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December 12, 2014, 5:15 AM

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google Removes Amazon's App Listing From Google Play Search Following Addition Of Appstore, Instant Video Integrations — In October, we spotted that Amazon had quietly launched a hidden and functional app store within its main Android application which was available for download on Google Play.

More: Android Police, Electronista, PhoneDog.com, GeekWire, Phandroid, WebProNews, Pocketnow, Droid Life, Gigaom, SlashGear, 9to5Google, The Verge, Engadget, BGR and The Next Web

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Xbox One sells 1.2M units in U.S. in November, topping PS4 and Wii U in early holiday battle — Microsoft's Xbox One posted overall record unit sales in November, with 1.2 million units sold in the U.S. — reaping the benefits of a $50 price cut to top the PlayStation 4 and Wii U …

More: Engadget, Geeky Gadgets, The Verge, Windows Phone Central, WinBeta, Neowin and The Next Web. Thanks:@belril

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple now requires cases protect devices from 1m drops, meet new environmental standards — Apple recently started requiring case manufacturers in its Made for iPhone (MFi) licensing program follow new requirements that will ensure cases better protect Apple devices and cover glass from impact …

More: BGR, MacNN, Ubergizmo, InvestorPlace, App Advice, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, iLounge and NBC News. Tweets: @applespotlight. Thanks:@apollozac

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Apple online retail stores in US and UK now accepting PayPal — Apple's Online Store Starts Accepting PayPal — Apple.com shoppers in the U.S. and the U.K. have a new way to pay for the latest iPhone or iPad: PayPal. Previously available as a payment option only in Apple's app and content stores …

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Next Web, iMore, iPhone Hacks, MacDailyNews and App Advice

TechCrunch:

China's Baidu Set To Partner With Uber And Reportedly Invest Up To $600M — Uber may have just raised a fresh $1.2 billion this month, but the company looks set to welcome a new investor, Chinese internet giant Baidu, which is reportedly set to invest as much as $600 million into the U.S. firm.

More: Bloomberg, Gigaom, Wall Street Journal, Wired.co.uk, NASDAQ.com and China Money Network. Tweets: @jonrussell

Maya Kosoff / Business Insider:

Uber Is Suspending Operations In New Delhi Following Allegations Of Rape Against One Of Its Drivers

More: Uber Blog, Tech in Asia, PC World, TIME, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Next Web and MediaNama. Tweets: @ellenhuet

Chris Mills / Gizmodo:

YouTube is experimenting with a built-in GIF maker tool for videos — YouTube Now Lets You Make GIFs From Videos — Making short GIFs of YouTube videos is a pretty well-established practice now — so much so that there's dozens of websites dedicated to this finest of art forms.

More: SlashGear, Engadget and TechCrunch. Tweets: @waxpancake

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Adobe acquires stock photo giant Fotolia for $800 million in cash — Buried within its fourth quarter earnings report, creative technologies company Adobe today revealed it plans to acquire Fotolia, a stock photo site which hosts 34 million images and videos.

More: ZDNet, TechCrunch and silicontap.com

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Adobe sees strong Q4 with $1.07B in revenue, 644K new paying Creative Cloud subscribers

More: Business Wire, Re/code, The Next Web and Tech Trader Daily

Tweets: @corytv, @corytv and @corytv

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft ready to show off Windows 10 mobile SKU on January 21 — Summary:Microsoft will share more about the Windows 10 ‘consumer experience’ at an event on January 21 in Redmond. — Microsoft officials sent invitations on December 11 to selected press and analysts to its next Windows 10 reveal event.

More: Blogging Windows, The Verge, Reuters, Re/code, SuperSite for Windows, Tech Times, Computerworld, TechCrunch, TechRadar.com, BetaNews, GeekWire, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, WinBeta, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, Windows Phone Central and VentureBeat. Tweets: @thurrott

Oculus VR:

Oculus acquires skeletal hand tracking firm Nimble VR and 3D mapping company 13th Lab, hires motion capture expert Chris Bregler — Nimble VR, 13th Lab, and Chris Bregler join Oculus — Computer vision is at the heart of delivering comfortable and incredible virtual reality.

