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January 18, 2014, 1:20 PM

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Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:

Security firm IntelCrawler says it has identified Target malware author — Security firm IntelCrawler said Friday that it has identified a Russian teenager as the author of the malware probably used in the cyberattacks against Target and Neiman Marcus, and that it expects more retailers to acknowledge that their systems were breached.

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Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Dropbox Raises About $250 Million at $10 Billion Valuation — BlackRock Is Leading the Deal Alongside Previous Backers — Dropbox Inc. has closed on about $250 million in a funding round that values the online-storage provider at close to $10 billion, according to two people familiar with the deal.

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Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Dropbox Fundraising Could Actually Be as Much as $400 Million — Dropbox's latest funding round values the company at $10 billion, with private equity giant BlackRock leading the deal with participation with existing investors. — But while the round is currently worth $250 million …

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Wall Street Journal:

Stores Confront New World of Reduced Shopper Traffic — E-Commerce Not Only Siphons Off Sales, but Changes Shopping Habits — Best Buy Co. on Thursday became the latest retailer to chime in with weak holiday results. Like other chains, the electronics retailer blamed the race to offer …

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Lightroom for iPad briefly appears on Adobe's website, coming soon with $99/year cloud subscription — Adobe will soon make the iPad an even more viable solution for mobile content creation: the company will soon unleash a version of its popular Lightroom photo editing suite that is optimized for tablets.

More: MacRumors, Photography Bay, The Verge, TUAW, Softpedia News, iClarified, Canon Rumors, PadGadget, iPhone Hacks, MacNN and App Advice

Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek:

Cisco's Security Report finds that 91% of attacks in 2013 were Java exploits — Java Primary Cause of 91 Percent of Attacks: Cisco — There are many different risks and attacks that IT professionals had to deal with in 2013, but no one technology was more abused or more culpable that Java …

More: Network World, Out-Law News and The Register. Thanks:@techjournalist

Greg Bensinger / Digits:

Amazon patents method for anticipating your purchases to move them to a shipping hub near you — Amazon Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy It — Amazon.com knows you so well it wants to ship your next package before you order it. — The Seattle retailer in December gained …

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, Engadget, The Verge, ReadWrite, BGR, GeekWire and Gizmodo

Tweets: @odannyboy, @startupljackson, @mrjohncrowley and @evelynrusli

Joseph Czikk / BetaKit:

Hopper, the Startup That's Been in Stealth for Six Years Finally (Soft) Launched This Week — It's been six years since a bunch of ex-Expedia and TripAdvisor engineers started working on Hopper, a Montreal and Boston-based startup that has raised $22 million in funding.

More: Tnooz. Thanks:@inkblotca

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Storehouse, an iPad app by a former Apple designer, lets users create stories from media — Storehouse: An Apple Vet Tries To Move The Needle On Long-Form Visual Communication — The way we communicate is increasingly visual. The devices that we carry with us are uniquely suited …

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, San Francisco Chronicle, Co.Design, iMore and The Next Web

Electronic Frontier Foundation:

EFF's scorecard rates Obama's proposed NSA reforms at 3.5 out of 12 — Rating Obama's NSA Reform Plan: EFF Scorecard Explained — Earlier today, President Obama announced a series of reforms to address abuses by the National Security Agency. We were heartened to see Obama recognized …

More: Wired, Newsy, Access Blog, TechFreedom, Boing Boing, The Switch, Reuters and The Verge. Tweets: @jmarkockerbloom

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Intel's 64-bit Bay Trail chip arriving on Android tablets in Q2 — Intel's Bay Trail chip arriving on Android tablets in Q2 — Intel's quad-core Atom processor will come to Android tablets in the second quarter, CEO Brian Krzanich said Thursday during a quarterly earnings conference call with analysts.

More: Ars Technica, Engadget, T3 News and AndroidGuys

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Some 2011 MacBook Pros Experiencing GPU Glitches, System Crashes — Many early and late-2011 MacBook Pro owners with discrete graphics cards seem to be experiencing GPU failures and system crashes on their machines. In addition to several tips received by MacRumors, there's lengthy thread …

More: Softpedia News, Ars Technica, iClarified, Cult of Mac and MacNN

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