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February 6, 2015, 10:10 AM

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Owen Bowcott / Guardian:

UK court rules GCHQ mass internet surveillance was unlawful, breached human rights law — GCHQ mass internet surveillance was unlawful, rules court — Access to intercepted information obtained by the NSA breached human rights laws, according to the Investigative Powers Tribunal

More: CNET, The Next Web, The Verge, BetaNews, Gigaom, VentureBeat, PC World, Inquirer, The Independent, TechCrunch, The Register, Associated Press, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, BuzzFeed, Reuters and Mashable

Tweets: @rj_gallagher and @openrightsgroup

Bloomberg Business:

Tesla has hired 150+ Apple employees, more than from any other company; Apple tries poaching Tesla employees with $250,000 signing bonuses but recruits few — Apple Abduction — Tesla has hired more workers from Apple than from anyplace else — Doug Field never considered leaving Apple.

More: BGR, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, The Verge, Business Insider, ValueWalk, I4U News, App Advice, MacRumors, TechSpot, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac and Ubergizmo

Mark Scott / New York Times:

Google's advisory council on the Right to be Forgotten suggests limiting it to Europe — Limit ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ to Europe, Panel Tells Google — LONDON — Europe's so-called right to be forgotten should apply only in Europe. — That was the recommendation published on Friday …

More: TechCrunch, Gigaom, CNET, Forbes, GeekWire, The Register, Bloomberg Business, The Next Web, PC World, Reuters, VentureBeat, Techdirt and DW.DE

Nick Bilton / New York Times:

How Google Glass went from coveted gadget to punchline; device to be redesigned from scratch under Tony Fadell's leadership — Why Google Glass Broke — This is a story that involves lots of public intrigue, a futuristic wearable technology, a secret laboratory, fashion models …

TechCrunch:

Rocket Internet Puts $586M Into Delivery Hero, Buys 9 Other Food Startups — Rocket Internet, the Berlin-based e-commerce group that went public last year, is making some major consolidation moves in the food delivery business. It has acquired a 30% stake in Delivery Hero …

More: Bloomberg Business, VentureBeat and Tech.eu

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Study finds music labels take 73.1% of profits from streaming services; artists get 10.9% — Yes, Major Record Labels Are Keeping Nearly All The Money They Get From Spotify, Rather Than Giving It To Artists — A small group of very vocal musicians has decided that the new target of their anger …

More: Music Business Worldwide, The Equity Kicker, Gizmodo, TeamRock News and Slashdot

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Twitter Q4 user count grew 1.4%, down from 4.8% in Q3, company blames bug in iOS 8 integration — Twitter Blames Slow User Growth On iOS 8 Bug, But Predicts Strong Q1 2015 — Twitter's user count grew a measly 1.4% this quarter, down from 4.8% in Q3 2014, but CFO Anthony Noto said things are turning around.

More: Business Insider, Re/code, Gigaom, 9to5Mac, Quartz and The Verge

Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:

Twitter beats Q4 revenue expectations with $479M, nets just 4M new monthly users

More: Re/code, Wall Street Journal, internetretailer.com, eWeek, City A.M., SiliconBeat and ZDNet

Tweets: @joshelman, @joshconstine, @mikeisaac, @rsarver, @hunterwalk, @dannysullivan, @mgsiegler, @evelynrusli, @pkafka and @alex

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Kyle Wiens / Wired:

Farmers seek DMCA exemption to modify or repair high-tech proprietary agriculture equipment that is making DIY repairs impossible — New High-Tech Farm Equipment Is a Nightmare for Farmers — A central Illinois corn farmer, on top of his combine, is silhouetted against the setting sun in Pleasant Plains, Illinois on Sept. 27, 2014.

Tweets: @swartzcr, @marciahofmann, @matt_cawood, @oscarwijsman, @dangoldin, @joelgrus, @kwiens and @hackerhostellou

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:

WordPress and Drupal plugin Amber aims to prevent linkrot by storing a mirror of every link on a website as a fallback — Amber, a new tool to prevent linkrot on websites, is out in beta — Ever seen a news story from a few years back — or maybe even just a few weeks back …

Tweets: @mediagazer

Manish Singh / BGR India:

WhatsApp voice calling tested in India, works as well on Edge networks as on 3G — Exclusive: We tried WhatsApp Call and it is a winner! — Around 11PM last night, we got a surprise call from WhatsApps's Neeraj Arora. It wasn't any ordinary call but one he made from within WhatsApp.

More: BetaNews. Thanks:@refsrc

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Announcing The Winners Of The 8th Annual Crunchies Awards — Today at The 8th Annual Crunchies Awards TechCrunch and VentureBeat came together to celebrate the best of technology in 2014. It was a night for the ages. The Davies Symphony Hall was packed and Silicon Valley's TJ Miller hosted the event.

More: VentureBeat

Dan Primack / Fortune:

GrubHub moves into delivery, acquires DiningIn and agrees to buy Restaurants on the Run, for a total of $80M — GrubHub makes major move in restaurant delivery wars — GrubHub GRUB is a $3 billion company known for helping to connect hungry users with restaurants that will deliver them food.

More: PYMNTS.com, Consumerist, Reuters, Quartz, bizjournals and Inc.com

Bloomberg Business:

Signs of China-Sponsored Hackers Seen in Anthem Attack — (Bloomberg) — Investigators of Anthem Inc.'s data breach are pursuing evidence that points to Chinese state-sponsored hackers who are stealing personal information from health-care companies for purposes other than pure profit, according to three people familiar with the probe.

More: Help Net Security, CSO Online Steve Ragan, Krebs on Security, BBC, Fortune, Computerworld, Neowin, Washington Times, ValueWalk, Gizmodo and USA Today

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Facebook's Dedicated App For The Famous Gains Twitter Sharing, Topics In Timeline — Not all Facebooks are created equal: Facebook Mentions is an app the company released last year that lets celebrities use the social network in a way that's gear for filtering out noise and making fan engagement much easier.

More: Facebook Media, SiliconANGLE, ValueWalk, VentureBeat, SocialTimes, Mashable and The Next Web

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Uber Will Add Panic Button And Location/Journey Sharing In India On February 11 — Late last year, Uber announced plans for tighter safety measures in India following the rape of a passenger using its service in December. Now it has confirmed that two major features …

More: Uber Blog, Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, Tnooz and Slashdot

Whitney Blair Wyckoff / FedScoop:

Obama to tap VMware's Tony Scott as federal CIO — President Barack Obama announced plans to appoint VMware's Tony Scott as the federal chief information officer. — If the appointment goes through, Scott would be the third CIO and would take the place of Steven VanRoekel …

More: cloudpro.co.uk, TechWeekEurope UK, The Register, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, Nextgov, FederalNewsRadio.com, FedTech Magazine, iTnews, GovInfoSecurity and Federal Computer Week. Tweets: @wyattkash. Thanks:@gregotto

James Vincent / The Verge:

HTC reports profits of $15.9M from revenue of $1.5B for Q4, its third consecutive profitable quarter — HTC reports slim profit for third consecutive quarter — HTC is looking beyond smartphones to grow its business as the company reports slim profit margins in its latest quarterly earnings.

More: Gigaom, GSMArena.com and Android Central

Serdar Yegulalp / InfoWorld:

IBM Watson branches out into speech, text, visuals, and analysis — IBM introduces five new services for the Watson machine intelligence, including statistical analysis and image and speech recognition APIs — IBM's Watson now (sort of) knows a cat when it sees one.

More: Watson, SiliconANGLE, Beyond Search, eWeek, Data Center Knowledge and SD Times

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