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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google Removes Amazon's App Listing From Google Play Search Following Addition Of Appstore, Instant Video Integrations — In October, we spotted that Amazon had quietly launched a hidden and functional app store within its main Android application which was available for download on Google Play.

More: Android Police, GeekWire, Google Drive Blog, Gigaom, Electronista, 9to5Google, WebProNews, Engadget, Pocketnow, PhoneDog.com, SlashGear, The Verge, Phandroid, Droid Life, BGR and The Next Web

S Somasegar / MSDN Blogs:

Microsoft acquires cross-platform crash analytics and distribution service HockeyApp — Microsoft acquires HockeyApp, leading mobile crash analytics and beta distribution service for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone — Today I'm pleased to announce that we have acquired HockeyApp …

More: HockeyApp, PC Magazine, Tech Times, Computerworld, GeekWire, AndroidHeadlines.com, SlashGear, Engadget, MacStories, WinBeta, MSDN Blogs, 9to5Mac, Windows Phone Central, Neowin, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, Seeking Alpha, TechCrunch, eWeek, The Fire Hose, ZDNet and The Register

Tweets: @scottgu and @msftnews

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Adobe acquires stock photo giant Fotolia for $800 million in cash — Buried within its fourth quarter earnings report, creative technologies company Adobe today revealed it plans to acquire Fotolia, a stock photo site which hosts 34 million images and videos.

More: ZDNet, TechCrunch and CMSWire.com

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Adobe sees strong Q4 with $1.07B in revenue, 644K new paying Creative Cloud subscribers — Adobe now has 3.454 million paying Creative Cloud subscribers, the company revealed in its fourth quarter financial report today. — Adobe originally predicted it would reach 3.3 million paying subscribers by the end of 2014.

More: Business Wire, Re/code, The Next Web and Tech Trader Daily

Tweets: @corytv, @corytv and @corytv

Oculus VR:

Oculus acquires skeletal hand tracking firm Nimble VR and 3D mapping company 13th Lab, hires motion capture expert Chris Bregler — Nimble VR, 13th Lab, and Chris Bregler join Oculus — Computer vision is at the heart of delivering comfortable and incredible virtual reality.

More: Gizmodo, TechCrunch, CNET, Gigaom, The Verge, Nimble VR, 13th Lab, Engadget, Gamasutra, Connectedly, SlashGear and Seeking Alpha

Tweets: @paulamarttila and @stumm

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Qualcomm, Intel, and others speak out against Title II net neutrality — Much of the fight over how to handle net neutrality has been between the two industries that have the most obvious stake in it: cable companies and web services. Today, though, 60 tech companies, including Intel …

More: Verizon Public Policy, Computerworld, Cult of Mac, FierceWireless, SlashGear, FierceTelecom News, Engadget, The Register and CNET. Tweets: @stevesi

Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

Verizon says future investments in its networks will be unaffected by net neutrality policy

More: Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Re/code, DSLreports, Techdirt and Associated Press. Tweets: @timkarr

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Rolls Out A Simplified Homepage With Analytics And News Feed Front And Center — LinkedIn, the social network for the working world, today gets around 198 million monthly unique visitors globally to linkedin.com spending on average 4.6 minutes per visit, according to comScore …

More: Official LinkedIn Blog, Re/code, Gigaom, TheStreet.com, SiliconBeat, ReadWrite and WebProNews. Tweets: @ingridlunden

Reuters:

Canada's Competition Bureau probing Apple's contracts with domestic wireless carriers, says it has found no evidence of wrongdoing so far — Canada competition watchdog probing Apple mobile carrier deals — (Reuters) - Canada's Competition Bureau is investigating allegations …

More: Globe and Mail, 9to5Mac, The Register, The Verge, DailyTech, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, Techvibes Global News, MobileSyrup.com, AppleInsider, iMore and Patently Apple

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple now requires cases protect devices from 1m drops, meet new environmental standards — Apple recently started requiring case manufacturers in its Made for iPhone (MFi) licensing program follow new requirements that will ensure cases better protect Apple devices and cover glass from impact …

More: BGR, MacNN, Ubergizmo, App Advice, InvestorPlace, MacRumors, MacDailyNews and iLounge. Tweets: @applespotlight. Thanks:@apollozac

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Apple online retail stores in US and UK now accepting PayPal — Apple's Online Store Starts Accepting PayPal — Apple.com shoppers in the U.S. and the U.K. have a new way to pay for the latest iPhone or iPad: PayPal. Previously available as a payment option only in Apple's app and content stores …

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac and iMore

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft ready to show off Windows 10 mobile SKU on January 21 — Summary:Microsoft will share more about the Windows 10 ‘consumer experience’ at an event on January 21 in Redmond. — Microsoft officials sent invitations on December 11 to selected press and analysts to its next Windows 10 reveal event.

