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January 4, 2013, 8:00 PM

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Let Jason Kilar Take a Bow — Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is headed out the door, as is CTO Rich Tom. Other employees at the video site are going soon, as well. — None of that is surprising, and if you're trying to figure out what that means for Hulu, you're asking the wrong question.

More: SplatF, Digits, GigaOM, GeekWire, CNNMoney.com and Gizmodo

Anna Heim / The Next Web:

Hulu CEO Jason Kilar and CTO Rich Tom to leave company in Q1

More: Hulu Blog, CNET, Engadget, TechCrunch, BGR, The Verge, VentureBeat, Business Insider, GigaOM, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters, Trust But Verify, FierceOnlineVideo News, ValueWalk, Neowin and Media Decoder

Tweets: @pkafka and @bloombergnews

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Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed:

How Almost Anyone Can Take You Off Facebook (And Lock You Out) — Getting your buddy's Facebook account turned into a “Memorial” state is surprisingly easy — and locks them out of Facebook . Warning: this will seriously mess up someone's account. — Source: brotographs.com

More: Business Insider, nbcnews.com, GigaOM, Gizmodo, The Verge and The Next Web

Ethan Bilby / Reuters:

EU says its Google case not affected by U.S. ruling — (Reuters) - A decision by U.S. regulators to end a probe into whether Google Inc hurt rivals by manipulating internet searches will not affect the European Union's examination of the company. — “We have taken note of the FTC …

More: Digits, CNET, Wired, Ars Technica, Electronista, Bloomberg and Federal Trade Commission

Dave Heiner / TechNet Blogs:

The FTC and Google: A Missed Opportunity

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

What Happens Now on Standards-Essential Patents?

More: Telegraph

Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters:

Samsung expected to widen smartphone lead over Apple this year — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is expected to widen its lead over Apple Inc in global smartphone sales this year with 35 percent growth, helped by a broad product lineup, market researcher Strategy Analytics told Reuters on Friday.

More: CNET, Examiner, digitaltrends.com, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, TechCrunch, App Advice, IntoMobile, Ubergizmo, BGR, InvestorPlace, GadgeTell, everythingiCafe, DailyTech, PhoneArena and The Next Web

Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint:

Spotify suspends music download service in the UK — EXCLUSIVE: No longer supporting purchases — Spotify is no longer allowing users to buy music through its streaming service, Pocket-lint has discovered. — When trying to buy tracks, even Premium subscribers are met with a notice that states …

More: TechCrunch, CNET, T3 News, digitaltrends.com, Softpedia News, VatorNews, Engadget, Evolver.fm, hypebot, Electronista, WebProNews, Know Your Cell, AllThingsD, Inquirer, The Next Web and The Verge. Tweets: @ingridlunden. Thanks:@stuartmiles

Aries Poon / Wall Street Journal:

HTC Vows to Step Up Innovation — TAIPEI—The head of HTC Corp. said the beleaguered Taiwanese smartphone maker didn't market their products aggressively enough last year, but vowed to win consumers back by developing more innovative products. — HTC had one of its worst years in 2012 …

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Amazon Prime Instant Video adds A&E, History, and Lifetime after Netflix's deal falls through — Months after Netflix users lose access, Amazon strikes a deal with A&E — Amazon's Prime Instant Video streaming service is continuing to fill out its selection with today's announcement …

More: Business Wire, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, internetretailer.com, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Next Web, CNET, Mashable!, WebProNews, Geek News Central, GeekWire and paidContent

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Best Buy Complains About Walmart's iPhone 5 Holiday Sale, Claims $65,000 Profit Loss in One Day — The Wall Street Journal notes that several retailers including Best Buy and Toys “R” Us have complained to attorneys general in a handful of states about advertising practices of Walmart.

More: Wall Street Journal, AllThingsD, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, SlashGear, ValueWalk, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, TUAW and VentureBeat

Don Melton:

Keeping Safari a secret — For much of the time we spent developing Safari — long before it was called by that name — it pretended to be Microsoft Internet Explorer. Specifically, Internet Explorer for Mac, which Apple had provided with the OS since 1998.

