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December 12, 2012, 4:35 PM
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Apple Moves Closer to Making TV Set — TAIPEI—Apple Inc. is working with component suppliers in Asia to test several TV-set designs, people familiar with the situation said, suggesting the U.S. company is moving closer to expanding its offerings for the living room.
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| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Google Chairman Says Android Winning Mobile War With Apple: Tech — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Android is extending its lead over Apple Inc. (AAPL) in the mobile-software market at a rate that compares with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s expansion in desktop software in the 1990s, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said.| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Facebook Changes Privacy Settings, Again — Stop me if you've heard this one before: Facebook is making changes to its privacy settings. — First, it is improving some privacy protections. The company is adding a new top-level control, called Privacy Shortcuts, that will allow people …
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| Casey Newton / CNET: |
Google tweaks image search to make porn harder to find — The company says the move is designed to ensure adult content is shown only to those who explicitly request it. — Search for porn using Google Image Search today and you might come up empty-handed.
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Yahoo launches Instagram-inspired Flickr iPhone app update, adds simple sign-ins, 16 filters and more — Confirming Marissa Mayer's commitment to a mobile-first strategy, Yahoo has announced the second major overhaul of one of its apps in as many days (following its Yahoo Mail refresh) …
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SnapChat is getting funded. By Instagram backer Benchmark — Yesterday, Dan Primack pointed out that like Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, Matt Cohler, who backed Instagram for Benchmark Capital, hasn't done a deal in 2012. Well, that is all set to change, for Benchmark is very likely …
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Facebook Year in Review 2012 — Today we're releasing Facebook's Year in Review, a look back at the people, moments and things that created the most buzz in 2012 among the billion people around the world on Facebook. — We took the pulse of the global community on Facebook in 2012 to assemble …
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| Stephen Gandel / Fortune: |
Marc Andreessen: We're in a tech depression — Netscape founder says tech stocks are cheap. — FORTUNE — Marc Andreessen, co-head of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and founder of Netscape, says the slump in technology stocks is as bad as he has ever seen it. And now might be the time to buy in.
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| Donald Melanson / Engadget: |
Eric Schmidt says Google Fiber 'isn't just an experiment,' company ‘trying to decide where to expand next’ — Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is on stage at The New York Times' Dealbook conference today, and he's made a bit of news concerning the company's big broadband effort, Google Fiber.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
The LeWeb Conference Sold to Reed Midem — Reed Midem, an international trade show organizer, has bought a majority stake in the well-known European Internet conference, LeWeb. — The event, which now has two annual gatherings, recently attracted 3,500 people in Paris …
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| Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog: |
Zeitgeist 2012: What piqued your curiosity this year? — As 2012 comes to a close, it's time for our 12th annual Year-End Zeitgeist—an in-depth look at the “spirit of the times” as seen through the billions of searches on Google over the past year. — On our 2012 Zeitgeist website …
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iTunes now selling and renting movies in 42 newly-opened stores — Apple on Wednesday activated iTunes movie sales for a bulk of the countries in which the online media storefront launched earlier in December, though film selection and availability is somewhat limited and varies from region to region.
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Zynga Bringing Free Slots to Facebook First Before Gambling Takes Hold — Casino games, like poker and slots, make up one of the most popular categories on Facebook — even though players never get to cash out their winnings. — Today, Zynga is announcing that it will soon launch its newest casino title, Elite Slots, on Facebook.
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Guatemala deporting software pioneer McAfee to U.S — (Reuters) - Guatemala said on Wednesday it would deport to the United States software pioneer John McAfee, a former Silicon Valley millionaire who is wanted for questioning in Belize over the murder of a fellow American.
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
FreedomPop launches free home wireless to compete with low-end DSL — FreedomPop's new Hub Burst will begin shipping in January 2013. — FreedomPop — Just over three months after launching its free portable hotspot, FreedomPop now says its ready for the second phase of its expansion plan—a free home wireless connection.
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| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Acer quietly outs $300 boosted C7 Chromebook — Acer has quietly rolled out a second version of its C7 Chromebook, a $299.99 premium model that boosts the specification and almost doubles the notebook's runtime. The Acer C710-2605 keeps the 11.6-inch 1366 x 768 display and 1.1GHz dualcore Celeron processor …
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
A question that Twitter needs to ask itself — Yesterday, Twitter announced that it was launching its own version of photo filters and photo editing tools. And like all news around social networks — Facebook, Instagram and Twitter — it got the treatment normally reserved for the Kardashians.
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
BlackBerry 10 to feature deep integration of Evernote — Developer documentation for RIM's upcoming operating system shows signs of deep integration with the online notes service. — It appears that BlackBerry 10 — Research in Motion's next operating system — will support deep integration of the online notes service Evernote.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Amazon finally gins up dedicated push messaging system for Kindle Fire apps, now in beta — Amazon has announced its new Device Messaging Beta today, bringing a full push notification system to Kindle Fire devices using Amazon's cloud. The messaging system is necessary as Amazon's forked Android version …
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| Edwin Chan / Reuters: |
Facebook helps FBI bust cybercriminals blamed for $850 million losses — (Reuters) - Investigators led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and aided by Facebook Inc, have busted an international criminal ring that infected 11 million computers around the world and caused more than $850 million …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
The Redbox Verizon Movie Service Is Almost Ready to Take On Netflix — Here comes the next video service that wants to take on Netflix: Redbox and Verizon are finally ready to launch their long-awaited joint venture. — Well, almost ready: “Redbox Instant by Verizon” … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
First OS X fake installer malware spotted, as SMS scams are ported from Windows and Android to Mac — A new Trojan for Mac has been discovered that mimics the actions of an installer. The malware attempts to monetize the attack by having users enter their mobile phone numbers for the purpose of “activation.”
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Revamps Its Currents Mobile Newsreader App To Make It Smarter And More Scannable — Google just launched an update to Google Currents, the company's Flipboard competitor, that makes it easier to scan through categories and editions from Google publisher partners like The Guardian and Forbes in the app.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Verizon Determined to Expose BitTorrent Copyright Trolls — Two weeks ago a group of adult movie companies sued Verizon for failing to hand over the personal details of alleged BitTorrent pirates. — The Internet provider had ignored court orders and Malibu Media, Patrick Collins …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Facebook confirms it will ‘monetize’ Instagram — Since Facebook acquired Instagram earlier this year, people have wondered how the service might be changing. We're still not sure, but Facebook VP of Global Marketing Solutions Carolyn Everson has confirmed that monetization is coming in some form.Sponsor Posts
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