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January 30, 2014, 7:05 AM

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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.

Google:

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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Tweets: @google, @inafried, @benbajarin, @tim_stevens, @carnage4life, @mhelft, @johnpaczkowski, @benedictevans, @fromedome, @shiraovide, @johnpaczkowski, @nxthompson, @jessicalessin, @benedictevans and @google

Thanks:@orbuch

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, pocketnow.com, PhoneArena, AndroidHeadlines.com, Phandroid, 9to5Google and Engadget

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, TechCrunch, AndroidHeadlines.com, TechSpot, Android Authority and SlashGear

Tom Krazit / Gigaom:

With Motorola sale and Samsung peace, Google finds practical exit to an unconventional (and expensive) deal — In the nearly ten years Google has been a public company, it has been defined by a curious mixture of ambition, futurism, and unpredictability. This week, Google showed that it also knows when to move on.

More: 9to5Google, T3 News, Bloomberg, AndroidHeadlines.com and PhoneArena

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.

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Wall Street Journal:

Motorola Deal to Give Lenovo a ‘Shortcut’ Into U.S. Market

More: Forbes, AndroidHeadlines.com, SiliconANGLE, MoneyBeat and Digits

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 …

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple aggressively pushing to take Arizona sapphire plant live in February for ‘critical’ product component — In November of last year, Apple announced that it would be opening up a new manufacturing plant in Mesa, Arizona. Since that time, little information has come out about the plant except …

More: AppleInsider, Electronista, Apple Bitch, Cult of Mac, I4U News, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, MacRumors and SlashGear

Tweets: @panzer, @markgurman and @markgurman

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Microsoft may select new CEO next week, Satya Nadella Exec VP Cloud and Enterprise, most likely candidate — Now at 160 Days, Microsoft CEO Search Could Be Nearing Its End With Insiders on Inside Track — According to numerous sources close to Microsoft, the selection of a new CEO could happen within the next week.

More: Softpedia News. Thanks:@srikardr

Businessweek:

Facebook Turns 10: The Mark Zuckerberg Interview — Mark Zuckerberg doesn't usually observe sentimental anniversaries. This year he's confronted by three of them. On Feb. 4, Facebook (FB), the company he co-founded in a Harvard University dorm, turns 10 years old. The prodigy himself turns 30 in May.

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook aims to conquer mobile by building an arsenal of standalone apps

More: Mashable. Tweets: @joshconstine

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon to Offer Kindle Checkout System to Physical Retailers — Project Would Give E-Commerce Firm Access to More Customer Data — Amazon.com Inc. plans to offer brick-and-mortar retailers a checkout system that uses Kindle tablets as soon as this summer, people briefed on the company's plans said.

More: TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, Gizmodo and 9to5Google

Tweets: @kenbensinger and @gregbensinger

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Amazon Wants To Include Peer-to-Peer Payments In Its “Real World” PayPal Competitor

More: SlashGear, Los Angeles Times and Mashable

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Hackers likely exploited insecure, widely used server software on Target's internal network — New Clues in the Target Breach — An examination of the malware used in the Target breach suggests that the attackers may have had help from a poorly secured feature built into a widely-used …

More: Ars Technica, Reuters and The Verge

Tweets: @briankrebs, @weldpond and @butterworthy

Don Reisinger / CNET:

US Justice Department looking into Target data breach

More: The United States Department …, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget and PC World

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Nintendo plans non-wearable health products, still has no interest in smartphone gaming — Nintendo has again confirmed today that it won't introduce its games to smartphones and tablets, however, company President Satoru Iwata did reveal plans to introduce non-wearable technology that monitors users' health.

More: Digits, New York Times, Gamasutra, MacRumors, RocketNews24, Gearburn, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, Polygon, Kotaku, Joystiq, Kotaku, Polygon, Joystiq, Kotaku, PandoDaily, Joystiq, Ubergizmo, destructoid, SlashGear, Joystiq and TechCrunch

Eric Pfanner / New York Times:

Flat Sales of Wii U Put Nintendo in Hot Seat

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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Why Hasn't Twitter Just Given @N His Name Back? — Yesterday Naoki Hiroshima, an Echofon developer, posted an article about how he lost his extremely short Twitter handle @N in an extortion scheme. Hackers compromised his GoDaddy account with social engineering (calling and lying to an account rep) …

More: Josh Bryant, The Next Web, The Official PayPal, Softpedia News, The Verge, Wired, The Register and I4U News. Tweets: @n_is_stolen

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

PayPal denies providing payment information to hacker who hijacked $50,000 Twitter username

More: BGR and NBCNews

David Kravets / Wired:

Obama Stays Silent on Reform of NSA's Crypto Subversion — President Barack Obama in his State of the Union on Tuesday failed to address an issue that affects everyone on the internet — the NSA's subversion of cryptographic standards and technologies. — Privacy advocates and business interests …

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

US intelligence chief has 30 days to reveal if specific citizens were spied upon

More: Mashable, American Forces Press Service, Washington Post, Wizbang, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, CNET and Boing Boing. Tweets: @normative. See also Mediagazer

Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat:

Mint integrates with Coinbase, so you can track bitcoin with the rest of your finances — The wild ride of bitcoin's value is slowing down, and we are beginning to see the effects of that stability. — Personal finance app Mint is integrating with bitcoin wallet service Coinbase …

More: Gigaom, Engadget, SlashGear, CoinDesk and The Next Web. Tweets: @mariagrineva

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: @zedshaw and @brezina. Thanks:@chrissyfarr

Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:

New Web addresses now live: .bike, .guru, others now open — Remember this day: it's the day the Web started to expand. As of Wednesday, Internet users can now register addresses in new domain names — the official term for everything that comes right of the dot in a URL.

More: CNET, Donuts Inc., The Boston Globe, Geek.com, Adweek, Tech Times and The Register

Tweets: @zacharye, @dannysullivan, @davegirouard and @dangillmor

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: memeburn, Re/code, The Next Web, The Register, Fortune, VatorNews, I4U News, Computerworld, Washington Post, TechnoBuffalo, Forbes, AdExchanger, WebProNews and Tech Trader Daily

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Officially A Mobile Ad Firm With 53% Of Ad Revenue Now Coming From Its 945M Mobile Users

More: Inquirer, SlashGear, eWeek, CNET, TechHive, Digits, internetretailer.com, Marketing Land, Softpedia News, Tech Trader Daily, Bloomberg and ReadWrite

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