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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Instagram Business Lead Emily White to Be Named COO of Snapchat — Emily White, the Facebook executive in charge of bringing advertising to its Instagram photo-sharing unit, is leaving to become COO of Snapchat. — The move is a major talent grab by the ephemeral photo and video mobile service …

More: Digits, The Next Web, CNET, The Verge, Business Insider, PhoneArena and PandoDaily

Tweets: @ischafer, @jguynn, @dannysullivan, @alexia, @ksimm, @jess, @mikeisaac, @felixgillette and @orbuch

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google is building Chrome apps support for Android and iOS, beta release coming as soon as January 2014 — Google is working on bringing Chrome packaged apps from the desktop to the mobile world. The company is currently building a toolkit to help developers create Chrome apps for Android and iOS …

More: 9to5Mac, Engadget, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, Phandroid, 9to5Google, SlashGear, PhoneArena and Android Authority

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Chrome Beta Gets New Tools For Mobile Development With Better Viewport Emulation, Screencast-Enabled Remote Debugging

More: Chromium Blog, Gigaom, The Next Web and Engadget

Ben Popper / The Verge:

UPS researching its own delivery drones to compete with Amazon's Prime Air — Flying parcel-carriers are the next logical frontier for delivery companies — Amazon made headlines Sunday night when it announced it was working on small drones that could someday deliver customers packages in half an hour or less.

More: TechCrunch, ABC News, VentureBeat, VatorNews, Pocket-lint, Examiner, stratechery, GeekWire, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, Nextgov, Engadget, Geek.com, Los Angeles Times, Gotta Be Mobile, Salon, Quartz, Business Insider and WebProNews

Tweets: @karlbode, @kevinroose and @samfbiddle

Marcus Wohlsen / Wired:

Amazon's warehouses are currently too far from customers to make same-day drone delivery feasible

More: Bloomberg, Forbes, Network World, AnandTech, Yahoo! News and All Points Blog. Tweets: @benedictevans

Hans Ku / Ptch Blog:

Dreamworks-incubated video-creation app Ptch acquired by Yahoo, shutting down January 2 — Ptch Joins Yahoo! — We launched Ptch just over a year ago. Our passion and our mission was to give you the best way to make and share beautiful movies made from the photos and videos on your phone.

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, Engadget, CNET, AllThingsD, The Next Web and bizjournals. Tweets: @hansku. Thanks:@hunterwalk

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Honda integrates iPhone w/ 2014 Civic touchscreen in first steps towards iOS in the Car — Honda is introducing two new technologies in its new 2014 Civic that will make it easier for iPhone users to interact with content in the car in its first steps towards Apple's iOS in the Car.

More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, CNET, MacStories, Gigaom, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW and Electronista. Thanks:@jordankahn

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Considered Buying Topsy, Too — Here's Why It Didn't Happen — Apple just spent a bunch of money on social analytics company Topsy. And while everyone has good guesses on what Apple wants from Topsy, no one seems to know for sure. — But before Apple, Topsy had at least …

More: AllTwitter, GeekWire, Business Cloud News, Business Insider and ReadWrite. Tweets: @mikeisaac

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Future iPhones may unlock, hide messages based on a user's face — Apple on Tuesday was granted a patent that uses facial recognition technology to control a computing device, like an iPhone, iPad or Mac, allowing for a more secure and productive operating environment. — Source: USPTO

More: The Register, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, CNET, Gigaom, everythingiCafe, TechnoBuffalo, MacRumors, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Redmond Pie, Telegraph, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, VentureBeat, TUAW, bizjournals, MacNN and Phones Review

Washington Post:

Officials estimate a third of people enrolled through HealthCare.gov affected by system errors — Health-care enrollment on Web plagued by bugs — The enrollment records for a significant portion of the Americans who have chosen health plans through the online federal insurance marketplace …

More: ABC News, ThinkProgress, The Wire and The Week

Tweets: @shawnanbcnews, @sarahkliff, @sarahkliff and @washingtonpost

Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:

The Agency Running HealthCare.gov Mostly Kept to Itself as Warning Signs Grew About the Website

