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December 29, 2012, 4:40 PM

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Jake Smith / 9to5Mac:

Google launches web ad promoting its iOS Dev team, encourages iOS developers to do work that ‘matters’ — Since the removal of YouTube, and Maps as preloaded Google apps within iOS, Google has been especially adept at developing its own set of iOS apps. We previously detailed how Google wants …

More: Examiner, Softpedia News, Mashable!, GigaOM, IntoMobile and iDownloadBlog.com

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

ITC judge wants Samsung to post a bond of 88% of its U.S. smartphone sales due to Apple patent case — An October 24, 2012 preliminary ruling that held Samsung to infringe four Apple patents could have more drastic consequences for Samsung's U.S. business than previously known.

More: CNET, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, iClarified, TUAW and AllThingsD

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

I Can Has Funding: Cheezburger Raises $5M From Foundry, Madrona , Softbank For LOLcats, FAIL Blog And Other Memes — Cheezburger, the internet publisher responsible for LOLcats, FAIL Blog, and other memes, has raised $5 million in funding, according to an SEC filing.

More: VentureBeat and GeekWire

Josh Miller / Medium:

Tenth Grade Tech Trends — A few months ago, my fifteen-year-old sister told me that Snapchat was going to be the next Instagram. Many months before that she told me that Instagram was being used by her peers as much as Facebook. Both times I snickered.

Tweets: @mathewi, @grobertson and @joshm

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Google Removed 50 Million “Pirate” Search Results This Year — In common with many other websites on the Internet Google has an obligation to remove infringing content upon receiving a valid DMCA request from copyright holders. — To give the public insight into the scope and nature of this process …

More: PC World, Softpedia News, Wall St. Cheat Sheet, The Point, Vertical Leap News and ValueWalk

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, @zseward, @dmac1, @gaberivera, @kfury and @jtemple

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Michigan Becomes Latest State To Protect Citizens From Employers And Schools Snooping On Private Social Feeds — Employers and schools in Michigan, the greatest state in the Nation, are now prohibited from asking employees and students for passwords to their personal email and social media accounts.

More: SOM, Associated Press and NCSL

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Data Shows Online Buzz About Snapchat Is Skyrocketing After The Launch Of Facebook Poke — Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, which is nice and all — but for businesses, flattery doesn't exactly pay the bills. However, when said flattery comes along with massive amounts …

More: Business Insider, GigaOM, Computerworld, PC World, Business Week, CNNMoney.com and Mashable!

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Pinterest Sued by Former Business Partner of Early Investor — Pinterest has arrived at that special milestone for any successful start-up: The day you get sued by someone who says the whole thing was his idea. — Theodore F. Schroeder of Ocean City, N.J., filed a lawsuit yesterday …

More: CNET, VatorNews, SocialTimes, SlashGear, The Verge, The Next Web, Electronista and TechCrunch

Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:

Stanford Students And Professors Are Bridging The CS Gender Gap One Student At A Time — “Dude, I think that girl sitting in front of us is a CS major.” — “Nah, look at that glittery s**t in her hair.” — Bonnie McLindon, a junior computer science major at Stanford University …

Tweets: @sequoia_capital. Thanks:@anthonyha

Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:

GitHub Has Big Dreams for Open-Source Software, and More — Software is not merely about automating every aspect of our lives anymore. Some of its makers want to change the way we all interact, spreading their supposed egalitarian excellence. — Whether this is liberation …

Tweets: @gregorywass

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Frog Design's Hartmut Esslinger Reveals Early Apple Designs in New Book — Designboom (via The Verge) today got a hold of some photographs of early Apple computer designs from Hartmut Esslinger's new book, Design Forward. — Esslinger founded Frog Design, the company that Apple partnered …

More: designboom, SlashGear, MacDailyNews and Mashable!

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