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January 25, 2015, 11:15 PM

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Kara Swisher / Re/code:

In response to rise of programmatic advertising, AOL drastically restructures ad sales staff — As Ad Business Shifts to Machines, AOL Restructures Its Sales Staff in a Major Reorg — According to numerous sources, AOL is now initiating long-planned changes to drastically reorganize …

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Guardian:

WikiLeaks demands answers after three staffers notified Google handed their emails to US government in 2012 — WikiLeaks demands answers after Google hands staff emails to US government — Search giant gave FBI emails and digital data belonging to three staffers

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Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority:

Cyanogen's CEO says they'll be independent from Google in 3-5 years, offering its own app store in 18 months and alternatives to Google apps — CEO: “Today, Cyanogen has some dependence on Google. Tomorrow, it will not.” — Kirt McMaster, the outspoken CEO of Cyanogen Inc. …

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Jon Southurst / CoinDesk:

Coinbase to launch first regulated US bitcoin exchange on Monday, approved by half of all state regulators — Coinbase Secures Approval to Launch Regulated US Bitcoin Exchange — Bitcoin wallet and brokerage Coinbase is set to launch a US exchange on Monday - one that is already approved by 50% of all state regulators.

More: Wall Street Journal, Re/code, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, TheDomains.com, NEWSBTC and Gemini

Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:

Profile of OneWeb founder Greg Wyler and his plan to launch 648 low-orbit internet satellites by 2018 amid burgeoning competition — The New Space Race: One Man's Mission to Build a Galactic Internet — Greg Wyler is friendly and gregarious and talks about his business plans with a fervor that borders on the religious.

More: Wired

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Tweetbot for Mac pulled from App Store after authentication issues, possibly tied to Twitter token limits — Twitter's war on developers continues: Tweetbot for Mac falls victim to token limit, gets pulled from App Store — In November, 9to5Mac brought you an exclusive interview …

More: AppleTell, App Advice, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com and SlashGear

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Quinn Norton / Medium:

Barrett Brown sentence shows increasing dangers of security journalism, and why reporters should step back until laws are fixed — We Should All Step Back from Security Journalism — I'll Go First — I started studying the computer underground back when I worked in tech, as an early web developer, in the mid 1990s.

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Aloysius Low / CNET:

Xiaomi Mi Note review: refined hardware, distinct design, limited LTE support outside of Asia — Xiaomi's latest flagship dazzles with quality design — The Good The Xiaomi Mi Note's refined steel and glass design is as good as any. Impressively, Xiaomi crams a 13-megapixel camera …

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The Verge:

11 of 14 projects in Sundance Film Festival's experimental showcase use virtual reality — How virtual reality ate the Sundance Film Festival — The future of independent film may not be film at all — The most buzzworthy feature of 2015's Sundance Film Festival isn't a film at all …

More: TechCrunch, New York Times, Variety, Variety, Engadget, · Beats of Bits, Reuters, The A.V. Club, Engadget, VideoInk, Engadget, Wall Street Journal and VR Focus. See also Mediagazer

Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:

Report: Qualcomm working on updated Snapdragon 810 chip for Samsung's Galaxy S6 — Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) is expected to provide Samsung Electronics with a new version of its Snapdragon 810 chipset in March for the next version of Samsung's flagship Galaxy S smartphone, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

More: Wall Street Journal, Gotta Be Mobile, WCCFtech, GSMArena.com, AndroidHeadlines.com and PhoneArena

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Saavn, 'India's Spotify', Reveals It Has 11M Monthly Users And Hires Ex-Google Exec — It's looking like 2015 will be a big year for India's music streaming space. A week after Rdio's arrival in the country, Saavn — a New York/India startup that was among the first to cater to India …

More: Digital Music News, Music Business Worldwide, Music Week, exchange4media.com, Billboard, Music Week and MediaNama. Tweets: @jonrussell

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Walmart starts selling its Vudu Spark streaming stick for $25 — Remember Walmart's very own HDMI streaming stick, which I spotted in the FFC's online database two months ago? Turns out Walmart already started selling it for just $24.95, and is now getting ready to make it more widely available.

More: TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, PC World, Zatz Not Funny!, The Verge, Gizmodo, GSMArena Blog, PC Magazine, TechRadar.com, Engadget, Multichannel News, Liliputing, Electronista and SlashGear

Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:

California DMV stops making Uber drivers get commercial license plates; policy review pending — DMV to reconsider commercial plates for UberX, Lyft drivers — In an abrupt U-turn, the California of Motor Vehicles late Friday night retracted its finding that drivers for ride-hailing services like Uber …

More: Engadget, Macworld, VentureBeat and Slashdot

BuzzFeed:

Uber suspended at least a dozen drivers because they complied with California law and registered commercial plates

More: 48 hills, bizjournals, SFist, PC Magazine, Tech Times, SFist, AllGov California, Curbed LA, SlashGear, Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, Consumerist and VentureBeat

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