public debut Friday, showing strong demand for an Internet company whose business model is considered unsustainable by some analysts.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Andrew Mason, founder and CEO of Groupon, attends his company’s IPO at Nasdaq, Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 in New York. Groupon, the company that pioneered online group discounts, saw its stock climb by nearly a third in its public debut Friday, showing strong demand for an Internet company whose business model is considered unsustainable by some analysts.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Here s what s on the Tuesday menu.

Startups, academic researchers and political campaigns lose as Facebook becomes more stingy about sharing its user data with third parties. (WSJ)

Belgian data protection authority says that like the NSA, Facebook spies on European users.

Oyster, which was like a Netflix for books, shuts down. But some of its employees are heading to Google.

Legal news:

  • Uber to force a California driver into arbitration. She s the same driver the California labor commissioner said , not a contractor.
  • Google advertisers to sue the company as a group (over AdWords).

Groupon is laying off 1,100 employees and shutting down in seven countries.

Microsoft begins rolling out Windows Office 2016 worldwide.

Tech industry groups and others filed briefs Monday (the deadline) in support of the FCC s net neutrality rules.

ICYMI: Snoop Dogg launched Merryjane.com — an encyclopedia for pot — at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco yesterday.

Twitter rolls out Pope Francis emojis.

An Apple 1 that had a starting price of $300,000 fails to sell at a vintage tech auction in New York.

And just for fun: Carly Fiorina was on the Tonight Show last night, where she sang a song about her dog. (Video)

 

Photo: Groupon s IPO festivities at the Nasdaq on Nov. 4, 2011 in New York. (Mark Lennihan/Associated Press)