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December 12, 2012, 5:30 PM

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Wall Street Journal:

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.

More: Forbes, iMore.com, PadGadget, GigaOM, Examiner, Fortune, Telegraph, Pocket-lint, TechSpot, TechCrunch, Redmond Pie, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Datamation.com and LAPTOP Magazine. Tweets: @mims. See also Mediagazer

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

WSJ reports Apple has tested TV designs — don't get too excited

More: 24/7 Wall St., DailyTech, The Register, nbcnews.com, InvestorPlace, CNET, Computerworld and Apple Bitch

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.

More: The Verge, The Next Web, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, digitaltrends.com, The Next Web, BuzzFeed, Search Engine Land, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Ubergizmo and Neowin

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.

More: Engadget, Mobile Marketing Watch, CNET, Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat, MacDailyNews, The Verge, FOSS Patents, Droid Life and PhoneArena

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 …

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Facebook revamps privacy settings and Activity Log, now lets you untag photos en masse

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

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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Tweets: @anildash and @parislemon

Reuters:

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.

More: The Atlantic Wire, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, CNET, Guardian, NPR and Who is McAfee?

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.

More: GeekWire, Reuters, Betabeat and Business Insider

Facebook Newsroom:

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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Om Malik / GigaOM:

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 …

More: Forbes, VentureBeat, Quartz and BuzzFeed

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Sources: Snapchat Raising “North Of $10M” At Around $70M Valuation, Led By Benchmark's Mitch Lasky

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 …

More: Loic Le Meur, VentureBeat, GigaOM and TechCrunch

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.

More: DSLreports, Betabeat, Business Insider, The Verge and Neowin. Tweets: @jyarow

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.

More: Inside Social Games, The Next Web and VentureBeat

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 …

More: Los Angeles Times, The Next Web, PC World, CNET, Search Engine Journal and WebProNews. Tweets: @stshank

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 …

More: Amazon Mobile App …, VentureBeat, GeekWire, The Verge, PhoneArena and WebProNews

AppleInsider:

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.

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, PC Magazine, CNET, MacRumors, TechCrunch and Macgasm

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.

More: AllThingsD, CNET, Forbes, digitaltrends.com, The Verge, Engadget, TechSpot and 9to5Mac

Tim Schiesser / Neowin:

Intel next-gen Haswell CPU line-up leaked, Core i7-4770K the flagship — VR-Zone has managed to get their hands on the line-up for Intel's upcoming 22nm Haswell desktop processors, revealing that there will be initially 14 CPUs across the Core i7 and Core i5 brands.

More: Engadget, MacRumors, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, Wccftech.com and TechSpot

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 …

More: FBI, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, CNET, The Register, Sky News and Computer Business Review

Keith Laing / Hillicon Valley:

McCaskill threatens legislation on airplane electronic device rules — Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) called on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Tuesday to relax its rules for electronic device use on airplanes or face legislation from her forcing it to do so.

More: Kansas City Star and Ars Technica

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 …

More: PC World, Ars Technica, Engadget, GigaOM, LAPTOP Magazine, GadgeTell and GSMArena Blog

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.

More: digitaltrends.com, BGR, Betabeat, Business Insider and PhoneArena

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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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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:

Searching without searching: Expect Labs taps Nuance for bold predictive computing tech — We're now getting the first taste of a world where our computing devices fetch us relevant information without our asking. Google Now is the most notable example, Google's Siri-esque competitor …

More: Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, The Next Web and GigaOM

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

The tablet is killing the ebook reader: Study says shipments to fall 36% this year — Worldwide shipments of dedicated ebook readers such as the E-Ink Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook will fall by 36 percent to 14.9 million units this year, and plummet to just 7.1 million units by 2016.

More: Market Intelligence, AllThingsD, paidContent and ZDNet

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.

More: Mercury News

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.

More: AllThingsD, GigaOM, 89Apps and Engadget

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