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January 6, 2014, 3:05 PM

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Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

How Mark Zuckerberg turned around Facebook by prioritizing mobile ad revenues — Profitable Learning Curve for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — In Taking Facebook Public, Reshaping It Around Mobile Phones, Chief Gained Focus on Bottom Line … MENLO PARK, Calif.— Mark Zuckerberg needed help.

More: NEWS.com.au, Internet2Go, Business Insider, Quartz, AllFacebook and Valleywag

Tweets: @fmanjoo, @bryfitz, @evelynrusli, @alex, @scottthurm, @rickbrookswsj and @tomgara

Bruce Schneier / Wired:

The Internet of Things Is Wildly Insecure — And Often Unpatchable — We're at a crisis point now with regard to the security of embedded systems, where computing is embedded into the hardware itself — as with the Internet of Things. These embedded computers are riddled with vulnerabilities, and there's no good way to patch them.

Tweets: @kashhill

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Pebble Reveals The Pebble Steel For $249 Shipping Jan. 28; App Store Coming Soon — Related Videos — Hands-On With The New Anki Drive — Sphero Announces Their 2B Model — 2013 Mac Pro Review — Smartwatch pioneer Pebble is introducing something everyone has been waiting for at CES this year: new hardware.

More: Pebble, ReadWrite, The Next Web, Digits, ZDNet, Re/code, AppleInsider, CNET, CNET, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Fortune, Business Insider, Engadget, The Verge, TIME, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, iClarified and TechRepublic

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Rebooting webOS: how LG rethought the smart TV — Four years after it was first introduced, webOS comes back to CES in a radically different form — Things never went very well for webOS. Between its blockbuster launch at CES in 2009 and its relaunch on LG's smart TVs today lies a history …

More: Engadget, The Verge, VentureBeat, BBC, The Verge, Gizmodo, It's a Gadget, NDTV Gadgets, BGR and SlashGear

Tweets: @llsethj and @fmanjoo

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Netflix confirms it will stream House of Cards in 4K this year, posts full season two trailer

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web and Gizmodo

Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:

Google Teams With GM, Honda, and Audi to Bring Android to Cars — That kid—the one in the back of the SUV with the iPad—is the automotive industry's worst enemy. He's also the reason some of the world's biggest automakers are working with Google to bring its Android software into vehicle infotainment systems.

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Sponsored Data: AT&T will now let companies buy out your data charges for specific videos and apps — Today at CES, AT&T announced a new service called Sponsored Data, offering a way for companies to pick up the tab for 4G data usage whenever particular products or services are being used.

More: BGR, Gigaom, Examiner, iMore, VentureBeat, GeekWire, LAPTOP Magazine, MacRumors, Gizmodo, NYT Bits, Re/code, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile and Reuters

Tweets: @joshuatopolsky, @russellbrandom, @dannysullivan and @reckless

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:

Mashable raises $13 million to launch expansion effort — Nearly a decade into its existence, the news Web site Mashable is taking on outside investors for the first time. — The site plans to announce on Monday that it has raised $13.3 million in an equity investment round led by Updata Partners.

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @pkafka, @taylorlorenz, @stacymartinet, @adamostrow and @brianstelter. See also Mediagazer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Pinterest Acquires Image Recognition And Visual Search Startup VisualGraph — Pinterest has just acquired two-man startup VisualGraph, which creates machine vision, image recognition, and visual search technologies. The company's founder Kevin Jing and his partner David Liu are joining the Pinterest engineering team today.

More: Gigaom, VentureBeat, ZDNet, The Next Web, CNET and Re/code. Tweets: @joshconstine

J.J. Colao / Forbes:

The Inside Story Of Snapchat: The World's Hottest App Or A $3 Billion Disappearing Act? — THIRTEEN MONTHS AGO Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, the richest twentysomething in history, reached out to Snapchat's Evan Spiegel, who oversees a revenue-less app that makes photos disappear, with an invitation …

More: Business Insider, Betabeat and Mashable

Tweets: @kate_pierce and @evanspiegel

Rich McCormick / The Verge:

T-Mobile to buy unused Verizon spectrum in deal worth over $3 billion — T-Mobile has agreed to buy 700 MHz A-block spectrum from Verizon Wireless for $2.365 billion. The sale will also see T-Mobile transfer certain AWS and PCS spectrum licenses with a value of around $950 million to Verizon …

More: Business Wire, The Switch, TechHive, Fortune, GeekWire, iMore, AndroidHeadlines.com, PhoneNews.com, DSLreports, IntoMobile, Re/code, Gotta Be Mobile, Wall Street Journal, Engadget and ZDNet. Tweets: @johnlegere

Bloomberg:

Apple promises to diversify its board after shareholder pressure — Apple Facing Criticism About Diversity Changes Bylaws — Apple Inc., facing behind-the-scenes pressure from some shareholders to add more female directors and executives, has taken a step to address the criticism and diversify its board.

