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December 31, 2012, 9:20 AM

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Game Over: Zynga Shuts Down PetVille And 10 Other Titles To Cut Costs — Executing the cost-reduction plan CEO Mark Pincus announced in November, Zynga has shut down, pulled from the app stores, or stopped accepting new players to 11 games, with some turning off today.

More: Betabeat, ValueWalk, SlashGear and GamesIndustry International

Tweets: @adamdempsey, @carnage4life and @brettwdiamond

Thanks:@ryanlawler

Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:

Disruptions: The Real Hazards of E-Devices on Planes — A pilot uses the FlySmart with Airbus app on an Apple iPad. The F.A.A. has no proof that electronic devices can harm a plane's avionics, but it still perpetuates such claims. — Over the last year, flying with phones and other devices has become increasingly dangerous.

More: Gawker, Business Insider, avherald.com, Guardian, The Verge and Gizmodo. Tweets: @brianstelter

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Samsung reportedly set to sell its first Tizen-based smartphone in 2013 — The world will finally see the fruits of Tizen, the open sourced mobile operating system that has support from Samsung, DoCoMo, Vodafone and others, in 2013, according to a report from Japan's Daily Yomiuri …

More: Daily Yomiuri Online, CNET, TechCrunch, SlashGear and PhoneArena

Hunter Walk / Elapsed Time:

Trying to be the one true social graph is like trying to hold water in your fist — Facebook needed to buy Instagram because it was creating a mobile-first photo-centric social network. Snapchat is interesting to Facebook because it's creating a mobile-first ephemeral content social network.

More: TechCrunch and Bijan Sabet. Tweets: @davemcclure, @elizakern and @joshconstine

Josh Miller / Medium:

Tenth Grade Tech Trends

More: Webomatica. Tweets: @hunterwalk, @joshconstine, @mathewi, @grobertson and @joshm

Keith Teare / TechCrunch:

Unnatural Acts And The Rise Of Mobile — Editor's note: Keith Teare is General Partner at his incubator Archimedes Labs and CEO of recently funded just.me. He was a co-founder of TechCrunch. — As all predatory, or formerly predatory, men and women know, if you're at a party and still …

More: Distribution Hacks and LAUNCH. Thanks:@stormbridges

Steve Stecklow / Reuters:

Exclusive: Huawei partner offered embargoed HP gear to Iran — (Reuters) - A major Iranian partner of Huawei Technologies offered to sell at least 1.3 million euros worth of embargoed Hewlett-Packard computer equipment to Iran's largest mobile-phone operator in late 2010, documents show.

More: The Register, CNET, Gizmodo, SlashGear, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Electronista and ZDNet

Sebastien Page / iDownloadBlog:

Hackulous shuts down: piracy app Installous is gone — In what seems like a small victory against app piracy, the Hackulous team announced today on its site that it is shutting down, bringing down its most popular apps in the process: Installous and AppSync.

More: TorrentFreak, AppleInsider, The Verge, everythingiCafe, TechCrunch, App Advice and Techie Buzz. Tweets: @idannyocean

Steve Lohr / New York Times:

Sure, Big Data Is Great. But So Is Intuition — IT was the bold title of a conference this month at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and of a widely read article in The Harvard Business Review last October: “Big Data: The Management Revolution.”

Tweets: @howardlindzon, @edwardtufte and @rafat

Susan Crawford / Bloomberg:

U.S. Internet Users Pay More for Slower Service — Terry Huval is a large, friendly man with a lilting Southern accent who plays Cajun fiddle tunes in his spare time. He is also the director of utilities in Lafayette, Louisiana. “Our job is making sure we listen to our citizens,” he says.

Tweets: @esotericbuddha, @klonkadonk, @aawayne and @pkfranz

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

Foursquare updates privacy policy to show users' full names publicly and share more data with venues — Foursquare has sent an email to its users detailing changes to its privacy policy that are due to come into effect late next month. — The company says that the changes are aimed at making …

More: TechCrunch, CNET, Foursquare, PC Magazine, Business Insider, All Points Blog, Android Phone Fans, Electronista, FierceMobileContent News, Engadget, The Verge, AllThingsD, Mashable!, TweakTown News and About Foursquare

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Yahoo completes its planned exit from South Korea — True to its word, Yahoo has pulled out of the South Korean market by the end of 2012, as noted by the Yonhap News Agency. A notice on the company's site provides detailed instructions to users on when exactly all of its services will go dark …

More: Yonhap News Agency, TechCrunch, CNET and Electronista. Tweets: @kowiana

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Just in time: Facebook restores New Year's messaging service after plugging privacy loophole — Earlier today, social networking giant Facebook was caught with its pants down when blogger Jack Jenkins noticed a privacy flaw with its New Year ‘Midnight Delivery’ messaging service.

More: CS398 Group Project and Guardian

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