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December 4, 2012, 12:25 PM

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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

iTunes Music Store Launches in 56 New Countries, Movies Arrive in Four — Earlier today, we noted that the iTunes Music Store had gone live in Russia and Turkey, but now that changes have propagated throughout iTunes and we've had time to collect reports, it now appears that Apple …

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg Tech Blog:

Apple's ITunes Would Be One of World's Biggest Media Companies

More: TUAW, Macgasm and iDownloadBlog.com

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Facebook Messenger for Android drops account requirement, taking on SMS and WhatsApp — The race to replace SMS is on — Facebook has entered the race to replace SMS in earnest today, announcing that its messenger app for Android will no longer require a Facebook account to sign up.

More: Facebook Newsroom, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Engadget, CNET, Los Angeles Times, CNET, NYT Bits, GigaOM, memeburn, BuzzFeed, WebProNews and SlashGear. Tweets: @nunomaia

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Mary Meeker's Latest Must-Read Presentation On The State Of The Web — Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker is doing a year-end presentation on the state of the web at Stanford tonight. — We have the slides of her presentation here. — As usual, it's a must read for anyone in the industry, or anyone with interest in technology.

More: VentureBeat, AllThingsD, The Next Web, TechCrunch, CNET and GigaOM

Tweets: @kevinmarks, @erickschonfeld and @erickschonfeld

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Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

John McAfee confirms he is in Guatemala after all, and is planning a press conference tomorrow — It was only yesterday that we reported that man-on-the-run fugitive John McAfee was claiming to have falsified the metadata of a photo that placed him in Guatemala.

More: Who is McAfee?, Guardian, Forbes, Betabeat, SecurityWeek, WebProNews and Gawker. See also Mediagazer

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

US Patent & Trademark Office Grants Apple Registered Trademarks for “Retina” & “Game Center” Icon — On December 4, 2012, the US Patent & Trademark Office granted Apple two Registered Trademarks. The first trademark covers the word “Retina” representing Apple's brilliant Retina display …

More: Business Insider

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Nokia selling Espoo headquarters to raise cash, but won't be moving out — Nokia is about to add roughly $220 million to its balance sheet through the sale of its central HQ building in Espoo, Finland. The company will continue to operate within the premises as previously …

More: Nokia, VentureBeat, TechEye, ZDNet, Forbes, ZDNet, Mashable!, CNET, PhoneArena, The Next Web, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, TechCrunch, Electronista, MobileBurn.com, SlashGear and Engadget

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Apple hiring ‘dozens’ of former Texas Instruments engineers to boost chip-making operations in Israel — Apple has been expanding its workforce in Israel over the past couple of weeks, tapping a pool of former Texas Instruments (TI) employees in the country to build up research and development centers …

More: CNET, Business Insider, MobileBurn.com, Ubergizmo, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks and MacRumors

Jamie Yap / ZDNet:

Sharp gets $120M investment from Qualcomm — Summary: Both companies agree to jointly develop and commercialize display panel technology, after Qualcomm agrees to inject US$120 million equity investment into Sharp and become a minority stakeholder. — Jamie Yap

More: Sharp, Reuters, PR Newswire, Inquirer, Forbes, CNET, Wall Street Journal, TechSpot, MarketWatch, Bloomberg, Softpedia News, The Next Web, X-bit labs, TechEye, Electronista, Agence France Presse, SlashGear and BGR India

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Urban Airship Acquires Tello, Maker Of PassTools For Apple's Passbook, Because Not All Brands Need Fully Featured Apps — A little over a year after Urban Airship's acquisition of location startup SimpleGeo, the company has moved to once again expand its feature set by acquiring venture-backed Tello in an all-stock deal.

More: Forbes, Marketing Land, GigaOM, AllThingsD, The Next Web, Urban Airship, VentureBeat, ReadWrite and blog.tello.com

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Ashton Kutcher's portrayal of Steve Jobs to debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January — This coming January is likely to be the first time that anyone outside of a production facility will get a look at jOBS, the new biopic of Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher.

Humayun Khan / BetaKit:

Clarity Adds $1.6M from 500 Startups, Mark Cuban to Be ‘Lifeline for Entrepreneurs’ — BetaKit covered San Francisco and Moncton, NB-based Clarity, which lets anyone get access to entrepreneurial advice over the phone, when it hit 10,000 calls after launching in May 2012.

More: GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Next Web and The New Republic

Jonathan Rudenberg:

SMS Vulnerability in Twitter, Facebook and Venmo — Twitter users with SMS enabled are vulnerable to an attack that allows anyone to post to their account. The attacker only needs knowledge of the mobile number associated with a target's Twitter account. Messages can then be sent to Twitter with the source number spoofed.

