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February 8, 2013, 4:10 PM

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Omar Shahine / The Windows Blog:

A billion Office documents on SkyDrive, now with easier collaboration … For those of you who have tried the new Office, you'll know we made it easy to quickly save your documents to SkyDrive and get a link to share with others—earlier today we made it even easier for people to share …

More: Computerworld, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, CNET, Forbes, PC World, PC Magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, BetaNews, LiveSide.net, SocialTimes, Network World, The Microsoft Office Blog, GigaOM, Engadget, The Verge, VentureBeat, Neowin and Mashable!. Thanks:@chrisjoneshome

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

As SkyDrive hits 1bn documents, Microsoft now lets you share and edit files in Office Web Apps sans account

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Evasi0n Is The Most Popular Jailbreak Ever: Nearly Seven Million iOS Devices Hacked In Four Days — Over the last half a week, Apple has been hit with the largest mass-hacking incident in its history. And the perpetrators were the company's own users. — Nearly seven million iPhone …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AOL Q4 2012 Beats The Street On Revenues Of $600M, Showing Its First Revenue Growth In 8 Years — AOL (owner of TechCrunch) has just reported earnings for Q4 2012 of $600 million on earnings of 41 cents per share. That matches analysts expectaions on EPS but beats on revenues of $573.1 million.

More: AllThingsD, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Guardian, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Business Insider and Mashable!. Tweets: @emilysteel. See also Mediagazer

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

AOL's Dial-Up Subscription Business Produces More Than All Of The Company's Profit — AOL just released quasi-profit numbers for each of its divisions for the first time. — As expected, AOL's dial-up subscription business—the business that powered AOL to astounding global success in the 1990s …

More: Gizmodo, paidContent and Forbes. See also Mediagazer

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Drive's Create menu now lets you add and access third-party, Drive-enabled apps — Google on Friday announced a new feature for its Drive service: a significantly revamped Create menu featuring third-party apps. For consumers, the change means Drive-connected apps are easier to access …

More: googledevelopers.blogspot.ca, Google Operating System, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge and 9to5Google

Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:

LinkedIn eyes future as professional publishing hub — The company seems set on making business content, not social networking, the focus of the site. — LinkedIn spent much of 2012 transforming itself into a place where workers could stay and play awhile — a strategy that paid off handsomely.

More: Adweek, Wired, SocialTimes and Beyond Search. Thanks:@mariosundar. See also Mediagazer

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Shares Soar 19.2% In The Wake Of Impressive Earnings

Don Clark / Digits:

Intel Bets on New-wave Networking with Big Switch — For people who equip and run computer rooms, a trend called software-defined networking has been widely identified as a very big deal. Intel is helping to fund the movement. — The chip giant's venture capital arm on Friday is announcing …

More: AllThingsD, VatorNews, TechCrunch, GigaOM, ZDNet and ITworld.com

Daniel Trotta / Reuters:

U.S. Secret Service investigates Bush email hacking — (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service is investigating whether former President George H.W. Bush's email was hacked along with other family members and friends, the agency said on Friday. — That probe comes in response to reports …

More: The Smoking Gun, Los Angeles Times, Ars Technica, BBC, The Verge, Guardian, Gawker, Computerworld, Network World, BuzzFeed, TMZ.com, Business Insider, Mashable! and Softpedia News

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

4chan creator Chris Poole draws a future where anyone can make art — 4chan creator Chris “moot” Poole spent two years building and refining Canvas, a family-friendly version of the massively successful 4chan, when he realized something was off. “90 percent of our users didn't feel …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, Wired and Mashable!

Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:

Big Dell Holder to Vote Against Buyout — Dell Inc.'s largest outside investor on Friday said it would vote against the proposed $24.4 billion deal to take the computer maker private. — The shareholder, Southeastern Asset Management Inc., which says it owns approximately 8.5% …

More: Tech Trader Daily, Forbes and DealBook

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Why did Dell force employees to sell shares?

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Macmillan settles with DOJ, leaving Apple last defendant standing in ebook pricing case — Macmillan, the last remaining publisher holdout in the Department of Justice's ebook pricing antitrust lawsuit against five publishers and Apple, has decided to settle about ten months after the lawsuit was originally filed.

More: The United States Department …, Engadget, AllThingsD, Reuters, Tor.com Frontpage Partial, CNET, The Verge, Good E-Reader and Electronista. See also Mediagazer

Michael Bonfils / Search Engine Watch:

Yandex Just Passed Bing to Become 4th Largest Global Search Engine — Yandex surpassed Microsoft on the number of monthly search queries worldwide in November and December 2012, according to a recently released comScore qSearch report. Microsoft sites processed 4.477 billion queries and Yandex did 4.844 billion.

More: PC Magazine, CNET, DailyTech, Neowin, Guardian and SlashGear. Tweets: @tomwarren

Daniel P / PhoneArena:

5.5" LG Optimus G Pro picture and specs sheet are in: Full HD screen, 3140 mAh battery and microSD — While LG's current flagship, the Optimus G, has been selling in the US for a while, and hitting Europe and China, we've been hearing about an upcoming upgrade, the Optimus G Pro, for a while now …

More: Ars Technica, Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, Android Authority, digitaltrends.com, Mobile Magazine, Tech Shout!, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, Pocket-lint, AndroidGuys, IntoMobile, GSMArena.com, MobileSyrup.com, TechRadar.com, Ubergizmo and Ubergizmo

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

TPB AFK: Watch and Download The Pirate Bay Documentary NOW — The Pirate Bay is one of the best known file-sharing brands and the site has a well-earned place in Internet history. — The BitTorrent site and its founders have been targeted by several court cases over the years …

More: The Verge

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Four years in the Pirate Bay: director Simon Klose on why file-sharing is still political

More: CNET, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Mashable!, WebProNews and Softpedia News

New York Times:

Hewlett-Packard Joins Push to Limit Use of Student Labor in China — HONG KONG — Hewlett-Packard, one of the world's largest makers of computers and other electronics, is imposing new limits on the employment of students and temporary agency workers at factories across China.

More: Business Insider, ReadWrite, PC Magazine, Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, LAPTOP Magazine, Data Central, Engadget, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Electronista, CNET, Tech in Asia, memeburn, The Next Web, Silicon Valley Watcher, The Verge and Datamation.com

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Adobe issues emergency Flash update for attacks on Windows, Mac users — Adobe Systems has released a patch for two Flash player vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited online to surreptitiously install malware, one in attacks that target users of Apple's Macintosh platform.

Filipe Alves / Reuters:

Google must extend payments across Europe for use of content — (Reuters) - Google Inc must extend its offer made last week to pay French publishers for use of their content to all media companies across Europe, the head of the European Publishers Council said on Thursday.

More: TechCrunch, Forbes, Plagiarism Today, bizjournals and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

Liam Boogar / Rude Baguette:

Orange & Alcatel Lucent lay down the fastest internet connection (400G/sec) from Paris to Lyon — This past week, a joint effort between French telecom company Orange and Alcatel Lucent has led to the fastest internet connection in the world, a 400 gigabyte/second connection, being set up between Paris and Lyon (450km or 275 miles).

More: Communications … and GigaOM

Wall Street Journal:

Apple Cash Pile Sets Off a Battle — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook is facing a new reality: delivering steady results from one of the world's most valuable companies is no longer good enough. — For nearly 18 months, Mr. Cook has kept a stream of new products rolling …

More: The Big Picture, MarketBeat, Inquirer and SiliconANGLE

Reuters:

How Einhorn turned from Apple advocate to agitator

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