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Social media: It's getting nasty out there

The latest dust-up between Instagram and Twitter will have lasting consequences.

FORTUNE – If your Instagram photos look wonky on Twitter, remember that's not by accident. It's by design.

Earlier this week, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom announced onstage at Europe's tech conference Le Web that the popular photo-sharing start-up was killing support for "Twitter cards." As Twitter explained in a post, this basically means when users click Tweets with an Instagram link, photos MORE

Today in Tech: Instagram kills Twitter integration

Also: why eReaders are on the decline; another look at the "mobile first" development philosophy. 

Twitter loses ability to properly display Instagram photos [THE NEW YORK TIMES]

"We've decided that right now, what makes sense, is to direct our users to the Instagram Web site," Mr. Systrom said, noting that Instagram images will soon no longer be visible on Twitter. "Obviously things change as a company evolves."

Mr. Systrom did not say when images MORE

Today in Tech: No Apple TV until 2013?

Also: Why HP should have listened to its CFO; is Foursquare overvalued?

HP should have listened to its CFO [FORTUNE]

As Fortune wrote in its May cover story How Hewlett-Packard lost its way:

"...with no warning to Apotheker, Lesjak made an impassioned case against the acquisition before the board. "I can't support it," she told the directors, according to a person who was present. "I don't think it's a good idea. I don't think we're ready. I think it's MORE

How safe is your company's Twitter account?

In light of last week's massive password reset, businesses should shore up their security measures. What do the experts suggest?

By Don Sears, contributor

FORTUNE -- Did Twitter force you to change your password last week? While it may have been an inconvenience to social media managers, the micro-blogging giant had some very good reasons to take this action.

Twitter admitted Thursday that it accidentally forced password updates on more accounts than MORE

Today in Tech: Why Eddy Cue may be Apple Maps' best hope

Also: Carl Icahn nabs a 10% stake in Netflix; Path comes to the iPad. 

How hurricane Sandy slapped the sarcasm out of Twitter [THE NEW YORK TIMES]

At my home in suburban New Jersey, a 30-foot limb dropped down at 4 p.m., so the illusion that this was an event happening to someone else quickly dissipated. And at 8 p.m., just when we hunkered down in front of the big screen, the MORE

Today in Tech: Meet Art.sy, the Pandora of art

Also: Pandora CEO argues some artists are making millions; Box hits 14 million-plus users. 

Art.sy is mapping the world of art on the Web [THE NEW YORK TIMES]

For the Art Genome Project, Matthew Israel, 34, who holds a Ph.D. in art and archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, leads a team of a dozen art historians who decide what those codes are and how they should MORE

Today in Tech: How ads became Amazon's newest weapon

Also: Why Marissa Mayer took the reins at Yahoo; Bravo's Silicon Valley reality show unleashed. 

Can Marissa Mayer really have it all? [NEW YORK MAGAZINE]

Mayer was bruised in that reshuffling. For about a dozen years she had presided over "search"—which is to say everything the user saw, felt, and experienced when navigating Google—but now she was shunted away from that core business and put in charge of "local"—maps, restaurant recommendations, and the MORE

Today in Tech: Why Silicon Valley is just like Hollywood

Apple Maps is taken to task (yet again); Instagram has more users than Twitter.

It's a hits business: Silicon Valley and Hollywood share more than Ashton Kutcher [VENTURE MINDED]

The evaluation of whether to invest in a startup and the decision of whether to greenlight a film are also startlingly similar. From a diligence perspective, financial projections are primarily reviewed for the purpose of a sanity test. Do the financial projections coincide with MORE

Today in Tech: Why BlackBerry has a 'clear shot' at being number three

Meet the newest (high-definition) Nooks; Cisco's CEO lists possible successors. 

RIM CEO Thorsten Heins: 'we have a clear shot at being number three' [THE VERGE]

"We have a clear shot at being the number three platform on the market. We're not just another open platform on the market, we are BlackBerry."

"It has all the table stakes we need to have for consumer [success]," Heins said. He pointed out that the unique features of MORE

Today in Tech: 1.3 million Android devices activated daily, says Eric Schmidt

Amazon's potential plans for your TV; Twitter sales trump Facebook's. 

Eric Schmidt: "There are now 1.3 million Android device activations per day" [TECHCRUNCH]

Android is growing at a rapid pace. Last December there were 700k devices activated each day. Then, earlier this summer, that number was at 900k. One month later in late July it hit 1M. Now, in early September, there are 1.3M devices activated every single day.

Schmidt later added that there are close to MORE