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December 27, 2013, 7:40 PM

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Daniel Cooper / Engadget:

Nokia pulls Here Maps from the App Store, blames iOS 7 — In the wake of Maps-gate, Nokia was one of several outfits that rushed to Apple's aid with a navigation app of its very own. A year later, however, and that same offering has been yanked from the App Store before it could send a note to its neighbors.

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Target confirms encrypted debit PIN data was stolen during hack — Target has confirmed that encrypted debit card PIN data was stolen as part of the massive hack carried out against the retailer between late November and early December. The company previously admitted that card numbers …

More: Target Pressroom, Gigaom, Engadget, NYT Bits, Computerworld, TechSpot, Gotta Be Mobile, BGR, Business Insider, USA Today, Mashable, Guardian, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, Nextgov, BestTechie, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, WebProNews and Gawker. Tweets: @darylsurat

Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

Facebook ‘dead and buried to teens’, research finds — Comprehensive European research has found that teens are leaving the service in droves - and the biggest deterrent is their parents — Teens are being put off Facebook by friend requests from their parents Getty

More: Wired, The Technology Chronicles, PC Magazine, ReadWrite, VentureBeat, Telegraph, Forbes, SiliconBeat, Digital Media Wire, The Next Web, WebProNews, InvestorPlace, ANIMAL, BetaNews, CNET, Mashable and Business Insider

Tweets: @nxthompson and @digiphile

Om Malik / Gigaom:

Dear Quartz, maybe it's you that needs new glasses and a map. 2013 was not a lost year for tech — If anything, in 2013 it became even more fashionable for some of our fellow scribes and righteous founders to lament the lack of innovation in Silicon Valley.

More: PandoDaily, Gigaom Research and Quartz

Tweets: @paulsingh, @katiefehren, @eldon, @coryhaik, @jayrosen_nyu, @rr, @jeffturner and @jennydeluxe

Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

The Year Megaplatforms Ruled The Internet — On the web we lost, the web we deserve, and the web we want. — A visitor looks at portraits of Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg at solo exhibition The Face of Facebook by Chinese artist Zhu Jia at a gallery in Singapore, Oct. 30, 2013.

More: Valleywag and The Switch. Tweets: @oliverburkeman, @millie and @anildash

Wall Street Journal:

Behind UPS's Christmas Eve Snafu — Unexpected Surge in Online Orders Overwhelmed Louisville, Ky., Hub. In the earliest hours of Dec. 24, packages poured into United Parcel Service Inc. 's main air hub in Louisville, Ky. And they were piling up. Employees responsible for sorting packages …

More: New York Times. Tweets: @sbanjo, @mikemosswtop and @jeff_jordan

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Google Play is giving away ‘Yeezus’ and top singles from 2013 — Google's making it easy to catch up on some of the best music of the year. As part of what it's calling Play Picks 2013, it's offering Kanye West's Yeezus and Chvrches' The Bones of What You Believe free for a limited time …

More: The Technology Chronicles, Betabeat, Phandroid, Electronista, Business Insider, Gigaom and hypebot. Tweets: @caseynewton

Guardian:

NSA mass collection of phone data is legal, federal judge rules — Judge William Pauley noted the dragnet program was ‘controversial but lawful’ and dismissed lawsuit brought by ACLU — A federal judge has ruled that the National Security Agency's mass collection of telephone data is legal …

Maureen Farrell / MoneyBeat:

After unexplained 5% rise on Thursday, Twitter's stock dropped 13% today — Twitter's Selloff Accelerates: Market Cap Falls By $4 Billion … The drop in shares of Twitter Inc. accelerated near the close of trading Friday, with its stock dropping more than 10%.

More: VentureBeat, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal and SiliconBeat

Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times:

Carl Icahn stock proposal on ballot for Apple shareholder meeting — Carl Icahn, shown in 2006, wants Apple to increase its stock buyback program. (Daniel Acker / Bloomberg News / February 7, 2006) — Investor activist Carl Icahn has submitted an advisory proposal asking Apple to increase …

More: 9to5Mac, Business Insider, AllThingsD, Tech Trader Daily and AppleInsider

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Rdio closes Vdio: 'We weren't able to deliver the differentiated customer experience we had hoped for' — Rdio has shuttered Vdio, its on-demand service for buying and renting movies and TV shows. — “We have decided to discontinue the Vdio beta service,” the company said in an email.

More: Vdio Help Center, Macworld, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, BetaNews, CNET, SlashGear, Gigaom, The Verge, App Advice and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

Lauren Hockenson / Gigaom:

Nintendo to close eShop temporarily due to high traffic, merger woes — Nintendo is experiencing some serious hiccups in its newly unified eShop platform, and the system is scheduled to go offline for 12 hours starting at 4pm EST/1pm PT, according to The Next Web.

More: Nintendo, The Next Web, CNET, Engadget, Ars Technica, Kotaku, SlashGear, destructoid, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo, Joystiq, Siliconera, WebProNews, Softpedia News, Kotaku, Polygon, Polygon and DSLreports

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