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December 11, 2012, 3:05 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: Reuters, Mercury News, 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: SiliconBeat, CNET, SlashGear, 9to5Google, Engadget, IntoMobile, 9to5Mac, Pocketnow, AndroidGuys, iPhone Hacks, Electronista, Business Insider, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, MobileBurn.com and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @googlejobs

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 …

More: CNET, Engadget, PC World, PC Magazine, InfoWorld, VentureBeat, The Verge, InvestorPlace, MacRumors, BGR, TUAW, iLounge, iClarified, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks and PadGadget

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: ZDNet, AllThingsD, Daring Fireball, Marketing Land, iDownloadBlog.com, TechCrunch, App Advice and Pocketnow. Tweets: @theromit

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, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, AllThingsD, Phones Review, Gotta Be Mobile, Electronista, Neowin and Pocketnow

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.

More: BetaNews, PC Magazine, Engadget, BuzzFeed, Wired, GeekWire, FlowingData, Washington Post, VatorNews, VentureBeat, memeburn, Mashable and Marketing Pilgrim

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, FierceCIO:TechWatch News and Softpedia News

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Intel intros Atom S1200 SoC for enterprise apps, data centers — Summary: Unveiling its latest technology for data centers, Intel talks up the potential benefits alongside execs from HP and Facebook. — Rachel King — SAN FRANCISCO — In one of its final announcements of the year …

More: VentureBeat, Engadget, Data Center Knowledge, GigaOM, Inquirer, PC Advisor, HotHardware.com News and WebProNews

Noel Randewich / Reuters:

Intel says on track to launch smaller mobile chips

More: digitaltrends.com, dailywireless.org, Wall Street Journal and Gotta Be Mobile

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 …

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.

More: Twitter Status, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Guardian, Computerworld, MobileSyrup.com, CNET, NBC Bay Area, HotHardware.com News, CNN, Telegraph, SocialTimes, Lifehacker, T3 News and ITProPortal. See also Mediagazer

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: Facebook Newsroom, CNET, Inside Facebook, ABCNEWS, Engadget, GigaOM and Electronista

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., Examiner, MobileBurn.com, ExtremeTech, VentureBeat, DailyTech, TechSpot, Daring Fireball, CNET, Neowin and Tim Anderson's ITWriting

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, The Tech Report, Neowin, DailyTech and Mashable!

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: The Seattle Times, Data Center Knowledge, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Go Daddy, Reuters and Business Insider

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: Macgasm and 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: TechCrunch, Betabeat, VentureBeat, GigaOM and internetretailer.com

Chris Rayner / Bing:

The Bing Social Sidebar Gets a New Look — At Bing, we realize that sometimes the most useful information doesn't come from ten blue links. By bringing together knowledge from social networks with traditional web results, Bing is the only engine that saves you time allowing you to make decisions …

More: LiveSide.net, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, WinBeta and TechNet Blogs

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Rovio Grabs A Producer And Says It Will Finance The Upcoming Angry Birds Film Itself — A feature-length Angry Birds film is making baby steps forward. — The game's maker Rovio acknowledged that it will be producing and financing the film itself and that it picked up another producer in John Cohen …

More: rovio.com, PC Magazine, The Verge, nbcnews.com, WebProNews, TUAW and SlashGear

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: European Parliament, The Verge, Associated Press, Bloomberg and The Next Web

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, VentureBeat and GigaOM

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

With Over 400,000 Users, Social Media Manager Buffer Gets A Refresh On Web & Mobile, Moves Away From Being A Destination Site — Buffer, the social media manager that allows you to schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, is today launching a redesign of its service on both web and mobile.

More: The Next Web, VentureBeat, AllFacebook and The Buffer blog

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs At Yammer, Box, Yelp And Dropbox — Y Combinator company ZenPayroll launched its cloud-based payroll service today with $6.1 million in seed funding from Google Ventures and investments from the CEOs at Yammer, Box, Yelp and Dropbox.

More: The Next Web, PandoDaily, Venture Capital Dispatch, Business Insider, BetaKit, SiliconBeat, GigaOM and MarketWatch

Politico:

FTC expected to settle Google patent case — After months of negotiations, federal regulators and Google could reach a deal as soon as this week over how the search company uses its acquired stock house of patents to target its competitors, according to sources close to the investigation.

More: Ars Technica and Hillicon Valley

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, MarketWatch, Co.Exist and Forbes

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's latest patent licensee: Android embedded device maker Hoeft & Wessel — Summary: Microsoft has signed a patent-licensing deal with Hoeft & Wessel AG, a German maker of Android-based devices and terminals for a variety of vertical markets. — Microsoft has struck yet another …

More: Microsoft, Microsoft, Seattle Times, Computerworld and The Next Web

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