A couple of days ago, I wrote about how the FCC was seeking an administrative hearing of the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T). Now AT&T and Deutsche Telekom have pulled their application for approval from the FCC for the acquisition. This does not necessarily mean that AT&T is pulling out of the deal. They will be continuing to pursue the sale of Deutsche Telekom’s “wireless assets.”

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is expected to launch the first beta of Office 15 in January according to WinRumors. Microsoft Office 15 is currently the code-name for the next version of Office. It is expected to be showcased at CES 2012 alongside Windows 8 beta.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has put up a teaser for their Black Friday deals. The Microsoft Store will have deals available starting at 12AM on Friday. Some of the deals include:

The stock price of Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN) has dropped consecutively for three days this past week. Groupon opened at $20 per share and it closed yesterday at $16.96. So why is Groupon’s stock dropping?

Barack Obama has joined the social network created by Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) called Google+. The Obama profile is linked to the Obama For America campaign. Steve Grove, head of community partnerships, verified the account.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office opened an exhibit last week that focuses on the patents that listed Steve Jobs as an inventor. The exhibit is located in the atrium of the Patent office’s Madison Building headquarters. The free exhibit has a portrait gallery and a theater. The Steve Jobs exhibit has 30 giant iPhone display panels that displays the front pages from over 300 patent and trademark filings that has Jobs’ name on them. The exhibit will be run through January 2012. [MacRumors]

I give Aaron Sorkin credit for being able to take a story that did not sound interesting on paper and turned it into an Academy Award winning movie about Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg called “The Social Network.” Now Sorkin is strongly considering screenwriting a movie about the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie was recently interviewed by Forbes. In the interview, Mundie suggested that he was not impressed much with Apple’s voice recognition service for the iPhone 4S known as Siri. “The TellMe facility has been in the Windows Phone 7 for more than a year. So I mean I just think that people are infatuated with Apple announcing it,” said Mundie. Microsoft acquired TellMe in 2007. Check out the interview in the video below: