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hey everyone at Mollywood and welcome to the buzz report the show about the tech news that everyone is talking about this week it is Christmas we are on vacation and of course gearing up for CES in January but the year would not be complete without our annual best of the buzz compilation the cheap shots the dirty jokes and occasionally even the cogent analysis or something like that enjoy a new segment that I'm calling the balls on China late last week it was discovered that five fake apple stores were operating in the chinese city of kunming and now pc magazine reports that another fake store has been photographed in chengdu now they look exactly like apple stores even down to the employee lanyards and t-shirt in fact some employees said they thought they were working at a real apple store anonymous says that Facebook needs to be destroyed because it's turning over personal information to the government and spying on us which I know I mean I guess that's bad but what about my spine I need facebook to find out if that one chick went to that one party and flirted with that one guy I like and I need to know who got fat from high school and what about my scrabble games anonymous and where am I gonna post pictures of my food Molly you think that's bad November fifth is my birthday how is anyone going to know dude that's my birthday too happy birthday yeah score one for Apple and the great Apple Samsung pissing contest of 2011 a judge in Germany says Samsung cannot keep selling the galaxy tab 10.1 anywhere in Europe well except the Netherlands for some reason and now for a new segment here on the buzz report you people are turning research in the UK found that one in six mobile phones were tainted with e-coli bacteria which is typically found in fecal matter yep you have poop on your phone I guess the good news is that five out of six of you are not filthy Pink's let me break it down for you stop doing your business while using your phone and for God's sake wash your hands although best part of all look how easy it is to install that is amazing let's watch that again in slow mo uh-huh have your electrician on speed dial for that one other than that it's actually pretty awesome for a thermostat and another Apple related news it's time for my favorite segment the balls on China Chinese police shut down a smuggling operation that was sneaking iPads and iPhones across the border from Hong Kong how well this is the balls part allow me to demonstrate first the smuggler shot a crossbow from Hong Kong into shenzhen province then they zip-lined bags with apple stuff across the border so they wouldn't have to pay import taxes Houston Nia I think I final fight regulation is to listen to CD 54 in touch phiyega saga makula visitas i'm stunned oh hey she's all her hair and now for the news facebook held a press event this week to announce something awesome and here it is a short tutorial on the meaning of exponential growth if you plot it out the amount of stuff that people are sharing it's growing at this exponential rate you know one of our investors always tells me that humans are really bad at understanding exponential growth but you don't tend to look at them like this because they just go off the chart too quickly so you tend to look at them in what we call a log normalized graph right so that way if you look at the y axis here it's on it's skewed right so it's not going up linearly what I really find amazing though is that Google apparently agreed to take its wallet feature out of its flagship here android phone that was supposed to get mobile NFC payments off the ground and give us a japan-style mobile phone payment system for the future grow a pair of Google in its earning report this week sensitive little netflix says it just hates to upset its customers with that jagan dis rate hike and it understands that this decision will cause some of you to quit the service and Netflix is just really sorry although netflix says most of you won't quit and the extra money that netflix rakes in from the hike will let it reach the magical goal of 1 billion dollars in revenue during a single quarter it was ridiculous at one point coo Tim Cook said we were selling so fast we think we might have accidentally sold a couple newtons in other news this week i would like to thank cameron and tyler winklevoss for providing me with a steady stream of news i can't believe the winder boss boys as you recall were denied their grudge match against facebook for the third time last month but despite three federal appeals courts telling them they have no case the mockery of millions and the fact that their settlement is now worth about a hundred million dollars the whiner boss's plan to take this case all the way to the US Supreme Court I mean why not the Supreme Court has nothing better to do than indulge a couple of rich white boys who had that one good idea that one time and apparently haven't ever had a good one since and that's it for this week everyone thank you for watching and we'll see you next year you