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December 28, 2012, 6:15 AM

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Analysis: For tech investors, it's hard to know when to bolt — (Reuters) - When Hewlett-Packard Co agreed to buy British software company Autonomy in August last year for $11.1 billion, two well-known investors made diametrically different bets on how the big deal would play out.

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Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times:

Hewlett-Packard reports Justice Department fraud probe at Autonomy — According to an annual report filed Thursday by Hewlett-Packard, the U.S. Department of Justice has officially opened an investigation into its allegations of accounting fraud at Autonomy, the British software maker it acquired for $11 billion last year.

More: AllThingsD, Forbes, SlashGear, CNET, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Electronista, Business Insider, The Next Web and Tech Trader Daily. Thanks:@obrien

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Mike Lynch Punches Back at Today's HP Filing: Whither $5B Writedown? — Autonomy founder Mike Lynch is still not backing down in his ongoing battle with Hewlett-Packard. — “Simply put, these allegations are false, and in the absence of further detail we cannot understand what HP believes …

More: AutonomyAccounts.org, Computerworld, Softpedia News, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, CNET and The Next Web

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Adding 415 apps daily, Windows 8 blows past the 35,000 app milestone — Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system now has a total of 35,0000 applications in its Store, according to tracking website MetroStore Scanner. — The total tally, 35,167, represents a growth of 14,557 in the last 35 days …

More: McAkins Online, Softpedia News, Neowin and WinBeta. Thanks:@emilprotalinski

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

For every 100 web pageviews on an iPad, a Kindle gets 5, a Galaxy gets 3, and a Surface gets 0.22 — Non-iPad web traffic is growing, but it's still a tiny fraction of what Apple's iconic tablet pulls in. — Advertising and analytics company Chitika released its December 2012 tablet market update …

More: Chitika Insights, LJ INFOdocket, PC Magazine, Neowin, PhoneArena, MacDailyNews and AllThingsD

Jamie Rigg / Engadget:

‘Leaked’ BlackBerry 10 info shows video chat and screen sharing in BBM, new task manager — Top dog at RIM Thorsten Heins heavily implied that video chat would be added to BBM when BlackBerry 10 showed up, and now possible confirmation of the feature has come from what are thought to be leaked presentation slides.

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Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed:

How Anybody Can Secretly Save Your Snapchat Videos Forever — The videos you send through Snapchat and Poke are supposed to disappear in 10 seconds or less. Except a security flaw makes it easy to save them forever — without the sender ever knowing. — Via: yourprops.com

More: Gizmodo and The Verge. Tweets: @mattbuchanan

Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg:

China Passes Rules Requiring People Identify Themselves Online — China passed rules today requiring people to identify themselves when signing up for Internet services, as the Communist Party tightens control over the world's largest population of web users.

More: Xinhua, The Verge, Reuters, The Next Web, CHINAdaily, Now, that was strange! and SlashGear

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Facebook files for ‘Poke’ trademark (after obtaining and abandoning it earlier) — Social networking giant Facebook has filed for 3 trademarks in the United States: for ‘Poke’, ‘Facebook Poke’ and the logo of its new Poke app for iPhone. The company filed for the trademarks on the 21st of December 2012 …

More: bizjournals, Social Barrel, ValueWalk, TweakTown News, International Business Times, Guardian, Mashable! and newlaunches.com

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Christmas Day 2012 saw a record 17.4m Android and iOS device activations, 2.5x more than in 2011 — It's no surprise that more Android and iOS devices are activated on Christmas Day than on any other day of the year. Yet on Christmas Day 2012, more iPhones, iPads, Galaxies, Kindle Fires …

More: Flurry, Distimo, VentureBeat, Guardian, Mashable!, CNET, TUAW, Business Insider, Pocketnow, ReadWrite, BGR, PhoneArena, Examiner, GigaOM, The Technology Chronicles, CNET, MobileSyrup.com and TechCrunch

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple Falls to Four-Year Low in Online Customer Satisfaction Survey — The post-Ron Johnson era did not begin well for Apple. Earlier this year, the company ousted Johnson's successor, John Browett, as head of its retail operations following a series of rare and embarrassing cockups.

More: Amazon.com, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, Digits, PadGadget, iPhone Hacks, BGR, App Advice, internetretailer.com, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, MacDailyNews, TUAW, Electronista, iClarified and Insanely Great Mac

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Sees Its Biggest Holiday Season Ever, Tops Online Shopping Survey While Apple, Dell & JCP Decline

More: PR Newswire, CNET, SocialTimes, VatorNews, Mobile Marketing Watch, TechSpot, Business Insider, GeekWire and Reuters

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Twitter-owned Posterous finally lets users export their data - will it now close down in 2013? — When Posterous was bought by Twitter in March, the team behind the blogging platform said it would introduce a system to allow users to export their data from the service “in the coming weeks”.

More: The Official Posterous Space, Open (minds, finds … and The Verge

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Despite Alibaba Lastest IPO Rumors, Yahoo Deal Creates Incentive to Offering by End of 2015 — It seems like a month does not pass without another rumor about when Chinese Internet powerhouse Alibaba Group will have its much-anticipated IPO. — Today, in the latest loosely-sourced report …

More: Marbridge Consulting and Forbes

Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:

Cycloramic app spins iPhone 5 to take 360-degree video — Cycloramic, a new app, uses the iPhone 5's vibrations to spin the phone around and capture handsfree 360 degree video. — Could this be the coolest app ever? It'll certainly be the center of attention at a party.

More: TechCrunch, Gizmodo, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and Cult of Mac

Carlos Tejada / Wall Street Journal:

Chinese Court Hits Apple in Copyright Dispute — BEIJING—A Beijing court ordered Apple Inc. to pay 1.03 million yuan, or about $165,000, to a group of local writers who said the U.S. gadget maker sold unlicensed copies of their books online, according to state media.

More: Xinhua News Agency, CHINAdaily, TechCrunch, The Mac Observer, Reuters, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, The Droid Guy, App Advice, ITworld.com, PhoneArena and The Verge

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