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February 13, 2014, 5:00 AM
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David Faber / @davidfaber:
Comcast to buy Time Warner Cable in all stock deal worth $159 per $TWC share- sources. Deal set for tomorrow morning. Ratio is 2.875 $CMCSA.
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Comcast to Buy Time Warner Cable in $44.2 Billion All-Stock Deal, Says CNBC  —  CNBC's David Faber this evening tweeted that multiple unnamed sources have indicated him Comcast (CMCSA) will announce tomorrow a deal to purchase Time Warner Cable (TWC) for $159 per share, in an all-stock deal.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Here's Why the Biggest Cable Company in the Country Thinks It Can Get Bigger  —  So Comcast, in a sort-of surprise, is going to end up buying all of Time Warner Cable for itself.  —  If you are a regular person, and you hear that the biggest cable company in the country is going to buy …
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Bloomberg:
Apple to unveil updated Apple TV set-top box by April, release for holidays amid Time Warner, other partner negotiations  —  Apple Said to Plan New Set-Top Box Amid Time Warner Cable Talks  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) is planning to introduce a new Apple TV set-top box as early as April …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Strange bedfellows: Microsoft could bring Android apps to Windows  —  Of Microsoft's many challenges in mobile, none loom larger than the app deficit: it only takes a popular new title like Flappy Bird to highlight what the company is missing out on.  Windows 8 apps are also few and far between …
Yoni Heisler / TUAW:
A look at Apple's R&D expenditures from 1995-2013  —  For a company that makes as much money as Apple, you might be surprised to learn that it spends far less on Research and Development (R&D) than many of its competitors, including bigwigs like Google, Microsoft, and Samsung.
More: MacDailyNews.  Tweets: @hkanji and @pmarca.  Thanks:@anderzole
Ryan Whitwam / Android Police:
Verizon “More Everything” Launches Tomorrow - Increased Data Caps, Lower Prices For Edge Subscribers  —  The big US carriers are currently falling all over themselves to tweak their plan offerings to be more competitive with each other.  After changing the upgrade window of its Edge plans last month …
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Gary Vaynerchuk Launches New $25 Million Seed Fund  —  Gary Vaynerchuk, the well-known entrepreneur, is launching a $25 million seed fund, which is backed by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross.  —  In an interview, Vaynerchuk said it was not a “pure investment play,” but will focus on operating …
Tweets: @garyvee and @marshallk
Kurt Wagner / Mashable:
Facebook Testing ‘Water Taxi’ to Shuttle Employees From San Francisco  —  All aboard the Facebook ferry.  —  The social network launched a private ferry service last week that will shuttle employees between San Francisco and Redwood City, just a few miles from company headquarters in Menlo Park …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
IDC: Android and iOS accounted for 95.7% of global smartphone shipments in Q4 2013, and 93.8% for the year  —  Android and iOS accounted for 95.7 percent of all smartphone shipments in Q4 2013, and for 93.8 percent of all smartphone shipments for the whole year.
Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:
Netflix's Streaming Quality Is Based On Business Decisions by Netflix & ISPs, Not Net Neutrality  —  Over the past two days, there's been some news articles suggesting that some ISPs, like Verizon, may be purposely throttling or slowing Netflix's video content over their last mile network, because of the recent Net Neutrality rulings.
Thanks:@danrayburn
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Dropbox Hires Google's Woodside as Operating Chief  —  Company Veteran Was Motorola CEO Under Google  —  Dropbox Inc., the fast-growing online storage company, plans to name Google Inc. executive Dennis Woodside as its first chief operating officer, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Marc Andreessen: Tech Is Still Recovering From A Depression  —  Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and Goldman Sachs COO Gary Cohn sat down today at the Goldman Sachs conference in San Francisco, to talk about the thing investors always talk about: Tech.
Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:
Datacoup will pay you $8/month to track your social media accounts and credit-card transactions  —  Startup Datacoup Will Pay You $8 a Month If You Feed It Data from Facebook, Twitter, and Your Credit Card  —  A startup called Datacoup is far from the only tech company hoping to get rich …
More: VCPOST and Motherboard.  Tweets: @techreview
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
ISP lobby has already won limits on public broadband in 20 states  —  We must stop the proliferation of Internet!  —  South Park Studios  —  It's no secret that private Internet service providers hate when cities and towns decide to enter the telecommunications business themselves.
Brooke Crothers / CNET:
Finally, here come the 64-bit Windows 8.1 tablets  —  At least one major PC maker is expected to show an Intel “Bay Trail” tablet running 64-bit Windows 8.1 at Mobile World Congress, according to a source familiar with upcoming plans for those tablets.  —  Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo …
Jared Nelson / Touch Arcade:
‘CandySwipe’, a Game Released Two Years Before ‘Candy Crush’, is the Latest Victim of the King.com Candy Trademark “Saga”  —  Last month, Candy Crush Saga creator King.com angered the entire internet by announcing their intention to trademark the word “candy” (and the word “saga” but that's another, er, saga).
Rachel King / ZDNet:
Cisco's Q2 mixed as revenue slides, EPS exceeds target  —  Summary: Non-GAAP earnings were 47 cents per share on a revenue of $11.2 billion, down eight percent year-over-year.  —  Cisco talks a big talk when it comes to the value of the Internet of Things in the long run …

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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Sky agrees to acquire ITV's TV business for £1.6B, uniting the UK's two largest commercial broadcasters; ITV says shareholders will receive £950M from the deal

Alex Ritman / Variety:
AI-focused studio Particle 6 plans a full-length feature film to be led by the AI “actor” Tilly Norwood, as a hybrid production using film and TV professionals

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix is studying its data to see why viewers quit its shows after S1, with some shows seeing a 30%-70% S2 drop, as it faces a quarter without hits

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