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January 5, 2013, 6:37 AM

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Let Jason Kilar Take a Bow  —  Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is headed out the door, as is CTO Rich Tom.  Other employees at the video site are going soon, as well.  —  None of that is surprising, and if you're trying to figure out what that means for Hulu, you're asking the wrong question.
Anna Heim / The Next Web:
John Koetsier / VentureBeat:
Google Play will hit a million apps in June (probably sooner than the iOS app store)  —  I think we're well past the time when number of apps is the defining factor of a mobile ecosystem, at least if you're Apple or Google.  Perhaps not so much if you're Windows Phone or RIM.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
OS X Mountain Lion Now Accounts For A Majority Share Of Mac Web Traffic, Growing Nearly Twice As Fast As Lion  —  OS X Mountain Lion, or version 10.8 as it's known according to Apple's numbering system, accounted for 32 percent of all web traffic measured by Net Applications, a firm that charts OS share and other web metrics.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook Mobile User Counts Revealed: 192M Android, 147M iPhone, 48M iPad, 56M Messenger  —  Facebook keeps user counts for its mobile apps hidden, but analyst Benedict Evans found a way to uncover them and they provide critical insight into the direction and performance of Facebook's mobile efforts.
More: Business InsiderTweets: @joshconstine
Barb Darrow / GigaOM:
Netflix open sources tool to clean up your AWS cloud  —  Those Netflix engineers are at it again — releasing source code to an in-house tool they use to keep their Amazon Web Services pared down and tidy.  Janitor Monkey is a tool they use to automate the detection and clean up of unused AWS resources.
James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal:
Flextronics CEO Sees Hope for U.S. Tech Production  —  The CEO of Flextronics International Ltd., a Singapore-based company that helped hundreds of firms move manufacturing of electronic parts and products to Asia, says it is getting “easier to justify” production in the U.S.
Jeff Barr / Amazon Web Services Blog:
AWS Management Console Improvements - Tablet and Mobile Support  —  Managing your AWS resources has become easier and more direct over the years!  Let's do a quick recap before we dig in:  — We launched Amazon SQS (2004) and Amazon S3 (2006) as pure APIs, with no tool support whatsoever.

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