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January 21, 2015, 12:00 AM

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Facebook:

Facebook to reduce distribution of deliberately false or misleading posts in News Feed, characterized by hoax-busting comments and high removal rate by sharers — News Feed FYI: Showing Fewer Hoaxes — The goal of News Feed is to catch up with your friends and find the things that matter to you.

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Netflix Q4 earnings beat estimates with $1.48B in revenue and $0.75 EPS; now has 39.11M US subscribers and 18.28M more globally — Netflix Says Its Subscribers Love the Shows It Makes — So It's Going to Make a Lot More — A quick look at Netflix's Q4 numbers: $1.48 billion and earnings …

More: Business Insider, TechCrunch, CNET, TechCrunch, GeekWire, USA Today, VentureBeat, Hollywood Reporter, ZDNet, WebProNews and bizjournals. Tweets: @kenli729. See also Mediagazer

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Netflix wants to complete its global expansion within two years, expanding to 200 countries

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Alan Yuhas / Guardian:

White House breaks own State of the Union embargo for online audience — Obama administration posts full text of president's speech before its own media embargo in unprecedented decision targeting internet-savvy readers — The White House posted the entire text of President Obama's 2015 State …

More: Medium, The White House, Gigaom, Washington Post, The Verge, VentureBeat, Engadget and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

Cory Bennett / The Hill:

Obama calls for bipartisan effort on cybersecurity legislation in State of the Union address

More: VentureBeat and Variety

Cooper Quintin / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites — The Associated Press reports that healthcare.gov-the flagship site of the Affordable Care Act, where millions of Americans have signed up to receive health care-is quietly sending personal health information to a number of third party websites.

More: Associated Press, PC World, The Daily Caller, RT and PandoDaily. Tweets: @yuris

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

First Windows 10 mobile preview, due in February, key to Microsoft's OneCore vision — Summary:Microsoft will show off Windows 10 mobile and touch-first Office for Windows at its January 21 Windows 10 event, but the first mobile preview isn't likely until February.

More: Engadget, PC World, Gigaom, Business Insider, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, Techvibes Global News, Gotta Be Mobile, MobileSyrup.com, Computerworld, DailyTech, Neowin, Mashable, Tech Trader Daily, Windows Central, InfoWorld, The Tech Report, Gizmodo and The Information

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

SpaceX confirms $1B funding round, with participation from Google and Fidelity — SpaceX Raises $1 Billion In New Funding From Google And Fidelity — SpaceX, the space exploration startup helmed by ex-PayPal founder Elon Musk, has confirmed that it has raised $1 billion in new funding …

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Chrome 40 for iOS arrives with Material Design, Handoff support to your default browser on OS X — Google today released Chrome 40 for iOS. You can download the new version now directly from Apple's App Store. — The first change you'll notice in version 40.0.2214.61 is the implementation of Google's Material Design mantra.

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Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:

Overstock.com to launch video on demand and video streaming services in mid 2015 — Overstock.com Taking On Amazon With VOD, Streaming Services — MIAMI BEACH — Overstock.com, which says it is second only to Amazon in retail sales on the web, plans to launch VOD and streaming services …

More: SiliconBeat, Variety, TIME, PandoDaily, Digital Trends, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, The Digital Reader, TechSpot, Consumerist and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

LastPass Launches A Native Password Manager For Mac Offering Quick Search, Security Checks And Offline Access — Longtime password management software company LastPass is rolling out a new, native Mac application this morning, which will offer users more native integration on OS X …

More: The LastPass Blog, ZDNet, Digital Trends, Mashable, iMore, TUAW, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Lifehacker and MacNN

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Snapchat Revenue Boss Mike Randall Departs After Seven Months — Snapchat's revenue boss Mike Randall has left the company, seven months after joining the messaging startup. — Randall, who was hired away from Facebook in June 2014, departed last week. — “We thank Mike for his many contributions …

More: Wall Street Journal, Gigaom and Digital Music News

Eric Tucker / Associated Press:

Justice Department reaches $134K settlement with woman who DEA agents impersonated on Facebook — US settles case over fake Facebook page — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has reached a $134,000 settlement with a New York woman after federal drug agents used information …

More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Albany Times Union, The Hill, NBC News, Gigaom and The Verge

Bloomberg:

Samsung Said to Drop Qualcomm Chip From Next Galaxy Smartphone — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) will use its own microprocessors in the next version of the Galaxy S smartphone, dropping its use of a Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) chip that overheated during the Korean company's testing, people with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Tweets: @puiwingtam

Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal:

Economists question Facebook report claiming global economic impact of over $200B and 4.5M jobs — Facebook Touts Its ‘Economic Impact,’ But Economists Question Numbers — Facebook has more than a billion users and generated an estimated $12 billion in revenue last year.

More: Facebook, Telegraph, Reuters, VatorNews, CNNMoney.com, Mark Zuckerberg, SocialTimes, CNET, Mashable, SiliconBeat, The Register, Business Insider and VentureBeat

Aaron Souppouris / Engadget:

Valve's Steam Broadcasting video game streaming service launches for all Steam users — Steam's answer to Twitch game streaming is now live — Valve is now letting its millions of Steam users stream their games to the world. Steam Broadcasting, the company's answer to the wildly popular Twitch …

More: Polygon, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, The Tech Report, iDownloadBlog.com, SiliconANGLE, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GamingBolt.com and VG247

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