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December 9, 2012, 5:00 PM

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Aims to Release Photo Filters in Time for the Holidays — Forget Lo-Fi and Toaster. There may be a sepia-toned little bird under the tree this Christmas. — Twitter is making a big push to release a series of photo filters to be used inside the official Twitter app before the end of the year …

More: CNET, The Verge, Mashable!, TechCrunch, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, Bloggers Blog, PC World, PhoneArena, 1001 Noisy Cameras, PetaPixel, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Savior and iClarified

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Twitter's photo filters may already be live, as employees test them in new iOS and Android apps — Following Instagram's decision to stop letting users view photos on Twitter, rumors that Twitter is to launch its own photo filters are looking more solid by the day.

More: TechCrunch and Mashable!. Tweets: @mediaredef

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Square integrates Apple's Passbook and introduces gift cards for iOS app users — With the Christmas season bearing down on us, red hot mobile payment service Square has made a major move after it introduced gift cards to its iOS app and integrated Passbook to allow gifted money to be spent.

More: MacRumors, GigaOM, CNET, AllThingsD, Engadget, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, PhoneArena and iPhone Savior

Tweets: @jack and @square

Thanks:@philtoronto

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Apple's “Made in USA” computer likely to be Mac Pro — The Mac Pro is the only Apple product that fits the bill, and a new one is due in 2013 — FORTUNE — When Tim Cook announced Thursday that Apple (AAPL) would be investing $100 million to build one of its Mac line of computers exclusively …

More: mangochutney, Cult of Mac, iClarified, The Loop, MacDailyNews and Business Insider

Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:

Why Apple Got a ‘Made in U.S.A.’ Bug

More: USA Today, Digits and TechPinions

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

It Appears That Instagram Photos Aren't Showing Up In Twitter Streams At All — We're seeing chatter on Twitter that Instagram photos are not showing up in Twitter streams anymore. This is obviously interesting considering Instagram's recent moves to remove support for Twitter cards last week.

More: The Verge, PC Magazine and Mashable!

Tweets: @ryanlawler, @spencerchen, @joshelman and @nickbilton

Thanks:@allenjanian

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On Abstract Ideas That Plague Tech Innovation — Just because you take an abstract idea and say you do it “on a computer” or “over the Internet” doesn't mean you deserve a patent, according to an amicus brief filed on Friday by Google, Facebook and six other tech companies.

More: AllThingsD, CNET and FOSS Patents. Thanks:@eldon

Neuro Bonkers / Scientific American:

The Meteoric Ascent of the Patent Troll and the Devastating Consequences for Innovation — Today it is perfectly legal for companies to buy and sell the rights to unlimited numbers of ideas, a company is not required to have any interest in making these ideas a reality.

Agence France-Presse:

Iran launches own ‘YouTube’ website: state TV — Tehran: Iran has launched its own video-sharing website to compete against Google's popular YouTube whose content is deemed inappropriate by the Islamic regime, the state television reported on Sunday. — The website (http://www.mehr.ir) …

More: AllThingsD, CNET, The Next Web, ABCNEWS and rt.com

Randall Stross / New York Times:

Air Force Stumbles Over Software Modernization Project — IN policy circles, problems that are mind-bogglingly difficult or impossible to solve, like global warming, are formally termed “wicked.” — For the United States Air Force, installing a new software system has certainly proved to be a wicked problem.

More: Bloomberg

Jason Schreier / Kotaku:

Gabe Newell: Living Room PCs Will Compete With Next-Gen Consoles — Steam's Big Picture mode was just the first step: according to Valve boss Gabe Newell, you'll be able to buy a living-room-friendly PC package next year. — Speaking to me during a brief interview on the red carpet at the VGAs last night …

More: TechSpot, The Verge, destructoid, Geek Beat Technology News, PC Gamer, iFans, Siliconera, Blue's News, Engadget, VG247, Joystiq and Polygon. Tweets: @cdixon

Natasha Singer / New York Times:

You for Sale: Company Envisions ‘Vaults’ for Personal Data — “YOU are walking around naked on the Internet and you need some clothes,” says Michael Fertik. “I am going to sell you some.” — Naked? Not exactly, but close. — Mr. Fertik, 34, is the chief executive of Reputation.com …

Melanie Lee / Reuters:

China's mini Apple takes slice of smartphone pie — (Reuters) - China's Xiaomi Technology is a fairy tale for nerdy entrepreneurs. — Less than three years after its founding, the smartphone maker is valued at $4 billion and evokes Apple-like adoration from its fans …

Ethan Anderson / AllThingsD:

What Proposition 30 Means for California's Entrepreneurs — Nothing terrifies investors or entrepreneurs as much as the concept of expropriation. When governments decide to expropriate legally obtained assets, entrepreneurs who worked tirelessly to build businesses and investors …

More: Mercury News and Los Angeles Times. Tweets: @mp3michael, @billboebel, @swildstrom and @sodio

Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:

A Tax Hike That Scares Away the Technorati? Fat Chance

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