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February 23, 2013, 7:05 PM

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AllThingsD:

What to Expect When You Are Expecting a Lot of News Out of Barcelona — Mobile World Congress doesn't really get going until the weekend. — But here at AllThingsD, we want you to have a pretty good idea what to expect even before things kick off in Barcelona.

More: Engadget, TechCrunch, CNET, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, The Verge, The Next Web, Neowin, CNET and IntoMobile

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

“Physically Together”: Here's the Internal Yahoo No-Work-From-Home Memo for Remote Workers and Maybe More — Courtesy of a plethora of very irked Yahoo employees, here is the internal memo sent to the company about a new rule rolled out today by CEO Marissa Mayer, which requires that Yahoo employees …

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Matt Thomlinson / Microsoft Security Response Center:

Recent Cyberattacks — As reported by Facebook and Apple, Microsoft can confirm that we also recently experienced a similar security intrusion. — Consistent with our security response practices, we chose not to make a statement during the initial information gathering process.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Microsoft suffers from same hacking attack as Apple, Facebook, small number of computers infected

More: GigaOM, BBC, Engadget, ZeeNews, Yahoo! Movies, blogs.ft.com, CNET, BetaNews, Los Angeles Times, The Loop and Reuters

Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:

When Is Sheryl Sandberg Leaving Facebook? — It's tempting to read Jodi Kantor's Times story about Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new Lean In book and accompanying female-empowerment movement as a prelude to a run for public office, and many have done exactly that.

More: Business Insider and Quartz. Tweets: @karaswisher

Jodi Kantor / New York Times:

Sheryl Sandberg, ‘Lean In’ Author, Hopes to Spur Movement — Before Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, started to write “Lean In,” her book-slash-manifesto on women in the workplace, she reread Betty Friedan's “The Feminine Mystique.”

More: SiliconBeat and Guardian. Tweets: @rachelsklar and @tarensk

Jeremiah Rice / Android Police:

Falcon Pro Hits 100K User Token Limit - Another Twitter Client Bites The Dust — In case you hadn't heard, back in August of last year Twitter changed the rules for their API, limiting developers to 100,000 individual user tokens for outside apps (or 200% of then-totals, if the app already had more than 100,000 users).

More: The Verge, SlashGear, GadgeTell, Droid Life and Ausdroid

Tweets: @falcon_android, @panzer, @tapbot_paul and @falcon_android

Carl Franzen / The Verge:

Wikipedia to deliver articles via text messages in coming months — Wikipedia has been working on new ways to bring its 25 million articles to more users in developing markets, where smartphones and internet connectivity are still sporadic. The latest plan is let users request specific articles …

More: Engadget, Knight Foundation, IntoMobile, The Inquisitr, TechnoBuffalo, Android Community and textually.org

John Ribeiro / Computerworld:

Microsoft's Azure service hit by expired SSL certificate — The company also reported service problems with Xbox Music and Video Store services — Microsoft's Azure cloud platform faced a worldwide outage in its storage services from Friday afternoon because of an expired SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate.

More: PC World, Forbes, Forbes, The Register, The Register, threatpost, Neowin, Softpedia News, The Diversity Blog, ZDNet, ReadWrite, The Verge, Wired, GigaOM and MSDN Blogs

Tweets: @halowaypoint, @majornelson, @office365 and @windowsazure

Donna Tam / CNET:

Hacker says security flaw let him access any Facebook profile — The social network recently fixed a bug discovered by a developer who demonstrated how the loophole let him take over other people's accounts. — A security hacker recently found a flaw in a Facebook system that allowed developers …

More: Nir Goldshlager Web …, Business Insider, AllFacebook, Securosis Highlights, Help Net Security, Softpedia News and Computerworld

Paul Goldberger / Vanity Fair:

Exclusive Preview: Google's New Built-from-Scratch Googleplex … Plans for the new “Googleplex” headquarters. — Google occupies some of the most famous offices in the world—think cafés everywhere you look, treadmills with laptops attached to them, pool tables and bowling alleys …

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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

New Retina MacBook Pro Processor Bumps Offer Minor 3-5% Performance Improvements — Following last week's introduction of new processors for the Retina MacBook Pro lineup, Primate Labs has analyzed benchmarks coming in from the new machines through the company's popular Geekbench 2 software.

More: Primate Labs Blog, AppleInsider, iClarified, TUAW and MacDailyNews

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Visa Debuts New Mobile Payments And NFC Partner Program For Merchants And Developers, Ready — Credit card company Visa is ramping up its partner program to help integrate its payments technologies in mobile devices and platforms. The new initiative, called the Visa Ready Partner Program …

More: Business Wire, bizjournals, ValueWalk and Street Fight

Cotton Delo / AdAge:

Facebook to Partner With Acxiom, Epsilon to Match Store Purchases With User Profiles — Can Facebook Ads Drive Offline Buying? — Use a loyalty card for discounts at the drug store? The ads you see on Facebook could start looking familiar. — Facebook is testing out a new kind …

More: AllFacebook, SocialTimes, Inside Facebook, Marketing Land and paidContent

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Apple Pulls Controversial Proxy Proposal After Court Ruling — Apple has withdrawn from its proxy statement a controversial proposal it had intended to place before shareholders that had drawn the ire, and a lawsuit, from hedge fund manager David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital.

More: AllThingsD, Bloomberg, Reuters, AllThingsD, CNET, 9to5Mac, Fortune, AppleInsider, AllThingsD, Macgasm, MacRumors and 9to5Mac

Tim Carmody / The Verge:

Judge stops Apple shareholder vote on preferred stock proposal

More: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, The Register, GigaOM, iClarified, Quartz and PandoDaily

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