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February 15, 2013, 10:10 AM

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How Graph Search Works for Young People — We recently we announced the limited preview of Graph Search, a privacy aware enhancement to our existing search tool that helps people discover people, places, photos, and other interests that have already been shared with you on Facebook.

More: CNN, BBC, The Register, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Marketing Pilgrim, CNET, The Next Web and Softpedia News

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Opera buys mobile video optimization specialist and browser maker Skyfire for up to $155m — Opera revealed plans to transition its Web browsers to WebKit this week, and the Norwegian firm is making more moves after announcing the acquisition of Skyfire Labs, a mobile video optimization specialist …

More: Opera Press Room, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, CNET, Computerworld, Skyfire, Geek.com, AndroidGuys, Mashable!, Web Browser, GigaOM, gHacks Technology News, The Verge, Engadget, GSMArena Blog, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, SlashGear and memeburn. Tweets: @om

BBC:

Jonathan Ive gets gold Blue Peter badge — Sir Jonathan Ive was presented with the award by Blue Presenter Barney Harwood — The BBC's Blue Peter programme has honoured Apple's design chief Sir Jonathan Ive with its highest accolade - a gold Blue Peter badge.

More: The Next Web, BBC Media Centre, Engadget, Inquirer, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Telegraph, Macgasm and iDownloadBlog.com

Nick Gray / HTC Source:

Exclusive: HTC One (M7) U.S. retail availability and price revealed — Nearly a week and a half ago, we broke the news that HTC would start selling the HTC M7 in Europe on March 8th. That date was later confirmed by another source, along with a price tag of of €649.99 (roughly $880).

More: BGR, CNET, Electronista, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, Pocket-lint, Phones Review, Neowin, Life On My MobileLife …, Pocketnow, The Full Signal, Gotta Be Mobile, Ubergizmo, Droid Life, Android and Me, TmoNews and AndroidGuys

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Google must act quickly on libellous Blogger posts, says appeal court — Landmark ruling that tech giant could be liable for comments if it has been notified of them and failed to remove them — Google may have to act quicker to remove potentially libellous posts from its Blogger platform following …

More: Bloomberg, Daily Mail, International Business Times and Telegraph

Michael Zhang / PetaPixel:

Source Code for Original 1990 Version of Adobe Photoshop Released — Starting today, you can download a free and legal copy of Photoshop. That's right — free and legal. There's a catch, though: it's the original 1.0.1 version of the program that was released back in 1990.

More: @CHM Blog, The Next Web, Inquirer, creativebits™, Engadget, adafruit industries blog, The Verge, CNET, MacNN, Neowin, Ars Technica and Softpedia News

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

How Lightning Tightens Apple's Control Over Accessories — When the iPhone 5 was released in September with the new Lightning connection port, all those docks and accessories that longtime Apple customers had been collecting for years were suddenly obsolete.

More: Ars Technica, Patently Apple, App Advice, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, iDownloadBlog.com and MacRumors

Timothy Geigner / Techdirt:

Chubby Checker Sues Two Companies For $500 Million Over Wang-Measuring App Downloaded 84 Times — Here's a question that has been keeping me awake for the past several years: what would I call a smart phone application designed to approximate the size of my naughty parts?

More: PR Newswire, Betabeat, Guardian, webOS Nation, The Verge, Ars Technica, CNET, WebProNews, Digital Spy, nbcnews.com and TechEye

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Staples executives confirm company will soon sell Apple products in the U.S. — In January we reported that Staples appeared set to begin selling Apple products via its U.S. distribution channels. However, Staples' official comment on this (since 2011) was that Apple would not sell Staples its products for U.S. distribution.

More: CNET, AppleInsider, BGR, MacRumors, iPhone, MacNN, The Next Web, PhoneArena, AllThingsD and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @frenchhr. Thanks:@markgurman

Aaron Pressman / Reuters:

Big hedge funds fueled Apple's 4th-quarter share plunge — Some of the biggest hedge funds that helped make Apple Inc a stock market darling lost faith and dumped their stakes in the fourth quarter, fueling the massive drop in the iPhone maker's share price.

