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February 14, 2014, 2:45 PM

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Mayumi Negishi / Wall Street Journal:

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten to buy voice-call app maker Viber for $900 million — Rakuten to Buy Voice-Call App Maker Viber — Japanese e-commerce Giant to Spend $900 million — TOKYO—Japan's Rakuten Inc. said it will acquire call-application maker Cyprus-based Viber Media Inc …

More: Rakuten, Inc.Press Releases, TechCrunch, BBC, DealBook, SiliconBeat, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, The Verge, VentureBeat, Reuters, Re/code, FierceWireless, CNET, AndroidOS.in, Digital Trends, Engadget, Tech in Asia, Ubergizmo, Gigaom, Guardian, IntoMobile, BGR, Cult of Mac, PC World, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet and App Advice

Tweets: @semil, @benbajarin, @fcourt and @caseynewton

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Exclusive Interview: Rakuten's Mikitani Calls $900 Million He Paid for Viber a “No-Brainer” — “This is a no-brainer,” was the first thing that Hiroshi Mikitani, co-founder and CEO of Japan's online commerce giant Rakuten, said to me in his first interview after he spent $900 million in cash to buy messaging app Viber.

More: The Next Web, The Register, Business Insider, internetretailer.com, Tech in Asia, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, Digits, InfoWorld and Softpedia News

Tweets: @papadimitriou, @hmikitani_e and @juroosawa

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Major League Baseball Completes iBeacon Installation at First Two Ballparks — Major League Baseball is set to announce on Friday morning that it has finished outfitting its first two ballparks with iBeacon sensors that will shoot messages to baseball game attendees' phones this upcoming season.

More: 9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacNN

Yoree Koh / Digits:

When Twitter's IPO lockup expires Saturday, employees can sell 1.8% of company's shares — Twitter Employees' First Opportunity to Cash Out — A small pile of Twitter shares could be freed to the market this week as agreements that barred employees from selling a portion of their shares after the IPO expire.

More: Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, Bloomberg and Re/code

Tweets: @qthrul and @hunterwalk

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Apple and Samsung headed back to court after mediation talks fail, say reports — Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung's mobile chief and co-CEO JK Shin reportedly met last week to try and thrash out a settlement to their long-running intellectual property dispute.

Martyn Williams / Macworld UK:

Phil Schiller up again in next round of Apple-Samsung battle

More: 9to5Mac, FierceWireless, App Advice and Cult of Mac

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Chrome speeds up web apps by compiling JavaScript in the background — Google: Under-the-hood change helps Web apps on Chrome — Google has taught Chrome how to walk and chew gum at the same time. — The newest Chrome beta version, 33, includes a feature called concurrent compilation …

More: Chromium Blog, Electronista, HEXUS.net Latest Content, SlashGear, Softpedia News, The Next Web and The Register

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Former Groupon Product SVP Jeff Holden Joins Uber As Chief Product Officer — Well that was fast. Just a few days after it was revealed that Groupon product chief Jeff Holden was leaving the daily deals giant to join a “Bay Area tech company,” we now know where he has landed.

More: Uber Blog, GeekWire, Gigaom, Re/code, Digits and Street Fight

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Now There's a Federal Bill to Require a Smartphone “Kill Switch” — Following on the heels of a California bill, four Democratic senators on Thursday proposed a federal law that would require those that make cellular devices to equip them with the ability to be permanently deactivated if stolen.

More: U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, The Technology Chronicles, CNET, Cult of Mac, T3 News, PhoneNews.com, App Advice, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, Electronista, HotHardware.com News and AppleInsider

Alistair Barr / USA Today:

Google working on 10 gigabit Internet speeds — Project to develop ‘next generation’ of the Internet is part of Google's broader obsession with speed, CFO says — SAN FRANCISCO - Google is working on technology that will provide data transfer speeds over the Internet that are many times faster …

More: PC World, Wired, Los Angeles Times, Electronista, BGR, Gizmodo, ZDNet, WebProNews, HotHardware.com News, CNET, The Verge, Softpedia News, Mashable, Business Insider, SlashGear, DSLreports, The Switch and Droid Life

Tweets: @georgebludger, @davethefuturist and @alistairmbarr

Craig Malisow / Dallas Observer:

How an 18yo Texan who posted a facetious threat to Facebook now faces 10 years in prison — The Facebook Comment That Ruined a Life — A young man's violent threat on Facebook lands him in jail, and limbo. — Approximately one hour after Justin Carter posted a sarcastic comment on a Facebook thread …

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @avinash, @pronailprincesa, @nicolaskb and @jbrodkin

Wall Street Journal:

Japan Display, world's biggest tablet and smartphone display maker, plans $4 billion IPO — Japan Display to List for $4 Billion — World's Biggest Maker of Tablet, Smartphone Displays to Trade on Tokyo Exchange — TOKYO—Japan Display Inc., the world's biggest maker of smartphone …

More: MarketWatch, Reuters and Bloomberg

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft extends date for OEM preloads of Windows 7 for business users — Summary: Business users will be able to buy PCs with Windows 7 Professional preloaded beyond October 2014, according to a new change in Microsoft's lifecycle policy. — Microsoft is going to allow OEMs to continue …

More: SuperSite for Windows, BGR, ZDNet and WindowsITPro

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Silk Road 2.0 ‘Hack’ Blamed On Bitcoin Bug, All Funds Stolen — The same bug that has plagued several of the biggest players in the Bitcoin economy may have just bitten the Silk Road. — On Thursday, one of the recently-reincarnated drug-selling black market site's administrators posted …

More: Ars Technica, Deep Dot Web, TechCrunch, Help Net Security, Lastest ITProPortal news, We Live Security, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, Gigaom, Softpedia News, MoneyBeat, SlashGear and The Verge

Adam Entous / Wall Street Journal:

U.S.-South Korea Communications Won't Use Huawei Gear — U.S. Had Been Concerned Huawei Equipment Could Be Used for Spying — SEOUL—South Korea has addressed U.S. concerns about letting a Chinese telecommunications company develop the country's advanced wireless network by agreeing …

More: Ars Technica, The Verge, Reuters and Engadget

Gregory T. Huang / Xconomy:

Bit9 buys Carbon Black, raises $38.25M to boost its enterprise security offering — Bit9 Buys Carbon Black, Gets $38M to Try to Win Security Arms Race — 2014 is shaping up to be the year of cybersecurity. Or lack thereof. — It seems every week we hear about a new data breach or major hacking operation.

More: VentureBeat, Computerworld, theWHIR.com, PE Hub Blog, SecurityWeek, Pulse 2.0 and Bit9

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

New Apps Whisper and Secret Cater to a Craving to Dish Freely — Messaging Services Offer Anonymity and a Web With Fewer Consequences — Michael Edgeworth, a 20-year-old college student in Illinois, rarely texts and never tweets. — However, he sends more than 50 messages a day on Snapchat that disappear soon after they are read.

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @zeynep, @scottmaustin, @wsjd, @scottmaustin and @evelynrusli

Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:

Thousands of Tesco.com customer accounts suspended after hacker attack — More than 2,000 leaked usernames and passwords forced the retailer to suspend online shopping accounts — Tesco has been forced to deactivate online customer accounts after thousands of login details, including passwords, were posted online.

More: BBC, Computerworld, The Register, Telegraph and CNET

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