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February 2, 2014, 4:45 AM

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Mike Isaac / Re/code:

New iPhone app “Secret” lets you share confessions anonymously with your network of friends — With New Anonymous Social App Secret, the Merit Is in the Message — What if you could share anything you wanted to, with little worry of repercussion?

More: Daily Dot, Medium and ParisLemon

Tweets: @chrysb, @johnmaeda, @dannysullivan, @fromedome and @alexisohanian

Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:

Inside the world of popular anonymous secret-sharing app Whisper — Inside the Angsty, Affirming World of Whisper — At my high school, most real online communication happened between private blogs. Between classes, my friends and I set up password-protected Livejournals …

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @nategoldman, @jrick, @jennydeluxe, @samir and @hamburger

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

“Healthbook” app managing fitness and health data may come preinstalled with iOS 8, integrate with iWatch — iWatch + iOS 8: Apple sets out to redefine mobile health, fitness tracking — Apple has its sights set on another industry ripe for reinvention: the mobile healthcare and fitness world.

NYT Bits:

Apple Executives Met With F.D.A. to Discuss Mobile Medical Applications

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Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

AT&T's new family plan: two lines sharing 10GB for $130 a month, $15 per additional line — AT&T Sweetens Offer for Family Plans — AT&T, the second largest American phone carrier, on Saturday said it would offer a cheaper phone plan for families with multiple devices.

More: AT&T, Engadget, 9to5Google, MacRumors, Reuters, PC Magazine, iClarified, Android Central, TechSpot, Ars Technica, The Verge, Geek Beat Technology News, Re/code, Gigaom, Droid Life and iDownloadBlog.com

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Flipboard Mimics Magazines Further With A Shift To Structured Content, Revamped “Cover Stories” — Social magazine Flipboard is rethinking how it organizes content for readers. Today the company is revamping “Cover Stories,” the section within Flipboard that highlights the best and most popular content from across your subscriptions.

More: The Verge, Inside Flipboard, Gigaom, Re/code, ReadWrite and Good E-Reader

Wall Street Journal:

Twitter's Super Bowl Goal: More Ad Credibility — Company Works to Persuade Marketers That There Are Smarter Ways to Tweet — On Super Bowl Sunday, Twitter will again serve as a grand stage for advertisers to promote brands to millions of people captivated by gameplay, half-time shows and slick commercials.

More: Marketing Land, Search Engine Land, Inc.com and Speakeasy

Reuters:

Facebook looks to nab Twitter's ‘second screen’ crown in Super Bowl

More: SiliconBeat, Forbes and GeekWire

Nick Wingfield / New York Times:

NFL deploys iBeacons at MetLife Stadium and Times Square to send ads and alerts to fans for Super Bowl — Another Super Bowl Ad Fest, This Time on the Cellphone — Want to see the Vince Lombardi Trophy that goes to the Super Bowl winner? Take a left in 15 feet. Looking to buy some Super Bowl merchandise?

More: Gotta Be Mobile, Digital Trends, Internet2Go, The Verge, iClarified, AppleInsider, Business Insider, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com and iPhone Hacks

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Major League Baseball Rolling Out Thousands of iBeacons for Opening Day

More: Gotta Be Mobile, PadGadget, TechnologyTell, Electronista, iMore, iLounge, The Verge, App Advice and iDownloadBlog.com

Nikhil Basu Trivedi / Medium:

Series A bifurcation: startups with momentum can raise $10-25M, those without raise much less — What's up with the Series A? — On the one hand, $10-25M rounds; on the other, a “Crunch” — A couple months ago, I was chatting with a first-time entrepreneur who had recently raised …

Tweets: @tolles, @pmarca, @pmarca, @pmarca, @alex, @pmarca, @nbt, @pmarca, @jeff and @cdixon

Valentina Palladino / The Verge:

ABC orders pilot for ‘Selfie,’ its latest attempt to turn a social media trend into a comedy — People always like to guess whether a new show will be a hit or miss — and newly-announced ABC pilot Selfie has the potential to be a huge miss. The show will be written by Suburgatory creator Emily Kapnek …

More: Inside TV, Washington Post, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline.com, TVWise, CNET, Daily Dot, Business Insider, 1001 Noisy Cameras, WebProNews, Mashable, Betabeat and The Technology Chronicles. Tweets: @rubinafillion

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Pebble appstore to debut Monday February 3rd — Pebble will launch its appstore on Monday, January 3rd, the smartwatch company has announced today. The download store, which we tried in beta with the new Pebble Steel, will go live at 10AM PT, and give Pebble's growing developer community …

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, Engadget, PhoneDog.com, Geeky Gadgets and App Advice

Re/code:

Mockup by commerce site Fancy for Twitter shows ability to make purchases from tweets — Is This What Twitter Commerce Will Look Like? — Twitter is getting serious about commerce on its service. So much so, that it looks as if soon you'll be able to buy goods for sale directly from a tweet.

More: T3 News, Digital Trends, Digits, The Next Web, Engadget, CNET, Marketing Land, MobileSyrup.com and ReadWrite

Tweets: @howardlindzon and @mikeisaac

Om Malik / Gigaom:

The Gigaom Interview: A chat with Microsoft's Satya Nadella from before he was the (likely) next CEO — Back in October 2013, I sat down with Satya Nadella, Microsoft's cloud chief, and we ended up talking about Microsoft and its competition, the role of the company in modern technology landscape …

More: Pocket-lint, SmoothSpan Blog, Search Engine Land and Wall Street Journal

Tweets: @loic, @emilychangtv, @pkedrosky and @daniel_rubino

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