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January 5, 2014, 4:26 AM

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs — Apple has acquired the one-man photo technology startup SnappyLabs, maker of SnappyCam, sources tell me. The startup was founded and run solely by John Papandriopoulos, an electrical engineering PhD from the University Of Melbourne …

More: AppleInsider, Sydney Morning Herald, MacRumors, App Advice, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, Network World, AppleTell, 9to5Mac, CNET and iClarified

Tweets: @joshconstine and @lessien

George Lewis / Galapagos Digital:

Jeff Bezos flown from cruise in Galapagos islands by Ecuadorian navy after kidney stone attack — Billionaire Bezos Flown out of Galápagos — Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of the popular Amazon.com shopping website and current owner of the Washington Post …

More: Business Insider, CNBC, CNN, USA Today, ABC News, The Verge, Washington Post, Telegraph, NYT Bits, CNET, Hollywood Reporter, Politico, Reuters, NBCNews, Gawker, GeekWire, Digits, Re/code and The Wire

Tweets: @bensherwoodabc and @tim_stevens

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Rap Genius:

Rap Genius begins to recover its Google search ranking, details SEO strategies, apologizes — Rap Genius is Back on Google — In this post we give more details about our misguided SEO strategies and how we got there. We also explain our process and the tools we used to fix the problem and return to Google.

More: TechCrunch, Forbes, TechCrunch, PEEBS.ORG, Search Engine Land, blog.nullspace.io, SEO Book, Yahoo! News, The Verge, VentureBeat, Valleywag, Business Insider, Softpedia News, The Switch, Business Insider, Re/code and GitHub

Tweets: @fredericl, @dannysullivan, @sg, @pauldix, @stevesi, @stevekovach, @jyarow and @bhorowitz

Thanks:@bkessler. See also Mediagazer

Guardian:

NSA statement does not deny ‘spying’ on members of Congress — Spencer Ackerman in Washington and Martin Pengelly in New York — The National Security Agency on Saturday released a statement in answer to questions from a senator about whether it “has spied, or is ... currently spying …

More: New York Times, Bernie Sanders, The Switch, Gizmodo, The Verge, Techdirt, PandoDaily and The Huffington Post. Tweets: @davidsirota

Timothy B. Lee / The Switch:

Thousands of visitors to yahoo.com hit with malware attack, researchers say — Two Internet security firms have reported that Yahoo's advertising servers have been distributing malware to hundreds of thousands of users over the last few days. The attack appears to be the work of malicious parties …

More: Fox-IT International blog, ZDNet, Business Insider, Gizmodo and CNET

Tweets: @markloman, @markloman, @arnoldkim, @binarybits and @ashk4n

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Under Mayer, Yahoo Buys — But Will It Ever Divest? — In the third quarter of 2013 alone, Yahoo purchased eight companies, including Xobni, Lexity, Rockmelt, and essentially whatever small startup that venture firms managed to entice CEO Marissa Mayer with to meet her ongoing need …

Janelle Nanos / Boston Magazine:

Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's Role in His Son's Death — After his son was arrested for downloading files at MIT, Bob Swartz did everything in his power to save him. He couldn't. Now he wants the institute to own up to its part in Aaron's death. — There was a point …

More: Boing Boing and TechPresident. Tweets: @jpbarlow, @anadiazhernandz, @janellenanos, @jjprojects, @bfeld, @dangillmor, @anildash and @biellacoleman

Jason Kincaid:

Evernote wants to help you “Remember Everything”, but is a bug-ridden elephant — Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant — To say this post pains me would be an understatement. More than any other technology, Evernote is part of me, having evolved from habit to instinct over several years and nearly seven thousand notes.

More: Gotta Be Mobile and Business Insider. Tweets: @mathewi, @hunterwalk, @pkafka, @dangillmor, @samfbiddle, @jasonkincaid, @cameronspickert and @jeff

Michael Crider / Android Police:

Google Buys Timely Alarm Clock Developer Bitspin, Premium IAP Content Is Now Free — In an odd bit of M&A news, the developers at Bitspin announced that the small company will be joining forces with Google. Whether Google has purchased the company outright or merely hired …

More: Bitspin, The Verge, The Next Web, Vinoth Ragunathan, Electronista, ITworld.com, Geeky Gadgets, Re/code, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Engadget, Droid Life, Android Beat, 9to5Google and Android Central

Ed Christman / Billboard:

As streaming grows, digital music sales decreased in 2013, the first time since iTunes launch — Digital Music Sales Decrease For First Time in 2013 — For the first time since the iTunes store opened its doors, the U.S. music industry finished the year with a decrease in digital music sales.

More: TechnoBuffalo, Digital Trends, iClarified, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, TheStreet.com, MacStories, MacRumors, Electronista, BetaNews, Engadget, iMore, cir.ca, 9to5Mac, MacNN, AppleInsider, Gizmodo and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Palm's abandoned webOS plans at HP included phones and tablets, major UI evolution — The lost secrets of webOS — LG is about to unveil the future of webOS — but there's a past we never saw — Next week, LG will unveil new televisions running webOS, the ill-fated operating system it acquired in last February.

Tweets: @panzer

Natasha Singer / New York Times:

Pandora begins targeting ads by musical taste — Listen to Pandora, and It Listens Back — Pandora, the Internet radio service, is playing a new tune. — After years of customizing playlists to individual listeners by analyzing components of the songs they like, then playing them tracks …

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