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December 12, 2014, 10:50 AM

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TechCrunch:

China's Baidu Set To Partner With Uber And Reportedly Invest Up To $600M — Uber may have just raised a fresh $1.2 billion this month, but the company looks set to welcome a new investor, Chinese internet giant Baidu, which is reportedly set to invest as much as $600 million into the U.S. firm.

More: Bloomberg, USA Today, Reuters, TheStreet.com, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, bizjournals, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Wired.co.uk, China Money Network, Gigaom and NASDAQ.com

Tweets: @mikeisaac and @jonrussell

Maya Kosoff / Business Insider:

Uber Is Suspending Operations In New Delhi Following Allegations Of Rape Against One Of Its Drivers

More: Uber Blog, Tech in Asia, PC World, TIME, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Next Web and MediaNama. Tweets: @ellenhuet

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Apple online retail stores in US and UK now accepting PayPal — Apple's Online Store Starts Accepting PayPal — Apple.com shoppers in the U.S. and the U.K. have a new way to pay for the latest iPhone or iPad: PayPal. Previously available as a payment option only in Apple's app and content stores …

More: TechCrunch, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, BGR, The Next Web, TUAW, Gotta Be Mobile, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone, iMore, MacNN, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, MacDailyNews, Engadget and App Advice

Julia Love / Mercury News:

Protesters storm Apple campus urging better working conditions for service workers — CUPERTINO — As rain pummeled the Bay Area, a group of protesters stormed Apple's campus Thursday, calling for the tech giant to help the service workers who keep its campus humming make a better living.

More: TechCrunch, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Wired, Fortune, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, The Register and iMore

Chris Mills / Gizmodo:

YouTube is experimenting with a built-in GIF maker tool for videos — YouTube Now Lets You Make GIFs From Videos — Making short GIFs of YouTube videos is a pretty well-established practice now — so much so that there's dozens of websites dedicated to this finest of art forms.

More: TechCrunch, Android Authority, Android Central, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, WebProNews, Neowin, SlashGear, Technology Personalized, Electronista, Geeky Gadgets and TechloMedia

Tweets: @waxpancake and @johnlegere

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Xbox One sells 1.2M units in U.S. in November, topping PS4 and Wii U in early holiday battle — Microsoft's Xbox One posted overall record unit sales in November, with 1.2 million units sold in the U.S. — reaping the benefits of a $50 price cut to top the PlayStation 4 and Wii U …

More: GameSpot, Engadget, TechSpot, The Verge, Geeky Gadgets, WinBeta, Windows Phone Central, Neowin and The Next Web. Thanks:@belril

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Google Announces The Top Apps, Movies, Music Of 2014 — Google has just released its ‘best stuff of the year’ on Google Play for 2014, and in terms of most downloaded content, it's not all that different from Apple's list. — Frozen, The Walking Dead, and Fancy by Iggy Azalea all placed …

More: Official Android Blog, Engadget, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, AfterDawn.com, Droid Life, PCMag UK, WebProNews, Android Central, Phandroid, Inquirer, TechnoBuffalo, SocialTimes and AndroidHeadlines.com

Oculus VR:

Oculus acquires skeletal hand tracking firm Nimble VR and 3D mapping company 13th Lab, hires motion capture expert Chris Bregler — Nimble VR, 13th Lab, and Chris Bregler join Oculus — Computer vision is at the heart of delivering comfortable and incredible virtual reality.

More: 13th Lab, PC World, TIME, Nimble VR, Gizmodo, The Tech Report, CNET, TechCrunch, The Verge, ArcticStartup, Gamasutra, TechNode, VG247, Gigaom, Engadget, SlashGear, Seeking Alpha and GamesIndustry.biz

Tweets: @paulamarttila and @stumm

Matthew Miller / ZDNet:

Sony SmartWatch 3 review: best Android Wear smartwatch for active users with GPS and offline music playback — Sony SmartWatch 3 review: Goodbye MOTOACTV, hello future of Android Wear — Summary:The Sony SmartWatch 3 earned a permanent spot on Matthew's wrist due to the ability to serve …

Tweets: @sonymobilenews

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google Removes Amazon's App Listing From Google Play Search Following Addition Of Appstore, Instant Video Integrations — In October, we spotted that Amazon had quietly launched a hidden and functional app store within its main Android application which was available for download on Google Play.

