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December 13, 2013, 9:50 PM

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Wall Street Journal:

Sprint Preparing a Bid for T-Mobile US — An Offer Would Test U.S. Regulators's Willingness to Have Just 3 Major Carriers — Sprint Corp. is working toward a possible bid for rival T-Mobile US Inc., people familiar with the matter said, setting the stage for a giant telecom merger …

Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claiming Its Release Was Accidental — Yesterday, we published a blog post lauding an extremely important app privacy feature that was added in Android 4.3. That feature allows users to install apps while preventing the app …

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Tweets: @ncweaver, @eff, @csoghoian, @csoghoian and @daviottenheimer

Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac:

iOS 7.1 likely to unlock Apple's upcoming iOS in the Car feature — In July, we reported that Apple was already at work at iOS 7.1 and that it would build in support for the upcoming iOS in the Car feature: … iOS in the Car is a feature that allows customers to attach an iOS device …

More: AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, MacRumors, Redmond Pie, App Advice, GeekSays, GeekSays, iPhone in Canada Blog and everythingiCafe

Washington Post:

By cracking cellphone code, NSA has capacity for decoding private conversations — The cellphone encryption technology used most widely across the world can be easily defeated by the National Security Agency, an internal document shows, giving the agency the means to decode most of the billions …

More: Ars Technica, The Atlantic Online, Gizmodo, The Droid Guy and Mashable

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

iPhones Dominate Sales at All Four Major U.S. Carriers — Apple's latest iPhones are topping the charts at U.S. carriers. — That's the latest from Canaccord Genuity analyst T. Michael Walkley, who says that the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c have been among the top three sellers …

More: 9to5Google, Examiner, FierceMobileIT News, Los Angeles Times, The Droid Guy, SlashGear, 9to5Mac and TUAW

Horace Dediu / asymco.com:

How many Americans will be using an iPhone when the US smartphone market saturates? — As previously noted, the US smartphone market has followed an almost perfectly logistic growth. The measured data (via comScore, in green below) follows a predictive logistic function (thin blue whose formula is discussed here).

More: App Advice and Gigaom

Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:

NSA review to leave spying programs largely unchanged, reports say — A participant in a White House-sponsored review of surveillance activities described as “shameful” an apparent decision to leave most of the National Security Agency's controversial bulk spying intact.

More: Washington Post, The Verge, The Hill, Federal Computer Week, epic.org, Sascha Meinrath, TheHill and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer

Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:

Presidential Task Force Recommends Overhaul of Surveillance Tactics of NSA

More: New York Times, CNET, The Verge, TheHill, Softpedia News, Techdirt, emptywheel, Wired, AllThingsD, CNET, TechCrunch, Daily Dot and Guardian

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Robert McMillan / Wired:

U.S. Government Nastygram Shuts Down One-Man Bitcoin Mint — Mike Caldwell spent years turning digital currency into physical coins. That may sound like a paradox. But it's true. He takes bitcoins — the world's most popular digital currency — and then he mints them here in the physical world.

More: The Verge, CoinDesk, Hit & Run, Geek.com, SiliconANGLE, RT, PC Magazine and Union Square Ventures. Tweets: @binarybits

Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:

Report: Readers who own a Kindle spend $1,233/year on Amazon; those who don't spend $790 — The Amazon Kindle Numbers That Jeff Bezos Must Really Care About — We all know that Amazon's annual touting of its new Kindles as the best-selling Kindles ever has become laughable since the company …

More: Examiner, BetaNews, Fortune, Internet Evolution, GeekWire, Softpedia News and ECPM BLOG

Tweets: @strngwys and @bgurley

Bloomberg:

Verizon close to buying Intel's Internet-based pay-TV startup OnCue, may announce the deal next week — Verizon Said Near Agreement to Buy Intel's Start-Up TV Service — Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) is near an agreement to purchase Intel Corp. (INTC)'s Internet-based pay-TV start-up, according to people familiar with the deal.

More: Electronista, SlashGear and Gigaom. See also Mediagazer

Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News:

Nimble Storage gains more than 60 percent after IPO — SAN JOSE — Wall Street's heavy demand for new Silicon Valley companies has not waned as 2013 draws to a close: Nimble Storage shares flashed higher Friday in their market debut, gaining more than 60 percent.

More: Sequoia Capital, Venture Capital Dispatch, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Business Insider, Reuters, EE Times, VentureBeat, StorageMojo and Pulse 2.0

Matt Hartley / Financial Post:

Canada's Competition Bureau to open formal antitrust investigation against Google — Google Inc facing heat from Competition Bureau over alleged anti-competitive behaviour — Canada's Competition Bureau is proceeding with a formal inquiry into Google Inc.'s search engine and advertising practices …

More: Search Engine Land, Associated Press and Digits

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Appsfire Exits The App Discovery Business To Focus On Mobile Advertising, Native Ads — It's tough to compete with the Apple App Store. Appsfire, which has been in the app discovery business since its founding in 2009, is pulling all its consumer-facing app discovery apps in a week in order …

More: Appsfire Blog and The Next Web

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Flush with cash, Oculus plans ambitious new VR headset — Is virtual reality finally ready for primetime? — According to Oculus Rift inventor Palmer Luckey, virtual reality is near and dear to Marc Andreessen's heart. Twenty years ago — before he created the Mosaic web browser …

More: SlashGear, TechSpot and VentureBeat

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Leaked Facebook Video Ad Pitch Deck Reveals Plans To Steal TV And YouTube Dollars — “Avoid saying anything negative about YouTube - leave the impression of the user experience up to them” Facebook tells its adtech partners in a leaked, confidential deck that teaches them to sell Facebook's video ads.

More: AllFacebook and Business Insider

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