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January 22, 2014, 9:55 PM

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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: TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @chartier

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

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

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

More: Forbes and WebProNews

Reuters:

EBay dismisses Icahn proposal to spin off Paypal — (Reuters) - Carl Icahn has taken a stake in eBay Inc and is proposing a spin-off of the its fast-growing PayPal division, but the e-commerce giant rebuffed the overture, setting the stage for a potential battle with the activist investor.

Tweets: @pierre

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, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily and internetretailer.com

Tweets: @parislemon and @pkafka

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Icahn says Apple “doing great disservice to shareholders,” increases AAPL investment to $3B

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

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

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

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, The Verge, iMore, Business Insider, CNET, MacRumors, MacNN, Re/code, PC World, PhoneArena, TechnoBuffalo, MobileSyrup.com, Macworld, Cult of Mac, iClarified, App Advice, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, iPhone Hacks and Pocket-lint. 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, Indybay newswire, Examiner, Los Angeles Times, PandoDaily, Salon and Veronica Belmont

Tweets: @ryan, @jowens510, @dangillmor and @paulcarr

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: The Verge, Gigaom, Engadget and SlashGear. Thanks:@strngwys. See also Mediagazer

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Stripe raises $80 million from Khosla, Sequoia and Founders Fund, now valued at $1.75 billion — Payments Startup Stripe Joins the Billion Dollar Club — New $80 Million Funding Round Will Help Company Battle PayPal — In the crowded field of online payments, venture capitalists …

More: TechCrunch and Y Combinator Posthaven. Tweets: @sarahfrier, @jess, @sacca, @cdixon, @patrickc, @erickschonfeld and @rabois

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]

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

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

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

Sunrise on why they ask for your Apple ID and password

Tweets: @monkbent

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

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @bbalfour, @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

John Cook / GeekWire:

Early stakeholders in Scout Analytics claim venture capitalists engaged in ‘self dealing, corporate waste’ prior to $32M acquisition — Not everyone is happy about today's $32 million acquisition of Scout Analytics by ServiceSource. A group of series A preferred stockholders filed suit …

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Renew OnDemand Provider ServiceSource Acquires Scout Analytics For $32M

More: Wall Street Journal, bizjournals and GeekWire

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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