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December 5, 2012, 6:40 PM

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Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
Twitter Loses Ability to Properly Display Instagram Photos  —  Welcome to the Photo Wars.  —  Instagram on Wednesday disabled the ability for Twitter to properly display Instagram photos on its Web site and in its applications.  The move escalates tensions between the two companies …
Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
Instagram CEO feels Twitter card removal is ‘the correct thing for our business’ but calls changes ‘really confusing’ to users  —  Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom just took the stage at the LeWeb conference and is speaking directly to this morning's controversial change that removed Twitter card support.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
TechForward Wins $27M In Lawsuit Against Best Buy Over Stolen Trade Secrets  —  Score one for the small guys.  Startup TechForward just won a huge lawsuit against electronics retailer Best Buy over misappropriated trade secrets.  The judge has awarded TechForward $22 million in damages …
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Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Why Lumia 620 plus 920T equals big opportunity for Nokia  —  Nokia introduced two new smartphones on Wednesday, the Lumia 620 and Lumia 920T.  These represent the opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to handsets: The low-end 620 carries an unsubsidized $249 price tag while the 920T …
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Fred Wilson / A VC:
Rethinking Mobile First  —  I wrote the Mobile First Web Second blog post a few years ago.  In that post, I talked about apps that were designed to be used on mobile primarily with the web as a companion.  —  There have been a number of startups that have taken that approach and done well with it.
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Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
iTunes Gets an Upgrade Without Missing a Beat  —  Apple's iTunes is the world's most popular computer program for playing, managing and buying music, movies and TV shows.  The company estimates the number of copies in active use to be in the high hundreds of millions.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Google Now adds travel destination weather, local events, song ID by voice, and more  —  On Wednesday, Google updated Google Now with a myriad of new features that will be especially useful for those who like to, or at least need to, travel.  You can download the latest update of Google Search …
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Blockbuster Is Said to Begin Selling Phones  —  Dish Network Corp. (DISH)'s Blockbuster will begin selling mobile phones in its movie-rental stores as a test for Dish's planned entry into the wireless business, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
Nancy Gohring / CITEworld:
Citrix acquisition of Zenprise shines spotlight on mobile app management  —  In a sign that the focus of mobile management is shifting from device to app management, Citrix today said it agreed to buy Zenprise.  —  The combination of technologies from both companies means that IT managers …
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Time Spent In Mobile Apps Is Starting To Challenge Television, Flurry Says  —  Now that usage of mobile apps has overtaken browsing on the desktop web, it's starting to challenge television, Flurry says.  The San Francisco-based mobile analytics startup says that consumers are spending 127 minutes per …
Twitter Blog:
See Trends for 100 more cities  —  Today, we're bringing Trends to 100 more cities around the world including Istanbul, Frankfurt, Guadalajara and Incheon.  With this update, we now surface the ‘most breaking’ news in more than 200 locations.  To view Trends for different locations, just click “Change” in the Trends section.
Carl Franzen / Talking Points Memo:
FTC Supports Apple, Decries Motorola Attempts To Ban iPhone, iPad  —  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday rushed to the aid of Apple, Inc., filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that Google-owned Motorola's attempts to ban the sale …
Mat Smith / Engadget:
Google Street View and Maps coming to Wii U in January 2013  —  During today's Nintendo Direct presentation, Iwata-san had plenty of game footage to show to Japan-based fans, but also casually mentioned that Google-powered maps and street vistas will arrive on the Wii U at the end of January 2013.
Leo Kelion / BBC:
Nokia Maps digitises streets to battle Google's threat  —  Nokia is combining data gathered by lasers and cameras to make interactive 3D images of cities  —  Nokia smells an opportunity.  Maps have become one of the most closely-watched battlegrounds in tech after a user-backlash led Apple …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
IDC Raises Tablet Forecast For 2012 And Onward: 122.3M By Year-End, 172.4M By 2013; Android Gains, eReaders Lose  —  Analysts at IDC have today upped their tablet forecast for 2012 and onward, now predicting 122.3 million units for 2012, up from the firm's previous forecast of 117.1 million units.

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