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January 22, 2014, 10:25 PM

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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Netflix wants to introduce three pricing tiers for new members  —  Netflix is getting ready for a new pricing structure, according to the company's Q4 letter to shareholders (PDF) released Wednesday.  In it, CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells write:
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Netflix's momentum continues with 2.33 million new US customers in Q4  —  Netflix revealed its fourth quarter earnings today, capping off a banner year that saw the streaming service surpass HBO in subscriber count and earn critical acclaim for its original programming.
Reuters:
EBay dismisses Icahn proposal to spin off Paypal  —  (Reuters) - Carl Icahn has taken a stake in eBay Inc and is proposing a spin-off of the its fast-growing PayPal division, but the e-commerce giant rebuffed the overture, setting the stage for a potential battle with the activist investor.
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Adario Strange / Mashable:
Apple Promises to Fix iOS 7 ‘White Screen of Death’  —  Since Apple released iOS 7, its completely revamped operating system for the iPhone, reviews have been mixed but mostly positive.  However, a glitch that has quietly plagued iPhone users — the “white/black screen of death,” …
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
Protesters show up at the doorstep of Google self-driving car engineer  —  This image was distributed by the group Counterforce, protesting Google engineer Anthony Levandowski.  —  Indymedia  —  Protests against tech giants and their impact on the San Francisco Bay Area economy just got personal.
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Stripe raises $80 million from Khosla, Sequoia and Founders Fund, now valued at $1.75 billion  —  Payments Startup Stripe Joins the Billion Dollar Club  —  New $80 Million Funding Round Will Help Company Battle PayPal  —  In the crowded field of online payments, venture capitalists …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
John Cook / GeekWire:
Early stakeholders in Scout Analytics claim venture capitalists engaged in ‘self dealing, corporate waste’ prior to $32M acquisition  —  Not everyone is happy about today's $32 million acquisition of Scout Analytics by ServiceSource.  A group of series A preferred stockholders filed suit …
Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:
Sriram Krishnan / Facebook Developers:
Facebook announces it's testing its own ad network for third-party mobile apps  —  Testing a new way for developers to monetize mobile apps  —  Monetization is a difficult problem for mobile app developers, particularly as people move toward downloading more free apps and advertising dollars lag behind time spent on mobile.
David de Jong / Bloomberg:
Sheryl Sandberg Becomes One of Youngest U.S. Billionaires  —  Sheryl Sandberg's fortune surpassed $1 billion today after Facebook Inc. (FB) closed at a record high.  —  The chief operating officer of the world's most popular social-networking service owns about 12.3 million shares of the Menlo Park …
Tal Ater:
Chrome Bugs Allow Sites to Listen to Your Private Conversations  —  By exploiting bugs in Google Chrome, malicious sites can activate your microphone, and listen in on anything said around your computer, even after you've left those sites.  Even while not using your computer - conversations …
Loek Essers / PC World:
SimpleAir seeks $125M from Google after jury finds Android notifications infringe patent  —  Google faces $125 million damages claim after losing Android patent lawsuit  —  SimpleAir is seeking $125M in damages from Google after a jury found that push notification services in Android infringe …
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
Guccifer, the hacker who leaked George W. Bush paintings, reportedly arrested in Romania  —  The infamous hacker Guccifer has reportedly been arrested in Romania, a bit of early-morning gossip that startled fans of George W. Bush's pet portraits and left everyone else wondering who, exactly, this Guccifer guy is.
Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits:
Startup Behind Flipagram Seeks Investment at $300 Million Valuation  —  These days, you have to strike while the app is hot.  —  The startup behind Flipagram, a popular mobile app that creates short videos from photos, is seeking to raise an investment in the tens of millions that could value …

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