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December 28, 2012, 2:35 PM

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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: digitaltrends.com, Betabeat, GigaOM, PC Magazine, Los Angeles Times, CNET, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, Mashable!, TechSpot, BBC, ValueWalk, Business Insider, Marketing Land, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, MobileBurn.com, Gizmodo and The Verge. Tweets: @mattbuchanan

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Facebook: Poke fix for sneaky video saving coming “shortly”

More: PC Magazine

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Instagram outrage? Other apps that have ‘plunged’: Yahoo Social Bar, Pinterest, FarmVille, Spotify, Zoosk ... Update: Instagram has provided comment on the statistics, stating that the “data is inaccurate,” and that it continues “to see strong and steady growth in both registered and active users.”

More: Gizmodo, Digits, ReadWrite, The Verge, CNET, VentureBeat, The Atlantic Wire, LAPTOP Magazine, Know Your Cell and ValueWalk. Tweets: @mathewi

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

How a bogus claim about Instagram losing users made Facebook's stock drop nearly 3%

More: Inside Facebook, International Business Times, VatorNews, Betabeat, Marketing Land, PandoDaily, BuzzFeed, MarketBeat, Pocket-lint, Soshable and Business Insider

Tweets: @nickbilton and @dannysullivan

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Instagram Denies 25% Holiday User Drop

More: New York Post, Slate and The Next Web. Thanks:@drizzled

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

RIM's First Patent Payment to Nokia: $65 Million — When Research In Motion settled its patent dispute with Nokia last week, the company agreed to make a “one-time payment and on-going payments” to its Finnish adversary. But the size of those payments wasn't disclosed, and the terms of the deal kept confidential.

More: CNET, VentureBeat, VatorNews, ValueWalk, TechCrunch, The Verge and Electronista

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Pearson buys $89.5m Nook stake to secure book distribution — Talk about vertical integration. Pearson is taking a five percent stake in newly-reconfigured ebook device and retail brand Nook Media in order to gain favourable distribution for its education books.

More: VentureBeat, GeekWire, The Next Web, LAPTOP Magazine, Business Wire, PandoDaily, Guardian, SlashGear, internetretailer.com, Hack Education and Electronista. See also Mediagazer

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Senate votes to let the NSA keep spying on you without a warrant until 2017 — The US Senate has voted to approve the FAA Sunsets Extension Act of 2012, which will authorize warrantless surveillance of Americans for counter-terrorism purposes for another five years.

More: Techdirt, Techdirt, Electronic Frontier Foundation, ReadWrite, Gizmodo, SlashGear, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, dailywireless.org and WebProNews

Tweets: @eff, @eff and @eff

Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:

Which headline terms trended in 2012 on Techmeme? — “Help! I'm trending!” — Forget all those other tacky end-of-year lists, and sit back and enjoy Techmeme's latest awesome end-of-year lists. Yep, it's finally time to dive into the terms that trended up or down the most in Techmeme headlines this year.

Tweets: @dannysullivan

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 …

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Reuters:

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.

More: Business Insider and parislemon

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Mike Lynch Punches Back at Today's HP Filing: Whither $5B Writedown?

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

Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times:

Hewlett-Packard reports Justice Department fraud probe at Autonomy

More: Guardian, WebProNews, SlashGear, Forbes, Hillicon Valley, AllThingsD, Electronista, Datamation.com, TechCrunch, CNET, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider and The Next Web. Thanks:@obrien

Michael M. Grynbaum / City Room:

Crime Is Up and Bloomberg Blames iPhone Thieves — Hold onto your iPhones! — Crime in New York City inched up this year, and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Friday fingered the culprit: too many iPhones and iPads were being swiped. — A rise in thefts of shiny Apple products accounted …

More: GigaOM, CNET, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, PandoDaily, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista and App Advice

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: BetaNews, digitaltrends.com, ZDNet, McAkins Online, Softpedia News, WinBeta and Neowin. Thanks:@emilprotalinski

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, Redmond Pie, The Verge, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac and everythingiCafe

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.

AppleInsider:

Apple's MacBook Pro, MacBook Air to retain current designs in reported June refresh — Apple will reportedly update the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air product lines in June 2013 with upgraded innards, but no major design changes are expected for either laptop range.

More: DigiTimes, 9to5Mac, Apple Bitch and Macgasm

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Here come the design patents: new law boosts rights in shapes, designs — One of Apple's key weapons in its legal battle against competitors is a special type of patent that protects the visual appearance of a product. Critics have denounced these patents as a way to own “rounded rectangles” …

More: Business Week

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