More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Dennis Fisher and Softpedia News

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Last.fm Founders' Next Track: Lumi, A Site That Uses Your Browsing History To Help You Discover Things On The Web — Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel, two of the co-founders of the music discovery and streaming site Last.fm, went into a kind of startup hibernation two years after selling their early-moving …

More: GigaOm, AllThingsD, Softpedia News and The Next Web

Mark Hosenball / Reuters:

Swiss spy agency warns U.S., Britain about huge data leak — (Reuters) - Secret information on counter-terrorism shared by foreign governments may have been compromised by a massive data theft by a senior IT technician for the NDB, Switzerland's intelligence service, European national security sources said.

More: CNET, Betabeat, ZDNet and SecurityWeek

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

Younity skips storage limits, making all your files available on all your devices — Despite all the cloud storage and syncing solutions out there, most consumers still struggle with accessing all of their files across multiple devices. A big part of the problem is that the average user …

More: CNET, VatorNews, The Next Web and socalTECH.com

Barb Darrow / GigaOM:

And whomp, here it is: The Pivotal Initiative brought to you by VMware and EMC — At long last here it is: The long-simmering VMware-EMC spin-off that is. The Pivotal Initiative will focus on bringing resources from the two parent companies to bear on big data and cloud application platforms …

More: VMware Blogs, TechCrunch, The Register, VentureBeat and Channelnomics

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Evernote Expands Its Premium Offerings: Evernote Business Now Live In 7 Countries With Sharing, More Data And A New Searching Algorithm — Evernote, the popular personal information and productivity app that last week announced another $85 million in financing and more than 45 million users …

More: Evernote Blogcast, ZDNet, AllThingsD, Engadget, ReadWrite, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, The Next Web, CITEworld, Mashable! and MacStories

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Poshmark Nabs $12M Series B Led By Menlo Ventures To Expand Its Mobile Fashion Marketplace Beyond iOS — Clothing swap meets have been happening for many years, so they are indeed a tried-and-true “industry” of sorts — but can one be worth tens of millions of dollars?

More: VentureBeat, Forbes, GigaOM, AllThingsD and PandoDaily

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

France Telecom Invests Up To $20M In Lookout, Preloads Its Mobile Security Solutions On To Android Handsets — Lookout, the mobile security company with ambitions to become the Symantec of the wireless world, is picking up a new backer, and and a major distribution partner in its bid to become a household name.

More: SiliconANGLE, AllThingsD, Computerworld, ZDNet, The Next Web, Know Your Mobile, Softpedia News and Inquirer

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

OneSpot raises $1.5 million to redefine Web banner advertising using rich-media and social — The world of advertising is constantly searching for new ways to reach consumers. One of the well-used mediums has been banner advertising — you know, those things that pop up every once in a while that people often ignore?

More: VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Nest's Tony Fadell Talks Thermostats, Apple, Kickstarter And Hardware Startups At LeWeb — At LeWeb Paris this morning, Nest Labs' Founder and CEO Tony Fadell took the stage with the Iliad Group's founder Xavier Niel to talk about his advanced thermostat and the Internet of Things.

More: CNET, memeburn and MTV Multiplayer

Matthew Cleevely / The n Bells:

Apple - Think Twice. — Apple - Think DifferentTwice. — I'm writing this because I think Apple may have changed. I have been a loyal customer for 11 years, but will think twice before every buying from them again. I hope anyone reading this will do the same.

More: Business Insider and Guardian. Tweets: @rpmcb, @webandy, @wikichen and @jackschofield

Steve Lohr / NYT Bits:

Google Cranks Up Its Patent Engine — Google has been accelerating its patent production impressively in the last few years, even before it bought Motorola Mobility last year for $12.5 billion. — That is one nugget in a new report from Thomson Reuters. The report, “2012 Top 100 Global Innovators …

More: Washington Post. Tweets: @blachab

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

CA to app devs: get privacy policies or risk $2500-per-download fines — They had a month—and now it's over. Any California mobile-app developers who don't have a privacy policy obviously available to consumers need to get one and fast. If they don't, they could be facing potentially massive fines: up to $2,500 per app download.

More: The Verge

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Judge: Patents in Apple-HTC settlement deal can't be sealed — A California judge says the list of patents included in Apple and HTC's settlement cannot be sealed as part of Apple's court spat with Samsung. — Major details of the legal settlement made between Apple and HTC …

More: Computerworld, Electronista, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, iLounge and iClarified

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Sophos declares 2012 the year of Android and Mac malware, as cybercriminals look beyond Windows — Sophos on Tuesday released its Security Threat Report 2013 which, much like how newly released cars are named, was actually put together this year. The 40-page document is extensive …

More: PC World, TechRadar.com, Forbes, V3.co.uk, Naked Security, Mashable! and Softpedia News

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

China Unicom begins iPhone 5 reservations, 100,000 customers sign up on first day — After Apple announced late last week that the iPhone 5 is coming to China on December 14, China Unicom, the country's second-largest wireless operator, began taking reservations on Monday, quickly receiving 100,000 online pre-orders, Sina Tech reports.

More: brightwire.com, AppleInsider, AllThingsD, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, MacRumors, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac and iPhone Hacks

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