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January 30, 2014, 2:50 PM

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Mike Isaac / Re/code:

Paper, Facebook's new app for browsing and creating stories, will launch Feb. 3 for US iPhones — Meet “Paper,” Facebook's New Answer For Browsing — and Creating — Mobile Media — Facebook wants to be a newspaper. And it wants you to be writing some of its best stories.

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

With Paper, Facebook just blew its own iPhone app out of the water — This morning, Facebook is announcing a new standalone iPhone app called Paper. Contrary to earlier rumors, it's much more than just a news reading app — it's a complete reimagining of Facebook itself.

More: TechCrunch, Marketing Land, ZDNet, Slate, Engadget, GeekWire, NYT Bits, Co.Design, Betabeat, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, TechGeek, Gotta Be Mobile and Gizmodo

Tweets: @rsarver and @globalmoxie

Businessweek:

Facebook Turns 10: The Mark Zuckerberg Interview — Mark Zuckerberg doesn't usually observe sentimental anniversaries. This year he's confronted by three of them. On Feb. 4, Facebook (FB), the company he co-founded in a Harvard University dorm, turns 10 years old. The prodigy himself turns 30 in May.

More: TechCrunch, TechCrunch, SiliconBeat, Valleywag, The Next Web, Capital New York, Business Insider, The Verge, 9to5Mac and Softpedia News

Tweets: @bw, @bradstone, @sarahfrier, @erikschatzker, @zoebfox and @jwherrman

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook aims to conquer mobile by building an arsenal of standalone apps

More: Internet2Go, BIA/Kelsey, Mashable, Business Insider and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @joshconstine

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple aggressively pushing to take Arizona sapphire plant live in February for ‘critical’ product component — In November of last year, Apple announced that it would be opening up a new manufacturing plant in Mesa, Arizona. Since that time, little information has come out about the plant except …

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Microsoft may select new CEO next week, Satya Nadella Exec VP Cloud and Enterprise, most likely candidate — Now at 160 Days, Microsoft CEO Search Could Be Nearing Its End With Insiders on Inside Track — According to numerous sources close to Microsoft, the selection of a new CEO could happen within the next week.

More: BGR, VentureBeat, WinBeta, TechSpot, Business Insider, Gigaom Research, Fox Business, FierceWireless and Softpedia News. Thanks:@srikardr

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

PayPal Wants Role in Apple's Mobile Payments Dreams — Apple may finally appear serious about facilitating the purchase of physical products in retail stores through its devices — and that has gotten the attention of at least one potential major competitor.

More: MacRumors, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Telegraph and App Advice. Tweets: @chris_ciaccia. Thanks:@delrey

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

SwiftKey gets its predictive keyboard onto iOS, with a little help from Evernote — The popular Android keyboard arrives on iPhone and iPad — Three and a half years after launching on Android, SwiftKey's popular predictive-software keyboard has finally come to iOS. iPhone and iPad users …

More: Inquirer, MacStories, MacRumors, pocketnow.com, AppleInsider, BGR, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Cult of Mac, Engadget, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Android Central, Re/code and ZDNet. Tweets: @stephenfry

Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat:

Mint integrates with Coinbase, so you can track Bitcoin with the rest of your finances — The wild ride of Bitcoin's value is slowing down, and we are beginning to see the effects of that stability. — Personal finance app Mint is integrating with Bitcoin wallet service Coinbase …

More: Slate, SiliconBeat, Examiner, CoinDesk, Computerworld, Engadget, Gigaom, The Verge, SlashGear, The Switch and The Next Web. Tweets: @mariagrineva

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Intel Will Shut Down AppUp PC App Store On March 11, Apps Will Stop Working By May 15 — So much for Intel's bid to get hip with our app-filled times: the company is shutting down its consumer-facing AppUp, its app store for Windows-based PC apps. “The world's largest app store that nobody's ever heard of …

More: Ars Technica, Computerworld, eWeek, bizjournals, Inquirer, SemiAccurate, HotHardware.com News, CNET and The Register

