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December 9, 2012, 8:35 PM

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Confirmed: Effective Immediately, Say Goodbye to Instagram Photos Inside of Twitter — Instagram completely turned off support for Twitter Cards technology on Sunday, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed to AllThingsD. — While users can still post links to their Instagram photos on Twitter …

More: CNET, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Gizmodo, The Verge, Business Insider, PC Magazine and Mashable!

Tweets: @levie, @parislemon, @semil, @spencerchen and @mikeisaac

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 …

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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, Mashable! and iClarified. 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: GigaOM, AppleInsider, CNET, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Engadget, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, 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 …

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Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:

Why Apple Got a ‘Made in U.S.A.’ Bug

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Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Yahoo teams up with NBC Sports to share online and broadcast sports news and coverage — Yahoo has announced a partnership with NBC Sports that will see the two pool their sports reporting and news coverage in an effort to build the US' largest dedicated sports news platforms.

More: Yahoo! Inc., AllThingsD and The Huffington Post

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

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 and CNET. Thanks:@eldon

Agence France Presse:

Iran launches own ‘YouTube’ website — 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) called ‘Mehr’ …

More: The Register, The Verge, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, CNET, PC Magazine and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

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.

Alex Howard / digiphile:

The White House joins Pinterest, invites users to holiday social — The White House joined Pinterest today. Over the past several years, the White House digital team has sought to leverage the growing unprecedented scale of its connections on these networks to influence national debates on proposed laws …

More: CNN, Associated Press, The Verge, The Droid Guy and White House.gov Blog

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