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December 7, 2013, 12:10 PM

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Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

Teardown estimates Moto G components cost $123, leaving a profit margin of less than 5% — Google Squeezes Margins on Moto G Phone — A ‘Teardown’ of $199 Device Pegs Component Costs at $123 — Google Inc. 's Motorola unit is selling its new Moto G smartphone at starkly thinner profit margins …

More: Android Beat, Phones Review, PhoneArena, SlashGear and pocketnow.com

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Too many startups are now building poorly differentiated messaging apps — Overrun With Messaging Apps — Because I'll install almost any app on my iPhone just to take a look, I've got a jam-packed folder called “messaging apps” that's now five pages deep.

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Graham Cluley:

Check if you're the victim of a database breach with ‘Have I Been Pwned?’ — It seems to me that there is almost always a website making the news headlines, attempting to explain to innocent users that hackers breached its security, and stole the email addresses and passwords of innocent users.

More: PC World, ZDNet, Troy Hunt's Blog, Digital Trends, Softpedia News and Geek.com

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Smooth operators: why phone companies don't fight the NSA — Will AT&T and Verizon ever push back against NSA surveillance? Don't bet on it — Last week, the New York Times unearthed a troubling twist to the endless stream of bad surveillance news. Not only is AT&T handing …

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Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:

AT&T Refuses to Disclose to Shareholders What Data It Shares with the NSA

More: NYT Bits, The Verge, Reuters, ABC News and Computerworld. Tweets: @thomas_drake1

Chris Chavez / Phandroid:

Prescription Google Glass pictured in the wild gives us our best look at the eyewear yet — Up until now, we haven't gotten a real good look at Google's plans for prescription eyewearers looking to outfit themselves with Google Glass. Sure there was the scruffy looking fella from months ago …

More: 9to5Google, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Yahoo! News and Droid Life

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Google could launch ‘Nexus TV’ Android set-top next year, says report — Google isn't giving up its living room ambitions. The company is said to be working on a “Nexus TV” device that will run Android, stream video from services like Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube, and play a selection of video games.

More: The Information, T3 News, Digital Trends, I4U News, PhoneArena, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Google, iPhone Hacks, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Beat, TechHive, Android and Me, Gigaom, BGR and Engadget

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @amir

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

T-Mobile Taps MetroPCS' Spectrum to Boost LTE Network Speeds — T-Mobile has started rolling out higher-speed LTE service by tapping the airwaves it acquired as part of its MetroPCS acquisition. — Just before Thanksgiving, T-Mobile quietly turned on the faster service in parts of North Dallas.

More: Engadget, App Advice, AndroidHeadlines.com and 9to5Mac

Bethany McLean / Vanity Fair:

Is Marissa Mayer Helping Yahoo - or Hurting the Struggling Tech Giant? — As one of Google's highest-ranking women, Marissa Mayer became a Silicon Valley superstar, but inside the search giant her dazzle sometimes wore thin, with colleagues rebelling against her imperious style.

More: Valleywag, Forbes, Business Insider, Business Insider, AllThingsD, Business Insider, Digits and The Verge

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google says 91.4% of non-spam emails sent to Gmail users are now authenticated using antiphishing standards — Google today declared that after almost a decade of fighting phishing emails, the Internet-wide efforts are finally paying off. The company revealed that 91.4 percent …

More: Google Online Security Blog, CNET and BetaNews

Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times:

Members of hacker group Anonymous plead guilty in PayPal cyber attack — Thirteen members of hacker group Anonymous have pleaded guilty to charges related to their involvement in a 2010 cyber attack of PayPal, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.

More: SlashGear, Reuters and Motherboard

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Yahoo acquires live concert streaming platform Evntlive — Redwood City-Calif. based live concert streaming platform Evntlive has been acquired by Yahoo. Evntlive announced the acquisition on its website Friday, stating that the service will be discontinued, and that the Evntlive team will join Yahoo Video.

More: I4U News, PC World, AllThingsD, Mashable, bizjournals and The Next Web

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Benchmark raises $425 million for new fund — Sand Hill Road stalwart closes eighth fund. — FORTUNE — Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark has raised $425 million for its eighth fund, according to an SEC filing. — This is the same size as Benchmark's prior fund, raised in 2011 …

More: AllThingsD, TechCrunch and Gigaom

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