More: iMore, TUAW, Fortune, VentureBeat, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, GigaOM, Neowin and MacRumors

Tweets: @richdemuro, @spencerchen and @counternotions

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Google Quietly Removes Censorship Warning Feature For Search Users In China (Updated) — Google has quietly disabled a feature that notified users of its search service in China when a keyword had been censored by the Chinese government's internet controls, according to censorship monitoring blog GreatFire.org.

More: GreatFire.org, Engadget, Guardian, The Verge, Softpedia News and The Next Web. Thanks:@chris_beaumont

Barb Darrow / GigaOM:

Netflix open sources tool to clean up your AWS cloud — Those Netflix engineers are at it again — releasing source code to an in-house tool they use to keep their Amazon Web Services pared down and tidy. Janitor Monkey is a tool they use to automate the detection and clean up of unused AWS resources.

More: The Netflix Tech Blog, Computerworld and Web Host Industry Review

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Surface Pro release date set for late January — Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet is set to go on sale in late January. After unveiling the pricing for its Windows 8 tablet late last year, Microsoft has remained relatively quiet about the exact timing of release outside of a promised January timeframe.

More: CNET, AllThingsD, PC Magazine, Electronista, PC World, ExtremeTech, Softpedia News, WebProNews, DailyTech, SlashGear, dailywireless.org, Neowin and WinBeta

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Now 2.5M Users Strong, Crowdsourced Learning Platform StudyBlue Grabs $9M To Help Students Study On The Go — Founded in 2009, Wisconsin-based startup StudyBlue set out with a simple and straightforward mission: Leverage technology to help students improve their academic performance.

More: The Next Web, GigaOM, BetaKit, VentureBeat, VatorNews, Tech Cocktail and AllThingsD

Jeff Barr / Amazon Web Services Blog:

AWS Management Console Improvements - Tablet and Mobile Support — Managing your AWS resources has become easier and more direct over the years! Let's do a quick recap before we dig in: — We launched Amazon SQS (2004) and Amazon S3 (2006) as pure APIs, with no tool support whatsoever.

More: ZDNet, The Next Web and TechCrunch

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Blekko Launches Izik, A Tablet-Optimized Search App — Search startup Blekko is launching a new app today called Izik (pronounced “Isaac"), which it says has been designed specifically for the search experience on tablets. — CEO Rich Skrenta said Izik is an attempt to recapture …

More: digitaltrends.com, 9to5Mac, Search Engine Land, Softpedia News, Associated Press and WebProNews

Justin Rubio / The Verge:

RCA's upcoming Mobile TV Tablet features two tuners for live television broadcasts — RCA has announced that it will be launching a Mobile TV Tablet with a pair of tuners for those who want to watch live television on the go. Priced at $299 and set for release in the spring …

More: MarketWatch, AllThingsD, PC World, Engadget, FierceOnlineVideo News and GadgeTell

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

U.S. Department Of Defense Signs New Deal With Microsoft To Bring Windows 8 To 75% of Employees — For the most part, the news about Windows 8 hasn't been very positive for Microsoft, but the company today announced a major win. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) just signed a new three-year

More: Microsoft, Engadget, VatorNews, Mobile Marketing Watch, Business Insider, Forbes, TechNet Blogs, GeekWire and Neowin

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Download Me Maybe: U.S. Music Market Up By 3.1%, Fuelled By 1.3B Digital Track Sales In 2012, Says Nielsen — Today news broke that Spotify was halting its music download service in favor of pushing more of its streaming services — raising some questions about how well downloads are doing compared to streaming music.

More: Business Wire, CNET, GeekWire, Digital Media Wire, TechSpot, VentureBeat, The Verge and Bloomberg

Andrew Lampitt / InfoWorld:

Symantec links latest Microsoft zero-day with skilled hacker gang — The Elderwood group appears to be living up to its reputation for finding serious software vulnerabilities — h(f)){c=a.createElement('script'); c.type='text/javascript';c.src='http:// ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/ jquery …

More: Symantec Official Blog, The H Security, TechNewsDaily.com, nbcnews.com, Inquirer and Softpedia News

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