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January 28, 2013, 9:00 PM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases iOS 6.1 with more LTE carrier support, Fandango movie ticket purchasing via Siri, iTunes Match individual song downloading — Apple has released iOS 6.1 to iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV users. This public release follows five beta seeds to developers.

More: Business Wire, BGR, PandoDaily, BetaNews, MacRumors, TUAW, VentureBeat, The Loop, Examiner, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, BGR, MacStories, AllThingsD and ZDNet. Thanks:@markgurman

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple TV updated with Bluetooth keyboard support, Up Next, enhanced iTunes in the Cloud — After releasing iOS 6.1 with support for more LTE carriers, Siri movie-ticket purchasing, and more, Apple also released an update to Apple TV that brings Bluetooth keyboard support (as previously discovered) …

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocket-lint, Gotta Be Mobile, iPhone Hacks, Engadget, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, TUAW, Business Insider, The Loop and Apple Fan Site

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple SVP of Marketing Phil Schiller announces 300M devices now on iOS 6 and above

More: Edible Apple, MacRumors and iLounge

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Vine begins censoring searches, weeds out #porn and more — In the latest development in today's pornography on Vine saga, Twitter's video-sharing app now blocks many searches for pornographic terms. Trying to search for the #porn hashtag and other similar terms brings up no results at this time.

More: CNET, Network World, Business Insider, Business Insider, TechCrunch and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @hunterwalk

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Hardcore porn briefly climbs to the top of Vine's 'Editor's Picks,' Twitter blames it on ‘human error’ — The launch of Twitter's video-sharing service Vine has brought with it another look at pornography on Apple's tightly-controlled iOS platform, and that scrutiny may be about to increase …

More: AllThingsD, Gizmodo, Digits, Telegraph, PandoDaily, MacRumors, BBC, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Los Angeles Times, CNET, Gizmodo, MacNN, WebProNews, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Know Your Cell, ABCNEWS, App Advice, Mashable!, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gawker, Motherboard, Examiner, ABCNEWS, Salon and 9to5Mac

Tweets: @stevekovach and @stevekovach

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Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Apple quietly pulls 'editor's pick' of Twitter's Vine

More: Business Insider, The Verge, The Verge, SlashGear and WebProNews

Wayne Chang / Crashlytics Blog:

Crashlytics is joining forces with Twitter — What an incredible journey this past year has been — today, we're excited to announce: we're merging with Twitter to take our platform to an entirely new level! — Our Product — We started Crashlytics a little over a year ago to address a huge hole in mobile app development.

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Next Web, CNET, GigaOM, AllThingsD, Xconomy, BostInno and ITworld.com. Tweets: @spencerchen

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Ends 2012 With A Solid Q4: $1.22 Billion Revenue, Non-GAAP EPS 32 Cents — Yahoo today released its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012, marking the end of a key year for the long-running web portal. Q4 2012 was Yahoo's second full quarter with Marissa Mayer at the helm as CEO …

More: PandoDaily, Digits, The Next Web, Marketing Land, Yahoo!, AllThingsD, GeekWire, Mercury News, New York Times, BBC, ZDNet, USA Today, DailyFinance.com, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Bloomberg, Reuters and NBC Bay Area. See also Mediagazer

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Marissa Mayer's 3 Goals for Yahoo: A Better UI, Bigger International Reach And Broader Demographics

More: Forbes. See also Mediagazer

Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:

Yahoo revenue rises under CEO Marissa Mayer, beats expectations

More: Bloomberg, Business Week, CNET and VentureBeat

Vy Phan / Oh, How Pinteresting!:

We're Testing Out A New Look! — We're excited to announce that we'll be testing an update to Pinterest.com with a small group of people soon. With this update, we've tried to take your feedback into account. We're eager to learn even more from some of you during this test.

More: TechCrunch, AllThingsD, CNET, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, SocialTimes and Mashable!

Bloomberg:

Acer Sees Success in Chrome; Windows Fails to Drive Sales — Acer Inc. (2353), the Taiwanese computer maker that's suffered two consecutive annual losses, posted strong sales of notebooks using Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Chrome platform after the release of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows 8 failed to ignite the market.

More: BGR, CNET, ZDNet, Computerworld, GigaOM, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, DailyTech, TG Daily, CITEworld, Geeks Hut, WinBeta and digitaltrends.com

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

HP's first Chromebook revealed in leaked spec sheet — HP is preparing to launch its first entry into the Chromebook marketplace, if a PDF found on its site can be believed. According to this listing, HP's currently-unannounced Pavilion Chromebook will feature a 1.1GHz Celeron processor …

More: SlashGear, The Droid Guy, InfoWorld, Ars Technica, TechSpot, The Tech Report, The Next Web, GadgeTell, 9to5Google, Web Browser and digitaltrends.com

Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:

New Details On Apple's Budget iPhone 5 — Backstage Categories: — Rumors of a budget “ready for China” iPhone have been circulating for some time, but apart from a possible price point ("low") and assumptions about its components ("plastic," “low-end"), no concrete details as to its look or feel have leaked out.

