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December 11, 2012, 12:55 PM

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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 …

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: Mercury News, 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: CNET, 9to5Google, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, Business Insider, AllThingsD, Engadget, SiliconBeat, AndroidGuys, iPhone Hacks, FierceWireless, iClarified, Gizmodo, The Verge, MobileBurn.com, iDownloadBlog.com and PhoneArena

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 …

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.

Chitika Insights:

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, App Advice, Pocketnow, WebProNews and PhoneArena. Tweets: @theromit

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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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: CNET, ZDNet, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, 9to5Google and Softpedia News

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).

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: CNET, VentureBeat, Facebook Newsroom, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Inside Facebook, ABCNEWS, Engadget, GigaOM and Electronista

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 registration company, has hired former Yahoo Chief Product Officer and Microsoft exec Blake Irving to be its new CEO. — The privately-held Scottsdale …

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Reuters, Business Insider, Mashable, Go Daddy and WebProNews

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Samsung Galaxy S4 will be a no-show at CES — Instead, Samsung will go heavy on the television announcements at next month's Consumer Electronics Show, CNET has learned. — Don't hold your breath for Samsung to unveil the Galaxy S4 any time soon. — The successor to Samsung's blockbuster …

More: ReadWrite, The Next Web, Business Insider, Neowin, Pocketnow, AndroidGuys, Droid Life and Inquirer

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, The Next Web and Out-Law News

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

23andMe Raises $50 Million in New Funding, Adding Yuri Milner as Investor — Personal genomics company 23andMe, Inc. said it had raised more than $50 million in a a new funding round. The new financing includes Russian investor Yuri Milner, as well as existing investors Sergey Brin of Google …

More: Business Wire

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 …

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., VentureBeat, ExtremeTech, CNET, Gizmodo, Neowin, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, MobileBurn.com and PhoneArena

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Touch-enabled Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon with Windows 8 goes on sale from $1,399 — Lenovo has announced a new (and previously leaked) touchscreen version of its ThinkPad X1 Carbon ultrabook. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch is much the same as its predecessor, but comes with Windows 8 pre-loaded along …

More: Lenovo Newsroom, Engadget, BetaNews, Computerworld, The Tech Report, Neowin, GadgeTell, DailyTech, TechSpot, Mashable!, SlashGear and GSMArena Blog

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

47% of consumers interested in Apple television, willing to pay 20% premium — A new survey has found consumers are extremely interested in the prospect of an Apple-branded television, and are willing to pay a 20 percent premium over existing TV prices for such a device.

More: iDownloadBlog.com

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

Prioritizing Growth Over Profits, One Kings Lane Raises $50 Million in Capital — One Kings Lane, which sells home decor at a steep discount online, just raised its most significant round of capital yet. — The $50 million round brings the company's total raised to date to $117 million.

More: Betabeat, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Business Insider, internetretailer.com, Forbes, GigaOM and PandoDaily

Kris Holt / Daily Dot:

With Instagram gone from Twitter, Pinterest sneaks in — As Instagram closes its doors to Twitter, Pinterest is taking up the slack. — Pinterest quietly added support for Twitter Cards (i.e., expanded tweets), so you can check out a pin someone's shared on Twitter without actually having to head over to Pinterest itself.

More: Kelly Lieberman and WebProNews

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.

Shounak Dasgupta / Reuters:

Wi-LAN sues RIM for Bluetooth patent infringement — (Reuters) - Patent licensing company Wi-LAN Inc said it has filed a lawsuit against Research In Motion Ltd for infringing on a patent related to Bluetooth technology. — The company said it filed a suit in the U.S. District Court …

More: BGR, wi-lan.com, CNET, DailyTech, Electronista, IntoMobile, SeekingAlpha.com and MobileSyrup.com

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.

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Farmigo Brings Farmer's Markets Online (And Into Your Office) With Its New Local Food Communities, Raises $8M — Back in September 2011, Farmigo took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt and launched its site for discovering and enrolling in Community Supported Agriculture programs …

More: VentureBeat, BetaKit, Wired, AllThingsD, MarketWatch, Co.Exist, The Next Web and Forbes

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

YouTube Brings Guide Interface To Tablets, With Updates To Its Android App And Mobile Web — YouTube has been making a ton of updates to its UI lately, but the video-sharing platform isn't quite ready to call it quits just yet. The company announced on its Google+ page today that it has updated …

More: Google+, SocialTimes, Pocketnow, Android Authority and SlashGear

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: iClarified, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com and Forbes

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, GSMArena Blog and MacRumors

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: BBC, PE Hub Blog and Patently Apple

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