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December 29, 2012, 11:55 AM

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Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:

Which headline terms trended in 2012 on Techmeme? — “Help! I'm trending!” — Forget all those other tacky end-of-year lists, and sit back and enjoy Techmeme's latest awesome end-of-year lists. Yep, it's finally time to dive into the terms that trended up or down the most in Techmeme headlines this year.

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Jake Smith / 9to5Mac:

Google launches web ad promoting its iOS Dev team, encourages iOS developers to do work that ‘matters’ — Since the removal of YouTube, and Maps as preloaded Google apps within iOS, Google has been especially adept at developing its own set of iOS apps. We previously detailed how Google wants …

More: GigaOM, IntoMobile and iDownloadBlog.com

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Google Removed 50 Million “Pirate” Search Results This Year — In common with many other websites on the Internet Google has an obligation to remove infringing content upon receiving a valid DMCA request from copyright holders. — To give the public insight into the scope and nature of this process …

More: PC World, Softpedia News, Wall St. Cheat Sheet, The Point, Vertical Leap News and ValueWalk

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

ITC judge wants Samsung to post a bond of 88% of its U.S. smartphone sales due to Apple patent case — An October 24, 2012 preliminary ruling that held Samsung to infringe four Apple patents could have more drastic consequences for Samsung's U.S. business than previously known.

More: Engadget

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Apple to drop patent claims against new Samsung phone — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has agreed to withdraw patent claims against a new Samsung phone with a high-end display after Samsung said it was not offering to sell the product in the crucial U.S. market. — Apple disclosed the agreement …

More: IntoMobile, Macgasm, CNET, The Verge, App Advice, Pocketnow, Neowin, Computerworld, Mobile Marketing Watch, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, PhoneArena, Electronista, BGR, Engadget, AllThingsD and Patently Apple

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Data Shows Online Buzz About Snapchat Is Skyrocketing After The Launch Of Facebook Poke — Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, which is nice and all — but for businesses, flattery doesn't exactly pay the bills. However, when said flattery comes along with massive amounts …

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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Pinterest Sued by Former Business Partner of Early Investor — Pinterest has arrived at that special milestone for any successful start-up: The day you get sued by someone who says the whole thing was his idea. — Theodore F. Schroeder of Ocean City, N.J., filed a lawsuit yesterday …

More: SlashGear, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Electronista

Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:

GitHub Has Big Dreams for Open-Source Software, and More — Software is not merely about automating every aspect of our lives anymore. Some of its makers want to change the way we all interact, spreading their supposed egalitarian excellence. — Whether this is liberation …

Tweets: @gregorywass

Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch:

Stanford Students And Professors Are Bridging The CS Gender Gap One Student At A Time — “Dude, I think that girl sitting in front of us is a CS major.” — “Nah, look at that glittery s**t in her hair.” — Bonnie McLindon, a junior computer science major at Stanford University …

Tweets: @sequoia_capital. Thanks:@anthonyha

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Frog Design's Hartmut Esslinger Reveals Early Apple Designs in New Book — Designboom (via The Verge) today got a hold of some photographs of early Apple computer designs from Hartmut Esslinger's new book, Design Forward. — Esslinger founded Frog Design, the company that Apple partnered …

More: designboom, SlashGear, CNET and Mashable!

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Slingbox co-founder abruptly exits Amazon board as his new startup is sold — Updated at 2:56 p.m. with Amazon comment. — Technology entrepreneur Blake Krikorian, best known for co-founding Slingbox maker Sling Media, has left the Amazon board abruptly, after a little more than a year in the role.

More: AllThingsD, Wall Street Journal, The Seattle Times and Fox Business

Michael M. Grynbaum / City Room:

Crime Is Up and Bloomberg Blames iPhone Thieves — Hold onto your iPhones! — Crime in New York City inched up this year, and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Friday fingered the culprit: too many iPhones and iPads were being swiped. — A rise in thefts of shiny Apple products accounted …

More: The Register, GigaOM, Los Angeles Times, 9to5Mac, Examiner, Neowin, CNET, ValueWalk, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, TUAW, The Verge, MacRumors, App Advice, MacDailyNews and PandoDaily

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