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January 22, 2014, 6:45 PM

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

Netflix's momentum continues with 2.33 million new US customers in Q4 — Netflix revealed its fourth quarter earnings today, capping off a banner year that saw the streaming service surpass HBO in subscriber count and earn critical acclaim for its original programming.

More: ZDNet, CNET, The Next Web, TechCrunch, VatorNews, GeekWire, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Netflix wants to introduce three pricing tiers for new members — Netflix is getting ready for a new pricing structure, according to the company's Q4 letter to shareholders (PDF) released Wednesday. In it, CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells write:

More: WebProNews. Tweets: @chartier

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

Netflix Issues Warning On The Dangers Of Ending Net Neutrality — Netflix issued a statement today lamenting a federal appeals court's decision to effectively end net neutrality rules. — Without net neutrality, it means Internet providers can treat the content they deliver over the Web differently.

More: Re/code and TechCrunch. See also Mediagazer

Sriram Krishnan / Facebook Developers:

Facebook announces it's testing its own ad network for third-party mobile apps — Testing a new way for developers to monetize mobile apps — Monetization is a difficult problem for mobile app developers, particularly as people move toward downloading more free apps and advertising dollars lag behind time spent on mobile.

More: Facebook for Business, Betabeat, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Re/code, Forbes, Marketing Land, ReadWrite, App Advice and WebProNews

Tweets: @bbalfour, @niallharbison, @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Facebook's ads in third-party apps won't be labeled as or look like Facebook Ads

More: VatorNews

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Protesters show up at the doorstep of Google self-driving car engineer — This image was distributed by the group Counterforce, protesting Google engineer Anthony Levandowski. — Indymedia — Protests against tech giants and their impact on the San Francisco Bay Area economy just got personal.

More: Examiner, Los Angeles Times, PandoDaily, Business Insider, Indybay newswire, Salon and Veronica Belmont

Tweets: @jowens510, @paulcarr and @dangillmor

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

eBay Inc reveals activist investor Carl Icahn submitted proposal to spinoff PayPal from company — eBay Inc. has released its earnings result for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2013. Among the most interesting news, activist investor Carl Icahn has submitted notice that he has nominated …

More: ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, The Official PayPal, Wall Street Journal and eBay Inc.

Tweets: @parislemon and @pkafka

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

eBay Squeaks Out A Win In Q4, With Revenue Of $4.5B And $0.81 EPS

More: InvestorPlace, Bloomberg and The Next Web

Tal Ater:

Chrome Bugs Allow Sites to Listen to Your Private Conversations — By exploiting bugs in Google Chrome, malicious sites can activate your microphone, and listen in on anything said around your computer, even after you've left those sites. Even while not using your computer - conversations …

More: NYT Bits, Ars Technica, Examiner, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, Computerworld, Engadget, SlashGear, The Verge, CITEworld, Android Central, TechSpot, Android Beat, Gotta Be Mobile, gHacks Technology News, BGR and Business Insider. Tweets: @simonstl

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Snapchat Makes You “Find The Ghosts” To Keep Hackers From Stealing Your Phone Number [Update: But It Fails] — Snapchat now verifies new users aren't robots by making them choose its ghost mascot within images. It's an attempt to keep out hackers who could steal phone numbers by exploiting …

More: PC Magazine, The Switch, VentureBeat, CNET, neuebits, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, Daily Dot, Business Insider, PhoneArena, Gigaom and Engadget

Steven Hickson / Steves Computer Vision Blog:

Hacking Snapchat's people verification in less than 100 lines

More: Hack a Day and Business Insider

Adario Strange / Mashable:

Apple Promises to Fix iOS 7 ‘White Screen of Death’ — Since Apple released iOS 7, its completely revamped operating system for the iPhone, reviews have been mixed but mostly positive. However, a glitch that has quietly plagued iPhone users — the “white/black screen of death,” …

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iMore, The Verge, Business Insider, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @chartier. Thanks:@film_girl

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

U.S. court finds Samsung to infringe one Apple patent, declares one Samsung patent invalid — In a summary judgment order entered late on Tuesday (January 21, 2014), Judge Lucy Koh, the federal judge presiding over two Apple v. Samsung patent cases in the Northern District of California …

Reuters:

Massive Internet mishap sparks Great Firewall scrutiny in China — (Reuters) - Human error likely caused a glitch in China's Great Firewall that saw millions of Internet users ironically rerouted to the homepage of a U.S.-based company which helps people evade Beijing's web censorship, sources told Reuters.