Tweets: @stefaniei

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Hotfile settles copyright case, agrees to $80 million in damages — Six days before movie studios were set to begin a jury trial over alleged copyright violations by the “cyberlocker” site Hotfile, the case has settled. Hotfile has agreed to pay $80 million and to stop operating …

More: TorrentFreak, The Verge, Gigaom and Variety. See also Mediagazer

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

YouTube's Music Subscription Service Won't Show Up This Year — Waiting for YouTube's subscription music service? You're going to have to be patient. — The video service, which is already the biggest free music service in the world, had planned on launching a paid service this year.

More: The Verge

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

VSCO Cam brings its simple interface and powerful photo-editing tools to Android — Free app gives users yet another way to tweak and share their photos — After an extended beta test period, VSCO Cam for Android is now available to download from the Google Play Store.

More: Engadget, VSCO, BGR, Android Community, Ubergizmo, Computerworld, Droid Life, The Zinx, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Phandroid and SlashGear

Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …:

How does the NSA break SSL? — A few weeks ago I wrote a long post about the NSA's ‘BULLRUN’ project to subvert modern encryption standards. I had intended to come back to this at some point, since I didn't have time to discuss the issues in detail. But then things got in the way.

Tweets: @dennisf, @csoghoian and @glynmoody

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Square acquires Viewfinder so sellers can create ‘personal, human experiences’ for their customers — Square has acquired Viewfinder, a company specializing in helping you “organize, share, and relive memories” with friends and loved ones. The move will see Viewfinder eventually shut …

More: Square Engineering Blog, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, VatorNews, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Gigaom, Engadget, WebProNews and AllThingsD

Bloomberg:

Nintendo Seen Missing Target as Sony-Microsoft Dwarf Wii U — Nintendo Co. (7974)'s prospects for meeting its profit and sales forecasts for this year are diminishing after Sony Corp. (6758) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) each sold more game consoles in 24 hours than the Wii U maker did in nine months.

More: BGR, VG247 and Tech Trader Daily

Tweets: @parislemon, @parislemon, @bobservo and @bloombergnews

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix Changes Binge Release Strategy for DreamWorks Turbo Show — When Netflix started its big push into original TV shows this year, it played up its binge-friendly strategy: Each time the streaming service debuted a new show, like “House of Cards”, it released a season's worth of episodes in one day.

More: The Next Web, News Release Archive, CNNMoney.com, Engadget, The Verge and GeekWire

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

NORAD and Microsoft team on a touch-friendly Santa Claus web tracker — NORAD's Santa Claus tracking has officially entered the tablet era. The defense agency has teamed up with Microsoft on an updated web-based tracker that's designed for touch-friendly browsers, including Internet Explorer 11.

More: Digits, TechNet Blogs, Telegraph, BetaNews, Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, The Verge, AllThingsD, The Windows Blog, Mashable, PC World, ABC News and Google Operating System. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

Spotify opens up analytics in effort to prove its worth to doubting musicians — Streaming music firm opens Spotify Artists website and claims when it reaches 40m subscribers, even ‘niche indie albums’ will earn $17k a month — Streaming music service Spotify is hoping to win …

More: Spotify for Artists, Digits, TechRadar.com, Computerworld, The Independent, Wall Street Journal, ReadWrite, Music Ally, Salon, SFWeekly, Inquirer, TechSpot, Evolver.fm, hypebot, Ars Technica, Electronista, SiliconBeat, Telegraph, Music Week, I4U News, Engadget, The Next Web, Digital Music News, The Verge, Gigaom and SlashGear. Tweets: @bwerde. Thanks:@stuartdredge. See also Mediagazer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Intel Makes Another Acquisition: Hacker League, A Platform For Hackathons, Is Now A Part Of Mashery — Intel's acquisition spree continues apace, with the latest being made to augment one of its other recent acquisitions. It is buying Hacker League, a popular platform for managing hackathons …

More: PandoDaily, Digits, ZDNet, ProgrammableWeb and The Next Web. Tweets: @swiftalphaone

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