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January 7, 2014, 5:55 PM

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Jelly:
Biz Stone and Ben Finkel launch Jelly: “a new way to search with pictures and people from your social networks”  —  Introducing Jelly  —  Humanity is connected like never before.  In fact, recent white papers have concluded that the proverbial “six degrees of separation” …
Apple:
App Store Sales Top $10 Billion in 2013  —  Record-Breaking December with Over $1 Billion in Sales  —  CUPERTINO, CaliforniaJanuary 7, 2014Apple® today announced that customers spent over $10 billion on the App Store in 2013, including over $1 billion in December alone.
Steven Levy / Wired:
How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet  —  Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and the other tech titans have had to fight for their lives against their own government.  An exclusive look inside their year from hell—and why the Internet will never be the same.  —  Washington Post reporters called …
David Pogue / Yahoo:
An Introduction To Yahoo Tech!  —  Okay, Seriously: What The Heck Is Bitcoin, And Why Do So Many People Prefer It To Dollars And Cents?  —  Online customer reviews are fantastic, but there's still something to be said for reading a critic you know.  Over time, you get to know her opinions, preferences, and style.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Sony announces PlayStation Now, its cloud gaming service for TVs, consoles, and phones  —  The PlayStation 4 won't recognize discs from previous Sony game consoles, but that might not matter for long.  Sony has just announced PlayStation Now, a service that will bring streaming PlayStation games to PS4 …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Announces That It Has Acquired “Intelligent Homescreen” Startup Aviate  —  Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just made her first announcement on-stage at her Consumer Electronics Show keynote — that the company has acquired Aviate, a startup that automatically organizes the apps on your homescreen.
Mike Isaac / Re/code:
Vine Co-Founder Steps Down From Lead Role at Company  —  Dom Hofmann, co-founder of the social video-sharing service Vine, has stepped down from his lead general manager role at the company, according to three sources close to the situation.  —  Hofmann, who has led the company since …
Ina Fried / Re/code:
T-Mobile CEO on Being Thrown Out of AT&T's Party: “I Just Wanted to Hear Macklemore”  —  T-Mobile CEO John Legere has been trying to crash AT&T's party metaphorically for a while now.  —  On Monday, he decided to do it literally, working his way into a party that the telecom giant was throwing for its developers at the Palms Hotel.
Yahoo:
Yahoo Advertising revamped to unify web, mobile, and video ad products  —  Introducing the new Yahoo Advertising  —  Today we are announcing a unified approach to digital advertising that only Yahoo can deliver - across premium and audience-focused display, native and search advertising.
Nick D'Aloisio / Yahoo:
Yahoo News Digest: Get In The Know In No Time  —  With the introduction of mobile devices, plenty of things have changed.  The way we find, consume and share news has evolved.  As things become more complex in nature, news consumption has become overwhelming.
Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:
Sony announces Oculus Rift virtual reality headset competitor  —  Sony Entertainment president Mike Fasulo briefly shows off the company's new virtual reality headset.  —  CES 2014 … Movie watchers and gamers who just like to enjoy their content alone may like Sony's latest product: a virtual reality headset.
Danny Yadron / Digits:
Kanye's Lawyer Moves to Block Coinye  —  Lawyers for Kanye West filed cease-and-desist papers against the seven anonymous coders behind Coinye West, a virtual currency that went from chatroom joke to Internet sensation last week.  —  The legal document, dated Jan. 6, includes an image of Coinye …
Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
Oracle buys Corente, pushes into networking more  —  Summary: Corente will add wide area networking virtualization technology to Oracle's red stack.  —  Oracle has acquired Corente, which provides software defined networking applications for networks.  The move gives Oracle another piece of its networking puzzle.
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Vimeo speeds its online videos, goes HTML5 by default  —  Vimeo has sped up its video-streaming technology and made the shift from Flash-powered video to HTML5 by default, the company said Tuesday.  —  The new player software improves performance, social links, and post-production capabilities …

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