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December 6, 2013, 9:35 AM

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Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:

Apple to begin using iBeacons at 254 US stores enabling in-store notifications in updated app — APPLE GUIDES SHOPPERS INSIDE STORES WITH IBEACON — NEW YORK (AP) — GPS will tell you how to get to the nearest Apple store. With iBeacon, Apple hopes to guide you around once you're inside …

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Spotify Will Launch Limited Free Mobile Access At Dec 11th Event, Source Confirms — Spotify plans to make mobile access to its music service free, The Wall Street Journal reports. Now a source confirms with TechCrunch that the free mobile tier will launch December 11th at a press event in New York.

More: Business Insider, hypebot, I4U News and Android Community

Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:

Spotify to Introduce Free Mobile Music Service

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Tweets: @stuartkhall and @joshconstine

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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Why Microsoft needs three—or more—operating systems — At the moment, Microsoft has a bunch of consumer-facing Windows-derived brands: Windows 8.1 for x86 and x64 PCs, Windows RT for ARM PCs, and Windows Phone for smartphones. According to research firm Canalys, that's at least one too many …

More: Softpedia News

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Verizon quietly unleashes its LTE monster, tripling 4G capacity in major cities — We've already logged a few sightings of Verizon's powerful new LTE network in New York and other cities, but in the last few months Verizon has been rapidly working behind the scenes on upgrading its LTE infrastructure across the country.

More: Verizon Wireless Promotions, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, Electronista, PhoneArena, Ubergizmo, Android Community, Android Central, ZDNet, Phone Scoop and Wall Street Journal. Thanks:@kfitchard

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Ryan Seacrest invests $1 million in Typo iPhone keyboard case, will debut CES 2014 — Ryan Seacrest Wanted a Keyboard for His iPhone, So He Invested $1 Million in One — Well-known entertainment personality and producer Ryan Seacrest said he had invested in a startup, which he also co-founded …

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Tweets: @bla1ze and @panzer

Sruthi Ramakrishnan / Reuters:

Twitter to be available on mobile phones without Internet — (Reuters) - Twitter Inc is tying up with a Singapore-based startup to make its 140-character messaging service available to users in emerging markets who have entry-level mobile phones which cannot access the Internet.

More: Engadget, AllThingsD, Digital Trends, PalmAddict, Mashable, BGR India, Softpedia News, CNET and The Next Web. Tweets: @kenyanpundit

Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Bank of America says Bitcoin could become a ‘major means of payment’ — Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch issued the bank's first research report today on Bitcoin, the virtual currency that approximates cash on the internet, concluding that the currency has the potential to become a …

More: SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, DealBook, Forbes and The Register

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:

Bitcoin Boom Spreads to IPhones With Mobile-Payment Apps: Tech

Tweets: @gli_ph

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

To Comply With FDA, 23andMe Won't Give New Customers Genetic Analysis — The personal genetics startup 23andMe announced this evening that it will stop giving new customers genetic analysis information, after being warned by the FDA over compliance issues. — It is not discontinuing sales …

More: CNET, Business Wire, Engadget, TechCrunch, Washington Post, Business Insider, Forbes, AllThingsD and David Dobbs's NEURON CULTURE

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

David Cameron offers UK Exceptional Talent visa route to tech leaders, as Tech City gets 300Mbps 4G — British Prime Minister David Cameron will allow Tech City, a government-backed body that promotes technology companies across London, to begin working with the Home Office …

More: Techworld.com, Guardian, ZDNet, Guardian, The Register, Telegraph and Tech City News

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Apple Puts iOS 7 Adoption At 74% Based On App Store Usage Numbers — Apple has just updated its developer website for the iOS App Store to show the distribution of devices on different versions of iOS, and iOS 7 now commands a significant league, with 74 percent of devices using …

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google's Voice Search On Android And iOS Can Now Answer Questions In German, French And Japanese — Google has long had a thing for voice search, but until now, the only language it fully supported was English. Even though voice search itself is available for a few dozen languages …

More: Inside Search, The Next Web, MobileBurn.com, Softpedia News, Android Central, IntoMobile, App Advice, I4U News, Engadget, Geeky Gadgets, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, Android Beat, CNET, Search Engine Land, Electronista and 9to5Mac

Jeremy Kirk / PC World:

‘ZeroAccess’ click-fraud botnet disrupted, but not dead yet — Microsoft and law enforcement agencies said Thursday that they disrupted a botnet that defrauded online advertisers of US$2.7 million a month but that the malicious network hasn't been completely eliminated.

More: The Official Microsoft Blog, Microsoft Corporation, The Register, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Krebs on Security, Inquirer, BetaNews, BBC, SlashGear and ZDNet

Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times:

New cybersecurity boom arrives in Silicon Valley — Venture capital firms are pumping funding into security start-ups, which are getting gobbled up by big companies that see cybersecurity as a source of new revenue. — During Hewlett-Packard's most recent earnings report …

More: The Switch. Tweets: @marladickerson

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

BitTorrent Sync doubles users in a single month, growing ‘2 times as fast as Dropbox’ — On Nov. 5, BitTorrent Sync, the free “private cloud” solution to syncing files between your desktop, laptop, and mobile devices, hit one million users. Today, the company announced that it has hit two million users.

More: The Official BitTorrent Blog, The Next Web, BetaNews, InfoWorld and Digital Trends. Tweets: @calebgarling

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Instagram invites press to ‘share a moment’ at NYC event — CNET today received a mysterious invite — sent via FedEx, not e-mail — from Instagram for an event it's hosting next week. — The package, wrapped with brown paper and a white ribbon, contained a wooden block …

More: SiliconANGLE, SocialTimes, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, Android Beat, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, App Advice, SlashGear and iClarified

Tweets: @nitrogram and @sfiegerman

Thanks:@jbruin

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Heyday App Is a Journal of Your Life That Writes Itself — An iPhone app called Heyday launches today — it compiles a record of its owner's life, based on places visited and photos taken. — This is a topic I've been particularly interested in, as it becomes more evident …

More: Business Insider, The Next Web, USA Today, PandoDaily and peHUB. Tweets: @blader

Stephen Lawson / Computerworld:

Moore's Law isn't making chips cheaper anymore — Regular cost declines with each new generation of silicon are coming to an end — At a wine bar in San Francisco on Wednesday, Broadcom Chairman and CTO Henry Samueli delivered some sobering news: Moore's Law isn't making chips cheaper anymore.

More: Telegraph and TechEye

Bloomberg:

Alan Mulally, considered a candidate for Microsoft CEO, commits to Ford through end of 2014 — Ford's Mulally Not Leaving Company, Board Director Says — Ford Motor Co. (F) Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally, considered one of the leading candidates to take the top job at Microsoft Corp. …

More: Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, The Register, Softpedia News, Computerworld, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Electronista, Ubergizmo, Quartz, CNNMoney.com, CNET, Digits, BGR India and Gigaom. Tweets: @harrymccracken

The Information:

Employee Stock Sales Boom, As Square Considers One at $5 Billion — Across Silicon Valley, employees are cashing out. — For years, the Valley's conventional wisdom has held that allowing employees to sell some stock before an initial public offering would reduce their drive and hurt retention.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @ericnewcomer, @jessicalessin, @scottmaustin and @jessicalessin

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