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The 3 Biggest Stories in Social Media, Tech and Mobile This Morning

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Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.

Google Search Ads Get More Visual

Google Product Listing Ads are now being href="http://mashable.com/2010/11/11/google-product-listing-ads/">rolled out to all of Google’s advertisers in the U.S. The format, which has been in testing with select advertisers for the past year, makes AdWords more visual by allowing advertisers to list specific products with accompanying images.

Microsoft Kin Might Be Coming Back to Verizon

According to a href="http://mashable.com/2010/11/12/microsofts-kin-coming-back-verizon/">leaked Verizon A4 road map, Microsoft’s href="http://mashable.com/tag/kin/">Kin feature phone — considered one of the href="http://mashable.com/2010/06/30/rip-microsoft-kin/">biggest failures in the mobile industry this year, having been pulled after only three months on the market — is coming back to the wireless carrier.

Thousands Tweet in Support of Convicted Airport Joker

In response to the href="http://mashable.com/2010/11/11/twitter-bomb-threat-appeal/">conviction of 27-year-old UK accountant Paul Chambers, who yesterday lost his appeal against his conviction and a £1,000 fine for href="http://mashable.com/2010/01/18/twitter-arrest-joke/">a joke he made about blowing up an airport on Twitter, thousands of users href="http://mashable.com/2010/11/12/iamspartacus/">have taken to the microblogging service to show their support by retweeting his joke with the hashtag href="http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23iamspartacus" >#IAmSpartacus.

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