More: CNET, TechEye and Mercury News

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Third Point Is Latest Fund to Shed Its Apple Shares

More: Fortune and Deal Journal

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple Working on Fix for iOS 6.1 Passcode Hack — Looks like the latest version of Apple's iOS mobile operating system brought more than just Siri-enabled movie-ticket purchases and iTunes Match enhancements to the devices on which it runs. — A new vulnerability has been discovered …

John M. Broder / Wheels:

That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn't — The Model S at the Tesla Supercharger in the Interstate 95 service plaza in Milford, Conn. — Elon Musk , the chief executive of Tesla Motors, has now responded in detail to the account of my test drive of his Model S electric car …

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Amazon to investigate claims of worker mistreatment at German warehouse — Amazon has agreed to look into complaints from staff at one of the online retailer's fulfillment centers in Germany. The investigation comes after a German TV station aired a documentary that depicted temporary …

More: The Independent, Telegraph, ABCNEWS and Business Insider

Loek Essers / ITworld.com:

Facebook can stick with its real name policy for now, German court rules — It is the first step in a litigation process that can take years, the regulator said — Facebook can stick with its real name policy in Germany, and doesn't have to allow nicknames on its platform for now.

More: Associated Press, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Inquirer, The Verge, Softpedia News, Gizmodo and WebProNews

Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire:

Randi Zuckerberg Says Her Book Will Be a ‘Crazy’ Look at the ‘Front Lines’ of Facebook — Taking the next logical step in her quest to gin up as much celebrity as possible for being related to the CEO of Facebook and not much else, Silicon Valley media “personality” Randi Zuckerberg is writing …

More: Business Insider, Betabeat, Associated Press, Paste Magazine, EW.com, Hollywood Reporter, bizjournals, Gawker, AllFacebook and WebProNews

Gina Chon / Quartz:

Dropbox is talking to banks about an IPO later this year — Dropbox has been holding meetings with banks about an initial public offering, possibly in the second half of this year, according to sources briefed on the talks. — The market has been waiting for its next hot tech IPOs …

More: Fortune, GigaOM, memeburn, Business Insider, ZDNet and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Skype calls now equivalent to one-third of global phone traffic — New research (PDF) from TeleGeography, a telecom market analysis firm, shows that worldwide Skype usage is now equivalent to over one-third of all international phone traffic—a record level.

More: ZDNet, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Next Web, CNET, Softpedia News and PandoDaily

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Livescribe renames Sky smartpen after losing trademark dispute with BSkyB — Livescribe v BSkyB was one of the stranger trademark battles we've seen recently, because the two companies operate in such different spheres — one makes smartpens, the other runs TV and internet services.

More: The Next Web and SlashGear

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

A world of hurt after McAfee mistakenly revokes key for signing Mac apps — Just allow untrusted certificates, one customer told. — Travis Nep Smith — A McAfee administrator accidentally revoked the digital key used to certify desktop applications that run on Apple's OS X platform …

Tweets: @michaelrhanson and @secrunner

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Microsoft's “Scroogled” Campaign Against Gmail Wins 0.002% Of Users — It's been a week sine Microsoft went on the attack against Gmail, launching its “Scroogled” campaign portraying Gmail as a privacy monster that reads your emails for ad targeting purposes. How's that been working out?

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, Softpedia News, 9to5Google and WebProNews

JP Mangalindan / Fortune:

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner: Treat employees like adults, and you won't have leaks — With 1 million user “endorsements” and counting, Jeff Weiner explains the secret behind his company's red-hot streak. (Hint: It has nothing to do with the 3,500 iPads he just gave employees.)

More: The Equity Kicker and Business Insider

Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:

Iceland Wants to Ban Internet Porn — “If we can send a man to the moon, we must be able to tackle porn on the internet.” Those are the now immortal words of Halla Gunnarsdóttir, the political advisor to Iceland's Interior Minister Ögmundur Jónasson. Iceland wants to block all internet porn.

More: Telegraph, CNET, VentureBeat, DSLreports and Irish Examiner

Stephanie Flosi / comScore, Inc.:

comScore Releases the “2013 U.S. Digital Future in Focus” Report — Report Features Insights on Key Trends from 2012 and What They Mean for the Year Ahead — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a global leader in digital measurement and analytics, today released the 2013 U.S. Digital Future in Focus report.

More: SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, CNET and VentureBeat

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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.

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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …

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