More: CNNMoney.com, Digital Trends, Android Authority, 9to5Google, Business Insider, GeekWire, Electronista, Phandroid, Droid Life, PhoneDog.com, WebProNews, Pocketnow, Gigaom, SlashGear, The Verge, The Next Web, BGR, Engadget and Android Police

Tom Huddleston Jr / Fortune:

Google to close its Russian engineering office before country's new rules on data storage take effect Jan. 2015 — Google gives a big ‘nyet’ to Russian engineering operations — Google may be the latest tech company to pull up stakes in Russia. — The online search giant is reportedly planning …

More: The Information, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Washington Post, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, ZDNet, Reuters, Electronista, ITworld.com, SlashGear, The Next Web, Engadget, Gigaom, NASDAQ.com and AndroidHeadlines.com

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple now requires cases protect devices from 1m drops, meet new environmental standards — Apple recently started requiring case manufacturers in its Made for iPhone (MFi) licensing program follow new requirements that will ensure cases better protect Apple devices and cover glass from impact …

More: Gotta Be Mobile, TUAW, BGR, MacNN, Ubergizmo, App Advice, InvestorPlace, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, iLounge and NBC News. Tweets: @applespotlight. Thanks:@apollozac

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

T-Mobile is first to offer LTE Nexus 9 in the US, $600 or $0 down, coming soon to Google Play — T-Mobile announced today that it's now selling Google's latest HTC-made Nexus 9 tablet for $0 down or $600. As noted by T-Mobile, this will be the first place you can officially get the LTE version of the Nexus 9 through a US carrier.

More: Gigaom, The Verge, TechCrunch and T-Mobile Newsroom

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

New Relic's IPO Spikes 31% In Initial Trading — In early trading, New Relic's shares are up 31% in its first day as a public company. Another technology company, Hortonworks, will begin trading this morning as well. — The two companies are trading on different exchanges …

More: VentureBeat, Oregonian, StreetInsider.com, bizjournals and Xconomy

Martin Beck / Marketing Land:

Zuckerberg Dislikes The Idea Of A Facebook “Dislike” Button — “That's not something that we think is good for the world,” the Facebook CEO said during his second town hall Q&A. — Don't go looking for a “dislike” button on Facebook; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he has no interest in giving people the means to be mean.

More: ABC News, NEWS.com.au, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE and Computerworld

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Adobe acquires stock photo giant Fotolia for $800 million in cash — Buried within its fourth quarter earnings report, creative technologies company Adobe today revealed it plans to acquire Fotolia, a stock photo site which hosts 34 million images and videos.

More: eWeek, CNET, WebProNews, ZDNet, TechCrunch and silicontap.com

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Adobe sees strong Q4 with $1.07B in revenue, 644K new paying Creative Cloud subscribers

More: AdExchanger, Forbes, Re/code, Business Wire, The Next Web and Tech Trader Daily

Tweets: @corytv, @corytv and @corytv

Reuters:

Canada's Competition Bureau probing Apple's contracts with domestic wireless carriers, says it has found no evidence of wrongdoing so far — Canada competition watchdog probing Apple mobile carrier deals — (Reuters) - Canada's Competition Bureau is investigating allegations …

More: Globe and Mail, The Register, DailyTech, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Techvibes Global News, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, MobileSyrup.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore and Patently Apple

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Qualcomm, Intel, and others speak out against Title II net neutrality — Much of the fight over how to handle net neutrality has been between the two industries that have the most obvious stake in it: cable companies and web services. Today, though, 60 tech companies, including Intel …

More: Verizon Public Policy, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, FierceWireless, Engadget, The Register and CNET. Tweets: @stevesi

Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

Verizon says future investments in its networks will be unaffected by net neutrality policy

More: DSLreports, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Re/code, DSLreports, Techdirt and Associated Press. Tweets: @timkarr

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