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December 17, 2012, 2:50 PM

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Nielsen and Twitter Establish Social TV Rating — Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, and Twitter today announced an exclusive multi-year agreement to create the “Nielsen Twitter TV Rating” for the US market.

More: Twitter Blog, CNET, TechCrunch, Digital Media Wire, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Forbes, AllThingsD, The Verge, parislemon, AdAge, CNBC, Mashable! and AllTwitter

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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

The Nielsen Twitter TV Rating just made Twitter the first purely social ranking of US TV program popularity — Twitter just became a ratings chart of its very own. Twitter and Nielsen, the major TV ratings system, have announced a partnership to create the Nielsen Twitter TV Rating …

More: Engadget and DailyFinance.com

Eben Upton / Raspberry Pi:

Introducing the Pi Store — We've been amazed by the variety of software that people have written for, or ported to, the Raspberry Pi. Today, together with our friends at IndieCity and Velocix, we're launching the Pi Store to make it easier for developers of all ages to share their games …

More: CNET, digitaltrends.com, Eurogamer, BBC, ZDNet, PC Magazine, Ars Technica, SlashGear, BetaNews, ITProPortal, TechSpot, PC World, Business Insider, Lifehacker, Inquirer, Computer Business Review, The Next Web, MAKE and The Appside. Tweets: @c_davies

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Raspberry Pi Gets Own App Store: One-Stop-Shop To Make It Even Easier For Kids To Get Coding …

More: The Register, ITProPortal and VG247

Sprint Newsroom:

Sprint to Acquire 100 Percent Ownership of Clearwire for $2.97 per Share — Transaction strengthens Sprint's position and increases competitiveness in the U.S. wireless industry — Interim funding allows Clearwire to continue LTE build-out and complement Sprint's LTE deployment

More: Reuters, Tech Trader Daily, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, Geek Beat Technology News, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Know Your Cell, The Next Web, Ars Technica, The Verge, CNET, TelecompetitorTelecompetitor, Xconomy, AndroidGuys, IntoMobile, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com and GigaOM

Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook:

Sprint Reaches Deal to Buy Out Clearwire

More: dailywireless.org and DSLreports

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

A GigaOM conversation with Sprint's Dan Hesse on five harrowing years as CEO

More: TechEye, BetaNews, FierceBroadbandWireless News and FierceWireless

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Facebook to Launch Its Own Snapchat Competitor App — Facebook is currently testing its own built-in-house version of a “Snapchat-like” application, a messaging app that allows users to send impermanent photo messages to one another, according to sources familiar with the matter.

More: Los Angeles Times, VatorNews, SlashGear, GigaOM, PC World, AllFacebook, Inquirer, VentureBeat, Forbes, PetaPixel, We Are Social, Telegraph, Betabeat, Gizmodo, WebProNews, nbcnews.com, App Advice and Softpedia News. Tweets: @brady. See also Mediagazer

Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

Calling Snapchat “the sexting app” misses a huge shift in mobile, photos, and communication

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:

HTC Said to Halt Larger Windows Phone on Display Resolution — HTC Corp. (2498) scrapped plans to produce a large-screen smartphone using Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s operating system because the screen would have had lower resolution than competing models, according to a person familiar with the project.

More: LAPTOP Magazine, digitaltrends.com, Inquirer, The Verge, Engadget, My Nokia Blog, GigaOM, ITProPortal, CNET, Electronista, DailyTech, SlashGear, TechCrunch, GadgeTell, The Next Web, Phones Review, ZDNet and Pocketnow

Apple:

iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales in China Top Two Million — Apple® today announced it has sold over two million of its new iPhone® 5 in China, just three days after its launch on December 14. iPhone 5 will be available in more than 100 countries by the end of December, making it the fastest iPhone rollout ever.

Horace Dediu / asymco:

Calibrating launch performance for the iPhone in China — When the iPhone 5 launched Apple promised availability in 100 countries before the end of year. This was a very aggressive plan given the gradual release of previous products. Last year the iPhone 4S only arrived in China (along with 21 additional countries) on January 13th.

