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December 7, 2012, 1:20 PM

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Sean Buckley / Engadget:

Google Apps discontinues basic package, asks new customers to pony up $50 per user for premium — Looking towards Mountain View to provide a suite of digital tools for your new business? Make sure to pen per-user costs into your ledger — Google Apps isn't free anymore.

More: BetaNews, internetnews.com, Macgasm, VatorNews, Mashable!, Softpedia News and VentureBeat

Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Google To Rein In Free Version Of Software — Google Inc. said it stopped offering its suite of Web-based software for businesses—known as Google Apps—free of charge to groups of 10 or fewer users, as it moves to generate revenue from previously free services.

China Real Time Report:

Besides Scalpers, Few Turn Out for iPad Mini Launch in Beijing … The release of Apple Inc.'s iPad Mini on Friday at its flagship store in Beijing was missing the massive and unruly crowds reminiscent of some the company's previous product launches in China, but scalpers were still …

More: BGR, ITworld.com, Digits, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Fortune, MacNN, iPhone Hacks, everythingiCafe, Macgasm, PhoneArena and The Next Web

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

For Netflix and the SEC, a Facebook Share Should Be Public Enough — Most people worry about over-sharing on Facebook. Under-sharing? Not so much. — Except, that is, for the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is considering taking action against Netflix for a Facebook post made by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.

More: GigaOM, Reuters and Digits. See also Mediagazer

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Netflix CEO Gets A Warning From The SEC Over A Facebook Post

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Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley BizBlog:

SEC targets Netflix, Reed Hastings over Facebook, blog posts

More: Inquirer, CNET, San Francisco Chronicle, Mashable!, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and The Technology Chronicles. See also Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:

Google Nearer to Selling Motorola Set-Top Line — Google Inc. is wrapping up an auction of Motorola's set-top box business, according to people involved in the deal, as it continues downsizing the hardware unit. — The Mountain View, Calif., company had set a deadline of Friday for the last round of bids …

More: CNET, The Verge, Deadline.com, Light Reading and SeekingAlpha.com

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Facebook in Talks to Buy Microsoft's Atlas Ad Platform — According to sources close to the situation, Facebook is looking seriously at purchasing Microsoft's Atlas Solutions ad-serving platform. — Sources said the social networking giant has been conducting due diligence …

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Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:

Planning His Legacy, Cisco Chief Maps an Expansion — SAN JOSE, Calif. — John T. Chambers has readied his last great act as the leader of Cisco Systems, fearing major changes in the technology business that could doom his company. — In an interview at Cisco headquarters this week …

More: ZDNet, Venture Capital Dispatch, Bloomberg, Tech Trader Daily and TechEye

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

Live Blog: Google's Vic Gundotra At SMX Social Media Marketing — Our SMX Social Media Marketing conference is winding down today and the final event on the agenda is a keynote conversation involving Vic Gundotra, the Senior VP of Engineering for Google+, and our own Editor-in-Chief, Danny Sullivan.

More: The Next Web, Business Insider, 9to5Google, The Verge, PhoneArena, WebProNews, BuzzFeed, Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine Land

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Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley:

FCC to FAA: Allow ‘greater use’ of electronic devices during flights — The head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday pushed for wider in-flight use of electronic portable devices during airplane flights. — FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski called …

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Paul Elias / Associated Press:

Judge May Trim Apple's $1 Billion Patent Verdict — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday appeared ready to reduce a $1.05 billion jury verdict Apple Inc. won over Samsung Electronics. — During a hearing in a San Jose federal courtroom, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh told lawyers …

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Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Galaxy S III ‘Premium Suite’ features detailed: Multi-Window, Page Buddy and more (video) — Samsung started pushing a new Jelly Bean update to its Galaxy S III phones yesterday, and it's posted a video breaking down some of the features. Many of the “Premium Suite” upgrades are cribbed …

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Rock Center with Brian Williams:

Apple CEO on challenge of keeping company cutting edge — Steve Jobs' hand-picked successor, current Apple CEO Tim Cook, talks exclusively to Rock Center Anchor and Managing Editor Brian Williams about Apple's battle with Samsung, glitches with their maps app, the prospect of Apple TV and the challenge of keeping Apple cutting edge.

