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January 11, 2015, 12:15 AM

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Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Marc Lore's new Costco-inspired e-commerce site Jet to begin limited sign-ups Feb. 20, with $49.99 annual membership fee — Amazon Bought This Man's Company. Now He's Coming for Them — The historic downtown commercial district of Montclair, N.J., is known for its restaurants, antique shops, and art-house movie theater.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @tcarmody, @laurahazardowen, @rachelreese, @kevinroose, @mdudas, @mikeisaac and @btaylor

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Jet CEO: we'll price products 5-6% cheaper than competition, give free delivery on $35+ orders — Five Ways the Guy Behind Diapers.com Plans to Challenge Amazon — Again — As far as hype goes, Jet.com is near the top in the e-commerce industry right now.

More: PC Magazine, TechCrunch and Forbes

Tweets: @jet_insider and @delrey

Thanks:@mikeschroeder

Aaron Souppouris / Engadget:

Energous demos WattUp system that can wirelessly charge devices from 15 feet away — This router can power your devices wirelessly from 20 feet away — Wireless charging hasn't really set the world on fire. Since the Palm Pre first introduced us to the idea at CES 2009 …

More: The Verge, ExtremeTech, Geek.com, Ubergizmo, MacRumors, ITworld.com, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, TUAW, BGR and Forbes

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Samsung, Sony, Netflix, and others form UHD Alliance to standardize 4K content and delivery — Samsung, Disney, Netflix, and more team up to define Ultra HD and how you'll watch it — The UHD Alliance will set standards for 4K content — 4K TVs were one of the big stories of CES last year …

More: Hollywood Reporter, Popular Science, Broadcasting & Cable, CNET, SamMobile, The Verge, Guardian, TechnoBuffalo, FierceCable and Wired.co.uk

Arielle Duhaime-Ross / The Verge:

An unbeatable computer program has finally solved two-player limit Texas hold'em poker — The program also demonstrates that playing second is advantageous — Two-player limit Texas hold'em poker has finally been solved, according to a study published in Science today.

More: Scientific American, GeekWire, Motherboard, CNN, Telegraph, New Scientist, Popular Science, Reuters, IEEE Spectrum, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, ABC News, Business Insider, ABC News, Engadget, PC Magazine, Vocativ, Science, Bloomberg, ZME Science, Economist, Washington Post, NPR, Geek.com, Guardian, Fox News, Tech Times, BBC and The Register

Tweets: @eladgil, @arielledross and @codinghorror

Justin Duino / Android Central:

Hands-on with the Remix Ultra Tablet, a Microsoft Surface-like Android tablet created by three ex-Google engineers — First look at the Remix Ultra Tablet — An Android tablet to get work done on — Jide, a company founded by three ex-Googlers, showed off its first device at CES 2015 — the Remix Ultra Tablet.

More: Ars Technica, The Verge, Liliputing, Gizmodo, Neowin, PhoneDog.com, stuff.tv, Pocketnow, AndroidHeadlines.com, Phandroid, PC World and WMPoweruser

Pew Internet:

Pew Report: Facebook growth slows, but user engagement increases; while Twitter and others grow userbase, not engagement — Social Media Update 2014 — In a new survey conducted in September 2014, the Pew Research Center finds that Facebook remains by far the most popular social media site.

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Spotify Makes The Shift To Mobile With 52% Of Listening Now On Phones And Tablets — Why have Apple and Google suddenly gotten so interested in streaming music? Because it could rally people to iOS or Android since mobile is where they listen, according to new stats I've attained about Spotify.

Tweets: @joshconstine, @digallo and @joshconstine. Thanks:@shootbydaylight

Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:

Report: M&A transactions in ad tech and services increased 32% in 2014, to reach total of 100 representing $7.5B in value, more than triple the value in 2013 — Burst of M&A in Online Advertising as Shakeout Begins — A shakeout is under way in the online advertising industry …

More: Seeking Alpha

Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter plans to sell ads in streams of tweets on other publishers' apps and websites, share revenue — Twitter Planning to Sell Ads on Apps and Sites of Other Companies — Twitter is laying out plans to make money from the millions of people who see tweets all over the Web but don't actually use Twitter.

More: Tech Times, VatorNews, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Marketing Land, The Verge, Business Insider and Seeking Alpha. See also Mediagazer

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Twitter mulling 6-second autoplay preview for promoted videos when appearing in users' feeds, charging advertiser only when people click to watch full video

More: Tubefilter. Tweets: @mathewi. See also Mediagazer

Bonnie Cha / Re/code:

ZTE announces Spro 2, an Android-powered projector/hotspot that improves upon predecessor in battery life and brightness, to be sold exclusively on AT&T — CES Snapshot: ZTE's Smart Projector Gets Brighter, Better Battery Life — ZTE grabbed a lot of attention at CES last year when it debuted the Spro …

More: AT&T, Gotta Be Mobile, Tom's Guide, PhoneNews.com, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, Liliputing, PhoneDog.com, Android Community, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, PC Magazine and Droid Life

Alex Davies / Wired:

NASA and Nissan Join Forces to Build Self-Driving Vehicles for Earth and Space — Nissan and NASA are teaming up to develop autonomous vehicles that will take us across town—or across Mars. — The automaker and the space agency signed a five-year partnership today that will see their …

More: Tech Times, Fast Company, tech.co, Gizmodo, Engadget, TIME and Pocket-lint

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