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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Twitter Apps Updated With New Swipeable Design And Photo Support In Direct Messages — Today, Twitter has announced an update to its apps that bring a renewed focus on direct messaging. The app now features a direct link to DMs in the tab bar and allows you to send photos inside direct messages.

More: Twitter, 9to5Google, iMore, MacRumors, Engadget, The Verge, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, MobileSyrup.com, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW and iClarified

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @mattbuchanan, @andylevy and @panzer

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Apple's iTunes Radio Hires Sales Exec From Cumulus Media — Former Cumulus Media Exec Michael Pallad Started Last Week — Apple's iTunes Radio has poached a top radio ad exec as it prepares to offer the service widely to advertisers in 2014. — Former Cumulus Media executive VP-sales Michael Pallad …

More: VentureBeat, CNET, MacRumors, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, The Mac Observer, iLounge, Electronista, iClarified and TUAW. Tweets: @jeffschmidt. See also Mediagazer

Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:

Windows Threshold may have options to run metro apps in windowed mode, bring back start menu — Further Changes Coming in Windows “Threshold” — After previous revelations about Windows “Threshold,” a release we might think of as Windows 8.2, some more information has emerged about Microsoft's plans for the future.

More: Examiner, VentureBreak, Inquirer, Softpedia News, ExtremeTech, T3 News, InvestorPlace, Geek.com, InfoWorld and Gizmodo

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Facebook Wants to Be a Newspaper. Facebook Users Have Their Own Ideas. — Most people think of Facebook in a similar way: It's a place to share photos of your kids. It's a way to keep up with friends and family members. It's a place to share a funny, viral story or LOLcat picture you've stumbled upon on the Web.

More: WebProNews, Business Insider and Search Engine Roundtable

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @laurengoode and @mikeisaac

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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay Moves to .AC After Domain Name Seizure — A few hours ago Pirate Bay users were shocked to discover that their favorite torrent site was no longer loading. — Without warning the nameservers were removed from thepiratebay.sx domain, making it impossible to load the site in places where DNS entries were not cached.

More: Motherboard, Inquirer, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, Polygon, Plagiarism Today and Daily Dot

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Chromecast gets Plex, Vevo, RealPlayer, Viki and more with massive app update — A few months ago, a developer source told me that Google planned to release apps for its Chromecast streaming stick in waves. Well, guess what: The first wave is here, and it's a massive one …

More: Plex, TechCrunch, TechHive, Ask The Post, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Central, Droid Life, Engadget, The Next Web, WebProNews, Android and Me, Softpedia News and The Verge

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Yahoo Tells SEC: 31% Of Our Revenue Comes From Microsoft — Yahoo has revealed in a US Securities & Exchange Commission filing that nearly one-third of its revenue last quarter — 31% — came from its search deal with Microsoft, according to a Bloomberg report.

More: Bloomberg, ZDNet and SiliconBeat

Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily:

Yahoo acquires QuikIO, yet another startup to add to its video team — Early this morning, the creators of a little known but excellent cross-platform video streaming app called QuikIO sent a farewell note to its users. After December 31, the “FedEx of media files” would be shut down, the email said.

More: AllThingsD, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista and WebProNews. Tweets: @hamishmckenzie. See also Mediagazer

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple patents tech for making curved touch surfaces, displays — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday awarded Apple a patent that describes a method for forming curved touch sensors with high structural rigidity, suggesting the company is experimenting with curved iOS device displays.

More: TechCrunch, CNET, VatorNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, PadGadget, VentureBeat, MacRumors, App Advice, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo, SlashGear, FierceMobileIT News, Gigaom, iClarified and Phones Review

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple launches 2013 “12 Days of Gifts” app on iTunes, available in U.S. for the first time — Apple has just launched its annual 12 Days of Gifts campaign for 2013. In previous years, this campaign was available only in a few select countries, but not in the United States.

