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December 11, 2012, 11:25 AM

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Marissa Mayer / Yodel Anecdotal:

Introducing the New Yahoo! Mail — Email is the ultimate daily habit. It's often the first thing we check in the morning and the last thing before going to bed. Why? Because it's one of the simplest and most basic forms of communication. And since it's such an important part of our daily lives …

More: TechCrunch, CNET, ZDNet, Yahoo! Mail Blog, GigaOM, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Business Insider, BetaNews, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Next Web, Bloomberg, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable!, SlashGear, WebProNews, Softpedia News and SeekingAlpha.com

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Yahoo releases new mail client for iOS, Android, Windows 8, and the web — Yahoo may not be the internet giant it once was, but millions of people still use its mail services — now, that experience has been upgraded with a new Yahoo Mail web client as well as new apps for iOS, Android and Windows 8.

More: Reuters, Softpedia News and IntoMobile

Miguel Helft / Fortune:

Fortune Exclusive: Larry Page on Google — The press-shy Google CEO talks about mobile computing, his tussles with Apple — and the future of search. … Fortune: When you're thinking about the next bet you're going to make, how do you pick? — Larry Page: That's something we've been thinking about a lot.

More: 9to5Mac, Business Insider, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, SiliconBeat, MobileBurn.com, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear and PhoneArena

Coleen Baik / Twitter Blog:

Twitter photos: Put a filter on it — Every day, millions of people come to Twitter to connect with the things they care about and find out what's happening around the world. As one of the most compelling forms of self-expression, photos have long been an important part of these experiences.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Twitter brings vintage filters and basic editing to its apps for Android and iOS, powered by Aviary

More: Computerworld, Kelly Lieberman, Mashable!, CNET, Reuters, gHacks Technology News and BGR

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Microsoft balks at Apple's 30% fee, leaving SkyDrive and apps that integrate with it in the lurch on iOS — Microsoft and Apple are currently locked in something of a Cold War over the future of SkyDrive in the iOS App Store. — Sources close to Microsoft have detailed to TNW a difficult …

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Room for Growth: Microsoft Surface Only Generates 0.13% of All Tablet Web Traffic — Two of the biggest players in the computing space - Microsoft and Google - recently launched their most ambitious efforts yet in the tablet marketplace. Microsoft's Surface was launched on October 26th …

More: AllThingsD, BGR, Marketing Land, CNET, TechCrunch, WebProNews and PhoneArena. Tweets: @theromit

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Facebook Pushes Out Gifts to All U.S. Users (Complete With Holiday Booze) — Continuing the charge to ramp up its social gifting product well into the holiday season, Facebook on Tuesday announced the wide roll-out of Gifts to Facebook users in the United States.

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Facebook Newsroom, ABCNEWS, Engadget, GigaOM, The Next Web and WebProNews

Karen Wickre / Twitter Blog:

This Year on Twitter — Every day, we're amazed and humbled by the many ways in which people use Twitter, which range from simply retweeting to igniting conversations with hashtags (even around lesser-known topics) to sharing spectacular and far-flung views.

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Dan Primack / Fortune:

Fred Wilson hasn't done a 2012 deal — Why can't Fred Wilson find a new startup to back? — FORTUNE — Fred Wilson is the best-known venture capitalist east of San Hill Road, thanks to both his wildly-popular blog and early investments in such companies as Etsy, Foursquare, Twitter and Zynga (ZNGA).

Loek Essers / ITworld.com:

New EU-wide patent system approved by the European Parliament — Now national governments must ratify the agreement, which parliament officials say could cut the cost of obtaining a patent by 80 percent — The European Parliament has voted to create a pan-European patent system with the goal …

More: The Verge, European Parliament, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Out-Law News and The Next Web

Sarah McBride / Reuters:

US patent lawsuits now dominated by ‘trolls’ -study — For the first time, individuals and companies that do not themselves make anything - commonly known as “patent trolls” - are bringing the majority of U.S. patent lawsuits, according to a study by a California law professor.

More: AllThingsD, BBC, CNET, PE Hub Blog, Patently Apple, broadstuff and Gizmodo

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

SkyDrive for Xbox 360 lands today plus 40+ apps before Spring 2013 — SkyDrive arrives on Xbox 360 today, Microsoft has confirmed, focusing on multimedia sharing as the company teases a gush of more than forty new apps for the console in 2013. While it's possible to browse all the files …

Gary Kim / Telecompetitor:

Will Appeals Court Overturn ‘Network Neutrality’ Rules? — A U.S. Court of Appeals finally will hear a Verizon challenge to Federal Communications Commission network neutrality rules. How the court rules could lead to big changes for the broadband access business.