More: Blogging Windows, The Verge, Reuters, Re/code, SuperSite for Windows, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Gotta Be Mobile, BetaNews, GeekWire, WinBeta, The Next Web, CNET, VentureBeat, TechRadar.com and Windows Phone Central. Tweets: @thurrott

Martin Beck / Marketing Land:

Zuckerberg Dislikes The Idea Of A Facebook “Dislike” Button — “That's not something that we think is good for the world,” the Facebook CEO said during his second town hall Q&A. — Don't go looking for a “dislike” button on Facebook; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he has no interest in giving people the means to be mean.

More: TechCrunch

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Dropbox launches Microsoft Office collaboration features for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows and Mac — Dropbox today launched its much-anticipated Project Harmony functionality, which brings collaboration tools to Microsoft Office desktop applications.

More: ZDNet, Computerworld and Gigaom. Thanks:@harrisonweber

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft makes its MSN consumer apps available on iOS, Android, Amazon devices — Summary:Microsoft is continuing its cross-platform push, bringing a number of its MSN-branded consumer apps to iOS, Android and Amazon devices. — The team inside Bing that built some of the best “Metro Style” …

More: The Verge, The Fire Hose, BGR, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Gigaom, MacRumors, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Android Police, WebProNews and AfterDawn.com

Jack Clark / Bloomberg:

Hortonworks prices IPO at $16, above its $12-$14 range, raises $100M — Hortonworks Raises $100 Million, Pricing IPO Above Range — Hortonworks Inc., a startup that sells services and support for the Hadoop free data-analysis technology, raised $100 million in an initial public offering …

More: Gigaom, VentureBeat, Hortonworks, bizjournals, Equities.com Editors Desk, NASDAQ.com and CMSWire.com

Maya Kosoff / Business Insider:

Uber Is Suspending Operations In New Delhi Following Allegations Of Rape Against One Of Its Drivers — Uber will suspend operations in New Delhi and review its Indian operations, according to a company blog post on Thursday. The announcement comes three days after Delhi, India's capital territory, banned the service.

More: Uber Blog, CIO.com, TIME, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Next Web and MediaNama. Tweets: @ellenhuet

Ron Miller / TechCrunch:

Latest Salesforce Product Lets Enterprises Roll Out Their Own App Stores — As companies develop more mobile apps, they need an organized way to distribute them and track usage. Salesforce announced a product today called AppExchange Store Builder that gives companies what they need: their very own AppExchange.

More: InformationWeek, ProgrammableWeb, Enterprise Apps Today, Business Cloud News, Computerworld and ZDNet

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:

App-analytics company New Relic picks up $115M in its IPO, setting price at $23 — New Relic today announced that it has raised $115 million from investors before it hits the New York Stock Exchange on Friday under the symbol NEWR. — The company set the price of its shares at $23 …

More: Business Wire and Gigaom

Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority:

Chromecast app's new Guest Mode option allows others to cast to your TV without a WiFi password — (Update: video) Chromecast update: screen casting for 4.4.2 devices, Material design, guest mode — Tired of updates yet? Neither are we! The Chromecast Android app is next in line, and the new update brings some awesome features.

Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg:

Facebook tries to block 381 search warrants issued by NY prosecutor last year, the biggest set it's ever received — Facebook Seeks to Block N.Y. Prosecutor's Search Warrants — Facebook Inc. (FB) is asking a New York appeals court to block the largest set of search warrants the company …

More: RT

Amy Gesenhues / Search Engine Land:

Bing Rolls Out International Hotel Booking Feature & Updates Mobile Search Results — Bing released two updates today, adding a new hotel booking feature in partnership with TripAdvisor, as well as updating its mobile search results to include details like deep links and time-stamps.

More: Search Blog, Ubergizmo and WinBeta

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:

CenturyLink acquires predictive analytics company Cognilytics — If you thought CenturyLink was only focused on building an extensive cloud-computing portfolio, think again. The telecommunications company is announcing today that it has bought 200-person predictive analytics company Cognilytics.

More: ZDNet and Seeking Alpha

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