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February 5, 2016, 4:10 PM

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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 …

Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:

Zirx says it's shutting down its on-demand parking service February 29 to focus on its enterprise business — ZIRX Drops Its Consumer Valet Service To Focus On The Enterprise — ZIRX, an on-demand valet startup, is shutting down its consumer service at the end of the month …

More: Zirx Blog, VentureBeat, Re/code, LinkedIn Business and ZDNet

Tweets: @merket and @rolfewinkler

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: Business Insider, Marketing Land, GlobeNewswire, True Ventures, The Connectifier Blog and VentureBeat. Tweets: @niemanlab. See also Mediagazer

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, Gizmodo, VatorNews, CNET, Engadget, Tech Insider, Tom's Guide, PhoneDog.com, SlashGear, Mashable, AndroidHeadlines.com, AFTVnews and Gizmodo

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

Twitter says it has suspended 125K accounts for promoting or threatening terrorist acts since mid-2015 — Twitter Steps Up Efforts to Thwart Terrorists' Tweets — For years, Twitter has positioned itself as a “global town square” that is open to discourse from all.

More: The Twitter Blog, CNBC, The Next Web, Re/code, The Verge, Engadget, BGR, VentureBeat, Wired and Fusion

Tweets: @policy, @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac

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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: Re/code, Reuters, CNBC, Racked, Fortune, socalTECH.com and Business Insider

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 …

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, Ars Technica, GeekWire, Tech Times, The Next Web, TechSpot, PC Magazine, Mashable, Motherboard, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, GamesIndustry.biz, Gamasutra, The Verge 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

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

BlackBerry says it's laying off about 200 in Waterloo and Florida, contradicting earlier reports — BlackBerry confirms it's laying off 200 workers — Update: BlackBerry has apparently thought better of its original strategy to try to pass off the layoffs as a “small number” and amended its original statement.

More: Globe and Mail, Sun-Sentinel, New York Times, Re/code, International Business Times, VentureBeat, Engadget, TechCrunch, CrackBerry.com, USA Today, MobileSyrup.com, Fortune, Seeking Alpha and Pocketnow

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

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

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