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January 16, 2014, 12:30 AM

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Federal Trade Commission:

Apple to refund consumers at least $32.5M for in-app purchases made without parental consent — Apple Inc. Will Provide Full Consumer Refunds of At Least $32.5 Million to Settle FTC Complaint It Charged for Kids' In-App Purchases Without Parental Consent — Company Also Will Modify its Billing Practices Under FTC Settlement

John Paczkowski / Re/code:

Apple Agrees to FTC Consent Decree Over In-App Purchases (Memo) — Looks like Apple's settlement last year of a lawsuit over the unauthorized use of in-app purchasing in games and apps sold through the App Store wasn't enough for the Federal Trade Commission.

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro, Mayer's No. 2, to depart after failing to move lagging ad business — “Dead Man Walking” Walks: COO Henrique De Castro Out at Yahoo — As has long been rumored, Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro is departing Yahoo. I had reported last week that he was in big trouble …

More: Wall Street Journal, Forbes, New York Times, GeekWire, Mercury News, Electronista, TechnoBuffalo, CNET, AdExchanger, SiliconBeat, Business Insider and Valleywag

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @danprimack and @gassee

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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

A First Look at the Target Intrusion, Malware — Last weekend, Target finally disclosed at least one cause of the massive data breach that exposed personal and financial information on more than 110 million customers: Malicious software that infected point-of-sale systems at Target checkout counters.

More: New York Times, CNET, Forbes, Reuters, Ars Technica and Business Insider. Tweets: @privacychoice

Fred Wilson / A VC:

How losing net neutrality will discourage investing in bandwidth-intensive startups — VC Pitches In A Year Or Two — Entrepreneur: I plan to launch a better streaming music service. It leverages the data on what you and your friends currently listen to, combines that with the schedule …

More: Los Angeles Times, BGR, Gigaom, ParisLemon, Business Insider, Bloomberg, InfoWorld and Co.Labs

Tweets: @cdixon, @timkarr, @adamnash, @brizilla, @dangillmor, @mattyglesias, @fredwilson, @amir, @emilybell and @mathewi

Edward Wyatt / NYT Bits:

F.C.C. Chairman Adds More Ambiguity to His Position on Network Neutrality

More: Official FCC Blog, VentureBeat, E Pluribus Unum, TheHill, Mashable and SlashGear

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

What's Net Neutrality? What Happened to Net Neutrality Yesterday? …

More: Slate, CNET, Gigaom Research, New Yorker, ZDNet, The Verge, Computerworld, The Switch, Business Insider, dailywireless.org and ReadWrite. Thanks:@srikardr. See also Mediagazer

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

BitTorrent Creator's New Software DissidentX Hides Secrets In Plain Sight — Encryption tools help people keep secrets. Bram Cohen has a more subtle ambition: he wants to help people keep secret the act of keeping secrets. — For the last year Cohen, who created the breakthrough file …

More: SlashGear

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Adobe Partners With MakerBot and Shapeways To Bring 3D Printing Support To Photoshop, Adds Perspective Warp Tool & Resets 30-Day Trials — Adobe today launched the latest update to its subscription-based Creative Cloud suite. While the company is updating a variety of its tools …

More: Engadget, Gigaom, The Next Web, VentureBeat, The Verge and Mashable

Brent Rose / Gizmodo:

Google Play Movies and TV Finally Comes to iOS — First Google Play Books made its way to iOS. Then Google Play Music undertook the pilgrimage. So, it should be little surprise that today Google Play Movies and TV has finally made the jump. This is significant not just because it brings …

More: AppleInsider, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, AppleTell, Gigaom, Ars Technica, Macworld, Engadget, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, TechCrunch, The Next Web, 9to5Google and IntoMobile. Tweets: @googleplay

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Spotify Drops Free Web Listening Time Limit Everywhere - A Big Scalability Milestone — Spotify's advertising engine and paid customer conversion funnel are finally working well enough that today it eliminated all limits on free, ad-supported web listening in all countries.

