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December 23, 2012, 9:00 PM

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David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Amazon Book Reviews Deleted in a Purge Aimed at Manipulation — Giving raves to family members is no longer acceptable. Neither is writers' reviewing other writers. But showering five stars on a book you admittedly have not read is fine. — After several well-publicized cases involving writers buying …

More: Gizmodo and The Verge. Tweets: @nicopitney, @oliverkamm and @counternotions. See also Mediagazer

Suw Charman-Anderson / Forbes:

Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption — Amazon, the great disintermediator that put a spanner — in fact, a set of 25 spanners in a handy case, yours for just $9.99 — in the businesses of many a retailer, is going to face exactly the same fate if it doesn't start to address its weaknesses soon, particularly in the area of publishing.

More: O'Reilly. Tweets: @janefriedman and @tcarmody

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

After hacker disappears from Twitter, Verizon reveals customer data was leaked by a marketing firm — Verizon is sharing more details about the alleged leak of customer data that occurred over the weekend. The company still insists there was no breach, but the carrier has now revealed …

More: Pastebin.com, Engadget, Examiner, ZDNet, The Next Web, VentureBeat, BetaNews, Forbes, PC World, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, PC Magazine and HackRead

Richard Lai / Engadget:

Huawei's 6.1-inch 1080p Ascend Mate flaunted by exec, leaves little surprise for CES — How big is too big? Well, that's clearly not Huawei's concern, as it's about to introduce a 6.1-inch 1080p Android phone at CES. But even two weeks (before the company's CES press day) …

More: PC Magazine, Phones Review, The Verge, PhoneArena, TechRadar.com, The Next Web, Gizmodo and Neowin

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Inside the nest: After 3 years of Angry Birds, what's next for Rovio? — Darkest Fear. CyberBlood. Dragon & Jade. Wolf Moon. Those are the names of only a handful of the more than 50 games that were developed by a small Finnish upstart called Relude between 2003 and 2009.

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Your Facebook Pokes Are Stored For Two Days, Then Their Encryption Keys Are Deleted — Facebook Poke messages self-destruct after a few seconds, but is Facebook saving these potentially embarrassing photos and videos? No. It's deleting them. Pokes are encrypted, and Facebook deletes …

More: Geek News Central, HotHardware.com News, Neowin, The Next Web, Business Insider, Softpedia News, VatorNews and Facebook Newsroom

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Mark Zuckerberg Is The Voice Behind The “Poke” Notification Sound And Wrote Code For The App

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Intellectual Ventures: Don't Mind Our 2000 Shell Companies, That's Totally Normal — Back in 2010, we wrote about a report suggesting that Intellectual Ventures was using somewhere around 1000 shell companies to hide many of its patent shakedown attempts. For years, IV itself liked …

More: PlainSite

Ryan Mac / Forbes:

Foxconn Buys Stake In Camera Maker GoPro, Turning Founder Into A Billionaire — Nicholas Woodman, avid surfer and GoPro founder, is now a billionaire. (Photo courtesy of GoPro) — GoPro cameras have become the go-to item for filming extreme sports. The small, high quality video cameras …

More: Bloomberg, Business Insider, Taipei Times, HotHardware.com News, Fast Company, Bloomberg, Electronista, Web 2.0 Asia Blog, TechSpot, StreetInsider.com, Financial Times and PetaPixel. Tweets: @baris

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Pirate Bay Censorship Backfires as New Proxies Bloom — As reported earlier, the UK Pirate Party has taken the difficult decision to shut down their Pirate Bay proxy service. — Music industry group BPI threatened legal action against six members of the party, who would each have to risk bankruptcy to fight for their ideals.

More: The Verge and Boing Boing. Tweets: @tpb

Tim Wu / New York Times:

The Best Way to Regulate Urban-Living Apps — NOBODY ever said that big cities make for easy living. The apps of the moment, Uber and Airbnb, try to mitigate matters by letting you book a car ride or rent someone's apartment using your smartphone or computer.

More: The Verge and Skift. Tweets: @timharv and @pakman

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Chrome 25 will disable silent extension installation, kill all such extensions retroactively — Google on Friday announced that it is changing its stance for silently installing extensions in its browser. As of Chrome 25, external extension deployment options on Windows will be disabled …

More: The Register, Chromium Blog, Softpedia News, Techdows, BrowserFame and gHacks Technology News

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg Tech Blog:

The New York Times Paywall Is Working Better Than Anyone Had Guessed — The New York Times instituted a paywall on its website last year, a controversial move that has yielded great results. — Ever since the New York Times rolled out its so-called paywall in March 2011, a perennial dispute has waged.

More: paidContent. Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts and @avinio. See also Mediagazer

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