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January 5, 2013, 12:30 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.

More: PC Magazine, The Seattle Times, PandoDaily, SplatF, Digits, FierceOnlineVideo News and GigaOM. See also Mediagazer

Anna Heim / The Next Web:

Hulu CEO Jason Kilar and CTO Rich Tom to leave company in Q1

More: Hulu Blog, CNET, Engadget, CNNMoney.com, Mashable!, TechCrunch, Media Decoder, SlashGear, Deadline.com, Gizmodo, BGR, The Verge, Business Insider, Trust But Verify, Reuters and GigaOM

Tweets: @pkafka and @bloombergnews

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Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed:

How Almost Anyone Can Take You Off Facebook (And Lock You Out) — Getting your buddy's Facebook account turned into a “Memorial” state is surprisingly easy — and locks them out of Facebook . Warning: this will seriously mess up someone's account. — Source: brotographs.com

More: VentureBeat, GigaOM, Business Insider, The Verge, nbcnews.com, The Next Web and Gizmodo

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.

More: MacNN, Macgasm, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider and Computerworld

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.

More: The Netflix Tech Blog, Network World and Web Host Industry Review

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: Benedict Evans and Business Insider. Tweets: @joshconstine

Justin Rubio / The Verge:

RCA's upcoming Mobile TV Tablet features two tuners for live television broadcasts — RCA has announced that it will be launching a Mobile TV Tablet with a pair of tuners for those who want to watch live television on the go. Priced at $299 and set for release in the spring …

More: MarketWatch, AllThingsD, Android Community, Engadget, GadgeTell, FierceOnlineVideo News and DSLreports

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.

More: sociable.co and PhoneArena

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Amazon Prime Instant Video adds A&E, History, and Lifetime after Netflix's deal falls through — Months after Netflix users lose access, Amazon strikes a deal with A&E — Amazon's Prime Instant Video streaming service is continuing to fill out its selection with today's announcement …

More: Business Wire, BGR, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, internetretailer.com, Engadget, 9to5Mac, WebProNews, The Next Web, CNET, Geek News Central, GeekWire, Mashable! and paidContent

Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters:

Samsung expected to widen smartphone lead over Apple this year — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is expected to widen its lead over Apple Inc in global smartphone sales this year with 35 percent growth, helped by a broad product lineup, market researcher Strategy Analytics told Reuters on Friday.

More: CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, digitaltrends.com, InvestorPlace, TechSpot, Business Insider, GadgeTell, iPhone Hacks, Examiner, Pocketnow, ValueWalk, IntoMobile, Ubergizmo, BGR, everythingiCafe, DailyTech, TechCrunch, The Next Web and PhoneArena

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Google Quietly Removes Censorship Warning Feature For Search Users In China (Updated) — Google has quietly disabled a feature that notified users of its search service in China when a keyword had been censored by the Chinese government's internet controls, according to censorship monitoring blog GreatFire.org.

More: GreatFire.org, Guardian, The Verge, Engadget, Softpedia News and The Next Web. Thanks:@chris_beaumont

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Best Buy Complains About Walmart's iPhone 5 Holiday Sale, Claims $65,000 Profit Loss in One Day — The Wall Street Journal notes that several retailers including Best Buy and Toys “R” Us have complained to attorneys general in a handful of states about advertising practices of Walmart.

More: Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, AllThingsD, SlashGear, ValueWalk, iPhone Hacks, TUAW, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com and Business Insider

Aries Poon / Wall Street Journal:

HTC Vows to Step Up Innovation — TAIPEI—The head of HTC Corp. said the beleaguered Taiwanese smartphone maker didn't market their products aggressively enough last year, but vowed to win consumers back by developing more innovative products. — HTC had one of its worst years in 2012 …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Download Me Maybe: U.S. Music Market Up By 3.1%, Fuelled By 1.3B Digital Track Sales In 2012, Says Nielsen — Today news broke that Spotify was halting its music download service in favor of pushing more of its streaming services — raising some questions about how well downloads are doing compared to streaming music.

More: Business Wire, CNET, TechSpot, GeekWire, VentureBeat, The Verge, Bloomberg and Digital Media Wire

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Blekko Launches Izik, A Tablet-Optimized Search App — Search startup Blekko is launching a new app today called Izik (pronounced “Isaac"), which it says has been designed specifically for the search experience on tablets. — CEO Rich Skrenta said Izik is an attempt to recapture …

More: digitaltrends.com, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, Search Engine Land, Associated Press and WebProNews

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.

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch and ZDNet

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Now 2.5M Users Strong, Crowdsourced Learning Platform StudyBlue Grabs $9M To Help Students Study On The Go — Founded in 2009, Wisconsin-based startup StudyBlue set out with a simple and straightforward mission: Leverage technology to help students improve their academic performance.

More: The Next Web, GigaOM, BetaKit, Tech Cocktail, VatorNews, VentureBeat and AllThingsD

Don Melton:

Keeping Safari a secret — For much of the time we spent developing Safari — long before it was called by that name — it pretended to be Microsoft Internet Explorer. Specifically, Internet Explorer for Mac, which Apple had provided with the OS since 1998.

More: iMore, The Loop, TUAW, Fortune, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, Neowin, VentureBeat, GigaOM, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacRumors

Tweets: @spencerchen, @richdemuro and @counternotions

Andrew Lampitt / InfoWorld:

Symantec links latest Microsoft zero-day with skilled hacker gang — The Elderwood group appears to be living up to its reputation for finding serious software vulnerabilities — h(f)){c=a.createElement('script'); c.type='text/javascript';c.src='http:// ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/ jquery …

More: Symantec Official Blog, The H Security, TechNewsDaily.com, nbcnews.com, Inquirer and Softpedia News

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