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January 2, 2013, 11:25 PM

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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

Is Apple Plotting A Route To A Waze Acquisition? Rumours On The Road Point To Yes — There can be no doubt that one of the hottest startups of the last couple of years has been social sat-nav smartphone app Waze. Not surprising in an era when - largely due to Apple initially dumping Google Maps …

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Tweets: @peterpham and @mikebutcher

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Apple is partnering with Broadcom to bring super-fast 802.11ac networking to upcoming Macs — While it's believed that Apple's 2013 Mac lineup will feature the same designs as their late-2012 counterparts, they are set to include a range of updated internal features and hardware.

More: PC Magazine, iMore.com, The Register, Business Insider, ZDNet, CNET, TUAW, Ubergizmo, digitaltrends.com, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks and Redmond Pie

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Ubuntu phone OS announced, first devices shipping in early 2014 — As already teased and promised, today Canonical is taking the wraps off the mobile version of Ubuntu, which is built around the existing Android kernel and drivers, but doesn't use a Java Virtual Machine and promises to use “the full power of the phone.”

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Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones, we go hands-on (video)

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Canonical unveils Ubuntu phone OS that doubles as a “full PC”

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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Google Requires People to Use the Google+ Social Network, Gains Ground Against Facebook — Google Inc. is gaining ground against Facebook Inc. thanks to a controversial tactic: requiring people to use the Google+ social network. — Google over the past year has boosted the Google+ operation …

More: BuzzFeed. Tweets: @fxshaw, @gsterling, @brian_frank, @rubinafillion and @counternotions

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Microsoft: Google Is (Still) Blocking Us From Building YouTube for Windows Phone — Microsoft today said that Google executives have blocked a full-featured YouTube app for Windows Phone, via a blog post from one of its chief lawyers. — The company is trying to put a little public antitrust pressure …

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Tweets: @dannysullivan and @dannysullivan

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft resurrects YouTube-Windows Phone compatibility complaint

More: Associated Press, Digits, CNET and InfoWorld

Sara Forden / Bloomberg:

Google Said Set to Resolve FTC Antitrust Probe Tomorrow — Google Inc. (GOOG) will resolve a 20-month antitrust probe by U.S. regulators tomorrow with a voluntary agreement and a consent decree on the company's alleged misuse of patents, three people familiar with the matter said.

More: CNET, Los Angeles Times, 9to5Google, The Next Web, The Verge and Search Engine Land

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

FTC Chairman Pushing for a Google Antitrust Decision This Week

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Brad Linder / Liliputing:

Samsung redesigns the Series 3 Chromebox case, leave specs the same — Samsung is offering a new version of the Series 3 Chromebox, a small desktop computer designed to run Google's Chrome OS operating system. — The new model is called the XE300M22-B01US, and in terms of hardware it's pretty …

More: The Verge, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, SlashGear and Ubergizmo

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Judge can't order Yelp user to edit negative review — Jane Perez accused Christopher Dietz of improperly completing construction work on her property—then she gave him a negative Yelp review. — Jane Perez — The Virginia Supreme Court has overturned a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit …

More: AllThingsD, Public Citizen, The Verge, Techdirt and digitaltrends.com

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple says Do Not Disturb scheduling bug will correct itself automatically after January 7, 2013 — In a support article on its website, Apple has acknowledged that a bug is keeping iOS devices' Do Not Disturb feature active past its scheduled time. It says that the bug will automatically correct itself after January 7, 2013.

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Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Microsoft reportedly acquires home automation startup R2 Studios for Xbox team — We knew that R2 studios, a startup from the creators of the Slingbox that was focused on home automation solutions, had been courting acquisition offers from the likes of Apple and Google …

More: AllThingsD, CNET, GeekWire, Business Insider, Seattle Times and Gizmodo. Tweets: @tomwarren

Jean H. Lee / Associated Press:

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt to visit North Korea — SEOUL, South Korea — Google's (GOOG) executive chairman is preparing to travel to one of the last frontiers of cyberspace: North Korea. — Eric Schmidt will be traveling to North Korea on a private trip led by former New Mexico …

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Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Samsung announces new Series 7 15″ touchscreen laptop and 13″ ultrabook — Samsung has been staggering its CES announcements to arrive early, and it has just announced two Windows 8-based additions to its Series 7 laptop lineup - the Chronos and the Ultra.

More: The Verge, Engadget, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine, PC World, Mashable! and Ubergizmo

Felix Salmon / Reuters:

Avis's smart Zipcar buy — What's the opposite of the winner's curse? It seems that the biggest winner of the Hertz deal to buy Dollar Thrifty for $2.6 billion was actually Hertz's mortal enemy, Avis Budget. — Let's count the ways that the Hertz deal helped Avis: for one thing …

More: PandoDaily, Fortune, GigaOM and Xconomy

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Vehicle rental giant Avis acquires car sharing company Zipcar for $500 million

More: DealBook, Press Center, TechCrunch, Fortune, Forbes, PE Hub Blog, Wired, Associated Press, Skift, Gizmodo, Venture Capital Dispatch, ReadWrite and Xconomy. Tweets: @levie

Karen Gullo / Bloomberg:

Amazon Wins Dismissal of Apple's False Advertising Claim — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) won dismissal of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s claim that the online retailer's use of the term “app store” for Android device software is false advertising. — U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland …

More: CNET, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, BGR, FierceMobileContent News, GeekWire, VentureBeat, PhoneArena, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, Reuters, Examiner, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, TUAW and Reuters. Tweets: @bloombergnews

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Tumblr: David Karp's $800 Million Art Project — David Karp is in the midst of a rite of passage that seems universal for the young tycoons of the Internet's social era: He's buying himself a proper swank pad. And like Mark Zuckerberg's luxe but dowdy $6 million manse in Palo Alto …

More: TechCrunch, Mashable!, SplatF, Business Week, SocialTimes and Betabeat

Tweets: @jwherrman and @alexisohanian

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Andrew Sullivan's Ad-Free Publishing Experiment Sees Six-Figure Revenue In First Six Hours — When political blogger Andrew Sullivan announced this morning that he's leaving The Daily Beast and launching an independent company called Dish Publishing, the most provocative bit of news was his intended business model.

More: The Daily Dish, parislemon, The Verge, Media Decoder and GigaOM. See also Mediagazer

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Patent trolls want $1,000—for using scanners — When Steven Vicinanza got a letter in the mail earlier this year informing him that he needed to pay $1,000 per employee for a license to some “distributed computer architecture” patents, he didn't quite believe it at first.

More: Boing Boing, Techdirt and The Verge

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

GameStick brings a new Android game console to your TV, fits inside its own controller (video) — OUYA likely won't be the only Android-based game console in town this spring. PlayJam is going beyond its smart TV roots to build the GameStick, a TV-based system that fits into a shell …

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