Guatemala detains software guru McAfee, to expel him to Belize  —  (Reuters) - Guatemalan police arrested U.S. software guru John McAfee on Wednesday for illegally entering the country and said it would expel him to neighboring Belize, which he fled after being sought for questioning over his neighbor's murder.

Here's Apple's Settlement Pact with HTC (Well, the Parts We're Allowed to See)  —  When Apple and HTC settled their legal disputes in a surprise deal several weeks back, the two companies provided little in the way of details on the agreement.  —  Now, thanks to Apple's dispute with Samsung …

Twitter Loses Ability to Properly Display Instagram Photos  —  Welcome to the Photo Wars.  —  Instagram on Wednesday disabled the ability for Twitter to properly display Instagram photos on its Web site and in its applications.  The move escalates tensions between the two companies …

Lack of Distribution Is “Killing” Surface  —  If Microsoft is being coy about revealing Surface sales data, it may be for good reason.  Early demand for the company's first tablet is lousy.  How lousy?  Put it this way: If Microsoft really did manufacture three million to five million Surface tablets …

Apple loses $34.9 billion in market cap in its worst trading day in 4 years, but why?  —  Gene Munster has a target of $900 for Apple's stock, which is a touch awkward today as the company shed 6.43% of its value, to settle at a valuation of a mere $508 billion.

U.N. summit votes to support Internet eavesdropping  —  Deep packet inspection standard adopted despite Germany's warning that it will “empower” censorship.  Other uses: detecting BitTorrent transfers and identifying “copyright protected audio content.”  —  A United Nations summit …

Blockbuster Is Said to Begin Selling Phones  —  Dish Network Corp. (DISH)'s Blockbuster will begin selling mobile phones in its movie-rental stores as a test for Dish's planned entry into the wireless business, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

Google Now adds travel destination weather, local events, song ID by voice, and more  —  On Wednesday, Google updated Google Now with a myriad of new features that will be especially useful for those who like to, or at least need to, travel.  You can download the latest update of Google Search …

Windows Azure Storage Drops Pricing By As Much As 28% In Price Fight For Cloud Storage Market Share  —  Windows Azure Storage has entered the cloud price wars with a drop in pricing that could be as much as 28 percent for some customers.  The pricing goes into effect December 12th.

The More Pandora Sells, the More It Loses  —  A tenth of a cent might not sound like a lot of money.  But Pandora Media Inc.'s 18% stock drop Wednesday is a sobering reminder that those fractions add up—especially when advertising sales don't keep pace.  —  Pandora's music royalty costs …

Zynga Takes Gambling Step in Nevada  —  Zynga Inc. has taken its first official step toward offering real-money gambling games in the U.S. by filing preparatory paperwork in Nevada, as the embattled firm maneuvers to take advantage of a shifting legal landscape.

Time Spent In Mobile Apps Is Starting To Challenge Television, Flurry Says  —  Now that usage of mobile apps has overtaken browsing on the desktop web, it's starting to challenge television, Flurry says.  The San Francisco-based mobile analytics startup says that consumers are spending 127 minutes per …

See Trends for 100 more cities  —  Today, we're bringing Trends to 100 more cities around the world including Istanbul, Frankfurt, Guadalajara and Incheon.  With this update, we now surface the ‘most breaking’ news in more than 200 locations.  To view Trends for different locations, just click “Change” in the Trends section.

Google Updates OneBox Results Design To Match Mobile Interface  —  Google announced they have updated their OneBox results, also known as quick answer results, to match the mobile and tablet designs they released back in August.  The new results are cleaner, take up more space, but also are more interactive.

Casio's iPhone-friendly G-Shock finally out, will adorn wrists for $180  —  It seems Casio's G-Shock GB6900 hasn't been mindful of its own raison d'être, turning up much later than expected.  After making its first appearance way back in March 2011, rolling through FCC in July the same year …

Train Wreck: The New York Post's Subway Cover  —  “It all happened so fast.”  —  That's what R. Umar Abbasi, a freelance photographer for The New York Post, said of the fatal subway incident on Monday that he caught with his camera.  One man threw another into harm's way, causing him to be run over by an oncoming train.

Why First Round Capital funded a lawsuit  —  You can imagine the scene in the board room.  —  The CEO of our portfolio company, Techforward, is discussing a “make the company opportunity” — Best Buy wants us to to power their nation-wide buyback program.  And Best Buy is talking about launching it with a Super Bowl commercial!

Building a better map of Europe  —  More than a billion people use Google Maps each month to find their way around town and around the world.  To help these people get exactly the information they need, the Google Maps team works constantly to ensure that the geographic data behind our maps is comprehensive and accurate.

AT&T: We've sold 6.4M smartphones in Q4 already  —  Mobility chief Ralph de la Vega says AT&T is on a record pace for the quarter, and is on track to exceed its expectations for full-year smartphone sales.  —  AT&T is hoping for a happy holiday when it comes to smartphone sales.

Facebook snubs ‘Subscribe’ button in favor of Twitter-esque ‘Follow’ on all profile pages  —  Facebook today announced that on every user's Timeline profile page, it's changing “Subscribe,” to “Folllow,” evidently a term it hopes will resonate more with users.

Sophisticated botnet steals more than $47M by infecting PCs and phones  —  Behold—the Eurograbber, visualized.  —  Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock  —  A new version of the Zeus trojan—a longtime favorite of criminals conducting online financial fraud—has been used in attacks …