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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
RIM beats street by losing less than expected in Q3 with EPS of -$0.22, revenue of $2.7B  —  Today Research In Motion reported third quarter revenue of $2.7 billion and earnings per share of -$0.22.  While the company lost money per share, its loss was lower than expected.
Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
RIM's CIO Will Retire At The End Of The Year  —  RIM's Chief Information Officer, Robin Bienfait, will retire at the end of this year, the company announced today.  —  Bienfait has been with the company for six years.  She'll continue to advise the company during the transition …
Aoife White / Bloomberg:
Samsung Faces EU Antitrust Complaint Over Apple Patent Clash  —  Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) faces a European Union antitrust complaint over its use of standard- essential patents in legal disputes with Apple Inc. (AAPL), the European Union competition commissioner said.
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
Adobe acquires massive portfolio sharing network Behance to make Creative Cloud social  —  In a mind-blowing move, Adobe has acquired NY-based Behance, a massive portfolio sharing network for creatives which served up 90 million views last month, for an undisclosed amount.
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Facebook testing service to let strangers pay to message you  —  Facebook today announced refinements to its Messaging filters, as well as a test for a very small portion of American users to determine if people will pay to get in touch with those they aren't Facebook friends with.
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Kleiner Partners' View Of the Future of Tech  —  Venture capitalists John Doerr and Ted Schlein of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have had a front-row seat at Silicon Valley's recent Web froth and its fallout.  —  Their venture firm in the past decade made a big bet on clean technology.
Don Melton:
When I first heard the name “Safari”  —  Ten years ago this month, my secret Web browser team at Apple became the “Safari” team — less than 30 days before we debuted the product on January 7, 2003.  —  To this day, I don't know who suggested the name “Safari.”
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET:
Samsung preps 5.5-inch flexible phone screen for CES demo  —  In January, Samsung's mobile display spin-off will bring us a step closer to bendable smartphones.  Now that's twisted.  —  You won't have to bend over backward to see Samsung's latest effort in flexible smartphone screens.
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Path boosts social discovery for its 5 million users with the addition of Search and Nearby features  —  Path is releasing an update to its iOS and Android applications.  Starting today, users are going to notice Path Search, a new feature that the company says will help make it easier …
John Koetsier / VentureBeat:
Apple kills a Kickstarter project: Portable power project POP refunding $139,170 to backers  —  Edison Junior, the technology and design lab behind the POP portable power station, is returning the full $139,170 in funding it received from Kickstarter backers to develop the device.
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Facebook starts rolling out new privacy settings, making it easier to control what data is public  —  Facebook announced plans to make its privacy control settings easier to find this month, and now a series of new menus and notifications has begun to roll out to users of the social network, initially in New Zealand.
Myriam Joire / Engadget:
Flipboard lands on Android tablets, now supports Nexus 10  —  It's no secret that we're big fans of Flipboard here at Engadget, but there's one thing we've been longing for: a tablet-optimized Android version.  Until now, running the app on the Nexus 10 (by sideloading the APK) or even the Nexus 7 …
Jamillah Knowles / The Next Web:
T-Mobile opens up pre-paid 4G access to its members in 14 markets via Solavei, on a band perfect for the iPhone  —  The low-cost contract-free service provider Solavei has announced that its users can now access up to 4G coverage on unlocked GSM iPhones in 37 new markets with the 1900MHz band.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Snapguide Comes To The iPad Because The Future Of The How-To Is On The Tablet  —  I wouldn't have an iPad if I didn't have to do two things: Do interviews and cook.  The first I have to do for work but the second I do for fun.  Which is why I think that Snapguide's bold and stylish move …
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
IFTTT gets $7M from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Lerer to connect all of our Internet silos  —  Today, IFTTT is announcing a Series A round of $7M that is led by Andreessen Horowitz, with NEA and Lerer Ventures participating.  The round will help IFTTT to expand its staff, and work towards building out its service into a platform.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Chitika: iOS 6 Spike Likely Due To iPhone In China, Not Google Maps, As U.S. Growth Remains Flat  —  While a study this week from MoPub suggested that iOS 6 adoption indeed did see a spike coinciding with the introduction of Google Maps, Chitika has a new, longer-term look at adoption in the U.S …
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
4 Out of 10 Americans Have Connected Internet to TV  —  Still waiting for the Internet and TV to converge?  It may have already happened.  —  Four out of 10 Americans have connected their TV to the Internet, according to a new Forrester study.  If you're just talking about the whippersnappers …
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
The Hacker Way: Facebook reveals its top hacks of 2012  —  The culture at Facebook has always been known to be about The Hacker Way.  Through this philosophy, the company has periodically held and participated in numerous hackathons on its campus.  Today, it has shared what it says are the top hacks from the past year.
Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Rockmelt social browser comes to iPhone, Android version still in development  —  When we heard Rockmelt was going to announce some news about its social browser becoming available to lots more people, we assumed that meant the Android version was finally ready.  Not quite: turns out the company was just referring iPhone users.
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Google's Head of Shopping Says Company Has No Plans to Become a Retailer  —  If you've visited Google Shopping recently, you might confuse the search giant for a retailer.  —  Google Google's VP of Shopping Sameer Samat  —  At the top of the Shopping page, a photo shows a snowboarder floating …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Meet Facebook's Stealth Marketing Platform, “Publishing Garage”  —  One of Facebook's bigger hurdles in advertising has been to figure out ways of either applying traditional metrics, or coming up with new ones, to measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns on the social network.

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