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November 25, 2014, 7:30 PM

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Amir Efrati / The Information:

With Google's deal expiring in 2015, Yahoo and Microsoft compete to take over as default search engine in Safari for iOS — All Eyes on Apple as Google Search Deal Expires Next Year — Mozilla's decision last week to replace Google with Yahoo as the default search engine for the Firefox browser …

Aaron Smith / Pew Internet:

Survey finds majority of US internet users are familiar with web usage terms but not with historical concepts — What Internet Users Know about Technology and the Web — Before you read the report, test your own Web IQ by taking the interactive knowledge quiz.

More: Marketing Land, Associated Press, USA Today, PC World, Tech Times, TechSpot, AllTwitter, Re/code, PC Magazine, Roll Call, TIME, SocialTimes, Nextgov, SlashGear, The Next Web and Washington Post. Tweets: @mweinbergpk

Reiji Murai / Reuters:

Sony to cut TV, smartphone lineup; sees growth in PlayStation, image sensors — (Reuters) - Japan's loss-making Sony Corp plans to slash its TV and mobile phone product line-ups to cut costs, counting on multi-billion dollar revenue surges for its buoyant PlayStation 4 and image sensor businesses over the next three years.

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Twitter Introduces Offers: Discounts You Claim in Tweets and Redeem in Stores — First, Twitter dipped its toes into e-commerce. Now it wants a piece of bricks-and-mortar retail, too. — The social network today is introducing Twitter Offers, discounts that users can claim right …

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Tweets: @minethatdata, @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac

Sam Sheffer / The Verge:

Coin beta review: limited utility, confusing setup, doesn't work at ATM, broke after 36 hours — My experience with Coin Beta in the real world — It worked, but then my unit stopped functioning — I don't carry around a traditional wallet. Instead, I've got a pile of cards held together with a hair-tie.

More: Gadget Review, PYMNTS.com, BGR, Crowdfund Insider and AndroidHeadlines.com

Tweets: @fmanjoo and @kevinroose

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Netflix Sues a Former Exec — Now Yahoo's CIO — For Allegedly Collecting Kickbacks — Netflix says a former executive collected kickbacks from vendors he helped connect to the streaming video company. — Now Netflix is suing its former employee, who is currently Yahoo's chief information officer.

Bill Rigby / Reuters:

Microsoft to pay China $140 million for ‘tax evasion’ — (Reuters) - China has levied about $140 million in back taxes from Microsoft Corp in the first major case concerning cross-border tax evasion in the country, as regulators ramp up pressure on U.S. corporations doing business there.

More: Ubergizmo, Windows Phone Central and Seeking Alpha

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Apple reaches record breaking $700 billion market cap as stock surge continues — Shares of Apple reached another major financial milestone on Tuesday, crossing the $700 billion market capitalization threshold just after trading began on Wall Street. — With shares of AAPL trading at an all-time high …

More: Reuters, Bloomberg, MacRumors, iMore, 9to5Mac, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @cnbc

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Google Chrome will block all NPAPI plugins by default in January, drop support completely in September — Google today provided an update on its plan to remove Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) from Chrome, which the company says will improve the browser's security …

More: Chromium Blog, PC World and Google Operating System

Tweets: @venturebeat and @jaykannan

Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

Spotify's 2013 revenues were €746.9M, 91% of revenue coming from subscriptions — Spotify revenues grew sharply in 2013, but operating losses also rose — Streaming music service's turnover up 74% to €746.9m, with 91% coming from its paying subscribers rather than ads

More: Re/code, Gigaom and The Verge. Thanks:@stuartdredge. See also Mediagazer

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Dropbox's integration with Microsoft's Office apps is now live for iOS and Android devices — It was only earlier this month that Dropbox announced a deal with Microsoft to allow document editing capabilities from directly inside Dropbox, and today it's actually rolling out for mobile users.

More: The Dropbox Blog, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, WinBeta, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, 9to5Google and App Advice

Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:

Facebook schedules second public Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg for Dec. 11 at 2pm PT — Facebook has scheduled another public Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg — Earlier this month Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hosted a public Q&A. Attendees and those online could submit questions and the CEO …

More: Marketing Land, AllFacebook, Q&A with Mark and TechCrunch

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