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February 2, 2013, 11:20 AM

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Bob Lord / Twitter Blog:

Keeping our users secure — As you may have read, there's been a recent uptick in large-scale security attacks aimed at U.S. technology and media companies. Within the last two weeks, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have chronicled breaches of their systems …

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Hacked, 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compromised — Twitter disclosed on Friday evening that its systems had been attacked in the past week by an unidentified group of hackers. As a result of the the attack, the hackers may have had access to the usernames …

More: NYT Bits, DAWN.COM, BestTechie and CNET

Tweets: @tim, @om and @dannysullivan

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter Sends Out Emails To 250K Users Who ‘May’ Have Been Compromised, Says Hack Was Not Related To Yesterday's Outage

More: nbcnews.com, ZDNet, ReadWrite, Guardian, Softpedia News and AllTwitter

Path:

Path and the FTC — Today the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it reached a settlement pending court approval with Path regarding alleged violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protections Act (COPPA). The gist of the FTC's complaint is this: early in Path's history …

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

The Best Parenting App Is Against The Law — Outdated rules and overzealous regulators mean kids can't use Path. Stop COPPA! — Via: path.com — The Federal Trade Commission levied a $800,000 fine on the social networking service Path Friday morning for having, among other things …

More: New York Times, CNET and Engadget

Tweets: @rklau and @rklau

Thanks:@fwd

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

FTC Still Seems More Interested In Making Headlines Than Really Protecting Privacy — So, the FTC got some press today for announcing a high profile “settlement” with social networking startup Path. You might think that this is entirely about the news that came out a year ago …

More: BtoB Magazine, PC Magazine and AllThingsD

Casey Newton / CNET:

Privacy at risk as Path app lets location data slip

More: EEQJ, SocialTimes, NYT Bits, The Verge, App Advice, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, Ars Technica, The Next Web, VentureBeat, TechSpot and Federal Trade Commission. Tweets: @jason_diaz. Thanks:@caseynewton

David Hornik / VentureBlog:

Secondary Market Stupidity — I have heard of short term memory, but this boarders on amnesia. Were the buyers in this latest secondary transaction (Twitter at $10B) asleep during the Facebook IPO? Did they miss the part where lots of well intentioned “investors” bought Facebook shares at $80B …

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Exclusive: Twitter nears $10 billion valuation

More: Financial Times, AllTwitter, CNET, ValueWalk and SiliconANGLE. Thanks:@forrestkoba

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Google shares hit all-time high — The company's stock, which rose to $775.32 today, contrasts with the stock performance of rival Apple. — It's not a bad day to be Google. — The search giant's shares soared to an all-time high today amid hopes it will soon resolve its European antitrust issues.

More: Search Engine Watch, Wall Street Journal, Mumbai, Business Insider, Associated Press and AllThingsD

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

Washington Post Joins List of News Media Hacked by the Chinese — SAN FRANCISCO — The question is no longer who has been hacked. It's who hasn't? — The Washington Post can be added to the growing list of American news organizations whose computers have been penetrated by Chinese hackers.

More: Washington Post, The Next Web, SlashGear, Daily Mail, The Verge, Associated Press and Krebs on Security

Tweets: @ericfish85 and @gaberivera

ChinaFile:

China's Cyberattacks — At What Cost?

More: InfoWorld. Thanks:@niubi

Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence:

Exclusive: Eric Schmidt Unloads on China in New Book … Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is brutally clear: China is the most dangerous superpower on Earth. — Corporate Intelligence reviewed preliminary galleys of Schmidt's new book, “The New Digital Age,” (Random House) which debuts in April.

More: Corporate Intelligence, Business Insider, The Verge, Guardian and Daring Fireball. See also Mediagazer

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Chrome, IE, Silk pry open mobile-browsing market — Newer arrivals on smartphones and tablets have only a small part of the market, but that could be a foot in the door. — New mobile browsers including Google's Chrome, Microsoft's IE, and Amazon's Silk are gaining a foothold …

More: The Next Web

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Apple Takes 3 Of Top 5 Spots In U.S. Mobile Phone Sales For Q4 2012, Says NPD — Apple has managed to nab three of the top 5 spots for the top-selling mobile phones in the U.S. during Q4 2012 according to the NPD Group, with the iPhone 5, iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 ranking first, third and fourth, respectively.

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