Manuel Valdes / The Seattle Times:

Washington state sues Florida company over unwanted text-message spam — A lawsuit filed by Attorney General Rob McKenna's office against Orlando-based Dinav Holding and its owners is one of the first lawsuits by a state attorney general targeting spamming via text messages.

More: GeekWire

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator finally get Retina support, available now for all CS 6 users — Ahead of its Create NOW event, Adobe has announced that both Photoshop and Illustrator have been updated with Retina (HiDPI) support. This update comes more than three months after Adobe …

More: Inside Adobe Illustrator, CNET, Pocket-lint, VentureBeat, Electronista, GSMArena Blog, MacRumors, CNET, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider and Adobe

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Nokia engineer shows how to pirate games from the Windows 8 store — Justin Angel, a Nokia engineer working on Windows Phone, has detailed how to compromise Windows 8 games revenue through in-app purchases. Angel highlights the Soulcraft Windows 8 game as an example of how Windows 8 users …

More: justinangel.net Blog Feed., CNET, Gizmodo, ExtremeTech, Neowin, MobileBurn.com, Tim Anderson's ITWriting and PhoneArena

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

London's black cabs to get free high-speed WiFi hotspots from early 2013 — London's ever-expanding network of free WiFi access points could soon be extended to the city's fleet of iconic black cabs, after Tech City based startup Eyetease received approval by Transport for London to roll …

More: Eyetease Media, ZDNet, Pocket-lint, Inquirer, Engadget, SlashGear, Inquirer, Neowin, The Verge and Skift

Kevin Kelleher / Fortune:

Will Adobe's new cloud strategy pay off? — A risky makeover of the king of shrinkwrapped software is starting to win over skeptics. — FORTUNE — Adobe chief Shantanu Narayan and a dozen of his top executives were sequestered in a tony Carmel Valley spa in California.

More: adobeeventsonline.com and CNET

Robert McMillan / Wired:

Google Accidentally Transmits Self-Destruct Code to Army of Chrome Browsers — Google's Gmail service went down for about 20 minutes on Monday. That was annoying, but not exactly unprecedented. These sorts of outages happen all the time. What was strange is that the Gmail outage coincided …

More: ZDNet, The Verge, Ars Technica, VentureBeat and Softpedia News

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Former Yahoo Exec Blake Irving Named CEO of Domain Giant Go Daddy — Go Daddy, the world's biggest Web hosting and domain company, has hired former Yahoo Chief Product Officer and Microsoft exec Blake Irving to be its new CEO. — The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company said Irving would start …

More: Reuters, Business Insider, TechCrunch and Go Daddy

Wall Street Journal:

Foxconn Faces Challenges in Boosting Automation — SHENZHEN, China—Apple Inc. supplier Hon Hai Precision Co. has declared plans to install robotic arms at its factories dotted across China to boost efficiency and address labor unrest. But its bid to automate swaths of the production process …

More: The Verge and iDownloadBlog.com

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

With 326K Paid Of 1M Total Members, Adobe Adds Teams To Creative Cloud, Subscriber-Exclusive Updates To Photoshop CS6 — Adobe is hosting an event today to show off some new updates it's making for its Creative Cloud offerings, but here's an advance look: The service is getting a number …

More: Adobe, The Verge, MacRumors, The Next Web, CNET, 9to5Mac, Engadget, PHOTOSHOP.COM BLOG and SlashGear

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Kaleidescape Movie Store opens with Warner and UltraViolet, promises Blu-ray quality and extras — We got a peek at Kaleidescape's digital delivery plans at CEDIA earlier this year, but now it's thrown open the doors of its store, letting users of its systems purchase and download movies …

More: Wall Street Journal, CE Pro News Stories, Deadline.com, Los Angeles Times and TheHDRoom

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Singly Launches “App Fabric” Platform For Developers To Speed Up Integrations With Dozens Of Services — Singly, a startup aimed at simplifying the integration of third-party services in both web and mobile applications, is today launching its platform into open beta.

Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Blogging with Medium, the odd new product from Twitter's founders — Can Ev Williams and Biz Stone build a better blog? — Blogging was once heralded as a great equalizer, seizing power from big media gatekeepers and redistributing it to the common internet user.

Noel Randewich / Reuters:

Intel says on track to launch smaller mobile chips — (Reuters) - Intel presented new manufacturing technology that it said keeps it on track to launch a new generation of chips for smartphones and tablets as it rushes to catch up with Qualcomm and other rivals in the fast-growing mobile market.

More: Wall Street Journal, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, Engadget, Gizmodo and bit-tech.net

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