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November 25, 2014, 9:25 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 …

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.

More: Forbes. Tweets: @jasonh

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

Serena Saitto / Bloomberg:

Uber Said Close to Raising Funding at Up to $40B Value — Uber Technologies Inc. is close to raising a round of financing that would value the mobile car-booking company at $35 billion to $40 billion, according to people with knowledge of the situation. — T. Rowe Price Group Inc …

More: Fortune, Business Insider and Tnooz. Tweets: @puiwingtam

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.

Kristin Cwalinski / CNBC:

Twitter has talked to Bieber-backed Shots: Source — Twitter has talked about an acquisition of Shots, the selfie app backed by singer Justin Bieber, a source close to Shots told CNBC on Tuesday. — Twitter's acquisition plans became the subject of hot speculation on Monday …

More: Re/code, Ars Technica, The Daily Dot, VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, MobileSyrup.com, Mashable and Seeking Alpha

Tweets: @ow, @stevekovach, @amir, @ajs and @mims

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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

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 …

More: The Twitter Blog, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Computerworld, AdExchanger, New York Times, Gigaom, Marketing Land, GeekWire, Adotas, SlashGear, Seeking Alpha, Business Insider, Inc.com, The Verge, WebProNews, CNET, Engadget and internetretailer.com

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac and @minethatdata

Department of Justice:

StealthGenie CEO ordered to pay $500K fine for selling spyware app, surrender source code to government — Man Pleads Guilty for Selling “StealthGenie” Spyware App and Ordered to Pay $500,000 Fine — A Danish citizen today pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Virginia and was ordered …

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More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @seanjtaylor

TechCrunch:

Going Out App YPlan Raises $24M As It Lays Off Staff, Plans Pivot Into Long-Tail Events — YPlan — the app that gives people with no plans a curated selection of things to do and the ability to buy tickets to do them — has some big plans of its own. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed …

More: Tech City News, Wired.co.uk, Bloomberg and Startups.co.uk. Tweets: @caseynewton

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

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

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