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December 26, 2013, 10:15 AM

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Jenny W. Hsu / Wall Street Journal:

Taiwan fines Apple $667K for influencing carriers' iPhone pricing, can face additional $1.6m if it fails to comply — Taiwan Fines Apple for iPhone Price-Plan Meddling — Island's fair-trade body says Apple told mobile-service providers how to charge for handsets

More: Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Taipei Times, iClarified, ZDNet, Macworld, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, pocketnow.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, App Advice, The Verge, Engadget, CNET and Forbes

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Dogewallet announces Dogecoin theft, a dubious milestone for the new cryptocurrency that started as a joke — Millions Of Dogecoins Stolen In Apparent Heist — Much robbery, so anger, etc. Users of the functional joke currency are reporting emptied wallets.

More: doges.org, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, The Verge, Tech in Asia, TechCrunch, Mashable, Mediaite, The Next Web and Business Insider

Tweets: @daweiner, @cshirky, @fmanjoo, @tmfbiggles, @dcbigjohn, @samir and @russellbrandom

Farhad Manjoo / Wall Street Journal:

The Internet doesn't necessarily have to keep our digital effluvia around forever. Do we want it to be erasable? — The Internet doesn't necessarily have to keep our digital effluvia around forever, and Snapchat has proved it. Do we want an erasable Internet?

More: BGR and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @fmanjoo, @stevesi and @hunterwalk

Adam Harrington / CBS New York:

Target Denies Report That PINs Were Stolen In Data Breach — NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Target on Tuesday denied a report claiming that personal identification numbers were also stolen in a data breach that affected up to 40 million credit cards. — A Reuters report Tuesday quoted …

More: Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, CNNMoney.com, BGR, TwinCities.com, TIME and ABC News. Tweets: @netik

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Rescator.la, a major marketplace for cards stolen in Target hack, linked to Ukrainian man

More: Gigaom, NBCNews, NYT Bits, The Verge, Computerworld and Business Insider

Tweets: @rsarver, @briankrebs, @0xali and @mattbraga

Dan Rowinski / ReadWrite:

The Majority Of Porn In The United States Is Viewed On Smartphones — If you needed any more evidence that the era of ubiquitous computing is upon us, here is one stat that shows us how prevalent smartphones and tablets have become to the daily lives of people everywhere …

More: Pornhub Insights, Quartz, Gizmodo, BuzzFeed and Forbes. See also Mediagazer

Shelly Banjo / Wall Street Journal:

Online retailers mine transaction data to discourage returns, a growing problem — Rampant Returns Plague E-Retailers — Sellers Suggest Sizes and Redirect Discounts to Break Bad Habits — Free shipping and lenient return policies have given online retailing a huge boost.

More: SlashGear and ABC News. Tweets: @notaxation

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

KakaoTalk is used by 93% of South Korean smartphone owners, expects $200M revenue in 2013 — With $200 Million in Revenue, South Korea's Top Messaging App Is All Smiley Faces — In South Korea, there's no escaping KakaoTalk. The country has a smartphone penetration rate of 73 percent …

Tweets: @papadimitriou. Thanks:@electricwaffles

Kana Inagaki / Wall Street Journal:

Sony, Panasonic Call Off OLED TV Tie-Up — TOKYO— Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. have decided to call off a tie-up in developing production technology for big and ultrathin televisions, underscoring the challenges of bringing the next-generation TVs to the mass market.

More: VentureBeat, The Verge, asia.nikkei.com, Engadget, TechRadar.com and Reuters

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Google punishes Rap Genius in search ranking for SEO practices, founders seek resolution — Google Destroys Rap Genius' Search Rankings As Punishment For SEO Spam, But Resolution In Progress — Google hit back hard today after it learned lyrics site Rap Genius had been using dubious SEO tricks to attain top spots in search results.

More: Business Insider, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Roundtable, PandoDaily, Valleywag, The Verge, SEO Book, Valleywag and Rap Genius

Tweets: @dannysullivan, @levie, @mikeisaac, @startupljackson and @qthrul

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