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• Nest's Tony Fadell Talks Thermostats, Apple, Kickstarter And Hardware Startups At LeWeb
• Every Little Bit Helps: To Shore Up Some Cash, Nokia Sells And Leases Back Its Espoo, Finland, HQ For €170 Million To Finland's Exilion
• Europe v Facebook Privacy Campaign Group Is Preparing To Sue Facebook In Ireland, Sets Up Crowdfunding Platform To Fund Court Costs
• Taggstar Adds Analytics To Its Interactive, Shareable, Shoppable Images
• France Telecom Invests Up To $20M In Lookout, Preloads Its Mobile Security Solutions On To Android Handsets
• PhoneScope 3D Gives iPhone Users A High-Res 3D Scanner in Their Pocket
• OneSpot Launches Platform For Turning Articles Into Ads, Raises $1.5M
• Set Your iOS to Stunned: New Version of the Star Trek PADD App Now Available
• Mary Meeker's Year-End Trends Report: Mobile & Tablets = 24% Of Online Shopping On Black Friday, Up 18% From 2012
• China Unicom Receives Orders for More Than 100,000 iPhone 5 Units
• Appenomics: Who Decided That Apps, Particularly Third-Party Twitter Apps, Had To Be Cheap?
• jOBS: Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs Biopic To Debut At Sundance In January
• Gift Platform NewlyWish Looks to Disrupt $19 Billion Annual Wedding Registry Industry
• Gift Guide: Doxie Go Scanner
• GitHub Hires Former Yelp CFO Vlado Herman To Help It Spend Andreessen's $100M
• A Discussion About Amazing Innovation With Christian Sanz, Creator Of DroneGames [TCTV]
• Meet Turntable's Piki, The First Music App To Do Social Music Sharing Right
• Red Tricycle, A Digital City Guide For Parents, Raises $1.5 Million From Bob Pittman And Others
• Enthuse Raises $1.3M From Greystripe Co-founder And Others To Help Sports Teams Reward Their Fans
• WeVideo Launches New Cloud-Based Video Editor, Integrates With Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox, Flickr & Google Drive

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Nest's Tony Fadell Talks Thermostats, Apple, Kickstarter And Hardware Startups At LeWeb	Top
At LeWeb Paris this morning, Nest Labs' Founder and CEO Tony Fadell took the stage with the Iliad Group's founder Xavier Niel to talk about his advanced thermostat and the Internet of Things.
Every Little Bit Helps: To Shore Up Some Cash, Nokia Sells And Leases Back Its Espoo, Finland, HQ For €170 Million To Finland's Exilion	Top
You know times are tough when you have to sell the HQ and rent it back to raise a little capital. Well that's exactly what the once mighty mobile maker, Nokia, is doing. The company has just announced that it intends to sell its Espoo, Finland, headquarters to Finland-based Exilion, and rent it back on a long term lease.
Europe v Facebook Privacy Campaign Group Is Preparing To Sue Facebook In Ireland, Sets Up Crowdfunding Platform To Fund Court Costs	Top
The European activists behind the Europe v Facebook campaign group, which accuse the social network of violating Europe's Data Protection Laws, have stepped up their long running battle against it. The group has indicated it is preparing to sue Facebook in Ireland -- and has set up a crowdfunding platform to raise money to fund possible legal action.
Taggstar Adds Analytics To Its Interactive, Shareable, Shoppable Images	Top
Wherever there is data, there shall be analytics. In a move that makes a lot of sense, Taggstar, the interactive images platform which makes images shareable and shoppable (along with other interactivity), has rolled out a new analytics dashboard to enable publishers who use the service to get a detailed insight into how their Taggstar-enhanced images are performing.
France Telecom Invests Up To $20M In Lookout, Preloads Its Mobile Security Solutions On To Android Handsets	Top
Lookout, the mobile security company with ambitions to become the Symantec of the wireless world, is picking up a new backer, and and a major distribution partner in its bid to become a household name. France Telecom, owner of the mobile carrier Orange, is making a strategic investment in the startup, and it has also signed a deal in which Lookout will be preloaded on devices that it sells. Orange has 169 million subscribers and it will start first with Lookout service bundles covering antivirus protection and device tracking for Android devices, installing it as standard on devices in France, Slovakia, Spain, and the UK (through its EE JV with T-Mobile) starting in early 2013.
PhoneScope 3D Gives iPhone Users A High-Res 3D Scanner in Their Pocket	Top
The PhoneScope 3D offers high-resolution magnified 3D scanning that can have applications for users ranging from forensics specialists to CGI animators. But its developers mostly just want people to have fun with the iPhone add-ons. After years in development, PhoneScope 3D is now raising funds on Kickstarter.
OneSpot Launches Platform For Turning Articles Into Ads, Raises $1.5M	Top
A lot of companies are getting into the content marketing business, creating blog posts and articles to promote their brands and products. But are they doing enough to promote that content? Well, startup OneSpot is opening a new platform to help them turn those posts into regular ads. OneSpot started out as a news aggregation company, but founder and CEO Matt Cohen said it's now focused on a bigger opportunity. His basic argument (similar to the one made by other companies like InPowered) is that editorial content, not advertising, has a much bigger impact on people's opinions than ads. Actually, he said that's a false distinction — for most people, it's not about "commercial versus non-commercial content," but rather "annoying content compared to content that is interesting." So why not promote the interesting content, like non-marketing blog posts on a company's own site, or a positive review elsewhere? Especially since much of that content just disappears once it has scrolled off the front page.
