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December 12, 2014, 2:20 PM

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Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal:

New Relic shares jump more than 45% over IPO price of $23 in public trading debut — New Relic IPO raises $115M, stock jumps in debut — New Relic raised $115 million and its stock jumped as the market for new public companies from the Bay Area took an upturn this week.

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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, Tech in Asia, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Wired, Wired.co.uk, TheStreet.com, VentureBeat, China Money Network, Engadget, Gigaom, NASDAQ.com, SiliconANGLE and bizjournals

Tweets: @mikeisaac and @jonrussell

Erin Griffith / Fortune:

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams says he doesn't “give a s**t” about Instagram's greater MAUs, stresses Twitter's impact on world — Twitter co-founder Evan Williams: 'I don't give a s**t' if Instagram has more users — Yesterday, Instagram announced it has 300 million monthly active users.

More: Telegraph, AllTwitter, SiliconBeat and Tech Times

Tweets: @eringriffith, @drew, @ericjackson, @goldman, @amir, @mikeisaac and @joshelman

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: TechCrunch, ReadWrite, PC Magazine, PC World, Engadget, TIME, Geek.com, Neowin, SlashGear, Technology Personalized, Electronista, Geeky Gadgets, Yahoo Tech, Tubefilter, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, WebProNews, TechloMedia, Android Central, Android Authority and Droid Life

Tweets: @waxpancake and @johnlegere

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 …

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, TechCrunch, Wired, MacNN, Cult of Mac, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Fortune, The Register and iMore

Financial Times:

Tim Cook is Financial Times' Person of the Year for Apple's financial success, new technology and his leadership on equality — Person of the Year: Tim Cook of Apple — The technology group's chief executive has faced criticism but he turned things round in 2014

More: App Advice, MacDailyNews, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors and AppleInsider. Tweets: @mgsiegler

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Canada's Supreme Court rules warrantless searches of cell phones by law enforcement permitted upon arrest — Supreme Court of Canada: Cops can search your phone upon arrest — The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in a 4-3 decision that law enforcement can search someone's phone when they get arrested …

More: scc-csc.lexum.com, ReadWrite, Michael Geist Blog, CBC News, 9to5Mac, Vancouver Sun, Gigaom, Toronto Star, RT, ohsonline.com, Reuters, CTVNews, AndroidHeadlines.com, The Hill, BBC and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @bsookman

Andy / TorrentFreak:

After SOPA backlash, MPAA and movie studios search for legal ways to block sites infringing IP — MPAA Prepares to Bring Pirate Site Blocking to the U.S. — Site blocking has become one of the go-to anti-piracy techniques for the music and movie industries.

More: The Verge, SlashGear, Electronista and DSLreports

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: IGN, GameSpot, BGR, Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, Electronista, The Verge, Tech Times, Geeky Gadgets, TechSpot, WinBeta, Neowin, Windows Phone Central and The Next Web. Thanks:@belril

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Google Announces The Top Apps, Movies, Music Of 2014 — Google has just released its ‘best stuff of the year’ on Google Play for 2014, and in terms of most downloaded content, it's not all that different from Apple's list. — Frozen, The Walking Dead, and Fancy by Iggy Azalea all placed …

More: Official Android Blog, The Next Web, Engadget, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Droid Life, PCMag UK, WebProNews, Android Central, Phandroid, SocialTimes, AndroidHeadlines.com, TechnoBuffalo, AfterDawn.com and Inquirer

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

T-Mobile is first to offer LTE Nexus 9 in the US, $600 or $0 down, coming soon to Google Play — T-Mobile announced today that it's now selling Google's latest HTC-made Nexus 9 tablet for $0 down or $600. As noted by T-Mobile, this will be the first place you can officially get the LTE version of the Nexus 9 through a US carrier.

More: Gigaom, Android Police, GeekWire, T-Mobile Newsroom, Android Authority, Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, Electronista, Gotta Be Mobile and IntoMobile

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, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, PC Magazine, BBC, Financial Times, 9to5Google, Reuters, Washington Post, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Electronista, ZDNet, Engadget, Gigaom, PC World, The Next Web, NASDAQ.com and AndroidHeadlines.com

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Adobe sees strong Q4 with $1.07B in revenue, 644K new paying Creative Cloud subscribers — Adobe now has 3.454 million paying Creative Cloud subscribers, the company revealed in its fourth quarter financial report today. — Adobe originally predicted it would reach 3.3 million paying subscribers by the end of 2014.

More: Tech Trader Daily, AdExchanger, Forbes, Re/code, The Next Web and Tech Trader Daily

Tweets: @corytv, @corytv and @corytv

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Adobe acquires stock photo giant Fotolia for $800 million in cash

More: eWeek, WebProNews, ZDNet and TechCrunch

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