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November 8, 2012, 1:25 PM

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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

You Might Have Gotten An Email From Twitter About Your Account Being Compromised, It's Real — Keep your eyes peeled, Twitter users: Twitter is sending out emails to some of its users telling them it has reset their password and asking them to create a new one. If you can't log into your account that may be why.

More: BuzzFeed, digitaltrends.com, Mashable!, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, BGR, InfoWorld, The Next Web, CNET, The Verge, AllTwitter, Softpedia News, Tweet Smarter, TechnoBuffalo, Inquirer, Daily Dot, WebProNews and Lifehacker. Thanks:@cashortr4people

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

Samsung's Galaxy S III overtakes the iPhone 4S as the world's best-selling smartphone in Q3 2012 — Samsung's flagship Galaxy S III handset usurped the Apple iPhone 4S as the world's best-selling smartphone in the third quarter of 2012, according to a new report released by market research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics.

Sarah McBride / Reuters:

Exclusive: Google Ventures beefs up fund size to $300 million a year — (Reuters) - Google will increase the cash it allocates to its venture-capital arm to up to $300 million a year from $200 million, catapulting Google Ventures into the top echelon of corporate venture-capital funds.

More: CNET, TechCrunch, Inquirer, Venture Capital Dispatch, VatorNews and AllThingsD

James Murray / Hitwise UK:

Google dips below 90% market share of UK Search — October proved to be scary month not just for Halloween but also for Google's share of the UK search market. — The latest search stats show that 89.33% of all UK Internet searches were conducted on Google Sites.

More: Pocket-lint, Search Engine Watch, Marketing Pilgrim, CNET, SiliconANGLE and Search Engine Land

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Google decline in China continues as its search share falls to 4th place, maps to 6th

More: Search Engine Land, The Register, memeburn and Digital Spy

Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blogcast:

The New Evernote 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch — Our apps never stop evolving. Every few weeks, we release an update that adds something new or improves an existing feature. It's not often that we launch a complete redesign. In fact, it happens only once every few years.

More: CNET, Business Insider, The Verge, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, MobileSyrup.com, iPhone Hacks, Gizmodo UK, Softpedia News and SlashGear

Zack Whittaker / CNET:

Apple quietly pulls apology-hiding code from U.K. site — Visitors to Apple's U.K. Web site are no longer forced to scroll down to view a court-ordered apology to Samsung, after Apple tried to bury it using hidden code. — Less than a week after Apple was rumbled by Reddit users …

More: The Next Web, PandoDaily, MacRumors, WebProNews and Macgasm

Michael Kan / Computerworld:

Apple out of China's top five smartphone list in Q3 — Coolpad smartphones took third place in market share for China, according to Canalys — Apple dropped out of the top five list in China's smartphone market for the third quarter, as local handset vendors saw their shipments surge …

More: GigaOM, Associated Press, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, FierceWireless, TUAW, ITworld.com, iPhone Buzz, The Register, SlashGear and PhoneArena

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

7,000 Starbucks Locations Added to the Square Wallet — Starbucks is now accepting Square's mobile payment application at about 7,000 of its stores, as part of a wide-ranging agreement between the two companies. — The rollout is right on schedule, coming just three months after the partnership was announced in August.

More: Wired, The Verge, O'Reilly Radar, iPhone Hacks, Mashable!, Starbucks Newsroom, IntoMobile, iPhone, SlashGear, CNET, GeekWire, Business Insider, Forbes, The Next Web, TechCrunch and GigaOM

Tweets: @square and @jack

Eva Galperin / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Egyptian Prosecutor Orders a Ban on Internet Porn — Censorship circumvention software is about to become very popular in Egypt. On Wednesday, the country's Prosecutor General, Abdel Maguid Mahmoud, ordered government ministries to enforce a ban on pornographic websites …

More: digitaltrends.com, The Verge, Reuters, Agence France Presse, SlashGear, english.ahram.org.eg and WebProNews

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Lenovo Q2 earnings reveal record high sales of $8.7 billion, highest-ever PC market share — PC maker Lenovo has reported its earnings for Q2, and there was plenty of good news: $8.7 billion in sales, a record high, a PC market share of 15.6 percent, it's largest ever and operating profit of $206 million …

More: LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, Inquirer, Reuters, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, Associated Press, AllThingsD, Lenovo Newsroom, DailyTech, Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, Bloomberg and ZDNet

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Tumblr Updates Its iOS App To Be “Completely Native,” Features Redesigned Dashboard, Notifications And Gestures — Tumblr, the micro-blogging service that allows everyone to be a creative publisher, has updated its iOS app to become faster and more engaging. Tumblr says it's “completely native.”

More: VentureBeat, BetaNews, BuzzFeed, Mashable!, Tumblr Staff, Bijan Sabet, The Next Web, iPhone Hacks, WebProNews and The Verge. Thanks:@mwjackso

Emma Turpin / Google Chrome Blog:

JAM with Chrome: Play music live with your friends online — If you ever dreamed of playing in a band, now's your chance to be a rock star. JAM with Chrome is an interactive web application that enables friends in different locations to play music together in the Chrome browser on their computers.