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Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Online Learning Marketplace Udemy Lands $12M To Expand Its Course Catalog, Go Cross-Platform — In 2010, Udemy set out to capitalize on the growing market for video-based online education by launching a learning platform that allows anyone to teach and participate in online video classes.

More: The Next Web, VentureBeat, GigaOM, BetaKit and AllThingsD

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

Washington Post Plans a Paywall — The Washington Post, one of the last holdouts against the trend of charging readers for online access to newspaper articles, is likely to reverse that decision in 2013, according to people familiar with the matter. — While details are being finished …

More: Washington Post, The Verge, CNET, paidContent, Bloomberg, DCist, Media Decoder, digitaltrends.com, Mashable!, Poynter, PandoDaily, Boing Boing and SeekingAlpha.com. See also Mediagazer

Nate Raymond / Reuters:

U.S. judge names lead plaintiffs in Facebook litigation — (Reuters) - A group of investors including state pension funds in North Carolina and Arkansas will be the lead plaintiffs in securities lawsuits arising out of Facebook Inc's $16 billion initial public offering, a U.S. judge ruled on Thursday.

More: The Verge, AllFacebook and CNET

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

BlueStacks Hits 5M Installs, Rumored To Be Bringing 750K+ Android Apps To Windows RT Devices — It appears that BlueStacks isn't just a flash in the pan. The Silicon Valley-based startup, which makes software that allows users to run their Android apps on Macs and PCs …

More: PC World, MobileSyrup.com, The Droid Guy and PhoneArena. Thanks:@bluestacksinc

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Series A crunch: By the numbers — If you thought the Series A crunch is bad now, you ain't seen nothing yet. — FORTUNE — A growing number of tech startups are having trouble graduating from seed or angel funding to traditional venture capital. And it's only going to get worse.

More: Business Insider

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Nokia Lumia 620 hands-on: $249 for Windows Phone 8 (video) — Surprising a few of us, Nokia yesterday revealed a brand new Windows Phone 8 device, the 3.8-inch Lumia 620, in an explosion of colors. As its naming convention goes, and at just $249, this is the cheapest device running Microsoft's newly christened mobile OS so far.

More: ReadWrite, Inquirer, Softpedia News, WMPoweruser and Windows Phone Daily

John Ribeiro / Computerworld:

AMD cuts chip orders to GlobalFoundries as PC market slumps — Advanced Micro Devices has cut orders to contract chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries, expecting a “choppy demand environment” in the next few quarters. — Advanced Micro Devices has cut orders to contract chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries …

More: VentureBeat, Engadget, Reuters, TG Daily and Wall Street Journal

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Facebook's Dan Levy Touts Small Business Growth: Advertisers Have Nearly Doubled Since January, Promoted 2.5M Posts — Dan Levy, who leads the small business team at Facebook, is on stage right now at the Interactive Local Media West conference in Los Angeles, where he's talking …

More: CNET, Local Media Watch, Marketing Land and Inside Facebook

Timothy Prickett Morgan / The Register:

Intel prepping Atom bombs to drop on ARM microservers — Roadmap is top secret, dual-core ‘Centerton’ Atom looms — To hear Intel Fellow Matt Adiletta tell it, Chipzilla not only invented the term microserver but saw the trend towards wimpy computing coming way ahead of the all this fawning …

More: GigaOM

Graham Spencer / MacStories:

Mapping Apple's Retail Expansion — Apple opened its first retail stores on May 19, 2001 - one in Virginia and the other in California. In the Steve Jobs biography, author Walter Isaacson wrote how Jobs had wanted Apple to have its own stores so that their iMacs didn't have to …

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