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November 25, 2014, 5:50 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: Associated Press, USA Today, Marketing Land, PC Magazine, Roll Call, Computerworld, Re/code, TIME, SlashGear, SocialTimes, Nextgov, 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.

More: Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, Android Central, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, Bloomberg, Electronista, SlashGear, Gigaom, Pocketnow, PhoneArena, Gamasutra, Variety, MobileSyrup.com and MCV: Home Stream

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

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

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

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, The Verge and Gigaom. Thanks:@stuartdredge. See also Mediagazer

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Lyft launches Driver Destination, allowing drivers to accept rides only on specific routes — Lyft Appeals To More Casual Drivers By Matching Them With Passengers To Share Commutes — For years, the founders of Lyft had imagined a world in which carpooling would become mainstream …

More: Lyft Blog, Fortune, Android Police, Re/code, Engadget, GeekWire, VentureBeat and SlashGear

Mike Sall / Medium:

Medium open-sources Charted, a free data visualization tool — Introducing Charted — A new way to share data — A year ago, the Product Science team at Medium created the first version of Charted, an internal tool to help us easily share charts. It has since become indispensable …

More: Gigaom and The Next Web

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

IDC: iPad to see first annual decline with wider tablet shipment growth set to fall to 7.2% in 2014, down from 52.5% in 2013 — IDC: iPad Sees First-Ever Decline As Wider Tablet Shipment Growth Drops 7.2% In 2014 To 235.7M Units — As Apple rides a cresting wave in the stock market …

More: IDC, PC World, eWeek, VentureBeat, Android Authority, CNET, MacRumors, AppleInsider, WinBeta, Business Insider, SlashGear, Tech Trader Daily, 9to5Mac and ZDNet

Julie Bort / Business Insider:

HP Reports Earnings: A Miss On Revenue — HP just reported its fourth quarter earnings: inline with profits and a miss on revenue. — HP reported Q4 earnings per share of $1.06, right in line with expectations and revenue of $28.40 billion, that's a miss.

More: ZDNet, Mercury News, Re/code, ABC News, Associated Press, Tech Trader Daily and bizjournals

Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter:

Universal Picks Up Steve Jobs Movie — Danny Boyle is set to direct the feature, written by Aaron Sorkin — Less than a week after Sony Pictures put the high-profile Steve Jobs movie into turnaround, Universal Pictures has stepped up and adopted the project.

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