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January 30, 2014, 10:10 PM

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Bloomberg:

Microsoft's board preparing to make Satya Nadella CEO, may replace Gates as chairman — Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO — Microsoft Corp.'s board is preparing to make Satya Nadella, the company's enterprise and cloud chief, chief executive officer …

More: TechCrunch, Businessweek, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, PC World, Digits, Quartz, The Register, AppleInsider, Gigaom, CNET, ReadWrite, GeekWire, Reuters, The Verge, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Engadget, MobileSyrup.com, Gizmodo UK, Gotta Be Mobile, VG247, Mashable, Windows Phone Central, TechnoBuffalo and SlashGear

Tweets: @levie, @sachinkalbag, @stevekovach, @dannysullivan and @raju

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Microsoft may pick new CEO in upcoming week, VP of Cloud and Enterprise Satya Nadella most likely candidate

More: NYT Bits, Guardian, The Verge, ZDNet, The Next Web, The Technology Chronicles, Fox Business, WinBeta, Pocketables, FierceWireless, BGR, TechSpot and VentureBeat. Thanks:@srikardr

Google:

Google Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2013 Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2013. — “We ended 2013 with another great quarter of momentum and growth.

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Revenue and Profit Rise at Google, but Mobile Struggles Continue — SAN FRANCISCO — There is no denying that Google has become a mobile company. Now, Google — along with shareholders, industry partners and advertisers — is trying to figure out what that means.

Tweets: @mhelft

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Q4 '13 Beats With $16.86B Revenue, Misses With EPS Of $12.01 Because Of Motorola Weakness

More: Mercury News, The Verge, International Business Times, VatorNews, Gigaom, internetretailer.com and IntoMobile

Amazon.com:

Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 20% to $25.59 Billion — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2013. — Operating cash flow increased 31% to $5.47 billion for the trailing twelve months …

More: CNET, Quartz, The Register, GeekWire, VentureBeat, VatorNews, ReadWrite, Businessweek, BGR, Guardian, Digits, ZDNet, Reuters, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, TechCrunch, Android Community, BBC, Bloomberg, The Verge, Barron's Online, AndroidHeadlines.com, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet, Electronista and WebProNews. Tweets: @fmanjoo. See also Mediagazer

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Amazon considering $20 to $40 price hike for Prime service in US — Amazon today said it's “considering” raising the price of its $79 a year Prime service to customers in the US by another $20 to $40. The possible increase, which has not been finalized, was announced during the company's fourth quarter earnings call with analysts.

More: Digits, Fortune, Ars Technica and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Amazon shares fall 10% after big holiday earnings miss

More: CNET and Re/code. Thanks:@johnhcook

Mark DeCambre / Quartz:

Box has secretly filed for an IPO — Box, the online storage company, has secretly filed paperwork for an initial public offering, according to a source. — That means Box could start trading as a public company before its chief rival, Dropbox. Both are among the most anticipated tech IPOs of this year.

More: Digits, GeekWire, The Verge, The Next Web, CNET, Wall Street Journal, DealBook, Forbes, Gigaom and Business Insider

Tweets: @antderosa, @m_delamerced and @mattrosoff

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Zynga Buys NaturalMotion For $527M, Signaling A New Tack For The Gaming Giant — Zynga has long been famous (or infamous?) for its data-driven approach to game design. The company never focused on building strong character IP, or intellectual property, in favor of releasing games that had been thoroughly funnel-tested.

More: Zynga Company Blog, GlobeNewswire, MacRumors, Guardian, BizPunk, Digits, ReadWrite, Ars Technica, SlashGear, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Re/code, Digits and Valleywag. Tweets: @dmac1

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Zynga Lays Off 314 Employees, Or 15% Of Its Workforce — Paired with the news of a big half-billion-dollar acquisition, Zynga is also laying off about 15 percent of its workforce, or about 314 employees. — This is part of a cost-reduction plan that is supposed to generate $33 million …

More: Betabeat, VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters and Business Insider

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

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, TUAW, Slate, NYT Bits, ZDNet, Marketing Land, Co.Design, TechnoBuffalo and GeekWire. Tweets: @rsarver

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, Business Insider, CNET, Valleywag and SiliconBeat

Tweets: @rubinafillion, @bw and @bradstone

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Facebook changes stance, plans to allow anonymous logins in new set of apps

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @bw. Thanks:@ingridlunden

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: BGR, TechnologyTell, Gigaom Research, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneArena, AppleInsider and Telegraph. Tweets: @chris_ciaccia. Thanks:@delrey

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft backpedals: Windows 8.1 update hides tile interface by default — Microsoft is once again planning to alter the way its Start Screen works in Windows 8.1 Update 1. While the software giant originally released Windows 8.1 last year with an option to bypass the “Metro” interface at boot …

More: CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, Kotaku, Gotta Be Mobile and TechSpot

Tweets: @harrymccracken and @tomwarren

Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits:

Salesforce CEO Benioff on How to Fix San Francisco — These days, you could call Marc Benioff a kind of anti-Tom Perkins. — The billionaire head of Salesforce.com doesn't have anything personal against the co-founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. But he adamantly disagrees with Perkins' recent defense of the tech elite.

Tweets: @benioff, @pmarca, @georgia_wells, @evelynrusli, @bxchen, @jameshiga and @wsjd

Associated Press:

Google's first-ever stock split scheduled for April 2 — Google poised to execute long-delayed stock split — SAN FRANCISCO—Google is finally ready to split its stock for the first time, more than three years after co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin began discussing a move engineered …

More: The Verge and AndroidHeadlines.com

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Detects Mass Hack Attempt On Yahoo Mail, Resets All Affected Passwords — The details are a bit sparse right now, but Yahoo has just disclosed by way of their Tumblr that they've detected what they're calling a “coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts”.

More: Yahoo, Los Angeles Times, BetaNews, Computerworld, ReadWrite, The Register, PC World, NYT Bits, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge, The Snitch and Associated Press. Tweets: @nycjim

CBC News:

Snowden documents reveal Canadian spy agency used airport Wi-Fi to track passengers “for days after they left the terminal” — Canadian spy agency used airport Wi-Fi to track passengers for days after they left the terminal — Electronic snooping was part of a trial run for U.S. NSA and other foreign services

Tweets: @csoghoian, @emptywheel, @stephenlautens and @rj_gallagher

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Incredible Labs Acquired By Yahoo, Mobile Assistant App Donna To Be Shut Down — Incredible Labs, the startup behind mobile personal assistant app Donna, has been acqui-hired. Five of the seven members of the team will join Yahoo, and Donna will be shut down.

More: Donna Blog, Half Of What I Say Is …, Re/code, VatorNews, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, Electronista, Engadget and WebProNews

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Facebook, Parse launch code library called Bolts — Summary: The Bolts library is available to download and developers can drop the code into projects without a Facebook or Parse account. — Facebook and Parse have created a library of low-level code called Bolts for iOS and Android designed …

More: Facebook Developers Blog and VentureBeat

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Canalys: Android on 79% of the 998 million smartphones shipped in 2013, Windows Phone fastest growing platform — Almost 1 billion smartphones (998 million to be exact) shipped in 2013. Compared to 2012, this represents a 44 percent year-over-year increase.

More: Canalys Newsroom, Examiner, MobileSyrup.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Fortune, ZDNet, WMPoweruser and Softpedia News

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