More: Examiner, GadgeTell and Fortune

John Davidson / Financial Review:

Microsoft urged to ditch Windows brand by Dell — Top Dell executives warned Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer against sticking with the Windows brand for its new tablet operating system Reuters — A top Dell executive warned Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer not to call its new tablet operating system …

More: PandoDaily, GeekWire, Electronista, Neowin, The Verge, CNET and Pocketnow

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Hulu's 2012: Revenue up 65% to $695M, subscribers double to 3M, 28% more advertisers — Hulu had a bang-up 2012, and they've rounded it up in a blog post today. We combed through the figures and found the most eyebrow-raising statistics. Revenue for the streaming site was up 65% in 2012 …

More: Hulu Blog, TechCrunch, Engadget, CNET, Forbes, GeekWire, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, AllThingsD, The Verge, Business Insider, Deadline.com and socalTECH.com. See also Mediagazer

Don Reisinger / CNET:

RIM sends out invites for January 30 BlackBerry 10 event — The company will be hosting the event in New York City, with kick-off starting at 8:30 a.m. ET. — Research In Motion has officially announced a BlackBerry 10 event for January 30. — The company sent the invites out today …

More: The Next Web, BGR, PC World, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, BGR, Los Angeles Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, CrackBerry.com, Mobiles Pie, IntoMobile, Electronista, PhoneArena and Macgasm

Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:

RIM's BlackBerry 10 Pilot Projects Begin at 120 U.S. Companies

More: Market Wire, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and SlashGear

Steve Dent / Engadget:

French reporters infiltrate Foxconn iPhone 5 factory, find few of the vaunted changes (updated) — Envoyé Spécial, a 60 Minutes-like program from public TV station France 2, went undercover at the Zhengzhou iPhone 5 Foxconn factory recently (within the past two months) …

More: LAPTOP Magazine, The Register, Examiner, TechEye, CNET, Softpedia News and PhoneArena

Myriam Joire / Engadget:

Nokia Lumia 920 camera fuzziness getting fixed in PR1.1 update — We're not going to lie. After spending some quality time with several Lumia 920 prototypes in Finland last September, we came away extremely impressed with the PureView-branded camera aboard Nokia's Windows Phone 8 flagship.

More: Computerworld, The Verge, Phones Review, My Nokia Blog, IntoMobile, The Nokia Blog, Nokiapoweruser, WMPoweruser, MobileSyrup.com and Softpedia News

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:

Whitman: One Write-Off Too Far — Meg Whitman's efforts to turn HP around follow a proven script. But, in her efforts to frame future results against a background of past misdeeds, she might have gone one excuse too far and engaged in a potentially embarrassing fight against Mike Lynch, Autonomy's founder.

More: Guardian

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Google chief blames Nexus 4 delays on manufacturer — Dan Cobley, head of Google UK, offers fulsome apology to would-be Nexus 4 buyers who complain that system is fulfilling orders in wrong order, while Nexus 10 buyers complain about returns mixup — Google UK's managing director …

More: Android Central, CNET, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, BetaNews, IntoMobile, 9to5Google, Mobile Magazine, Inquirer, The Next Web and TmoNews

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Hands On With Facebook Nearby, A New Local Biz Discovery Feature That Challenges Yelp And Foursquare — Each month 250 million Facebook users tag posts with location. Today that data goes to work for you in a major revamp of Facebook's Nearby feature for its iOS and Android apps.

More: Facebook Newsroom, Inside Facebook, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Search Engine Land, Gizmodo, Facebook Studio, AndroidGuys, Droid Life and Lifehacker. Thanks:@drizzled

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Instagram debuts new privacy policy, set to share user data with Facebook beginning January 16 — As Instagram prepares to scale under its new ownership by Facebook, the company has provided a preview of changes to its privacy policy that will take effect on January 16, 2013.

More: TechCrunch, The Atlantic Online, VentureBeat, CNET, Betabeat, PhoneArena, Macgasm, Appsfire Blog and WebProNews

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:

Apple Drops Below $500 for First Time Since February — Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares dropped below $500 for the first time since February after Citigroup Inc. (C) reduced its rating for the stock on concern that demand for the iPhone 5 is slowing. — Apple fell to $499 at 6:55 a.m. New York …

More: Fortune, Business Week, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wall Street Journal and TUAW

Sara Forden / Bloomberg:

Google Said to End FTC Probe With Letter Promising Change — Google Inc. (GOOG) is poised to offer voluntary concessions that will end a 20-month antitrust probe of the company's business practices by U.S. regulators without any enforcement action being taken, two people familiar with the matter said.

More: SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, NYT Bits, Reuters, New York Times, The Precursor Blog, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Datamation.com, SiliconANGLE and Tnooz

Reed Morse / YouTube Blog:

Film and share videos instantly with YouTube Capture for iPhone and iPod touch — Life moves fast. To speed up recording, enhancing and sharing videos with your friends or the whole world, you can now use the YouTube Capture app on your iPhone or iPod touch. — Making sharing fast and easy

More: Gizmodo and The Next Web. Thanks:@hunterwalk

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