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January 7, 2014, 4:30 PM

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Jelly:

Biz Stone and Ben Finkel launch Jelly: “a new way to search with pictures and people from your social networks” — Introducing Jelly — Humanity is connected like never before. In fact, recent white papers have concluded that the proverbial “six degrees of separation” …

More: NYT Bits, CNNMoney.com, Guardian, PC World, The Next Web, ZDNet, Re/code, CNET, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Gigaom, USA Today, The Verge, Valleywag, Gigaom Research and Engadget

Tweets: @samfbiddle, @troutgirl, @joshelman, @mikeisaac, @mat, @jack, @caseynewton, @finkel, @benedictevans, @biz, @fredericl and @danprimack

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Jelly, Biz Stone's New Q&A Platform, Uses Images To Find Answers — Jelly, a new question-and-answer platform from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, is coming out of stealth today. The app, available on both iOS and Android worldwide, will go head-to-head with the likes of Quora and ChaCha …

More: VatorNews, Search Engine Land, SiliconBeat, Los Angeles Times, memeburn, Marketing Pilgrim, Pocket-lint and WebProNews

Apple:

App Store Sales Top $10 Billion in 2013 — Record-Breaking December with Over $1 Billion in Sales — CUPERTINO, CaliforniaJanuary 7, 2014Apple® today announced that customers spent over $10 billion on the App Store in 2013, including over $1 billion in December alone.

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Apple: $10B In App Store Sales In 2013, $15B Paid Out To Developers To Date

More: 9to5Mac, Examiner, Computerworld, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, AppleInsider, Softpedia News and Forbes

Steven Levy / Wired:

How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet — Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and the other tech titans have had to fight for their lives against their own government. An exclusive look inside their year from hell—and why the Internet will never be the same. — Washington Post reporters called …

More: SiliconBeat and The Verge. Tweets: @csoghoian, @tobie, @kashhill, @antderosa, @pmarca and @stevenlevy

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Sony announces PlayStation Now, its cloud gaming service for TVs, consoles, and phones — The PlayStation 4 won't recognize discs from previous Sony game consoles, but that might not matter for long. Sony has just announced PlayStation Now, a service that will bring streaming PlayStation games to PS4 …

More: PlayStation.Blog, Business Insider, Inquirer, Ars Technica, Engadget, VentureBeat, The Next Web, BGR, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Electronista, Softpedia News, Giant Bomb, Touch Arcade and Polygon. Tweets: @patrickklepek

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Sony announces internet TV service, plans to start testing it later this year — Sony wants to launch its own online TV service with a cloud DVR and live TV feeds. The service will scheduled to go into testing in the U.S. later this year. — Not discouraged by Intel's failure to launch …

More: CNNMoney.com, The Verge, Re/code, BGR, TechHive, TechCrunch, Engadget and Electronista

Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:

Anonymous burglars who exposed FBI's spying program in 1971 come forward for the first time — Burglars Who Took on F.B.I. Abandon Shadows — Stealing J. Edgar Hoover's Secrets: One night in 1971, files were stolen from an F.B.I. office near Philadelphia. They proved that the bureau was spying on thousands of Americans.

More: The Verge, Mashable, Talking Points Memo, Guardian, Nextgov, Business Insider, Freedom of the Press … and Gizmodo

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Fab CEO Jason Goldberg's 3,500-Word Mea Culpa: “We Had Started to Dream in Billions” — A new year, a new Jason Goldberg? After watching himself and his e-commerce company Fab take a very public beating in the second half of 2013, Goldberg kicked off the new year today with a 3,500-word blog post …

More: Betashop Quarterly and The Verge

Robin Wauters / Tech.eu:

Breakdown in progress: Fab narrows its European business down to only selling custom-made furniture

More: Dezeen, Valleywag, The Next Web, Mashable and Business Insider

Mike Isaac / Re/code:

Vine Co-Founder Steps Down From Lead Role at Company — Dom Hofmann, co-founder of the social video-sharing service Vine, has stepped down from his lead general manager role at the company, according to three sources close to the situation. — Hofmann, who has led the company since …

More: The Verge. Tweets: @mikeisaac. See also Mediagazer

Ina Fried / Re/code:

T-Mobile CEO on Being Thrown Out of AT&T's Party: “I Just Wanted to Hear Macklemore” — T-Mobile CEO John Legere has been trying to crash AT&T's party metaphorically for a while now. — On Monday, he decided to do it literally, working his way into a party that the telecom giant was throwing for its developers at the Palms Hotel.

More: CNET, Forbes, Associated Press, GeekWire, GeekWire, The Verge, Betabeat, iMore, Gigaom, The Daily Beast, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, TmoNews, Phandroid, BuzzFeed, BGR, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Droid Life, The Switch and iClarified

Tweets: @rogerwcheng and @inafried

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Oracle buys Corente, pushes into networking more — Summary: Corente will add wide area networking virtualization technology to Oracle's red stack. — Oracle has acquired Corente, which provides software defined networking applications for networks. The move gives Oracle another piece of its networking puzzle.