More: Nimble VR, Gizmodo, 13th Lab, TechNode, TechCrunch, Engadget, VG247, SlashGear, The Verge, Gigaom, CNET, Gamasutra, Seeking Alpha and GamesIndustry.biz

Tweets: @paulamarttila and @stumm

Tom Huddleston Jr / Fortune:

Google to close its Russian engineering office before country's new rules on data storage take effect Jan. 2015 — Google gives a big ‘nyet’ to Russian engineering operations — Google may be the latest tech company to pull up stakes in Russia. — The online search giant is reportedly planning …

More: The Information, Gigaom, Engadget, Financial Times, PC World, Bloomberg, NASDAQ.com, The Next Web, 9to5Google and AndroidHeadlines.com

Julia Love / Mercury News:

Protesters storm Apple campus urging better working conditions for service workers — CUPERTINO — As rain pummeled the Bay Area, a group of protesters stormed Apple's campus Thursday, calling for the tech giant to help the service workers who keep its campus humming make a better living.

More: AppleInsider and iMore

Reuters:

Canada's Competition Bureau probing Apple's contracts with domestic wireless carriers, says it has found no evidence of wrongdoing so far — Canada competition watchdog probing Apple mobile carrier deals — (Reuters) - Canada's Competition Bureau is investigating allegations …

More: Globe and Mail, DailyTech, 9to5Mac, The Register, The Verge, Techvibes Global News, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, MobileSyrup.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore and Patently Apple

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Qualcomm, Intel, and others speak out against Title II net neutrality — Much of the fight over how to handle net neutrality has been between the two industries that have the most obvious stake in it: cable companies and web services. Today, though, 60 tech companies, including Intel …

More: Verizon Public Policy, Cult of Mac, PC World, SlashGear, FierceWireless, Engadget, The Register, CNET, Ars Technica and eWeek. Tweets: @stevesi

Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

Verizon says future investments in its networks will be unaffected by net neutrality policy

More: Gizmodo, Re/code, Ars Technica, Techdirt, DSLreports, Associated Press and Washington Post. Tweets: @timkarr

Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat:

Google chips in $2M to help San Francisco's homeless — Google is donating $2 million in grants to San Francisco to help the city's homeless population, the mayor's office announced today. — The grants go to three organizations — Hamilton Family Center, Larkin Street Youth Services …

More: Mashable and Office of the Mayor. Tweets: @jason and @annielin

Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:

Robinhood launches commission-free stock trading app for iOS — Robinhood Can Turn Every iPhone User Into A Trader — The mobile stock trading startup turns stock buying and selling into yet another thing to be done inside a mobile app. The target is young people that have turned away …

More: TechCrunch, Robinhood Blog, The Verge, TheStreet.com, Institutionalinvestor.com, VentureBeat, TIME, Entrepreneur, Business Insider Australia, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable and Wired. Tweets: @mattzeitlin. Thanks:@kbarker19

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:

App-analytics company New Relic picks up $115M in its IPO, setting price at $23 — New Relic today announced that it has raised $115 million from investors before it hits the New York Stock Exchange on Friday under the symbol NEWR. — The company set the price of its shares at $23 …

More: Business Wire and Gigaom

Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal:

Facebook allows adding buttons such as “sign up”, “book now”, “use app” to tops of Pages — New Facebook Buttons Let You Make Reservations, Launch Apps and More … Facebook has rolled out a new feature that will let you click a single button …

More: Facebook for Business, VentureBeat, memeburn, Marketing Land, Inside Facebook, The Next Web and AllFacebook. Tweets: @wsjd

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Rolls Out A Simplified Homepage With Analytics And News Feed Front And Center — LinkedIn, the social network for the working world, today gets around 198 million monthly unique visitors globally to linkedin.com spending on average 4.6 minutes per visit, according to comScore …

More: Official LinkedIn Blog, Re/code, Gigaom, TheStreet.com, ReadWrite, SiliconBeat and WebProNews. Tweets: @ingridlunden

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Dropbox launches Microsoft Office collaboration features for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows and Mac — Dropbox today launched its much-anticipated Project Harmony functionality, which brings collaboration tools to Microsoft Office desktop applications.

More: ZDNet and Gigaom. Thanks:@harrisonweber

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