More: AllThingsD, BetaNews, SocialTimes, Inquirer, The Next Web, TechCrunch, TIME, Ubergizmo, Engadget, SlashGear, Gizmodo, memeburn, Marketing Pilgrim and Lifehacker

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

BlackBerry 10 gets US government certification, first time RIM products approved ahead of launch — Research In Motion today announced that the BlackBerry 10 platform has received Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 (FIPS PUB 140-2) certification.

More: Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Research in Motion, Reuters, The Register, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, IntoMobile, Electronista, SlashGear, digitaltrends.com, BerryReview and TechCrunch

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Google experimenting with free mobile access to its web services in developing markets — Google is testing out a new way to bring its services to mobile users free of charge. Dubbed Google Free Zone, the service will facilitate the use of Gmail, Google+, and Google Search via a special domain, g.co/freezone.

More: VentureBeat, SlashGear, Engadget, BGR, CNET, 9to5Google, The Next Web, dailywireless.org, Reuters and PhoneArena

Dara Kerr / CNET:

Verizon won't charge Sandy victims for voice and text usage — As New York and New Jersey residents struggle to get back on their feet after last week's superstorm, the carrier announces it will waive voice and text charges for a two-week period. — As Hurricane Sandy bore down on the East Coast …

More: BetaNews, VentureBeat, Betabeat, DSLreports, IntoMobile, Gizmodo, PhoneNews.com, Tech Daily Dose, PC Magazine and SlashGear

DigiTimes:

Foxconn reportedly plans to set up plants in US — Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) reportedly plans to establish manufacturing plants in the US and is currently conducting evaluations in cities such as Detroit and Los Angeles, according to market watchers.

More: Forbes, CNET, TUAW, Business Insider and Datamation.com

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Patent suits target Google, Intel, hundreds more for encrypting web traffic — Enlarge / A figure from the patent that has been asserted against Intel, Google, and hundreds of other companies providing SSL and TLS on their websites. — Google — An unknown company's four-year campaign …

More: Web Host Industry Review and SlashGear. Tweets: @bsookman

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Web radio growing faster than on-demand services (study) — Webcasters, such as Pandora, saw following increase by 27 percent while on-demand players, such as Spotify and Rhapsody grew by 18 percent. — Music listening patterns continue to evolve and not just from analog to digital …

More: The Verge. Tweets: @carlesdijous

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Supreme Court Rejects Hearing For Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde — Earlier this year the copyright infringement sentence of Peter Sunde was made final. This meant that the former Pirate Bay spokesman should have begun an eight month jail sentence in May, but this did not come to pass.

Jacqueline Seng / CNET:

MasterCard rolls out credit card with display and keypad — The next-generation 2-in-1 card features an embedded LCD display and touch-sensitive buttons for generating one-time passwords. — Next time you get a new card from your bank, don't be surprised if it has a keypad and an LCD on it.

More: TechSpot, BBC, The Register, SlashGear and Gizmodo UK

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Adobe investigating Reader X security hole allegedly selling on the black market for $50,000 — Just one day after Adobe patched flaws in its Flash Player software for Windows, OS X, Linux, and Android, Group IB security researchers claim to have discovered a -day security hole in Adobe Reader X …

More: Computerworld, The Verge, The Register, Krebs on Security, Ars Technica, TechNewsDaily.com, SC Magazine, Group-IB News, The H Security and Help Net Security

Steve Dent / Engadget:

T-Mobile USA Q3 2012 earnings: Revenue drops 6 percent to $4.9 billion, profit down 15 percent — T-Mobile USA just announced its Q3 2012 financials, and both revenue and profits are down over last year: the company took in $4.9 billion, 6.4 percent less than last year, and earned $1.2 billion, a decline of 15.2 percent year-on-year.

More: AllThingsD, BGR, CNET, T-Mobile Newsroom, The Verge, TmoNews, Electronista, PhoneArena and blog.chron.com

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Automattic Launches Jetpack 2.0 For Self-Hosted WordPress Sites, Includes Free WP.com Image Offloading, Infinite Scroll & More — Automattic, the company behind the popular WordPress content management and blogging platform, just launched Jetpack 2.0, which brings a number of WordPress.com features to self-hosted WordPress installs.

More: Jetpack for WordPress, PandoDaily and The Next Web. Thanks:@brooke

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Hulu Takes On Netflix With “Hulu Kids,” Brings Commercial-Free, Kids' Content To Hulu Plus Subscribers — This morning, Hulu announced a new section called “Hulu Kids,” which, as the name implies, organizes all the kid-friendly content in one easy-to-access section within Hulu's video library.

More: GigaOM, Hulu Blog, GadgeTell, The Next Web, SlashGear and WebProNews

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:

Judge blocks California's new ban on anonymity for sex offenders — On Tuesday, voters in California overwhelmingly approved Proposition 35, which ratcheted up penalties for those convicted of sex crimes, including human trafficking. The proposition included a provision requiring registered sex offenders …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

The Narcissism Of Minor Silicon Valley Differences — There's a prevalent myth in Silicon Valley, the myth that people aren't snobs here. This isn't true. A sort of reverse/meta-snobbery exists here, mostly intellectual in its nature, and the line between the alphas and the betas is extremely clear cut for those who can see it.

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