Techmeme: Hulu's Employee Owners Are Just Employees Again, Which Means Some May Be Ex-Employees Soon (Peter Kafka/AllThingsD)

December 27, 2012, 1:40 PM

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Signs of Changes Taking Hold in Electronics Factories in China — CHENGDU, China — One day last summer, Pu Xiaolan was halfway through a shift inspecting iPad cases when she received a beige wooden chair with white stripes and a high, sturdy back. — At first, Ms. Pu wondered if someone had made a mistake.

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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.

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Sees Its Biggest Holiday Season Ever, Tops Online Shopping Survey While Apple, Dell & JCP Decline — Customer experience analytics company ForeSee released its eighth annual holiday online satisfaction report this morning, which rates the top e-retailer websites in 2012.

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Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Apple CEO Tim Cook's compensation totaled less than $4.2m in 2012, down from $378m last year — Consumer electronics giant Apple today filed documents with the SEC in preparation for its annual shareholder meeting, which will be held at the company's HQ on Wednesday, February 27, 2013.

Rene Ritchie / iMore:

Apple iWatch rumors surface again, this time with Intel attached — The Apple iWatch smartwatch is the subject of renewed rumor and speculation this morning, with Intel of all companies now being attached to the project. Low power Bluetooth 4.0 is along for the ride as well, of course …

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Om Malik / GigaOM:

Snapchat rises: Why Poke's decline shows Facebook's inability to invent — Remember last week? You know, the week when Facebook indulged in yet another act of wanton xeroxing and released Poke to compete with the red-hot insta-communication app, Snapchat. Well, a week later, the world has returned to normal.

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Damon Poeter / PC Magazine:

Report: Few Using Smart TVs to Full Capacity — Smart TVs sound great in theory, but few people are actually getting the most out of their Internet-connected television sets, according to a new report from the NPD Group. — “The Internet-connected HDTV screen has so far failed to break beyond …

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David Kravets / Wired:

Feds Requiring ‘Black Boxes’ in All Motor Vehicles — Federal regulators are proposing that new automobiles sold in the United States after September 2014 come equipped with black boxes, so-called “event data recorders” that chronicle everything from how fast a vehicle was traveling, the number of passengers and even a car's location.

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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Box's Gameplan For 2013: A Third-Party App Economy; Expanding Security And More — As you talk to Aaron Levie, the co-founder of fast growing cloud storage company Box, it's hard not to notice his incredible energy when he talks about enterprise storage possibilities.

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

BlueStacks' App Player For Mac Launches Beta: Now You Can Run Over 750,000 Android Apps On Mac — BlueStacks, the startup known for bringing Android applications to desktop PCs, is today releasing its App Player for Mac into beta, following its previous Mac alpha release in June.

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Hulu's Employee Owners Are Just Employees Again, Which Means Some May Be Ex-Employees Soon — Hulu's employees used to be owners, too. But those days are over, so they're going to have to be happy with a paycheck and some bonuses. — That's the upshot of a new long-term incentive plan I'm told the video site is prepping.

Robb Mandelbaum / New York Times:

‘Crowdfunding’ Rules Are Unlikely to Meet Deadline — When the Jobs Act became law in April, supporters proclaimed a new era for small businesses seeking to raise money. — The “game changer,” as President Obama put it in the Rose Garden as he signed the bill, was a provision to let small companies …

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