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December 10, 2012, 5:10 PM

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Will Nix Voting, Integrate Instagram Data Despite Vote Ending With 88% Of 668K Votes Opposed — The polls have closed on Facebook's final site governance vote, with 588,803 votes (88 percent) opposed to the changes, and 79,697 of the total 668,500 in support.

More: The Verge, AllFacebook, AllThingsD, VatorNews, Engadget and CNET

Tweets: @qthrul and @eldon

Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed:

Facebook Democracy Is Dead — Democracy dies on Facebook in an hour. The night before Thanksgiving, Facebook quietly announced that it wanted to end a process that's been in place since 2009, which allows users to vote on changes to the way the site's governed.

More: CNET, The Next Web and Slate

Jesse Drucker / Bloomberg:

Google Revenues Sheltered in No-Tax Bermuda Soar to $10 Billion — Google Inc. (GOOG) avoided about $2 billion in worldwide income taxes in 2011 by shifting $9.8 billion in revenues into a Bermuda shell company, almost double the total from three years before, filings show.

More: TechCrunch, CNET, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Mashable!, Betabeat, Quartz and AllThingsD. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Microsoft Leaks References to ‘Office Mobile for iPhone’, ‘Excel for iPad’ and ‘PowerPoint for iPad’ — Building upon a series of reports about Microsoft's apparent efforts to bring its Office productivity suite to iOS, The Verge last month shared a few screenshots and noted that the suite …

More: The Verge, The Next Web, ZDNet, Engadget, Business Insider, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, WinBeta, Macgasm, Neowin, iPhone Hacks and App Advice. Tweets: @inafried

Felix Salmon:

Why Bloomberg is interested in LinkedIn — As Henry Blodget realizes, the most interesting part of the latest speculation about Bloomberg buying the FT is buried en passant: … As Blodget also notes, this isn't really an either/or choice: the price tag for LinkedIn would be so gargantuan …

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @howardlindzon and @mathewi

New York Times:

Bloomberg Weighs Making Bid for The Financial Times

More: Tech Trader Daily and Quartz. Tweets: @danprimack. See also Mediagazer

Matt Smith / Reuters:

Russia backs down on proposals to regulate the Internet — (Reuters) - A Russia-led coalition on Monday withdrew a proposal to give governments new powers over the Internet, a plan opposed by Western countries in talks on a new global telecom treaty. — Negotiations on the treaty mark …

More: The Technology Chronicles, The Verge and OSDir.com

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Hacker Group Touts 1.6 Million Password Dump To Protest UN Internet Regulation

More: The Verge, The Next Web, Computerworld, Betabeat, Help Net Security and ZDNet

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Apple redraws maps after Australian drivers led astray in the bush — Mildura police issue warning after motorists lose way in scorching temperatures because town misplaced on Apple Maps — Apple has updated its new maps system after police in Mildura, Australia, said a number of people trying …

Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:

Instagram's next move: a novel new camera for iOS and a fresh filter for all — Embroiled in a photo turf war with Twitter, Instagram's deadly weapon of choice is a revamped iOS application that allows users to snap better, more stylized shots. — The Facebook-owned entity today released …

More: Instagram, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Engadget, PC Magazine, GigaOM, Gizmodo, The Verge, Inside Facebook, digitaltrends.com, WebProNews and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@jbruin

Zach Epstein / BGR:

RIM teases BlackBerry 10 launch with image of first BB10 smartphone — Hoping to keep interest levels up before its big January 30th launch, Research In Motion (RIMM) has started to tease its own “laptop-killing” BlackBerry 10-powered smartphone on its official website.

More: The Verge, CNET, VentureBeat, Business Insider, IntoMobile, Electronista, Techspressive and Phones Review

Sachin Agarwal / Twitter Blog:

New profiles for everyone — A few months ago, we introduced new Twitter profiles so that you could make your profile beautiful and display your style on your profile page. By uploading a header photo on twitter.com or our mobile apps on iPhone, iPad or Android, you can make your profile more uniquely yours.

More: CNET, The Next Web, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, GigaOM and Gizmodo

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:

Dell founder ‘turned down Autonomy’ — Billionaire entrepreneur Michael Dell has revealed that Autonomy was offered to him before it was bought by Hewlett-Packard, but that he rejected the British software firm because it was “overwhelmingly obvious” that it was overpriced.

