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January 5, 2014, 3:45 PM

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs [Update: Confirmed] — Apple has acquired the one-man photo technology startup SnappyLabs, maker of SnappyCam, sources tell me. [Update 1/5/2014 9:15am PST: Apple confirms the acquisition.] The startup was founded and run solely …

Phil Libin / Evernote Blog:

Evernote CEO promises improved software quality, stability, and simplicity in 2014 — On Software Quality and Building a Better Evernote in 2014 — I got the wrong sort of birthday present yesterday: a sincerely-written post by Jason Kincaid lamenting a perceived decline in the quality of Evernote software over the past few months.

More: TechCrunch, jasonkincaid.net and Gotta Be Mobile

Tweets: @joshconstine, @stevesi and @jasonkincaid

Jason Kincaid:

Evernote wants to help you “Remember Everything”, but is a bug-ridden elephant

More: Engadget, The Verge, TechSpot, Gotta Be Mobile and Business Insider

Tweets: @hunterwalk, @pkafka, @samfbiddle, @cameronspickert, @mathewi, @dangillmor, @jeff and @jasonkincaid

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Square And Griffin Debut An Integrated Merchant Case And Holder For iPhones And Readers, Will Create More Accessories For Sellers — Last year, Square debuted Stand, a piece of hardware that turns a merchant's iPad into a card-swiping register. The idea was to provide a simple and elegant …

More: Square, Gizmodo, The Verge, 9to5Mac, CNET, TUAW, Gotta Be Mobile, TechSpot, MobileSyrup.com and LAPTOP Magazine

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:

HTC Posts Second Operating Loss as Sales Continue to Slump — HTC Corp. (2498) posted its second consecutive quarterly operating loss as a continued decline in sales dragged down earnings at the Taiwanese smartphone maker. — Fourth-quarter operating loss was NT$1.56 billion ($52 million) …

More: CNET, Gigaom, Engadget, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Reuters and Android Beat

George Lewis / Galapagos Digital:

Jeff Bezos flown from cruise in Galapagos islands by Ecuadorian navy after kidney stone attack — Billionaire Bezos Flown out of Galápagos — Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of the popular Amazon.com shopping website and current owner of the Washington Post …

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Tweets: @tim_stevens and @bensherwoodabc

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Rap Genius:

Rap Genius begins to recover its Google search ranking, details SEO strategies, apologizes — Rap Genius is Back on Google — In this post we give more details about our misguided SEO strategies and how we got there. We also explain our process and the tools we used to fix the problem and return to Google.

More: TechCrunch, PC Magazine, SEO Book, Forbes, blog.nullspace.io, PEEBS.ORG, Search Engine Land, Yahoo! News, The Verge, VentureBeat, Valleywag, Softpedia News, Business Insider, The Switch, Business Insider and Re/code

Tweets: @fredericl, @dannysullivan, @sg, @pauldix, @stevesi, @stevekovach, @jyarow and @bhorowitz

Thanks:@bkessler. See also Mediagazer

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

A family's three generations show a tradition of reinvention in Silicon Valley — Silicon Valley Lost, And Found — Silicon Valley is a place that is just as much about people reinventing themselves as it is about people reinventing industries. — As a new year turns …

Tweets: @evelynrusli, @pmarca, @ryan, @nickbilton and @stevesilberman

Guardian:

NSA statement does not deny ‘spying’ on members of Congress — Spencer Ackerman in Washington and Martin Pengelly in New York — The National Security Agency on Saturday released a statement in answer to questions from a senator about whether it “has spied, or is ... currently spying …

More: New York Times, Bernie Sanders, The Switch, Gizmodo, The Verge, The Desk, Techdirt, The Huffington Post, PandoDaily and Memex 1.1. Tweets: @davidsirota

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Samsung's new Smart Home service outlined, wants to connect to third-party services and products — We heard whispers that Samsung was planning big for CES, and we're not just talking TV panels. It's now revealed Smart Home, which attempts to tie together Smart TVs, home appliances and handheld smart devices into one single platform.

More: Samsung Tomorrow, CNET, PC Magazine, TechRadar.com, MobileSyrup.com, HomeTechTell, Android Police, Technology Personalized and Pocket-lint

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Connected Cars Driving 2014 CES to Become More of an Auto Show — CES has always been the place to find the latest in TVs, but each year, some other category seems to dominate the show. — A few years ago, it was PCs and netbooks. E-readers also had a brief moment in the sun …

More: The Verge and TechnoBuffalo

Liz Alderman / New York Times:

Unemployed in Europe Stymied by Lack of Technology Skills — DUBLIN — Week after week, newspapers issue a stream of hopeful headlines: Microsoft, PayPal, Fujitsu and scores of other companies are expanding their investments in Ireland, creating thousands of jobs as unemployment hovers near record highs.

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @hunterwalk, @kentuckychang, @pmarca, @benjy and @pmarca

Timothy B. Lee / The Switch:

Thousands of visitors to yahoo.com hit with malware attack, researchers say — Two Internet security firms have reported that Yahoo's advertising servers have been distributing malware to hundreds of thousands of users over the last few days. The attack appears to be the work of malicious parties …

More: Fox-IT International blog, Digital Trends, CNET, BetaNews, USA Today, TechHive, Slate, Softpedia News, Network World, Business Insider, Geeky Gadgets, The Hacker News, CNN, Graham Cluley, ZDNet, Gizmodo and Electronista

Tweets: @markloman, @markloman, @textually, @arnoldkim, @binarybits and @ashk4n

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