Set Your iOS to Stunned: New Version of the Star Trek PADD App Now Available	Top
Ever used your IOS device to imagine yourself as Lt. Nyota Uhura receiving an urgent communique from Starfleet? Then you are in luck — the second version of the official Star Trek PADD app is now available with native iPhone 5 and iPad mini support.
Mary Meeker's Year-End Trends Report: Mobile & Tablets = 24% Of Online Shopping On Black Friday, Up 18% From 2012	Top
Kleiner Perkins Partner Mary Meeker publisher her annual "Internet Trends Year-End Report" tonight, providing an update on the glimpse she gave us into mobile trends back in November. As per usual, the Kleiner partner's biggest conclusions are somewhat familiar: Internet growth remains robust, and penetration in the U.S. leads all other countries.
China Unicom Receives Orders for More Than 100,000 iPhone 5 Units	Top
China Unicom announced that it received orders for more than 100,000 iPhone 5 units on its first day of pre-sales, according to a report on Sina Tech. A subsidiary of rival wireless operator China Telecom said that it had received pre-orders for more than 5,000 units.
Appenomics: Who Decided That Apps, Particularly Third-Party Twitter Apps, Had To Be Cheap?	Top
Ninety-nine cents here, a buck-ninety-nine there -- that's what were used to spending when Apple introduced the App Store after the iPhone was launched. It was probably one of the most genius software and developer coups in the history of mobile computing. I mean that. By creating the App Store, Apple created thousands, and perhaps millions, of jobs and an all-new form of entertainment and education for consumers.
jOBS: Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs Biopic To Debut At Sundance In January	Top
As you may have heard, Steve Jobs will be getting the Ashton Kutcher treatment in "jOBS", the first biopic to be released since the Apple co-founder passed away last year. Not to be confused with Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Walter Isaacson's biography, jOBS reportedly covers the thirty "definitive" years of Jobs' life, beginning in 1971.
Gift Platform NewlyWish Looks to Disrupt $19 Billion Annual Wedding Registry Industry	Top
NewlyWish, the newly minted winner of the Women 2.0 Pitch NYC Startup Competition, provides a custom multi-merchant online marketplace. Users can choose from and register for goods at brick-and-mortar stores which have largely been excluded from the $19 billion annual domestic wedding registry market.
Gift Guide: Doxie Go Scanner	Top
The Doxie Go is a portable scanner with a built-in battery and 512 MB of internal memory. You can bring it anywhere with you and scan all your documents before throwing them away. But the best part is the application that comes with it. It integrates with cloud services, such as Dropbox, Evernote or CloudApp. You can open scanned documents with any local app, as well, or just save it as a PDF with OCR.
GitHub Hires Former Yelp CFO Vlado Herman To Help It Spend Andreessen's $100M	Top
Back in July, collaborative code repository GitHub raised a whopping $100 million from Andreessen Horowitz to build out an enterprise version of the service, among other things. Up until now, it's been in need of someone to help the co-founders manage that cash and keep the fiscal ship from any nearby cliffs. Today, via blog post, GitHub CEO and co-founder Tom Preston-Werner announced that the company had hired Vlado Herman as its new CFO to do just that.
A Discussion About Amazing Innovation With Christian Sanz, Creator Of DroneGames [TCTV]	Top
Christian Sanz, the creator of the DroneGames, sat down with TCTV to discuss how it all came about and who the brilliant folks are behind NodeCopter, the library that DroneGames participants used to build their projects. A brilliant and vibrant community is starting here in San Francisco, and it's pretty exciting to watch.
Meet Turntable's Piki, The First Music App To Do Social Music Sharing Right	Top
Turntable today introduced Piki, a Pandora-like, human-powered radio app combined with powerful Twitter-inspired social features. With Piki, the most impressive part is that Turntable is one of the first music startups to get social right. The company has been working on the brand-new service for a year.
Red Tricycle, A Digital City Guide For Parents, Raises $1.5 Million From Bob Pittman And Others	Top
As a parent in New York, I'm often at a loss as to how to entertain my children. Do we shoot trap over the Brooklyn Promenade or hit the city dump to look at rats? Do we go for a swim in the Gowanus or do we visit the beach to dig up needles? With endless possibilities comes endless indecision! Thankfully, there's Red Tricycle.
Enthuse Raises $1.3M From Greystripe Co-founder And Others To Help Sports Teams Reward Their Fans	Top
In 2011, Brian York founded Enthuse as a way to give fans the ability to connect with their favorite sports teams via their mobile devices and get rewards for checking into games, snapping photos and sharing the love. On the flip side, Enthuse enables schools and sports franchises to integrate with their API and SDK to quickly deploy social loyalty programs in their own branded apps.
WeVideo Launches New Cloud-Based Video Editor, Integrates With Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox, Flickr & Google Drive	Top
WeVideo launched to the public earlier this year after previously offering its cloud-based video editor to YouTube users. Now the startup is releasing a new update to the video editing product that is aimed at providing easy-to-use themes and drag-and-drop functionality for users.

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