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January 17, 2013, 4:55 PM

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Steven Levy / Wired:

Google's Larry Page on Why Moon Shots Matter — Larry Page lives by the gospel of 10x. Most companies would be happy to improve a product by 10 percent. Not the CEO and cofounder of Google. The way Page sees it, a 10 percent improvement means that you're basically doing the same thing as everybody else.

More: CNET, BGR, Marketing Land, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, Betabeat, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable!, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com and AllThingsD

Tweets: @hamburger, @sacca and @stevenlevy

Chris Burns / SlashGear:

Larry Page talks Google's fragile influence on Motorola — This past year Google decidedly purchased Motorola not only for their extensive patent portfolio, but their track record in the mobile industry - and this week Google's CEO Larry Page has given more insight as to what hardware …

More: Know Your Cell and WebProNews

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Google CEO Larry Page says Facebook is doing ‘a really bad job on their products’ — Google CEO Larry Page doesn't often give interviews, but he usually doesn't pull punches when he does. In a new interview with Wired's Steven Levy, Page opened up on a wide variety of topics, including Facebook's ability to launch new products.

More: Business Insider

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Google Nexus 7 tops iPad in Japan: Is this a trend? — Google's Nexus 7 is making serious market-share headway against Apple in Japan, according to Nikkei. — Google's Nexus 7 is gaining market share in Japan and topped Apple's iPad in one survey. — Japanese digital device consumers are some of the savviest in the world.

More: Inside Mobile Apps, Examiner, VentureBeat, Nikkei, BGR, MobileBurn.com, InvestorPlace, digitaltrends.com, AppleInsider, DailyTech, 9to5Google, iDownloadBlog.com, Marketing Pilgrim, iPhone Hacks and Electronista

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

After Reports of User Revolt, Instagram Releases Monthly Active User Data for the First Time — After weeks of accusations that Instagram has seen a sharp drop in its user numbers, the photo-sharing service released new data that gives better insight into the actual number of people using the service on a regular basis.

More: Engadget, CNET, Inside Facebook, GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Next Web, Instagram Engineering, iDownloadBlog.com and Mashable!

James Kendrick / ZDNet:

Lenovo announces ThinkPad Chromebook for schools — Summary: Lenovo will offer a Chromebook version of its ThinkPad X131e for the education sector. The Chromebook will be sold only to schools for grades K-12. — James Kendrick — The folks at Lenovo are going into the Chromebook space …

More: Google Enterprise Blog, Engadget, Computerworld, CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, ExtremeTech, SlashGear, TechCrunch, The Tech Report, LAPTOP Magazine, The Next Web and Mashable!

Steve Cheney / steve's blog:

Graph Search's False Promise and the Con of the Facebook “Like” — We all know that the pressure for Facebook to monetize is massive and growing. Yesterday Zuckerberg fulfilled the promise he dropped at TC Disrupt to release a product that will finally compete with Google.

More: Business Insider and WebProNews. Tweets: @frankreed, @mdudas, @jowyang and @howardlindzon

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Intel posts strong Q4 performance with revenue of $13.5 billion, and EPS of $0.48 despite low PC demand — Today Intel reported its fourth quarter financial performance: including revenue of $13.5 billion and earnings per share of $0.48. Intel had a total net income of $2.5 billion for the quarter.

More: Business Wire, The Verge, AllThingsD, Engadget, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily and Business Insider. Tweets: @the_domino

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Amazon looks to reduce Apple's hold on music sales with launch of MP3 web store for iPhone and iPod touch — Amazon has taken another step at reducing Apple's hold over on-device music sales, today announcing the launch of its HTML5 MP3 web store specifically for iPhone and iPod touch …

More: The Verge, Business Wire, Digits, Ars Technica, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Engadget, CNET, memeburn, everythingiCafe, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Mac, I4U News, GeekWire and BetaNews. Tweets: @reneritchie. See also Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:

AT&T Stalking Europe for Mergers — AT&T Inc. is once again starting up its deal machine. — The telecommunications giant is considering buying a counterpart in Europe, a bet that it can best escape constraints on growth at home by getting into a new wireless market where it can upgrade technology …

More: Reuters, PC Magazine, The Verge, ZDNet, iDownloadBlog.com, TechCrunch, HotHardware.com News, MobileBurn.com, Forbes, IntoMobile, FierceWireless, Electronista, SlashGear, The Next Web and App Advice

Rick Broida / CNET:

MediaFire debuts for Android, offers users 50GB of free cloud storage — No, really: 50 gigabytes. The app has a few limitations, but it's still a major score for any Android user with an eye to the cloud. — Back in August, I wrote about cloud-storage service MediaFire …

More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Know Your Cell, The Droid Guy, Android Authority and PC Magazine

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Mobile Ad Revenues Will Top $11.4 Billion In 2013, Up 19% On 2012. India, China And Display Fuelling The Boost — The growing popularity of free mobile content — largely in the form of apps — is having a big impact on mobile advertising, the route that many developers and publishers are taking to monetize that content.

