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December 11, 2012, 12:10 AM

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Coleen Baik / Twitter Blog:

Twitter photos: Put a filter on it — Every day, millions of people come to Twitter to connect with the things they care about and find out what's happening around the world. As one of the most compelling forms of self-expression, photos have long been an important part of these experiences.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Twitter brings vintage filters and basic editing to its apps for Android and iOS, powered by Aviary

More: Wired, BGR, CNET and Reuters

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 …

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, Forbes, The Register, Engadget, ReadWrite, VatorNews, ABCNEWS, AllThingsD, CNET and Ars Technica

Tweets: @qthrul and @eldon

Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed:

Facebook Democracy Is Dead

More: Slate, The Next Web, CNET and The Technology Chronicles

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 Next Web, PadGadget, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, TUAW, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocketnow, iPhone Hacks, Neowin, ZDNet, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, Macgasm, MobileSyrup.com, GeekWire, Business Insider, WinBeta and Ars Technica. Tweets: @inafried

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: BGR, AllThingsD, PC Magazine, ZDNet and The Verge

Chico Harlan / Washington Post:

In South Korea, the Republic of Samsung

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: CNET, The Verge and The Technology Chronicles

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

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

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

Russ Garland / Venture Capital Dispatch:

Sequoia's Leone: In Venture, Big is the Enemy of Great — “Complete warfare” is how Sequoia Capital's Douglas Leone sees the contest to stay atop of the venture capital heap. — “The venture model is not broken for the partnerships that know what they're doing,” Leone told …

More: Business Insider

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, Mashable!, BGR, Mercury News, MacRumors, 9to5Google, Off On A Tangent, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, WebProNews, GigaOM, Macgasm, Engadget, digitaltrends.com and PC Magazine. Thanks:@jbruin

Kevin Kelleher / Fortune:

Will Adobe's new cloud strategy pay off? — A risky makeover of the king of shrinkwrapped software is starting to win over skeptics. — FORTUNE — Adobe chief Shantanu Narayan and a dozen of his top executives were sequestered in a tony Carmel Valley spa in California.

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: Mashable!, CNET, Quartz, Betabeat, VentureBeat, bizjournals, TechCrunch and New York Times. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Blogging with Medium, the odd new product from Twitter's founders — Can Ev Williams and Biz Stone build a better blog? — Blogging was once heralded as a great equalizer, seizing power from big media gatekeepers and redistributing it to the common internet user.

Sarah McBride / Reuters:

US patent lawsuits now dominated by ‘trolls’ -study — For the first time, individuals and companies that do not themselves make anything - commonly known as “patent trolls” - are bringing the majority of U.S. patent lawsuits, according to a study by a California law professor.

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's Bing Augmented Reality team readies framework, Windows 8 tablet apps — Summary: Microsoft's Bing Information Platform team is working on an augmented-reality SDK, as well as a number of related apps for Windows 8 tablets and other devices. — The Microsoft Bing team is doing …

More: Neowin

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Google may entertain financing options to help sell Motorola's set-top business, claims Bloomberg — Google has been trying to offload its Motorola Home Business, which it acquired with its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility earlier this year, for some time now …

More: BGR, Reuters, FierceIPTV News, The Next Web, Electronista, SlashGear and parislemon. Thanks:@max8378

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: CNET and Business Insider. Tweets: @pkedrosky, @mathewi and @howardlindzon. See also Mediagazer

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, Engadget, The Verge, VatorNews, Marketing Land, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Matthew Lynley / Digits:

Jack Dorsey Explains: Why Square Is Getting Into Gift Cards — Mobile-payment service Square has launched a new way to pay for products with its Square Wallet app: gift cards. — Here's how it works: Any Square user can send someone a “gift card” for a store that's personalized via Square's mobile Wallet application.

More: Bloomberg, iMore.com and 9to5Mac

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, TechSpot, TechCrunch, digitaltrends.com, SlashGear and ZDNet

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: Reuters and Betabeat. See also Mediagazer

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator finally get Retina support, available now for all CS 6 users — Ahead of its Create NOW event, Adobe has announced that both Photoshop and Illustrator have been updated with Retina (HiDPI) support. This update comes more than three months after Adobe …

More: Gizmodo, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Engadget and AppleInsider

Noel Randewich / Reuters:

Intel says on track to launch smaller mobile chips — (Reuters) - Intel presented new manufacturing technology that it said keeps it on track to launch a new generation of chips for smartphones and tablets as it rushes to catch up with Qualcomm and other rivals in the fast-growing mobile market.

More: Engadget, Wall Street Journal and SemiAccurate

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: CNET, Phones Review, VentureBeat, IntoMobile and Techspressive

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