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January 29, 2014, 9:20 PM

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Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility from Google for $2.91 billion — Lenovo to Acquire Motorola Mobility from Google — Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Mountain View, California - January 29, 2014: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) …

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Larry Page / The Official Google Blog:

Google CEO: Motorola to be better served at Lenovo, which is “all-in” on making mobile devices — Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility — We've just signed an agreement to sell Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. As this is an important move for Android users everywhere, I wanted to explain why in detail.

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Google Keeps ‘Vast Majority’ Of Motorola Mobility Patents In Sale To Lenovo — Motorola Mobility is being sold to Lenovo, in a deal worth $2.91B. Google is divesting itself of the handset division it purchased for $12.5B in 2011, but it will keep some of the assets — including patents.

More: Guardian, Digits, Techdirt, BetaNews, ZDNet, Examiner, Los Angeles Times, Techvibes Global News, AndroidHeadlines.com, The Next Web, Forbes, broadstuff, The Mac Observer, WebProNews and Electronista

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Google to keep Motorola's Advanced Technology group, including Project Ara modular phone — The best part of Motorola is moving to the Android team — Google's blockbuster $2.9 billion of Motorola Mobility to Lenovo won't include the Advanced Technology and Projects group led …

More: Re/code, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Engadget, Phandroid, AndroidHeadlines.com, pocketnow.com and PhoneArena

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Lenovo Explains Its $2.9 Billion Motorola Deal — Google is swallowing a big loss in selling Motorola for $2.9 billion and Lenovo is taking a big risk in acquiring an iconic but troubled brand. — So why are they doing it? — We think we know why Google is selling.

More: Droid Life, AndroidHeadlines.com, SlashGear and TechSpot

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 …

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: PC World, Fortune, VatorNews, Computerworld, Re/code, The Next Web, Forbes, AdExchanger, Washington Post, ZDNet, CNNMoney.com, Tech Trader Daily, TechnoBuffalo 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: New York Times, eWeek, TechHive, CNET, Tech Trader Daily, ReadWrite, Digits, Marketing Land, Engadget, SlashGear and internetretailer.com. Tweets: @joshconstine

Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

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

More: VatorNews

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

PayPal denies providing payment information to hacker who hijacked $50,000 Twitter username — PayPal today denied the allegations made in the viral story “How I lost my $50,000 Twitter username” by Naoki Hiroshima, saying it immediately investigated the situation and has found it was not at fault.

More: NBCNews, Daily Dot and BGR

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Why Hasn't Twitter Just Given @N His Name Back?

More: The Official PayPal, TechCrunch, The Verge and Forbes

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: Redmond Pie, TechnologyTell, pocketnow.com, PC Magazine, iLounge, Los Angeles Times, MacRumors, 9to5Google and Gigaom. Tweets: @sacca

Christina Farr / VentureBeat:

California regulator tells unapproved coding bootcamps to “seek compliance or be shut down” — California regulator seeks to shut down ‘learn to code’ bootcamps — Caption: Hackbright Academy and others face hefty fines if they don't comply with regulators

Tweets: @brezina. Thanks:@chrissyfarr

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon to offer brick-and-mortar stores a Kindle tablet checkout system $AMZN — Amazon.com plans to offer brick-and-mortar retailers a checkout system that uses Kindle tablets as soon as this summer.

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, 9to5Google, Los Angeles Times, Digits, TechnoBuffalo and Mashable. Tweets: @dmac1

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Twitter partners with CNN on “Dataminr for News” system that alerts journalists to breaking news — CNN announces partnership with Twitter to ‘revolutionize’ news gathering — Taking the flood of public information on Twitter and mining it for breaking news insights

More: TechCrunch, Dataminr, Gigaom, Re/code, TechSpot, Gawker, Engadget, SlashGear, Variety and Wired

Tweets: @benpopper, @mikeisaac, @joannauk, @rsarver, @vivianschiller and @jeffsand

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