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January 29, 2013, 6:05 PM

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Apple:

Apple Increases iPad with Retina Display to 128GB — Offers Twice the Storage Capacity to Create & Enjoy Even More Incredible Content — CUPERTINO, CaliforniaJanuary 29, 2013Apple® today announced a 128GB* version of the fourth generation iPad® with Retina® display.

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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple announces 128GB iPad with Retina display, available Feb. 5 for $799/$929

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Amazon.com:

Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 22% to $21.27 Billion — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012. Operating cash flow increased 7% to $4.18 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $3.90 billion …

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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Amazon Misses: Q4 Sales Up 22 Percent To $21.3B, Net Income Down 45 Percent To $97M — Amazon just reported lower-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings today. Net income decreased 45% to $97 million in the fourth quarter, or $0.21 per diluted share, compared with $177 million, or $0.38 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter 2011.

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David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Investors Shrug Off a Weak Earnings Report From Amazon

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Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

YouTube Set to Introduce Paid Subscriptions This Spring — A New Revenue Model For TV Networks and Video Producers — A new chapter in online video is about to begin. YouTube is prepping to launch paid subscriptions for individual channels on its video platform in its latest attempt …

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Russell Holly / Geek.com:

Google to announce paid YouTube subscriptions at $1-5 a month

Microsoft:

Microsoft Releases Office 365 Home Premium — New consumer cloud service works across devices to help busy people simplify their lives and get more done. — Microsoft Corp. today announced worldwide availability of Office 365 Home Premium, a reinvention of the company's flagship Office product line for consumers.

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Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Microsoft Office 2013, Office 365 Home Premium available now; 365 for business coming later — Until now, we've known almost all there is to know about Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 365: we got hands-on with the new features last summer, and the company has even confirmed pricing.

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's Office 365 Home Premium: What happens when subscriptions expire? — Summary: Microsoft is encouraging users to subscribe to its new Office, rather than buy it outright. But what happens once users' subscriptions expire? — Ever since Microsoft first outlined its plans …

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Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS:

Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium Launches: $99.99 for a One-Year Subscription

More: SiliconANGLE, AllThingsD, TG Daily and Computerworld

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft's 64GB Surface Pro will only have 23GB usable storage — Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet, due on February 9th, will have a smaller amount of storage space than expected. A company spokesperson has confirmed to The Verge that the 64GB edition of Surface Pro will have 23GB of free storage out of the box.

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Ben Sisario / New York Times:

As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow to a Trickle — Like plenty of music fans, Sam Broe jumped at the chance to join Spotify two summers ago, and he hasn't looked back. — Spotify, which began streaming music in Sweden in 2008, lets users choose from millions of songs over the Internet free …

More: Media Decoder and Venture Capital Dispatch. Tweets: @pkafka and @timoreilly. See also Mediagazer

Robert Van den Oever / The Source:

Philips Exits Consumer Electronics … Philips Electronics has drawn a line under its long history as a consumer-electronics company after failing to compete successfully with the likes of Apple Inc. Samsung Electronics Co. and Sony Corp. in the fast-moving industry.

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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

OpenTable Devours FoodSpotting for $10 Million in Cash — OpenTable has acquired Foodspotting, the popular photo-sharing application for restaurants. — The online reservations company said it paid about $10 million in cash for the company, making it a pretty good deal for the startup …

More: NYT Bits, OpenTable, TechCrunch, BetaKit, VentureBeat, Digits, Foodspotting, OpenTable Blog, The Next Web, Betabeat, App Advice, WebProNews and GigaOM

Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft's Role a Sticking Point in Dell Buyout Talks — The role Microsoft Corp. would play in a privately-owned Dell Inc. is one of several issues being hashed out ahead of a final buyout agreement for the computer maker, people familiar with the negotiations said Tuesday.

More: The Register, Tech Trader Daily, The Verge, Ars Technica, Reuters and Neowin

Chris Welch / The Verge:

500px photography app returns to App Store with 17+ rating after ‘pornography’ removal — One week after it was unceremoniously booted from Apple's iOS App Store, 500px has returned. The app is once again available for both iPhone and iPad after it was pulled down last Monday.

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Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Google once again selling the Nexus 4 in the US, Germany, more locations to come soon (update) — Though the Nexus 4 has been missing from the Google Play Store for weeks now, Google has confirmed to us today that it is now offering it for sale in Germany, with plans to sell it in other countries in the near future.

More: PhoneArena, Engadget, Droid Life, TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile, ReadWrite, Pocketnow, 9to5Google, AllThingsD, BGR and Business Insider

9to5Mac:

Is this the back of Apple's redesigned fifth-generation iPad? — Over the past few months, multiple rumors have pointed to Apple's fifth-generation iPad being in development with a design akin to the recently launched iPad mini. That design would likely feature the black & slate/white …

More: Los Angeles Times, App Advice, SlashGear, BestTechie, iLounge, Gotta Be Mobile and TMTI Group. Thanks:@mikebeas

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Don't Look Now, but Box's Last Funding Round Just Got Bigger — Remember over the summer how Box, the enterprise cloud services company, raised a gargantuan $125 million in a Series E round led by General Atlantic? Yeah? Well, it just got bigger. — A new filing with the U.S. Securities …

Tweets: @alistairmbarr

Mitch Stoltz / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Is It Illegal To Unlock a Phone? The Situation is Better - and Worse - Than You Think — Legal protection for people who unlock their mobile phones to use them on other networks expired last weekend. According to the claims of major U.S. wireless carriers, unlocking a phone bought …

More: digitaltrends.com, PandoDaily, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, TG Daily, Motherboard and Gotta Be Mobile

Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:

She Speaks! Silicon Swindler Shirley Hornstein Comes Clean — Last August, TechCrunch broke the story of Shirley Hornstein, a Photoshopping fabricator who ingratiated herself into Silicon Valley circles by name-dropping non-existent connections. Her behavior eventually prompted Founders Fund …

More: Shirley Hornstein, CNET, Business Insider and TechCrunch. Tweets: @rsarver

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Stealthy Data Storage Analytics And Intelligence Startup DataGravity Nabs $30M From Andreessen Horowitz And Others — DataGravity, a stealthy data storage analytics company, has raised $30 million in series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with existing investors Charles River Ventures …

More: SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and GigaOM

Reuters:

Insight: Apple's grip on carriers, suppliers loosens — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's shareholders have been hit by one of the bloodiest weeks in the history of the stock, but wider fallout from such weakness might more important to the long-term value of their investments.

More: 9to5Mac and Daring Fireball

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

How Google Is Putting Mass Torture On The Map — A Google Maps search for “concentration camps in North Korea” will now find you actual, working prison camps. A new form of activism? — How do you label a notorious international human rights violation on a map? Here's how Google did it:

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