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January 29, 2014, 4:50 PM

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Reuters:

Lenovo nears $3 billion deal to buy Google's Motorola unit — (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group is nearing a deal to buy Google Inc's Motorola handset division for close to $3 billion, according to people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, buying its way into a heavily competitive U.S. handset market now dominated by Apple Inc.

More: TechCrunch, CHINAdaily, The Verge, DealBook, BGR, Engadget, AppleInsider, Re/code, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Daring Fireball, Android Beat, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Technovia and Droid Life

Tweets: @inafried, @johnpaczkowski, @dcseifert, @alexia, @fromedome and @yinkawrites

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

After Google Pressure, Samsung Will Dial Back Android Tweaks, Homegrown Apps — In early January, while the rest of the consumer technology world at CES marveled at the sheer size of Samsung's upcoming Galaxy tablet, Google execs were dismayed by what they saw on the screen of the massive 12.1-inch slate …

More: Gigaom, BGR, Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, Daring Fireball, WebProNews, TechnoBuffalo, PhoneArena, MobileSyrup.com, Phandroid, Android Authority, Ubergizmo, pocketnow.com, SlashGear, Droid Life and Android Community

Tweets: @asadotzler and @benbajarin

Facebook:

Facebook Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2013 Results — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013. — “It was a great end to the year for Facebook,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO.

More: ZDNet, Yahoo and WebProNews

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Officially A Mobile Ad Firm With 53% Of Ad Revenue Now Coming From Its 945M Mobile Users — Linode Moves From Monthly To Metered Billing — Facebook hit a major milestone with today's Q4 2013 earnings as it crossed the halfway point and now earns 53% of ad revenue from mobile …

More: Digits, CNET, Re/code, The Next Web, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, AdExchanger, Business Insider and Washington Post

Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

Facebook reports $2.6B in revenue, 1.23B monthly active users

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Gmail bug made some users accidentally delete emails sent between January 12th to 21st — Gmail bug made some users accidentally delete emails — A recent bug in Gmail resulted in some users accidentally deleting emails and reporting others as spam when applying those actions to other messages.

More: CNET, 9to5Mac, PC Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Redmond Pie, TechnologyTell, WebProNews, Gigaom, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, iLounge, pocketnow.com, 9to5Google, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, Mashable, App Advice, Softpedia News and MacNN. Tweets: @sacca

Stephen Lam / Reuters:

Exclusive: Google close to settling EU antitrust investigation - sources — (Reuters) - Google and EU regulators are close to settling a three-year antitrust investigation into the company's suspected anti-competitive behaviour after it offered improved concessions to allay competition concerns, two sources said on Thursday.

More: Computerworld, ZDNet, BGR, GeekWire, WebProNews, Search Engine Land, SlashGear, The Register, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, CNET and bizjournals. Tweets: @amir

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 percent of AdWords revenue — Vringo is a tiny company that purchased some patents from Lycos, an old search engine, in 2011 and then used those patents to sue Google. In December 2012, Vringo won $30 million in a jury trial …

More: The Verge, Search Engine Land, VentureBeat, Computerworld, WebProNews, The Switch, BGR and Electronista

Tweets: @rsingel and @danravicher

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Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Twitter.com gets new search filters for news, videos, and people you follow — The Web version of Twitter has new search filters that let you restrict your searches to photos, videos, news, people you follow, and nearby locations. — The ability to limit a search to only people you follow …

More: Search Engine Land, ReadWrite, The Verge, ZDNet, Gizmodo and Electronista. Tweets: @twitter

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

After Pledging A “Better Evernote”, Evernote Updates Data Sync, Now 4X Faster — Earlier this month, Evernote — the note-taking app with some 80 million users and over $250 million in funding — took a humble pill after former TechCrunch writer Jason Kincaid slammed the company for letting …

More: Evernote Blog, The Next Web, ZDNet, iClarified, iPhone, Android Community, App Advice, PC Magazine, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, PC World and Engadget. Tweets: @dujkan

Steven Musil / CNET:

Obama proposes creation of six new tech manufacturing hubs — President Obama made a push for an expanded high-tech manufacturing base in the US during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, proposing the creation of six new high-tech manufacturing hubs in the US this year.

More: The Loop, The Twitter Blog, Gigaom, AppleInsider, PC World, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, The Verge, The Switch, App Advice, Electronista, SlashGear, Associated Press, National Journal and The Next Web

Reuters:

Qualcomm faces record fine exceeding $1 billion in Chinese antitrust probe — Qualcomm faces prospect of record antitrust fines in China — (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc, the world's biggest cellphone chip maker, may be hit with a record fine exceeding $1 billion in a Chinese antitrust probe …

More: TelecomLead

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Nintendo makes profit on 1.95 million Wii U sales, but predicts dire final quarter — Nintendo made an operating profit of ¥21.7 billion ($210 million) in its crucial fiscal third quarter as the Wii U picked up sales over the holiday shopping period. Net income was ¥9.6 billion ($93 million).

More: AFP, Engadget, Engadget, The Next Web, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Associated Press, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, Ars Technica, BGR, SlashGear, Inquirer, New York Times, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Softpedia News

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Walmart Begins Testing Online Grocery Shopping With Local Store Pickup Option In Denver — Walmart To Go, the retailer's on-demand shopping service offering home delivery of general merchandise, including in some cases, groceries, is expanding its test in the Denver market today to also include a local pick-up option.

More: GeekWire, internetretailer.com, VCPOST, Re/code and Techrockies.com

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

Ensighten raises $40M to take on Adobe and Salesforce, redefine the marketing cloud — If Series A rounds are meant to prove out a business model and Series B rounds are meant to scale it, then enterprise data and tag management startup Ensighten is poised to get much, much bigger.

More: TechCrunch, PE Hub Blog and VentureBeat

Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:

Qualcomm Q1: Mixed on estimates, but strong quarter on smartphone, tablet sales — Summary: The chip maker's chief executive said its partners' strong smartphone and tablet sales helped drive the record quarterly results, but missed on estimates. Its Q2 outlook also missed estimates. — Zack Whittaker

More: PR Newswire, Tech Trader Daily and Wall Street Journal

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Samsung devours over 60 Carphone Warehouse stores in major European push — Samsung is literally taking over the phone industry — 60 Carphone Warehouse stores across Western European will be converted to dedicated Samsung outlets, according to a press release from the two companies.

More: Carphone Warehouse Group PLC, Digits, PC World, MobileBurn.com, Electronista, SammyToday, ZDNet, Gigaom, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, The Next Web, Engadget, PhoneArena and Tweakers

Joab Jackson / PC World:

Lavabit case highlights legal fuzziness around encryption rules — While privacy advocates may see Lavabit as bravely defending U.S. privacy rights in the online world, federal judges hearing its appeal of contempt-of-court charges seem to regard the now defunct encrypted email service …

More: BBC, Ars Technica, Naked Security and Inquirer. Tweets: @csoghoian

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