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January 5, 2013, 3:40 PM

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Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:

Explaining Windows 8 PC Sales Over the Holidays — It's time to stop denying that Windows 8 is off to a slow start — At some point, the cheerleaders—and yes, amazingly, they're out there—are going to have to face reality: Windows 8 is selling slowly. More slowly than Windows 7 at launch …

More: VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine and Neowin

Chris Welch / The Verge:

NPD: Windows 8 fails to reverse declining PC notebook sales during holiday season

More: Inquirer, NPD Group, AppleInsider, Business Insider, Digits, The Next Web and BGR

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Shenanigans: Google Maps redirect issue on Windows Phones is a matter of competition, not compatibility — Sources close to Microsoft in contact with TNW have cast doubt on Google's telling of the Windows Phone 8 and Google Maps controversy. A thorough look shows that the situation …

More: The Verge, WMPoweruser, Gizmodo, CNET, TECHGEEK.com.au, The Next Web and Los Angeles Times

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Wall Street Journal:

Behind Google's Antitrust Escape — After early hopes for a sweeping antitrust case against Google Inc., it became clear to the Federal Trade Commission last fall that no such lawsuit was in the offing. — A clinching moment came in November when FTC staff, who had exhaustively investigated …

More: Digits and Mercury News. Tweets: @amir_efrati and @zseward

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Welcome to CES: A Trade Show, Not a Tastemaker — This week, most of the developed world will stagger halfheartedly back to the office, attempting to work after two weeks of twinkling lights, post-nog hangovers, and watching bad TV sprawled across couches inside the houses we grew up in.

More: MarketBeat and dailywireless.org. Tweets: @waltmossberg and @caseynewton

Caroline Winter / Business Week:

Bitcoin: Making Online Gambling Legal in the U.S.? — Michael Hajduk had sunk one year and about $20,000 into developing his online poker site, Infiniti Poker, when the U.S. online gambling market imploded. On April 15, 2011, a day now known in the industry as Black Friday …

More: Ars Technica and The Verge

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: VatorNews, Redmond Pie and Business Insider. Tweets: @joshconstine

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: Macgasm, MacNN, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Softpedia News and ITworld.com

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, PC World and PhoneArena

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: SplatF, Trust But Verify, PandoDaily, Media Decoder, Engadget, PC Magazine, GigaOM and The Next Web. Tweets: @danprimack. See also Mediagazer

Tim-o-tato / Droid Life:

Google Play Adds “Free for Print Subscribers” Option for Play Magazines — For people who actually read magazines on their tablets, this news is huge. Recently, Google has enabled the ability for paper magazine subscribers to transfer their subscriptions to the cloud and read their content right …

More: Engadget, The Verge, Android Community, Android Police, Liliputing, Pocketnow and AndroidOS.in

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.

More: A VC

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, digitaltrends.com, Android Community, Engadget, FierceOnlineVideo News and DSLreports

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