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

“We cannot trust” Intel and Via's chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say — Developers of the FreeBSD operating system will no longer allow users to trust processors manufactured by Intel and Via Technologies as the sole source of random numbers needed to generate cryptographic keys …

More: The Register, InfoWorld, FierceCIO:TechWatch News and Gigaom. Tweets: @bascule

Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:

Online backup service SugarSync moves to paid-only model — SugarSync, which has offered 5GB of free capacity since its founding, today announced it will only offer that as a trial and that all capacity after the trial will have to be paid for. — SugarSync, an online service for data back up …

More: TechCrunch, Gigaom, Marketwired and Electronista

Lisa Eadicicco / LAPTOP Magazine:

HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G1 Sports Pressure-Sensitive Touchpad — HP is refreshing its line of EliteBook Folio notebooks with its thinnest addition to the family yet- the 1040 G1. The 14-inch $1,299 laptop, which is available starting today, measures just 15.9 mm thin and is also among …

More: Engadget, eWeek, VentureBeat, ITworld.com, PC World, eWeek, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile and ZDNet. Thanks:@akattkisson

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Releases 3rd Generation Of Photosynth, Turns 3D Images Into Video-Like Experiences — Microsoft this morning lifted the veil on the next generation of Photosynth, its 3D image technology, with the release of a technical preview of the new Photosynth.

More: Search Blog, Channel 9, GeekWire, PC World, BetaNews, The Verge, The Next Web and NYT Bits

Edgar Alvarez / Engadget:

Microsoft's Socl social network gets iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8 apps — The Microsoft Research team launched Socl in beta form a little over a year ago — and yes, it is still very much alive. Now, Redmond's experiment could potentially have a more extensive reach …

More: iMore, The Verge, The Next Web, Softpedia News, TechHive, Ubergizmo and WinBeta

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Samsung has shipped 10 million Galaxy Note 3 devices since its launch 2 months ago — Samsung announced today that the Galaxy Note 3, its latest large-screen so-called ‘phablet’ device that follows on from the successful Note and Note II, has just surpassed 10 million units in shipments since …

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

How Does Apple Really Feel About Bitcoin? — Over the past couple of months, there have been a few Bitcoin app rejections by Apple that have made some waves. First, the venture-backed startup Coinbase had its app removed entirely from the App Store. Today, a blog post from peer …

More: Guardian, Business Insider and Gliph Company Blog

CBC News:

Snowden document shows Canada set up spy posts for NSA — CSEC conducted espionage activities for U.S. in 20 countries, according to top-secret briefing note — A top secret document retrieved by American whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals Canada has set up covert spying posts around …

More: Daily Dot

Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal:

FedEx, UPS help traditional retailers fulfill online orders to compete with Amazon — Retailers Turn Store Clerks Into Web Shippers — From Sears to Saks, Chains Are Trying to Combat Amazon.com … ATLANTA— Cameron Holloway, a sales associate at Sears in the Cumberland Mall here …

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Viber introduces Viber Out international calling feature, touts cheaper prices than Skype — Internet telephony company Viber has officially launched its Viber Out calling service which allows its 200 million-plus registered users to make low-cost calls to mobile and landline phones worldwide from within its mobile apps.

More: Business Wire, TechCrunch, Android Central, Engadget, Gigaom, PhoneNews.com, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, Lastest ITProPortal news, NextBigWhat.com and 9to5Mac

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

Google Play Edition LG G Pad 8.3, Sony Xperia Z Ultra, White Nexus 7 Announced — Today Google dropped by news of three new products hitting the Google Play store's device section, Google Play editions of LG's G Pad 8.3 and Sony's Xperia Z Ultra, and a Nexus 7 available in white.

More: TechCrunch, Droid Life, The Verge, The Verge, VentureBeat, Gigaom, The Next Web, 9to5Google, 9to5Google, Pocketables and Android Police. Tweets: @googlenexus

Yun-Hee Kim / China Real Time Report:

Google Scraps Plan to Build Hong Kong Data Center — Internet giant Google Inc. has scrapped a plan to build its own data center in Hong Kong and will instead expand its facilities in Taiwan and Singapore. — “While we see tremendous opportunity and potential in Hong Kong …

More: The Next Web, Softpedia News and 9to5Google

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Firefox 26 arrives with Click to Play for Java, new Home screen plus Bing and Yahoo search options on Android — Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 26 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions include Click to Play turned on by default for all Java plugins, more seamless updates on Windows …

More: CNET, Engadget, The Mozilla Blog, ZDNet, TechCrunch and IntoMobile

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

NimbleTV Brings TV Everywhere to New York, Without Permission From the TV Industrial Complex — Want to watch the TV you've already paid for, anywhere you want to watch it, whenever you want to watch it? — You can't. * But NimbleTV says it can change that.

More: DSLreports, Wired and Business Insider

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