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

The PC may be dying, but tablet growth is slowing as consumer saturation sets in — Summary: If you thought the tablet was the savior to the ailing PC market, we may need a better alternative if the latest tablet growth forecasts are to be believed. — Zack Whittaker

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Hackers likely exploited insecure, widely used server software on Target's internal network — New Clues in the Target Breach — An examination of the malware used in the Target breach suggests that the attackers may have had help from a poorly secured feature built into a widely-used …

More: Help Net Security, Wall Street Journal, SecurityWeek and The Switch. Tweets: @craigstuntz

Don Reisinger / CNET:

US Justice Department looking into Target data breach

More: The United States Department … and TechnoBuffalo

Larry Page / The Official Google Blog:

Google CEO: Motorola to be better served at Lenovo, which is “all-in” on making mobile devices — Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility — We've just signed an agreement to sell Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. As this is an important move for Android users everywhere, I wanted to explain why in detail.

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Google to keep Motorola's Advanced Technology group, including Project Ara modular phone

More: Los Angeles Times, Gigaom, BGR, Re/code, pocketnow.com, Silicon Valley Watcher, IntoMobile, Digital Trends, Beyond Search, Android Authority, PhoneArena and Droid Life

Tom Krazit / Gigaom:

With Motorola sale and Samsung peace, Google finds practical exit to an unconventional (and expensive) deal

More: Ars Technica, The Verge, Wired.co.uk, TechSpot, The Tech Report, The Next Web, Android Beat, Electronista, T3 News, Global Nerdy and Bloomberg

Signe Brewster / Gigaom:

IBM researchers just built the best graphene-based circuit yet: it sends text messages — IBM researchers have created a graphene-based circuit that they say performs 10,000 times better than existing options; It was reliable enough that they used it to send and receive a text message.

More: Gizmodo, CNET and VentureBeat

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Amazon Wants To Include Peer-to-Peer Payments In Its “Real World” PayPal Competitor — Earlier today, the WSJ published a report on how Amazon is building a Kindle-based point-of-sale payments service for local merchants using technology it picked up via its Gopago acquisition -something we actually reported on back in December.

More: Business Insider and SlashGear. See also Mediagazer

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon to offer brick-and-mortar stores a Kindle tablet checkout system $AMZN

More: Digits, Gigaom, TechnoBuffalo, TheStreet.com, Electronista, WebProNews and The Verge. Tweets: @gregbensinger

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Nintendo plans non-wearable health products, still has no interest in smartphone gaming — Nintendo has again confirmed today that it won't introduce its games to smartphones and tablets, however, company President Satoru Iwata did reveal plans to introduce non-wearable technology that monitors users' health.

More: Digits, nintendo.co.jp, Digital Trends, MacRumors, The Verge, Softpedia News, Gamasutra, RocketNews24, New York Times, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, Gearburn, SlashGear, VentureBeat, destructoid and PandoDaily

Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

Flat Sales of Wii U Put Nintendo in Hot Seat

More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal

Aman Shah / Reuters:

Alibaba rival JD.com files for U.S. listing — (Reuters) - JD.com, China's second-largest e-commerce company, filed for a U.S. listing of its shares, following market leader Alibaba Group Holding Ltd in tapping into rising investor enthusiasm around China's booming online retail market.

David Kravets / Wired:

Obama Stays Silent on Reform of NSA's Crypto Subversion — President Barack Obama in his State of the Union on Tuesday failed to address an issue that affects everyone on the internet — the NSA's subversion of cryptographic standards and technologies. — Privacy advocates and business interests …

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

US intelligence chief has 30 days to reveal if specific citizens were spied upon

More: Mashable, New York Times, Washington Post and American Forces Press Service

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Why Hasn't Twitter Just Given @N His Name Back? — Yesterday Naoki Hiroshima, an Echofon developer, posted an article about how he lost his extremely short Twitter handle @N in an extortion scheme. Hackers compromised his GoDaddy account with social engineering (calling and lying to an account rep) …

More: eWeek, Inquirer, BBC, PC World, SlashGear, The Next Web and Softpedia News. Tweets: @n_is_stolen

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

PayPal denies providing payment information to hacker who hijacked $50,000 Twitter username

More: PC Magazine and BGR

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