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December 23, 2013, 4:35 PM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple likely acquired mapping firm BroadMap, location-infused Evernote competitor Catch — Apple has been on a roll this year in terms of acquisitions. According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, the Cupertino firm acquired 15 companies this year, but only ten have been revealed.

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Gigaom, MacRumors, iMore, CNET, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, Spatially Adjusted, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, The Mac Observer, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, SlashGear, iLounge and MacDailyNews

Tweets: @broadmap and @markgurman

Thanks:@apollozac

The RSA Blog:

RSA categorically denies it entered into secret agreement with NSA to weaken its security — RSA RESPONSE TO MEDIA CLAIMS REGARDING NSA RELATIONSHIP — Recent press coverage has asserted that RSA entered into a “secret contract” with the NSA to incorporate a known flawed random number generator into its BSAFE encryption libraries.

David Meyer / Gigaom:

Security firm denies knowingly including NSA backdoor — but not taking NSA cash

More: Techdirt. Tweets: @josephmenn

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Jack Dorsey Joins Disney's Board Of Directors — The Walt Disney Company just announced that Jack Dorsey (co-founder and CEO Square, as well co-founder and chairman at Twitter, as if you didn't know) has joined its board if directors. — “Jack Dorsey is a talented entrepreneur …

More: Business Wire, Business Insider, CNET, Quartz, VentureBeat, The Technology Chronicles, Gigaom, The Verge, Engadget and The Next Web. Tweets: @jack. See also Mediagazer

New York Times:

In Tech Buying, U.S. Still Stuck in Last Century — WASHINGTON — Four years after President Obama vowed to “dramatically reform the way we do business on contracts,” the spectacular failure of the HealthCare.gov website has renewed calls for changes in how the government hires and manages private technology companies.

More: Gigaom Research, Forbes and Business Insider

Tweets: @zachcoelius, @starkness, @chrishughes, @chrisfralic and @shearm

Apple:

China Mobile & Apple Bring iPhone to China Mobile's 4G & 3G Networks on January 17, 2014 — iPhone 5s & iPhone 5c Available for Pre-Registration Beginning December 25, 2013 — Apple® and China Mobile today announced they have entered into a multi-year agreement to bring iPhone® to the world's largest mobile network.

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New York Times:

iPhone arrives on world's largest carrier as Apple tries to climb from fifth place in China

More: TIME, CNBC, PhoneArena, Forbes and Reuters

Tweets: @orbuch, @panzer, @panzer, @panzer and @nycjim

Will Connors / Digits:

With New Outsourcing Deal, BlackBerry Cancels Two Phones — A small item from BlackBerry's earnings-related filing Friday got lost in the news of its hardware partnership with Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group-sales of its new phones have been so bad that BlackBerry was forced to cancel the rollout of two not-yet-released phones.

More: BGR, CrackBerry.com and SlashGear

Graham Morrison / TechRadar:

Interview with Chris DiBona, the Director of Open Source at Google — How open source changed Google - and how Google changed open source — INTERVIEW We chat to Google's head of open source software … Google has just celebrated its 15th birthday, and much of its success is thanks to Linux and open source software.

Tweets: @dalmaer, @maduratnayake and @capotribu

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Q&A Platform Answers.com Raises More Cash, Buys Customer Experience Analytics Company ForeSee For Over $200M — Q&A platform Answers.com is announcing a big acquisition and fundraising tonight-the company is buying customer experience analytics company ForeSee, and just raised $300 million …

More: Digital Media Wire, VatorNews, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat and Bloomberg. Tweets: @larryfreed

Miguel Helft / Fortune:

A behind the scenes look at Google Ventures — Where Google Ventures is pinning its hopes — The search for a better way to fight cancer is unfolding quietly against the floor-to-ceiling window of a conference room in a San Francisco office building where three young men are scrutinizing a jumble of Post-it Notes.

More: ParisLemon. Tweets: @davemcclure, @mhelft, @patrickscheper, @jodiolson, @jakek, @googleventures and @ediggs

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

The case against Kim Dotcom, finally revealed — Nearly two years after Kim Dotcom's New Zealand mansion was raided by police, US authorities have made their case as to why the man behind Megaupload shouldn't simply go bankrupt like previous copyright violators before have—he should go to jail, they argue.

More: Gigaom. Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

T-Mobile's GoSmart Hopes to Boost Data Use by Offering Unlimited Free Mobile Access to Facebook — Overseas, Facebook has worked with a number of carriers to bring free access to the social network for those who don't otherwise have data plans for their phones.

More: Yahoo! Finance, AllFacebook, CNET, PC Magazine, TechHive, The Verge, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, Gigaom Research, IntoMobile, Gigaom, eWeek, Electronista and Gizmodo

Electronista:

Samsung reveals voice, motion updates to 2014 smart TV range — Finger gestures offered for rewinding content, page navigation — Samsung has revealed two updated features to the software in its 2014 range of smart televisions, just like it did last year ahead of CES.

More: Samsung Tomorrow, BGR, CNET, Light Reading, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Next Web and SlashGear

John Biggs / TechCrunch:

Partnership With Chinese App Store Shines A Light On The Hidden World Of Jailbreak Groups — Jailbreak releases for new iOS products are major events. In the early years, release teams would celebrate major holidays with a new jailbreak or SIM unlock and millions of anxious users would rush for the latest software.

More: ReadWrite, Computerworld, MacRumors, BGR, Geek.com, ExtremeTech, Softpedia News, App Advice, Redmond Pie and The Next Web

Kwame Opam / The Verge:

evasi0n iOS 7 jailbreak includes unofficial Cydia build, piracy-laden Taig app store in China

More: evasi0n, iH8sn0w.com, Examiner, SiliconANGLE, Computerworld, PadGadget, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, TechNode, 9to5Mac, App Advice, TechSpot, The Register, Redmond Pie, pocketnow.com, Engadget, MacRumors, ZDNet, Cult of Mac, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, iClarified, Redmond Pie, Redsn0w, The Mac Observer, iMore, Pocket-lint, Avinashtech, CNET, Yahoo! News, 9to5Mac and VentureBeat

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