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December 4, 2013, 1:40 AM

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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, Mashable, The Verge, Business Insider and PhoneArena

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

John Markoff / New York Times:

Andy Rubin heads up a new robotics effort in Google that includes seven acquisitions to date — Google Puts Money on Robots, Using the Man Behind Android — PALO ALTO, Calif. — In an out-of-the-way Google office, two life-size humanoid robots hang suspended in a corner.

More: The Verge, AllThingsD, 9to5Google, The Next Web and Hunter Walk

Tweets: @percival, @laurengoode, @sacca, @jasonkincaid, @hunterwalk, @percival, @technogasms, @mikeisaac, @caseynewton and @caseynewton

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: CNET, 9to5Mac, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, Android Beat, Ubergizmo, Phandroid, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Android Authority, 9to5Google, AppleInsider and Engadget

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

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

John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:

Apple+Topsy: It's Not About Twitter (And Twitter Is Probably Cool With That)

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

Tweets: @karlbode, @kevinroose and @samfbiddle

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: Computerworld, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Engadget, The Next Web, CNET, I4U News, App Advice, AllThingsD, Ubergizmo 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

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: 9to5Google, The Verge, CNET, Engadget, Android Community and PhoneArena

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Hotfile settles MPAA 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: Techdirt, Variety, Gigaom, Wall Street Journal and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

Twitter IPO Sparks Investor Interest in Social Startups — DataSift Inc., a startup that makes information from social sites easier to manipulate, wasn't planning on raising money this year — until Twitter Inc.'s initial public offering prompted a surge of investor interest.

More: VentureBeat

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Firehose Provider DataSift Raises $42M Led By Insight Venture Partners For Global and Non-Social Ambitions

More: Gigaom, Telegraph, VentureBeat, Digits, VatorNews, Tech Europe, Mashable, Tech City News and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @jasoncosta. Thanks:@ingridlunden

Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom:

AllCast beta, like AirPlay for Android, goes live in the Play Store — Looking for an easy way to wirelessly stream local content from an Android device to a connected television, video game console or even an Apple TV? Check out AllCast a beta app now available in the Google Play store …

More: Engadget, Koushik Dutta, CITEworld, TechSpot, Android Police, TUAW, Droid Life, Geek.com and MobileSyrup.com

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

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: The Next Web, TechNet Blogs, Digits, Telegraph, Softpedia News, PC Magazine, Cult of Mac, The Verge, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, Pocket-lint, Ubergizmo, BetaNews, The Windows Blog, Mashable, PC World, ABC News and Google Operating System

Amy Gesenhues / Search Engine Land:

New Google Trends Topic Reports Designed To Deliver More Accurate Results — Google Trends is rolling out new topic reports designed to deliver more accurate results, as well as offer topic predictions within the reports. Using Google's example, now when a user searches for “rice” …

More: Inside Search, TechCrunch, WebProNews and The Next Web

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Filemaker releases new version for 2013 with HTML5 data entry, new iOS features and tightened security — Filemaker, a subsidiary of Apple, has just announced its 2013 version of its popular database application. The new version focuses on bringing desktop database solutions to the browser.

More: iMore, Cult of Mac, PadGadget, AppleInsider, iClarified, MacNN, MacRumors and TUAW

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, Computerworld, The Zinx, BGR, Ubergizmo, Android Community, Droid Life, Softpedia News, The Next Web and Phandroid

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 and VG247. Tweets: @parislemon, @bobservo, @parislemon and @bloombergnews

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, @washingtonpost and @sarahkliff

Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:

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

Tweets: @stefaniei

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