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Brad Stone / Businessweek:
The Secrets of Bezos: How Amazon Became the Everything Store  —  Amazon.com rivals Wal-Mart as a store, Apple as a device maker, and IBM as a data services provider.  It will rake in about $75 billion this year.  For his book, Bloomberg Businessweek's Brad Stone spoke to hundreds of current and former friends of founder Jeff Bezos.
Bloomberg:
BlackBerry Is Said to Warm to Idea of a Breakup  —  BlackBerry (BBRY) Ltd. is more open to a breakup of the company amid concerns that Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. (FFH) may be unable to line up funding or partners for a $4.7 billion buyout, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
Dan Seifert / The Verge:
Fitbit Force brings smartwatch features to a fitness tracker  —  Fitbit is making its latest device to quantify your activity, the wrist-worn Force fitness tracker, official today.  The Force is an evolution of the Flex, Fitbit's other wrist-worn tracker, and offers an OLED display and altimeter …
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Twitter Appears To Be Exploring Personalized Breaking News Notifications With @Eventparrot Experiment  —  Twitter appears to be exploring introducing breaking news notifications tuned for you to its apps, if a new experimental account is any indication.  An account called @eventparrot …
Nicole Lee / Engadget:
Dropcam Pro launched with better optics, dual-band WiFi and Bluetooth for $199 (hands-on)  —  Before 2012, Dropcam was a software outlet famous for integrating its camera tech into other people's hardware.  However, it knew that in order to grow, the company needed to get into the hardware business as well.
Adam Pasick / qz.com:
Your Playstation 4 may be built by Chinese students in the worst internship ever  —  Updated with comment and detail from Foxconn.  —  Foxconn believes that students are the future, at least judging by its deal with China's Xi'an Institute of Technology to expose more than 1,000 …
Jason Inofuentes / Ars Technica:
Acer's $249 C720 Chromebook launched: Thinner, longer lasting, and Haswell  —  The Chromebook C720.  —  Acer  —  Chrome OS aficionados have long pined for a Haswell processor to drive one of their Chromebooks, imbuing the line with the longevity they've been missing out on.  That wait has come to an end.
Tim Berners-Lee / W3C Blog:
On Encrypted Video and the Open Web  —  There has been a lot of response to the announcement that W3C considers content protection for video as in-scope for discussion in the HTML Working Group.  In this post I can touch on some of the arguments.  —  We hear the outburst of criticism …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Cloud Security: Mobile Startup Lookout Gets $55M Led By Deutsche Telekom To Go Global & Target Enterprise  —  Mobile security company Lookout is all about protecting user's mobile devices against malicious threats, a business that today has 45 million customers.  Today it's raising its own profile a little bit more.
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Board Said to Work on Hiring New CEO This Year  —  Microsoft Corp.'s board is working toward having the successor to Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer in place by the end of this year and is winnowing a list of candidates, said people with knowledge of the discussions.
Daniel P. Howley / LAPTOP Magazine:
T-Mobile International Data vs. the Competition: Rates Compared  —  Data Cost  —  Voice Calling Cost  —  AT&T  —  $30 per 120MB / $120 per 800MB (Global Add-on Package)  —  $30 / month for $2.00 per minute (Rest of World Plan)  —  Sprint  —  $40 per 40MB / $80 per 85MB (Multi-country Data Roaming)

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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: David Ellison has picked HBO content chief Casey Bloys to oversee streaming operations following Paramount's acquisition of WBD

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: David Fincher won't renew his Netflix deal when it expires in 2027; he isn't leaving for a rival studio and could still make his next movie at Netflix

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