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January 22, 2014, 8:30 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, The Next Web, VatorNews, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, internetretailer.com, 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:

Tweets: @chartier

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Netflix posts Q4 profit of $48.4M, with 44M subscribers

More: Forbes and WebProNews

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

Netflix Issues Warning On The Dangers Of Ending Net Neutrality

More: Re/code, TechCrunch and The Switch. See also Mediagazer

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, BGR, Gigaom, iMore, The Verge, Business Insider, MacRumors, CNET, Re/code, Macworld, PhoneArena, MobileSyrup.com, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, Gotta Be Mobile and iClarified. Tweets: @chartier. Thanks:@film_girl

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

Tweets: @jowens510, @dangillmor and @paulcarr

Steven Hickson / Steves Computer Vision Blog:

Hacking Snapchat's people verification in less than 100 lines — I woke up this morning and saw this article detailing Snapchat's new people verification system. You may have seen it but if not I will summarize it for you. They basically have you choose each image with the Snapchat ghost to prove you are a person.

More: Hack a Day and Business Insider. Tweets: @film_girl

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

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

Tweets: @parislemon and @pkafka

Reuters:

EBay dismisses Icahn proposal to spin off Paypal

Tweets: @pierre

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

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, The Next Web, AppleInsider, Re/code, Forbes, Marketing Land, ReadWrite, App Advice and WebProNews

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

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

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

More: VatorNews

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, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, Sunrise and Michael Tsai

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

Sunrise on why they ask for your Apple ID and password

Tweets: @monkbent

Roberto Baldwin / Wired:

Tivo Makes Its Hardware Exit Official, Lays Off Most of Design Team — Tivo has been bullish lately about releasing new products beyond its core DVR boxes. Today, we found out why. The company laid off nearly all the industrial designers of those products.

More: Gigaom, Engadget and SlashGear. Thanks:@strngwys

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

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

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

Loek Essers / PC World:

SimpleAir seeks $125M from Google after jury finds Android notifications infringe patent — Google faces $125 million damages claim after losing Android patent lawsuit — SimpleAir is seeking $125M in damages from Google after a jury found that push notification services in Android infringe …

More: Business Wire, The Verge, The Register, Phandroid, GSMArena Blog, AndroidHeadlines.com and Guardian. Tweets: @pkedrosky

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: Engadget, Search Engine Land, WebProNews and SEO Book

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

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 …

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

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