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January 28, 2014, 8:25 PM

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Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook:

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Is Shutting Down IntoNow, Nearly Three Years After Acquisition — IntoNow — the second-screen app that Yahoo bought in the spring of 2011, just twelve weeks after its launch — is being shut down by its parent company. As of last week, IntoNow was taken off the Apple App Store and Google Play …

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

NFL to block mobile streaming video in Super Bowl stadium — Smartphone usage has skyrocketed at sporting events, as anyone who's attended a recent game can tell you. Look around the stands and you'll see fans checking stats, sharing pictures on social media, or just killing time between plays.

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Alice Truong / Fast Company:

Following Arrest, BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem Resigns From Bitcoin Foundation — The day after BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem was arrested on money-laundering charges, the 24-year-old has resigned from the Bitcoin Foundation, where he was a founding member and had served as vice chairman since 2012.

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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Bitcoin Investors Ask For ‘Safe Harbor’ Exceptions In Proposed ‘BitLicense’ Regulations

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Roger Cheng / CNET:

AT&T swings to profit, adds 1.2M contract smartphone customers — AT&T swung to a profit in the fourth quarter as it deals with pressure from rival T-Mobile. — The Dallas telecommunications company posted a fourth-quarter profit of $6.9 billion, or $1.31 a share, compared with a year-earlier loss …

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Brad Molen / Engadget:

Pebble Steel review: at last, a stylish smartwatch — Smartwatches are supposed to be pieces of jewelry that are just as personal as the smartphones they're attached to, yet rarely are they thought of as fashionable. We've seen a handful (or is it wristful?) that are hip, ornate and sporty …

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Douglas MacMillan / Digits:

Yahoo in Talks to Buy App Developer Tomfoolery for $16 Million — Yahoo is in talks to acquire business app developer Tomfoolery for about $16 million, according to two people familiar with the negotiations. — The discussions are at an advanced stage but the deal isn't yet final, the people said

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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Framing Google Glass: the headset of the future now works with prescription lenses — Just shy of a year after the Google Glass Explorer edition started arriving on early adopters' doorsteps, Google is announcing a way for people who need prescription glasses to use it.

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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Google Glass to Be Covered by Vision Care Insurer VSP

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Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:

Facebook: Open Compute Has Saved Us $1.2 Billion — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, at left, discusses the company's infrastructure with Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media yesterday at the Open Compute Summit in San Jose, Calif. (Photo: Colleen Miller) — SAN JOSE, Calif. - Over the last three years …

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Matt Martin / VG247:

Amazon's Android console to launch this year priced below $300 — Retail giant Amazon will launch a dedicated games and entertainment device this year priced below $300. — Running the Android operating system, the system will compete directly with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo …

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Dan Primack / Fortune:

Google Ventures general partner Wesley Chan steps down, becomes entrepreneur-in-residence — Google Analytics founder working on new project — Wesley Chan is stepping down from an investing role with Google Ventures, in order to work on something new. — FORTUNE — “Stay tuned.”

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Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

IBM Exploring Sale of Software-Defined Networking Business — A week after selling its server business unit to Lenovo, IBM is now exploring the sale of some of its networking assets and may be seeking as much as a $1 billion, sources familiar with the matter tell Re/code.

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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

ISPs No Longer Have to Block The Pirate Bay, Dutch Court Rules — The Pirate Bay is arguably the most-censored website on the Internet, but that's no longer the case in the Netherlands. — In 2010 Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN went to court to try and force Ziggo, the Netherlands' largest ISP, to block The Pirate Bay.

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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Global Smartphone Shipments Top 1 Billion For The First Time Thanks To Cheap Android Devices, Says IDC — The global smartphone market shipped one billion units in a single year for the first time, with Samsung as the leading vendor, according to a new report by research firm IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker.

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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters:

Samsung sets new smartphone sales record in fourth quarter, widens lead over Apple: report

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Rap Genius Launches App That Could Wean It Off Google's Teat — Rap Genius is back in Google's good graces after a slap on the wrist for SEO spam, but search traffic could become less important to the annotations site as today it launches its first mobile app.

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