More: MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, MacNN, iPhone in Canada Blog, iClarified and AppleInsider

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay plans own P2P network accessed via browser-like client to circumvent censorship — How The Pirate Bay Plans to Beat Censorship For Good — Over the past few years The Pirate Bay has had to deal with its fair share of censorship, mostly through court-ordered blockades.

More: Inquirer, The Verge, Guardian, Geek.com and Softpedia News

Mariella Moon / Engadget:

LG Lifeband touch and Heart Rate Monitor earphones aim to help you keep fit — Televisions aren't the only thing LG brought to CES this year — it's lugged along a couple of wearable fitness devices, too. In fact, we've already seen one of them. The company's FuelBand competitor showcased …

More: Social LG, The Verge, CNET, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, BGR, IntoMobile, Android Beat and AndroidGuys. Tweets: @tim

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

inMarket Rolls Out iBeacons To 200 Safeway, Giant Eagle Grocery Stores To Reach Shoppers When It Matters — Today inMarket is beginning a huge rollout of iBeacons to grocery stores including Safeway and Giant Eagle locations in Seattle, San Francisco and Cleveland.

More: VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Engadget and The Mac Observer

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Asus' transforming PadFone X is coming to the US on AT&T — Asus is unveiling the PadFone X today, the first of its transforming PadFone devices that's headed to a major US carrier. Though there's no word on exactly when it'll come to the US, AT&T has announced that it will eventually begin carrying the new device.

More: Engadget, GeekWire, LAPTOP Magazine, TechHive, 9to5Google, Gigaom, BGR, Gizmodo, Engadget, Softpedia News, AndroidGuys, IntoMobile, Droid Life and Android Central

Richard Lai / Engadget:

Huawei's big Ascend Mate 2 4G can charge up your iPhone, coming to the US — Given the recent leak, Huawei's announcement of the Ascend Mate 2 4G should be no surprise to anyone. The device is essentially an LTE Cat 4 (read: 150Mbps!) refresh of its predecessor, packing a similar 6.1-inch 720p IPS panel …

More: Inquirer, CNET, The Verge, Gizmodo and AnandTech. Tweets: @benbajarin

Kwame Opam / The Verge:

Nvidia debuts 192-core Tegra K1 processor — Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, after nearly a year of promising outsized computing power for so-called future “superphones,” took the stage at CES today to unveil the company's latest mobile processor for Android. The 192 CUDA-core Tegra K1 …

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Toshiba Chromebook is the company's first Chrome OS device; arrives next month for $279 (hands-on) — We already knew Toshiba was coming out with a Chrome OS device, but in the four months since Intel teased it at IDF, we haven't seen anything in the way of specs, much less product shots.

More: The Verge, PC World, TechCrunch, LAPTOP Magazine, The Next Web, Ars Technica, Gigaom, Gizmodo and Business Insider

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Asus rides the 2nd Wave of 802.11ac atop its new Wi-Fi router — Asus unveiled a new 802.11ac router at CES in Las Vegas on Sunday. I know, big whoop right? The newest and fastest Wi-Fi technology has been on the market for over a year — 802.11ac has already taken off in the enterprise …

More: ZDNet, CNET, PC World, dailywireless.org and PC World

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

SteelSeries announces the first MFi Bluetooth game controller for iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch — Today we get a look at the first Apple authorized Bluetooth game controller for iOS devices with the Stratus Wireless Controller announced today by SteelSeries. — We've already reviewed …

More: Touch Arcade, The Verge, Engadget, CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, BetaNews, iMore, MacDailyNews, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista and MacRumors

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft reportedly considers letting consumers pick a device and then its OS: Windows Phone or Android — We've already heard rumors that Microsoft has courted smartphone OEMs to offer dual-boot options for Windows Phone and Android, as well as looked at cutting the licensing fees that it normally charges device makers.

More: The Information, CNET, GeekWire, WinBeta and WMPoweruser. Tweets: @benedictevans

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Vizio updates its Thin + Light laptop and all-in-one with Haswell processors, Iris Pro graphics — It's now been exactly two years since Vizio announced it was making the bold move of entering the PC marketplace with its Thin + Light laptops and all-in-one desktop computers.

More: LAPTOP Magazine and Engadget

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Roku Moves Beyond The Box, Partnering With Hisense And TCL To Introduce Roku TVs — Who would have thought that streaming set-top box manufacturer Roku would actually introduce a TV before Apple? Well, it looks likely that's going to happen, thanks to partnerships with Hisense and TCL …

More: The Official Roku Blog, Re/code, ReadWrite, iMore, Ars Technica, CNET, Digits, BetaNews, Electronista, Variety, /Film, Tubefilter, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, App Advice, Cult of Mac, WebProNews, TechHive, PalmAddict and BGR. Tweets: @jank0. See also Mediagazer

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