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December 27, 2013, 6:50 AM

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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Christmas shoppers on iOS outspent Android users by more than 5 to 1, according to IBM — Apple's iOS Completely Blew Away Google's Android For Shopping On Christmas — Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, continues to blow away Google's Android in mobile commerce, according to IBM analytics.

More: IBM, iMore, MacRumors, AppleInsider and VoIP Watch

Tweets: @stevesi, @monkbent and @john_frankel

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

As New Services Track Habits, the E-Books Are Reading You — SAN FRANCISCO — Before the Internet, books were written — and published — blindly, hopefully. Sometimes they sold, usually they did not, but no one had a clue what readers did when they opened them up. Did they skip or skim?

More: Mediashift, TechEye and RatcliffeBlog. Tweets: @suzannespecnyt. See also Mediagazer

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Christmas delayed: Amazon offers $20 gift cards, refunds shipping charges after UPS and FedEx problems — Didn't get what you expected under the tree? It's probably marooned in a package delivery center. — Following widespread complaints about absent packages, Amazon …

More: internetretailer.com, Bloomberg, Business Insider, BestTechie, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, WebProNews, BGR, SlashGear, louisgray.com, IntoMobile, The Next Web and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @jeff_jordan

Shelly Banjo / Wall Street Journal:

Surge of online orders causes fulfillment, delivery delays, frustrates customers on Christmas

More: UPS, BetaNews, TechnoBuffalo, Corporate Intelligence, AllThingsD, VatorNews, InvestorPlace, The Verge, USA Today, VoIP Watch and Business Insider

Tweets: @levie and @eholmeswsj

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Amazon's “best ever” season saw 1M new Prime members in one week, 426 items sold per second — Amazon Prime tops 20 million members as company touts its best holiday season ever — Amazon is exiting the 2013 holiday season with “tens of millions” of Amazon Prime members …

More: Amazon.com, AllThingsD, The Verge, Softpedia News, Gigaom, NYT Bits, Yahoo! News, Benzinga, Marketing Pilgrim, Businessweek, Mashable, CNET, Businessweek, Gigaom and The Next Web

Tweets: @zseward and @zseward

Thanks:@belril. See also Mediagazer

Christopher Mims / Quartz:

2013: mobiles stagnated, wearables a letdown, arrogance of tech's ruling class increased — 2013 was a lost year for tech — All in, 2013 was an embarrassment for the entire tech industry and the engine that powers it—Silicon Valley. Innovation was replaced by financial engineering …

More: Nextgov and bloc note. Tweets: @alexia, @ktbenner, @nytimesbits, @karaswisher, @jeffturner, @jennydeluxe, @samfbiddle, @jayrosen_nyu and @rr

Ryan Huang / ZDNet:

Bitcoin exchanges suspend operations in India amid govt warning — Summary: India's Bitcoin trading platforms, including the largest, have suspended services following a recent public warning by the central bank over the risks of virtual currencies. — India's largest bitcoin trading platform …

More: dna, RBI, The Next Web, The Econonomic Times, CoinDesk, SlashGear, The Hindu, The Financial Express, The Tell and Tech in Asia. Tweets: @pirateorg

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Plain Vanilla Games, Maker Of Ultra-Hot Trivia App QuizUp, Raises Another $22 Million From Sequoia — Plain Vanilla Games, the company behind ultra-hot trivia app QuizUp, has raised a $22 million Series B Round of financing. The financing was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation …

More: Betabeat, The Next Web, Venture Capital Dispatch, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, The Verge, AllThingsD and StartupBook

Tweets: @startupljackson, @caseynewton and @semil

Thanks:@chrisvelazco

Grant Gross / PC World:

CTIA website shows mobile app data usage — A new website launched by mobile trade group CTIA shows smartphone and tablet users how much data is used by popular apps. — KnowMyApp.org, unveiled by CTIA Thursday, allows mobile device owners to estimate an app's data usage before it's downloaded.

More: AppleInsider, Engadget, Broadcasting & Cable and Android Community

David Hamilton / Web Host Industry Review:

China Unicom Launches Chinese Cloud Computing Service ‘Wo Cloud’ — Chinese telecom China Unicom has launched a full-service cloud computing and big data brand called “Wo-Cloud” built on OpenStack open-source cloud software and delivered from data centers in Hohhot and Langfang.

More: Gigaom and Talkin' Cloud

Farhad Manjoo / Wall Street Journal:

Snapchat's popularity shows we all may want a more erasable Internet — 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.

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

Steve Dent / Engadget:

LG mum on smartwatch rumors, but confirms that a wearable device is coming — Amidst rumors of 2K displays and octa-core CPUs for the LG G3, the Korea Herald has just added another: The upcoming smartphone will come with a G-Arch smartwatch and G-Health fitness band.

More: The Korea Heald, Softpedia News, WebProNews, VentureBeat, Droid Life, TechnoBuffalo, TechnoBuffalo, MobileSyrup.com and Yahoo! News. Tweets: @liliputingnews

Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal:

China's Telecom Regulator Awards Virtual Telecom Licenses to 11 Companies — BEIJING—China's telecom regulator has awarded licenses to 11 private companies to run mobile telecom businesses based on services leased from China's state-run carriers. — The new licenses mark a concrete policy change …

More: Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, The Next Web, CHINAdaily, Investor's Business Daily, ZDNet and Reuters. Tweets: @benedictevans

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