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February 5, 2016, 3:35 PM

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon's Alexa voice recognition service on Echo speaker and Fire TV gets Uber ordering, Spotify streaming, and Domino's pizza delivery — Amazon Alexa Can Now Order An Uber From Your Echo Speaker Or Fire TV — It's been a big week for Amazon's connected speaker Echo.

More: Uber Developer Blog, The Verge, GeekWire, CNET, VatorNews, Engadget, Tech Insider, Fortune, Tom's Guide, PhoneDog.com, SlashGear, Mashable, AndroidHeadlines.com, AFTVnews and Gizmodo

Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:

LinkedIn plunges 40% in early trading, erases $10B in market cap — LinkedIn shares plummet 20% on lower guidance — CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports a disappointing cut in guidance at LinkedIn. — Shares of LinkedIn plunged as much as 40 percent at the market open Friday …

More: Bloomberg Business, Business Insider, Fortune, Tech Trader Daily, Mobile Marketing Watch, Social Media Today and Investor's Business Daily

Tweets: @cnbcnow, @mims, @mikeisaac, @jcummins, @markets and @kawaljit

Tim Peterson / Ad Age:

LinkedIn will stop selling ads on other sites, an offering launched after its $175M purchase of Bizo in 2014 — LinkedIn Shuts Down Its Ad Network 12 Months After It Opened — Overall Ad Business Only Accounted for 21% of Q4 2015 Revenue — Using A CRM Budget To Start A Loyalty Program

More: Re/code, AdExchanger and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @niemanlab. See also Mediagazer

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:

LinkedIn says it has acquired Connectifier, a job candidates search tool; some of the Connectifier team “freely pursuing their next adventure”

More: Silicon Republic, True Ventures, The Connectifier Blog, LinkedIn Business and socalTECH.com. Tweets: @alex

Katie Roof / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn provides weak guidance but company beats expectations with $862M in Q4 revenue

More: Tech Trader Daily, SiliconBeat, Business Insider, Mattermark, GlobeNewswire, USA Today, SiliconANGLE, Re/code, International Business Times, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, ABC News, Silicon Valley Business …, ZDNet and Forbes

Miles Brignall / Guardian:

“Error 53” fury mounts: iPhone 6 users claim iOS 9 installation bricks phones with Touch ID sensors repaired by third parties — ‘Error 53’ fury mounts as Apple software update threatens to kill your iPhone 6 — housands of iPhone 6 users claim they have been left holding …

Douglas Soltys / MobileSyrup.com:

Sources: BlackBerry Waterloo cuts include about 150 BlackBerry 10 and Devices staff; BlackBerry says there was a “small number” of layoffs in Florida and Canada — BlackBerry reportedly cuts 35% of Waterloo workforce, including significant BlackBerry 10 & Devices staff

More: Globe and Mail, Sun-Sentinel, International Business Times, VentureBeat, Re/code, The Verge, CrackBerry.com, TechCrunch, Engadget, Fortune, Seeking Alpha and Pocketnow. Tweets: @mobilesyrup. Thanks:@inkblotca

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg Business:

Sources: Jessica Alba's e-commerce startup Honest Co. is working with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley on an IPO — Jessica Alba's Honest Co. Is Working With Banks on an IPO — Honest Co. would test rocky market for technology IPOs — Previous funding round valued e-commerce firm at $1.7 billion

More: Reuters, CNBC, Racked, Fortune, socalTECH.com and Business Insider

Chris Kohler / Wired:

Nintendo's Quality of Life sleep tracking device, planned for release in March, shelved indefinitely — Nintendo Puts Its Sleep-Tracking Gizmo on Hold Indefinitely — Nintendo will sleep on its so-called “quality of life” health tracking device, it said this week.

More: The Daily Dot, TechHive, PC Magazine, Motherboard, Ars Technica, The Next Web, GeekWire, Tech Times, TechSpot, Mashable, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Neowin, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, GamesIndustry.biz, The Verge, Gamasutra and destructoid

Brian Solomon / Forbes:

Tableau beats Q4 earnings estimates and reports quarterly revenue rising 42%, but stock drops over 45% on weak forecast — Tableau Plummets Nearly 50% As Hypergrowth Stalls — Sometimes growth isn't fast enough. — On Thursday, Tableau released fourth quarter earnings …

More: Tech Trader Daily, PR Newswire, GeekWire, Tech Trader Daily and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @ahess247

Lucian Constantin / PCWorld:

Vulnerabilities in Netgear's ProSafe network management system could lead to remote code execution with system privileges, arbitrary file download — Serious flaws found in Netgear's NMS300 network management system — The flaws could lead to remote code execution with system privileges and arbitrary file download

More: US-CERT, Full Disclosure, SC Magazine, Tech2, Threatpost and SecurityWeek

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Rocket Internet Sells Food Startups In Spain, Italy, Brazil, Mexico For $140M To Just Eat — The takeout shakeout continues apace. Since going public in 2014, Rocket Internet has been trying to simplify and reorganize the tangle of e-commerce startups funded and grown by the Berlin-based incubator …

More: Rocket Internet press releases, VatorNews and Tech.eu. Thanks:@ingridlunden

Chris Coyne / Keybase:

Keybase debuts an open-sourced filesystem with end-to-end encryption that ties users' identities from across services to make sharing easy, now invite only — The Keybase filesystem — Big news, everyone. — Alpha releases of the Keybase app are starting to come with a cryptographically secure file mount.

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web and Engadget

Tweets: @fanf42, @kaepora, @rezendi and @rozzie

Lucas Matney / TechCrunch:

AltspaceVR, an app that allows multiple users to meet in virtual spaces, launches on Gear VR — AltspaceVR Social Platform Launches On Samsung Gear VR — Virtual reality can sometimes appear like it's a pretty isolating platform. Visually, people experiencing VR certainly …

More: The Verge

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