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December 12, 2014, 11:45 AM

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

Tweets: @mikeisaac and @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 and The Next Web. Tweets: @ellenhuet

Financial Times:

Tim Cook earns Person of the Year designation from Financial Times for ethical stands as well as financial performance — 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

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 Authority, Android Police, The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, T-Mobile Newsroom and IntoMobile

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: CNET, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, BGR, TUAW, Gotta Be Mobile, TechSpot, MacRumors, iMore, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, MacNN, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone, iPhone Hacks, MacDailyNews, Engadget and App Advice

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

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, Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, GameSpot, Electronista, Engadget, TechSpot, The Verge, Geeky Gadgets, Tech Times, WinBeta, Windows Phone Central, Neowin 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, Engadget, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, AfterDawn.com, Droid Life, PCMag UK, WebProNews, Android Central, Phandroid, Inquirer, TechnoBuffalo, SocialTimes and AndroidHeadlines.com

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

Tweets: @waxpancake and @johnlegere

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

New Relic's IPO Spikes 31% In Initial Trading — In early trading, New Relic's shares are up 31% in its first day as a public company. Another technology company, Hortonworks, will begin trading this morning as well. — The two companies are trading on different exchanges …

More: VentureBeat, Oregonian, StreetInsider.com and Xconomy

Matthew Miller / ZDNet:

Sony SmartWatch 3 review: best Android Wear smartwatch for active users with GPS and offline music playback — Sony SmartWatch 3 review: Goodbye MOTOACTV, hello future of Android Wear — Summary:The Sony SmartWatch 3 earned a permanent spot on Matthew's wrist due to the ability to serve …

Tweets: @sonymobilenews

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: 13th Lab, Nimble VR, PC Magazine, TIME, Computerworld, Gizmodo, The Tech Report, CNET, TechCrunch, The Verge, ArcticStartup, Gamasutra, TechNode, VG247, Gigaom, Engadget, SlashGear, 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, Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine, Bloomberg, BBC, Financial Times, Washington Post, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, Reuters, ZDNet, SlashGear, Electronista, The Next Web, Engadget, Gigaom, PC World, NASDAQ.com and AndroidHeadlines.com

Jack Clark / Bloomberg:

Hadoop services vendor Hortonworks raises $100M in IPO, opens at $24, 50% above IPO price — Hortonworks Raises $100 Million, Pricing IPO Above Range — Hortonworks Inc., a startup that sells services and support for the Hadoop free data-analysis technology, raised $100 million …

More: VentureBeat, Reuters, Hortonworks, bizjournals, Equities.com Editors Desk, NASDAQ.com, Gigaom and VentureBeat

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: eWeek, CNET, WebProNews, ZDNet and TechCrunch

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

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

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

Tweets: @corytv, @corytv and @corytv

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, SlashGear, FierceWireless, Engadget and The Register. Tweets: @stevesi

Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

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

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

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