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Reuters:
China's Baidu looks to mobile search for growth  —  (Reuters) - China's top search engine, Baidu Inc, plans to begin monetizing its mobile search traffic and social media platforms this year in an effort to boost growth outside its traditional PC domain, Baidu's chief executive said on Friday.

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:
BuiltWith Reveals The Tech Used By The 130 Million Web Sites That Matter Most  —  Search engines like Google scour the web to figure out how to rank content.  Measurement firms like comScore sample users to estimate traffic to web sites.  But what if you want to know which of some 2000 technologies a web site is using?

Dan Graziano / BGR:
Chinese firm may sue Apple for $2 billion in U.S. over iPad name  —  On Friday, the Chinese company that claims to hold the trademark on the “iPad” name, threatened to sue Apple in the U.S. for $2 billion dollars, reports the AFP.  Proview Technology claims it owns the Chinese rights …

Marguerite Reardon / CNET:
Spectrum auction compromise part of payroll tax cut bill  —  A Congressional compromise to extend the payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits also includes authorization for the incentive spectrum auctions and funding for a public safety wireless network.

Kukil Bora / International Business Times:
Anonymous Hacks U.S. Government Consumer and Trade Commission Web Sites, Posts Anti-ACTA Video … By KUKIL BORA: Subscribe to Kukil's RSS feed  —  The hacker group Anonymous took down a number of U.S. government websites early Friday in a fresh protest against the looming Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA.

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:
Apple labor petitioners to make deliveries again next week  —  The petitions that were delivered to Apple's retail stores last week are coming back for a second round.  The group says it's not satisfied with Apple's response.  —  Change.org member Sarah Ryan delivers a box filled with signatures …

Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Early Praise in Inspection at Foxconn Brings Doubt  —  The president of a nonprofit group hired by Apple to inspect its suppliers' factories has begun praising the Chinese plants of Foxconn, Apple's largest supplier, just days after his group began inspections there.

Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Microsoft blasts Google over iPhone browser tracking, pushes IE9 while it's at it  —  With Google acknowledging that it utilised features in its services to bypass Apple's built-in security measures in its Safari mobile browser to track users, Microsoft has taken the opportunity to join the debate …

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
YES!  Congress isn't killing white spaces broadband before it's born  —  Congress has reached a compromise on key wireless spectrum issues that had the potential to put the kibosh on innovation and competition when it came to both mobile broadband and unlicensed spectrum.

Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
OpenXC: Ford Launches an Open-Source Platform for In-Car Connectivity and Apps  —  Cars and the Internet are slowly getting closer, but it's still hard for developers to get their apps into cars without being invited by the automobile industry.  Given the security and especially safety concerns involved …

Matt Brian / The Next Web:
UK bank Barclays targets PayPal with new mobile number money transfer service Pingit  —  From today, any customer banking with UK bank Barclays will be able to utilise the company's new mobile money transfer service, Pingit, which allows money to be sent and received using just a mobile phone number.

Chris Rawson / TUAW:
Mountain Lion drops support for several older Mac models (Updated)  —  Every new version of OS X comes with harsh news for owners of older Macs: “Your Mac is too old.  You're stuck with your current OS.  Forever.”  For Mac OS X Leopard in 2007, anyone who owned a Mac with a processor slower than 867 MHz was stuck with Tiger.