More: The Next Web, The Verge, Spotify Blog and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @joshconstine. See also Mediagazer

Larry Seltzer / ZDNet:

Microsoft to extend Windows XP antimalware updates one year — Summary: Security updates for Windows XP will end this April, but updated antimalware signatures for the operating system will continue for another year. — Microsoft has announced that they will continue to supply antimalware signatures …

More: Technet, The Next Web, Computerworld, gHacks Technology News, BetaNews, Softpedia News, Neowin, Ars Technica, Liliputing and ZDNet. Tweets: @parislemon

JP Mangalindan / Fortune:

A third of SF cabbies switched from registered cabs to Uber, Lyft or Sidecar in the past year — San Francisco cab drivers are Uber's latest pickup — Uber, Lyft and other ride-sharing upstarts are transforming a slow-to-change industry from the outside in. — FORTUNE — Being a cab driver isn't what it used to be.

More: ParisLemon. Tweets: @eladgil, @conorsen, @caseynewton and @bgurley. Thanks:@jpmanga

Evan Schuman / Computerworld:

Starbucks caught storing mobile passwords in clear text — In a case of convenience for users trumping security, Starbucks has been storing the passwords for its mobile-payment app, along with geolocation data, in clear text — The Starbucks mobile app, the most used mobile-payment app in the U.S. …

More: Full Disclosure, The Verge, Threatpost, The Daily Caller, TechnoBuffalo, CNNMoney.com, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Examiner, FierceMobileIT News, GeekWire, Computerworld and the rajam report

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Zuckerberg Calls Snapchat A “Privacy Phenomenon” — Mark Zuckerberg thinks Facebook's innovated by creating a place where people could share what wasn't shared before, which is also why he thinks Snapchat is important. Today in a low-profile talk at Stanford alongside discussions of the NSA …

More: AllFacebook. Tweets: @startupljackson. Thanks:@gallagherbilly

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Viddy, the “Instagram for Video” That Wasn't, Acquired by Web Video Startup Fullscreen — Remember Viddy? — Back in 2012, the video-sharing app was growing like a weed, and lots of smart money bet that it would become an “Instagram for video.” Then Facebook, which had been fueling Viddy's rise …

More: Business Wire, Los Angeles Times, The Verge and The Next Web. Tweets: @caseynewton. See also Mediagazer

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

AOL hands over control of Patch to investment fund Hale Global, keeps small stake — AOL Finds a Home — Off Its Books — For Patch — Patch isn't dead, and AOL isn't officially done with it. But Tim Armstrong's big bet on local news has come to an end: The AOL CEO is handing over Patch …

More: AOL Corp, Business Insider, CNET, Forbes and TechCrunch. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Spam-Fighting Startup Impermium Joins Google, Discontinues Third-Party Services — Impermium, a cybersecurity startup that was backed by top funds like Accel and Greylock, is joining Google. They had raised $9 million in funding from Highland Capital Partners, the Social+Capital Partnership …

More: VentureBeat, 9to5Google and The Next Web

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Expands Its Jobs Database With A New Volunteer Marketplace For Unpaid Non-Profit Work — Yummly Takes Its Recipe Discovery Platform International With U.K. Site & iOS App Launch — LinkedIn, the social network for the working world, has gained a reputation as a place …

More: Official LinkedIn Blog, The Verge, The Next Web, TechHive, VatorNews, tech.co and Re/code

Scott Kirsner / Boston Globe:

CloudSwitch and EqualLogic vets pocket $12 million for stealthy new startup, ClearSky Data — Serial entrepreneur Paula Long played the role of the fairy godmother in the story of ClearSky Data, a quiet new startup currently operating out of the Kendall Square offices of Highland Capital Partners...

More: VentureBeat, bizjournals, VCPOST, pevc.dowjones.com, VentureBeat and Xconomy

Wall Street Journal:

Cloud-Software Startup Zendesk Hires Bankers for IPO — Maker of Online Help-Desk Software Part of Wave of Cloud Companies — Zendesk Inc., a maker of online help-desk software for businesses, has hired banks in preparation for an initial public offering this year.

More: VentureBeat and StreetInsider.com

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft confirms Syrian Electronic Army hacked into employee email accounts — Microsoft has confirmed to The Verge that a “small number” of employee email accounts were accessed during the latest round of attacks by the Syrian Electronic Army. The hacking group posted three internal emails …

More: Re/code, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch and Business Insider. Tweets: @tomwarren

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