More: Bloomberg, AllThingsD, Business Insider and DailyFinance.com

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Motorola to exit South Korea in 2013, as Google restructuring claims another 500+ jobs — Motorola Mobility is to close down almost all of its operations in South Korea next year as its reorganization under the ownership of Google continues. The phone maker will keep 10 percent of its local R&D staff …

More: Bloomberg, AllThingsD, CNET, PC Magazine, The Verge, Datamation.com, SlashGear, Engadget, Computerworld and Electronista

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in < 6 hours — Welcome to Radeon City, population: 8. It's one of five servers that make up a high-performance password-cracking cluster. — Jeremi Gosney — A password-cracking expert has unveiled a computer cluster …

More: CNET, nbcnews.com and TechSpot. Tweets: @siracusa

Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:

FTC: Most mobile apps for kids secretly collect and share information — A study from the Federal Trade Commission has found that most mobile apps for kids are secretly collecting information from children including device IDs, phone numbers, locations, and other private information without their parents' knowledge or consent.

More: GigaOM, Mobile Marketing Watch, The Next Web, Associated Press, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Hillicon Valley, The Consumerist, ZDNet, New York Times, nbcnews.com and Washington Post

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

Starbucks mobile vets get $10M for Cardfree mobile payments tool — Starbucks helped open a lot of eyes to the power of mobile payments and commerce with its Starbucks Card app, which has so far been the most successful mobile payments implementation. Now, some of the key members of that team …

More: GeekWire, BetaKit, The Next Web, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com and AllThingsD

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Samsung hints it is announcing ‘something new’ at CES in January; could it be the Galaxy S4? — It's less than seven months since Samsung released the Galaxy S3, its flagship smartphone, in May, but already it appears that the Korean electronics giant is getting ready to unveil its sequel …

More: ReadWrite, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Inquirer, MobileSyrup.com, Mashable!, digitaltrends.com, iPhone Hacks, CNET, BetaNews and Electronista

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Nike to kick off a Nike+ startup accelerator in March 2013, powered by TechStars — Well, this is interesting: apparently TechStars delivers its acceleration programs out-of-the-shoebox these days. — TechStars has teamed up with sports footwear and apparel giant Nike to power …

More: NikeInc.com, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Verge, TechStars, CNET, Forbes, TechCrunch, Feld Thoughts, GigaOM, Silicon Florist and GeekWire. Thanks:@bradmccarty

Sarah Silbert / Engadget:

Google offering $99 Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks to public schools — Teachers will be able to purchase the already-cheap Samsung Series 5 Chromebook for just $99 this holiday season, Google just announced on its blog. Mountain View will offer the Chromebok for that discounted price thanks …

More: The Official Google Blog, The Next Web, TechCrunch, ZDNet, 9to5Google and SlashGear

Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:

Detained John McAfee Sells Life Rights for Movie, TV — Montreal-based Impact Future Media says it has secured the exclusive IP rights to the embattled anti-virus pioneer, now wanted in Belize over the death of his neighbor. — TORONTO - U.S. anti-virus pioneer John McAfee …

More: Betabeat, Reuters and New York Times

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Trent Reznor to launch streaming music service in partnership with Beats by Dre — Earlier this year, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails fame announced a partnership with Beats by Dre, known for its omnipresent line of headphones. The new project, however, has turned out to be more ambitious than many expected.

More: Pitchfork, New Yorker, Engadget, VentureBeat and SlashGear

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

In “Seismic Shift,” New COO De Castro Planning to Move Yahoo Ad Sales to Category Model (Backed Up by “Marissa Halo") — In what will be a major shift in how the Silicon Valley Internet giant sells online advertising, Yahoo's new COO Henrique De Castro has briefed employees on a plan to move …

More: VentureBeat

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Microsoft combats Google Knowledge Graph by adding people and places to its Snapshot sidebar — Back in August, Google launched its Knowledge Graph product on Search. It's essentially a sidebar that provides direct contextual information about searches for people, places or things.

More: Bing, Search Engine Land, VentureBeat, LiveSide.net, Engadget, Marketing Pilgrim, WinBeta, WebProNews, SocialTimes, Neowin and The Tech Block

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