More: Gartner, Forbes, The Register, memeburn, internetretailer.com, The Equity Kicker and ZDNet

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft's Bing social sidebar gets more context with Facebook status updates, links, and comments — Microsoft on Thursday announced it is expanding its Facebook integration in Bing. The company says significantly more content from your Facebook friends' is now searchable in Bing's sidebar …

More: Bing, AllFacebook, ReadWrite, TechCrunch, ZDNet, GeekWire, LiveSide.net, internetretailer.com and Marketing Pilgrim

Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal:

Asustek in Talks to Offer Windows 8 Phones — TAIPEI—Taiwanese PC maker Asustek Computer Inc. is in talks with Microsoft Corp. on a licensing deal to offer Windows 8 mobile phones, an executive said, making it the latest Asian computer maker eyeing the new operating system.

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Yelp begins adding restaurant inspection scores to listings, starting in San Francisco and New York — Giving its users more information on the restaurants within its listings, Yelp has today added a new metric to restaurant listings — hygiene scores — providing businesses with a way of advertising …

More: Yelp Official Blog, Engadget, CNET, San Francisco Chronicle, PC Magazine, The Verge, TechCrunch, WebProNews, SocialTimes, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Geekosystem, SlashGear, NBC Bay Area and Mashable!

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

OpenX Raises $22.5 Million in Round Led by Samsung Venture Unit — OpenX Software said it had raised $22.5 million in a Series E funding round, with Samsung Venture Investment Corporation as lead investor. — All told, the Los Angeles-based online advertising technology company has raised $70 million.

More: socalTECH.com

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

ABI Research: Apple iPhone market share to peak at 22% in 2013, but will remain flat through 2018 — Apple's smartphone market share may peak this year at 22%, but likely won't gain greater control of the market over the next five years, says ABI Research. — The research firm goes …

More: Business Wire, TechCrunch, CNET and iPhone Hacks

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Dolphin Browser updated with one-tap sharing, browser sync and Evernote integration — The Dolphin Browser has been given a major update today, adding completely new integration with the Evernote Web Clipper, one-tap sharing with social networks such as Twitter and Facebook …

More: 9to5Mac, Engadget, Dolphin Browser, Android Authority, TechCrunch, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News, PandoDaily and LAPTOP Magazine

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: SurveyMonkey Raises $850 Million in Debt and Equity for Tender Offer — Including New Investment From Google's New Late-Stage Unit — SurveyMonkey has raised a massive $800 million in debt and additional equity funding, which it plans to distribute in a tender offer, said sources with knowledge of the situation.

More: Fortune, VentureBeat, Venture Capital Dispatch, ValueWalk and silicontap.com

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft Security Essentials fails anti-virus certification test, Redmond challenges results — Microsoft's popular Security Essentials anti-virus software has failed to gain the latest certificate from the AV-TEST institute. In antimalware testing against a range of products …

More: The Register, TechNet Blogs, VentureBeat, ReadWrite, Neowin, Help Net Security and Electronista

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

AppGratis closes $13.5M in funding with revenue at $1M/month and users growing at 300K/day — AppGratis announced today that it closed a $13.5 million series A round of funding to get bigger and even more international, even though the French app-discovery company is already profitable and growing at breakneck speed.

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, BetaKit, VatorNews, The Verge and iPhone Hacks

Todd Spangler / multichannel.com/rss:

TWC: Netflix Is Withholding Content to Gain ‘Unprecedented’ Access to ISPs — Operator Says It Is in Discussions on Connecting Into Netflix's Private CDN — Time Warner Cable said it is currently in discussions with Netflix on terms for connecting into the video streamer's private content delivery network …

More: Computerworld, Ars Technica, Policy Blog, Stop the Cap!, CNET, GigaOM, TechCrunch, ValueWalk, SlashGear, Technology Liberation Front, Plagiarism Today, Light Reading and FierceOnlineVideo News. See also Mediagazer

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Keek Raises $18M, Adds 6M Users In 30 Days And Looks To Expand Mobile Video Sharing Further Internationally — Keek, the Toronto-based social video sharing startup that emphasizes communication over entertainment through bite-sized 36-second smartphone movie clips, today announced …

More: The Next Web, VentureBeat and BetaKit

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Twitter expands Certified Products Program with Adobe Social, Sprout Social, Simply Measured and more — Last year, Twitter launched a Certified Products Program, a sort of list of companies using Twitter data in approved ways. It split those companies into three categories including engagement, analytics and data resellers.

More: Twitter Developers, AdExchanger, AllThingsD, AllThingsD and Mashable!

Edgar Alvarez / Engadget:

Samsung now pushing out more updates to address Exynos security vulnerability — About two weeks ago, Samsung started rolling out a fix to help Galaxy S III owners in the UK with that previously acknowledged Exynos issue. Fast forward to today, and the Korean electronics giant is now delivering …

More: CNET, TechSpot, Gotta Be Mobile, Macgasm, BetaNews and IntoMobile

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