More: Redmond Pie, MacRumors, Mashable!, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gotta Be Mobile, Apple Bitch, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, ValueWalk, everythingiCafe, Edible Apple, TechCrunch and iPhone Hacks

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Sales Talks Fell Through, So Ad Exchange AdBrite Shuts Down — Advertising exchange AdBrite is shutting down, after an attempt to find a buyer for the company failed. — CEO Hardeep Bindra is telling partners that the company, which has 26 employees, will close by the end of the month, and is selling off its assets.

More: TechCrunch, AdExchanger and Network World

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise — In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. — While excerpts of that interview made it into the post …

More: Business Insider and ZDNet

David Drummond / The Official Google Blog:

Google's approach to government requests for user data — Today, January 28, is Data Privacy Day, when the world recognizes the importance of preserving your online privacy and security. — If it's like most other days, Google—like many companies that provide online services to users …

More: Techdirt, NYT Bits, PC Magazine, Computerworld, The Atlantic Online, Guardian, CNET, ZDNet, TPM IdeaLab, The Huffington Post, Mobile Magazine, Inquirer and Mashable!

Eric Engleman / Bloomberg:

Google Leads Fight to Limit Government Access to E-Mail on Cloud

Sara Webb / Reuters:

WhatsApp violates privacy laws over phone numbers: report — (Reuters) - WhatsApp, one of the most popular apps in the world, contravenes international privacy laws because it forces users to provide access to their entire address book, Canadian and Dutch data protection authorities said.

More: The Next Web, PR Newswire, digitaltrends.com, CNET, iPhone Hacks and iPhone in Canada Blog

TechCrunch:

Intuit Acquires Facebook Ecommerce Platform Payvment's Team, Tech, And Patents While Ecwid Takes Its 200K Merchants — Earlier today Facebook ecommerce platform Payvment announced it was shutting down and transitioning its 200,000 merchants to competitor Ecwid, but we've just discovered that's …

More: SiliconBeat, AllThingsD, AllThingsD, Inside Facebook, The Next Web and internetretailer.com. Thanks:@sarahintampa

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Facebook app for iOS gets voice and video recording, voice message support and improved Nearby tab — The Facebook app for iOS has gotten the ability to record voice and video right in the app, as well as Messenger's voice messaging support and an improved Nearby tab.

More: 9to5Mac, Los Angeles Times, Inside Facebook, GeekWire, CNET, PC Magazine, AllFacebook, VentureBeat, TUAW, Engadget and MobileSyrup.com

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Nick Denton Is Resurrecting Valleywag — Valleywag, a Silicon Valley gossip blog Gawker killed off in 2009, is making a comeback. — Nick Denton, Gawker's CEO and founder, says he'll be bringing the site back to life, and he's currently hunting for an editor or two to run it.

More: PandoDaily. Tweets: @mattbuchanan, @megan and @stevekovach

Jeremy Wagstaff / Reuters:

In Asia's trend-setting cities, iPhone fatigue sets in — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's iconic iPhone is losing some of its luster among Asia's well-heeled consumers in Singapore and Hong Kong, a victim of changing mobile habits and its own runaway success. — Driven by a combination of iPhone fatigue …

More: Betabeat, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, ValueWalk, Business Insider, DailyTech and iPhone in Canada Blog

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Meet the man who would make BlackBerry apps cool — Alec Saunders has accomplished the seemingly impossible and gotten developers interested in RIM's new mobile operating system, which is set to be unveiled this week. — LAS VEGAS—Alec Saunders needed a little bait.

Thanks:@sharatibken

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Seagate invests $40 million in Virident, forges flash pact — Summary: Seagate gets a board seat and Virident grabs access to the storage giant's channel. Seagate will offer Virident's flash-PCIe storage products. — Seagate Technology said Monday that it will invest $40 million in Virident …

More: Business Wire, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, AllThingsD and Forbes

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

Kabam Hits Profitability in 2012 on Revenue of $180 Million — Kabam doesn't have to report earnings since it's privately held, but that didn't stop it from saying today that it was profitable last year on gross revenue of $180 million. — The game maker started off as a Facebook developer …

More: Business Wire, Digits, VentureBeat, Inside Social Games and TechCrunch

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

Facebook Co-Founder Unveils the New ‘New Republic’ — Chris Hughes, the 29-year-old co-founder of Facebook who acquired a majority stake in the small, storied arts and politics magazine The New Republic last March, naming himself editor-in-chief and publisher, unveiled the results of its 10-month redesign process Sunday.

More: The New Republic, Politico, AllThingsD, Media Nation and Adweek. See also Mediagazer

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