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January 23, 2015, 5:20 PM
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Bloomberg:
Box shares close at $23.23, up over 65% on first day of trading after $175M IPO  —  Box Surges in Cloud-Storage Debut After $175 Million IPO  —  Box Inc. jumped in its trading debut after raising $175 million in its initial public offering.  —  The shares rose 73 percent to $24.25 …
Rene Ritchie / iMore:
Google's Project Zero discloses three OS X zero-day vulnerabilities requiring access to machine; Apple's fix is still only in Yosemite's beta build  —  Latest OS X 10.10.2 beta kills Google-disclosed vulnerabilities dead  —  Google's Project Zero research program has disclosed and released proof …
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Apple HomeKit incompatible with home automation accessories not licensed as MFi products that connect over WiFi, like Nest Thermostat  —  Apple details HomeKit compatibility with competing home automation platforms, rules out rival Wi-Fi gear  —  Apple will allow its upcoming Siri-controlled …
Andreessen Horowitz:
Andreessen Horowitz explains 16 tech trends of interest including VR and machine learning  —  16 Things  —  We don't invest in themes; we invest in special founders with breakthrough ideas.  Which means we don't make investments based on a pre-existing thesis about a category.
More: VentureBeat and Business Insider.  Tweets: @cdixon and @valaafshar
New York Times:
Winklevoss Twins Aim to Take Bitcoin Mainstream With a Regulated Exchange  —  Bitcoin, the virtual currency that was once the talk of the financial world, has been taking a beating over the last year with the price tumbling downward.  —  Now two of the biggest boosters of the virtual currency …
Marco della Cava / USA Today:
Ford opens new Silicon Valley research lab to attract tech talent, work on autonomous cars  —  Ford's new Silicon Valley outpost seeks tech talent  —  PALO ALTO, Calif. — The earth-toned office building looks like any other here in Silicon Valley, an airy low-rise designed …
Fortune:
Cover story on the rise of unicorns: 80+ private companies achieve valuations of at least $1B  —  The Age of Unicorns  —  Stewart Butterfield had one objective when he set out to raise money for his startup last fall: a billion dollars or nothing.  If he couldn't reach a $1 billion valuation for Slack …
Zac Hall / 9to5Google:
Sprint targeting T-Mobile customers w/ $200 min. trade-in offer for switchers  —  Just one day after T-Mobile unveiled its Smartphone Equality program letting loyal customers avoid credit checks, Sprint has announced a new promotion specifically targeting T-Mobile customers with an offer to make switching carriers easier.

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS News and The Free Press announce Things That Matter, a series of town halls and debates, starting in early 2026, with Sam Altman, J.D. Vance, and others

Shane O'Neill / Washington Post:
Q&A with Christopher Anderson, who photographed Trump's inner circle for VF: “My job is to ... draw on my experience as a journalist and photograph what I see”

John Rogers / Associated Press:
Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered the Vietnam War for the AP and the first Gulf War for CNN, has died at 91

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GoPro:
GoPro, NHL team up to offer live HD footage from the player's perspective starting All-Star Weekend
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Bill and Melinda Gates annual letter: How the smartphone will lift up the world

Earlier Picks

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Hutchison Says It's In Exclusive Negotiations To Buy UK's O2 For Up To £10.25B
Leon Spencer / ZDNet:
Uber relaunches in Delhi with radio taxi licence
Roger Cheng / CNET:
Verizon: Don't expect us to offer a data rollover plan
Tim Higgins / Bloomberg:
Tim Cook's compensation doubled to $9.22M in 2014; retail executive Angela Ahrendts received $73.4M
Martin Beck / Marketing Land:
Twitter launches Bing translation of tweets on iOS, Android, and web
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