More: eWeek, The Register, Gigaom and VentureBeat

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Announces That It Has Acquired “Intelligent Homescreen” Startup Aviate — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just made her first announcement on-stage at her Consumer Electronics Show keynoteÚ that the company has acquired Aviate, a startup that automatically organizes the apps on your homescreen.

More: GeekWire, Business Insider, Business Insider and Yahoo

Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat:

Sony announces Oculus Rift virtual reality headset competitor — Sony Entertainment president Mike Fasulo briefly shows off the company's new virtual reality headset. — CES 2014 … Movie watchers and gamers who just like to enjoy their content alone may like Sony's latest product: a virtual reality headset.

More: Engadget, TechHive, Geek.com, NBC Bay Area and VG247

Ina Fassbender / Reuters:

China suspends ban on sale of foreign video game consoles — (Reuters) - (Adds context, size of China's video game market, company comments) — China's State Council said it has temporarily lifted a ban on selling foreign video game consoles, paving the way for firms like Sony Corp …

More: Betabeat, BGR, Polygon, Guardian, Ubergizmo, MCV: Home Stream, T3 News, Bloomberg, WinBeta, VG247, CNET and Mashable

Peter Rubin / Wired:

The First Look at the New Oculus VR Prototype — Every time virtual-reality company Oculus brings a prototype of its Rift headset to a show, it takes another big step forward. And the prototype at this year's CES may be the biggest leap yet. — Last January, Oculus arrived at its first CES with a degree of uncertainty.

More: The Verge and Polygon

Steve Dent / Engadget:

Cyanogen will partner with OnePlus on its debut phone, the ‘OnePlus One’ — Ex-Oppo exec Pete Lau has just announced that his new company OnePlus will partner with Cyanogen on its first smartphone, which will be called the “OnePlus One.” He and Cyanogen's Steve Kondik announced …

More: OnePlus, Android Beat, TechCrunch, Geeky Gadgets, AndroidGuys, The Next Web, Android Authority and Softpedia News

Lauren Hockenson / Gigaom:

John McAfee is “elated” that Intel will finally rebrand McAfee Security — Last night at Intel's CES 2014 opening keynote, CEO Brian Krzanich casually mentioned that the company is rebranding its McAfee Security team, henceforth to be known as Intel Security.

More: BBC, The Verge, eWeek, The VAR Guy, Digital Trends, Reuters, The Independent and CNNMoney.com

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announces McAfee brand name will be replaced by Intel Security

More: SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, eWeek, Geek.com, Inquirer, SiliconANGLE, CNET, The Verge, Softpedia News, VatorNews, Graham Cluley and WebProNews

Sean Buckley / Engadget:

Intel's Edison: a 22nm dual-core PC the size of an SD card, runs Linux, has built-in WiFi and Bluetooth modules — Intel announces Edison: a 22nm dual-core PC the size of an SD card — Four months ago, Intel unveiled its Quark SoC at IDF. Today at CES 2014, company CEO Brian Krzanich wants …

More: The Verge, NYT Bits, The Next Web, IntoMobile, Geeky Gadgets, Mercury News and The Register

Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:

Intel CEO focuses on wearable and connected devices in CES keynote speech

More: Bloomberg, Engadget, TechCrunch, Guardian, The Register and The Verge

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Vimeo speeds its online videos, goes HTML5 by default — Vimeo has sped up its video-streaming technology and made the shift from Flash-powered video to HTML5 by default, the company said Tuesday. — The new player software improves performance, social links, and post-production capabilities …

More: TechCrunch, PC Magazine, Softpedia News, Gizmodo and MacNN. See also Mediagazer

Emerging Technology From the arXiv:

Google identifies house numbers in Street View using a neural network for image recognition — How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View — Google can identify and transcribe all the views it has of street numbers in France in less than an hour, thanks to a neural network that's just as good as human operators.

More: Motherboard. Tweets: @nypl_labs

Danny Yadron / Digits:

Kanye's Lawyer Moves to Block Coinye — Lawyers for Kanye West filed cease-and-desist papers against the seven anonymous coders behind Coinye West, a virtual currency that went from chatroom joke to Internet sensation last week. — The legal document, dated Jan. 6, includes an image of Coinye …

More: Ars Technica, Computerworld, The Verge and TheHill

Jeff Chu / Fast Company:

Can Apple's Angela Ahrendts Spark A Retail Revolution? — When the Burberry CEO takes over as Apple's retail chief this spring, she'll arrive with a sterling track record and an open, collaborative spirit that's sure to shake things up in the executive ranks.

More: Business Insider and Fortune. Tweets: @a_wittenbergcox. Thanks:@_trendspotter

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