More: Xinhua News Agency, GreatFire.org, CNET and Nextgov

Tweets: @jonrussell and @adampasick

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Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:

This Little House in Wyoming Didn't Just Get Flooded With Web Traffic From China

More: NYT Bits, China Real Time Report, Gigaom, Ars Technica, The Verge, The Technology Chronicles, The Switch, Adam Steinbaugh's, DSLreports, Gizmodo, Sinosphere, cso.com.au, TechPresident, Xconomy, Daily Dot, Business Insider, BBC and The Next Web

Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:

Windows 8.1 Update 1 Preview: Now with More Integration — More Windows 8.1 Update leaks help a clearer picture emerge — A newly leaked set of shots from a prerelease version of Windows 8.1 Update 1 suggests that Microsoft is going to further integrate the Metro and desktop worlds in this important coming update.

More: The Register, ZDNet, BGR, PC World, TechCrunch, Engadget, InfoWorld, Softpedia News, WinBeta, Gotta Be Mobile and Inquirer. Tweets: @jonathan_blow

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

Apparently It's OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID And Password — Apple's currently featuring the Sunrise app in the App Store. — Upon first launch, Sunrise invites you to create an account, then asks you to add a calendar. The first option, “iCloud Calendar” …

More: AppleInsider, Neven Mrgan, Cult of Mac, Sunrise and Michael Tsai

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

Sunrise on why they ask for your Apple ID and password

Tweets: @monkbent

David de Jong / Bloomberg:

Sheryl Sandberg Becomes One of Youngest U.S. Billionaires — Sheryl Sandberg's fortune surpassed $1 billion today after Facebook Inc. (FB) closed at a record high. — The chief operating officer of the world's most popular social-networking service owns about 12.3 million shares of the Menlo Park …

More: SiliconBeat, Business Insider, Mashable, Valleywag and AllFacebook. Thanks:@sarahfrier

Gordon Kelly / Forbes:

Here Are 24 Countries Where Windows Phone Outsells The iPhone (And Why It Does) — Statistics may say Windows 8 is a flop but, contrary to popular opinion, Windows Phone is far from down and out in the battle for our mobile affections. In fact in many parts of the world sales are rocketing past the iPhone.

More: Geek.com

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Icahn says Apple “doing great disservice to shareholders,” increases AAPL investment to $3B … Following a precatory proposal from billionaire investor and Apple shareholder Carl Icahn urging Apple to vote on a larger buyback, Icahn today announced on Twitter that he thinks Apple …

More: Gigaom, CNBC, Digits, Reuters, SiliconBeat, Los Angeles Times, Wired, Business Insider, ZDNet, Guardian, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com and Re/code

Tweets: @carl_c_icahn, @carl_c_icahn, @carl_c_icahn, @danprimack and @markgurman

Derrick Harris / Gigaom:

Fast-growing database startup MemSQL raises $35M — MemSQL, the database startup founded by former Facebook employees Eric Frenkiel and Nikita Shamgunov, has raised a $35 million series B round of venture capital. Accel Ventures led the round — which brings MemSQL's total funding …

More: PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, Y Combinator Posthaven and silicontap.com. Tweets: @kentgoldman

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Yahoo Makes Secure Search The Default — Yahoo has now joined Google in making all searches people do automatically go through a secure server, to help prevent eavesdropping by outsiders. Unlike Google, however, Yahoo has failed to make an important change to how “referrer” data is passed along …

More: Search Engine Land, SEO Book and WebProNews

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Microsoft offers overseas data storage in response to NSA concerns — Today, Microsoft announced an unpredecented response to concerns of NSA data access, offering customers in foreign countries the option of having their data stored outside US borders. According to a Financial Times report …

More: Financial Times

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Pinterest CEO Lays Out Growth Plan, Sees Revenue in 2014 … In less than four years, Pinterest Inc. Chief Executive Ben Silbermann has expanded his quirky site for online scrapbooking into a social-media tool used by one-fifth of online adults in the U.S. — For his next act …

More: SiliconANGLE and WebProNews. Tweets: @wsjeurope

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

VMware buys AirWatch for $1.54 billion, acquires mobility strategy — Summary: VMware's acquisition of AirWatch will give it a foothold in mobility as well as its end-user computing strategy. — VMware will acquire AirWatch, a mobile device management company, in a $1.17 billion cash deal …

More: VMware Company Blog, SiliconANGLE, DealBook, eWeek, Investor's Business Daily, ReadWrite, Re/code, Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC, Inquirer, CITEworld, Business Insider, Internet Evolution, PE Hub Blog, bizjournals, Gigaom and Silicon Republic

Tweets: @qthrul and @ldignan

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