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February 12, 2016, 1:28 PM

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Jason Jacobs:
Japanese sportswear company ASICS acquires Runkeeper  —  Runkeeper and ASICS are Joining Forces  —  I have some big news today!  I am proud and excited to announce that Runkeeper has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by ASICS Corporation.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Vevo's New, More Personalized Music App Comes To Android & Apple TV  —  In recent months, Vevo has been working to extend its brand from being best-known as the provider of original music videos on YouTube to being a service for music discovery in its own right.
Motherboard:
UK police arrest teen hacker thought to be Cracka, who is allegedly behind CIA and FBI breaches  —  Teen Allegedly Behind CIA, FBI Breaches: 'They're Trying to Ruin My Life.'  —  The months-long series of hacks and pranks by a group of alleged teenage hackers on the US government …
Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge:
Netflix shuttered its last data center in January after a seven-year migration to the cloud, now everything runs on AWS  —  Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastructure  —  It's done and dusted.  Since someday last month, everything Netflix does runs on Amazon Web Services …
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
SoundCloud files financial results showing $44.27M loss in 2014 with revenue of $19.7M; board forecasts it will need more capital investment in 2016  —  SoundCloud financial results show €39.1m loss in 2014  —  SoundCloud's revenues rose 54% to €17.4m in 2014 …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Uber Picks Up Another $200M From LetterOne To Push Into Emerging Markets  —  Along with its new branding, it looks like Uber has picked up some new funding, too.  LetterOne (L1), a fund based out of Luxembourg and headed by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman, is putting $200 million …
Nellie Bowles / Guardian:
Facebook India's managing director Kirthiga Reddy resigns  —  Move follows a disastrous week for Facebook during which its free internet service was blocked in India and a board member praised colonialism  —  Facebook India's managing director Kirthiga Reddy has announced she will be stepping …
Chelsey Dulaney / Wall Street Journal:
Visa discloses it has 4.19M Class B shares in Square from 2011 investment; Square stock up over 6%  —  Visa Details Stake in Payments Startup Square  —  Square shares rise as disclosure raises questions about Visa's plans for the stake  —  Square Inc. shares jumped as much as 13% Friday …
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Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Facebook is testing SMS integration in Messenger on Android, launches multiple account support  —  Facebook has confirmed that it is looking to bring back SMS support in Messenger and has also launched multiple account support.  At least for now, both features are only for Android users.
William Alden / BuzzFeed:
Zenefits created software tool to let sales reps fake completion of legally required course  —  Zenefits Program Let Insurance Brokers Fake A Mandatory Training Course  —  A secret software program inside Zenefits made it seem that brokers were completing a legally required 52-hour online training course …
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X16 LTE modem supporting 1 Gbps downloads and 150 Mbps uploads  —  Qualcomm promises gigabit LTE speeds with its new Snapdragon X16 modem  —  And there are new low-end phone and wearable Snapdragon chips for later in 2016.  —  Qualcomm's lead in the mobile SoC …
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