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January 30, 2014, 10:35 PM

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Bloomberg:

Microsoft's board preparing to make Satya Nadella CEO, may replace Gates as chairman — Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO — Microsoft Corp.'s board is preparing to make Satya Nadella, the company's enterprise and cloud chief, chief executive officer …

More: TechCrunch, Businessweek, SiliconANGLE, PC World, Digits, Forbes, Quartz, The Register, AppleInsider, Reuters, Gigaom, CNET, ReadWrite, GeekWire, The Verge, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, TechCrunch, Business Insider, MobileSyrup.com, Gizmodo UK, Gotta Be Mobile, VG247, Mashable, Windows Phone Central, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear and Engadget

Tweets: @levie, @sachinkalbag, @stevekovach, @dannysullivan and @raju

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Microsoft may pick new CEO in upcoming week, VP of Cloud and Enterprise Satya Nadella most likely candidate

More: NYT Bits, Guardian, The Verge, ZDNet, The Next Web, WinBeta, Pocketables, Fox Business, The Technology Chronicles, FierceWireless, TechSpot, BGR and VentureBeat. Thanks:@srikardr

Google:

Google Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2013 Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2013. — “We ended 2013 with another great quarter of momentum and growth.

Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Revenue and Profit Rise at Google, but Mobile Struggles Continue — SAN FRANCISCO — There is no denying that Google has become a mobile company. Now, Google — along with shareholders, industry partners and advertisers — is trying to figure out what that means.

Tweets: @mhelft

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Q4 '13 Beats With $16.86B Revenue, Misses With EPS Of $12.01 Because Of Motorola Weakness

More: Mercury News, International Business Times, The Verge, VatorNews, Gigaom, internetretailer.com and IntoMobile

Amazon.com:

Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 20% to $25.59 Billion — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2013. — Operating cash flow increased 31% to $5.47 billion for the trailing twelve months …

More: CNET, TechCrunch, Quartz, The Register, GeekWire, VentureBeat, VatorNews, ReadWrite, Reuters, Businessweek, BGR, Guardian, Digits, ZDNet, Engadget, Android Community, TechnoBuffalo, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The Verge, Barron's Online, AndroidHeadlines.com, BBC, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet, Electronista, WebProNews and SlashGear. Tweets: @fmanjoo. See also Mediagazer

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Amazon considering $20 to $40 price hike for Prime service in US — Amazon today said it's “considering” raising the price of its $79 a year Prime service to customers in the US by another $20 to $40. The possible increase, which has not been finalized, was announced during the company's fourth quarter earnings call with analysts.

More: Digits, Ars Technica, Fortune and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Amazon shares fall 10% after big holiday earnings miss

More: CNET and Re/code. Thanks:@johnhcook

Mark DeCambre / Quartz:

Box has secretly filed for an IPO — Box, the online storage company, has secretly filed paperwork for an initial public offering, according to a source. — That means Box could start trading as a public company before its chief rival, Dropbox. Both are among the most anticipated tech IPOs of this year.

More: Digits, GeekWire, The Verge, The Next Web, CNET, DealBook, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Gigaom and Business Insider

Tweets: @antderosa, @m_delamerced and @mattrosoff

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Zynga Buys NaturalMotion For $527M, Signaling A New Tack For The Gaming Giant — Zynga has long been famous (or infamous?) for its data-driven approach to game design. The company never focused on building strong character IP, or intellectual property, in favor of releasing games that had been thoroughly funnel-tested.

More: Zynga Company Blog, GlobeNewswire, MacRumors, Guardian, BizPunk, ReadWrite, Digits, SlashGear, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Re/code, Digits, Valleywag, VentureBeat and Bloomberg. Tweets: @dmac1

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Zynga Lays Off 314 Employees, Or 15% Of Its Workforce — Paired with the news of a big half-billion-dollar acquisition, Zynga is also laying off about 15 percent of its workforce, or about 314 employees. — This is part of a cost-reduction plan that is supposed to generate $33 million …

More: Betabeat, VentureBeat, Reuters, Tech Trader Daily and Business Insider

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

With Paper, Facebook just blew its own iPhone app out of the water — This morning, Facebook is announcing a new standalone iPhone app called Paper. Contrary to earlier rumors, it's much more than just a news reading app — it's a complete reimagining of Facebook itself.

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Slate, TUAW, NYT Bits, ZDNet, Marketing Land, Co.Design, TechnoBuffalo and GeekWire. Tweets: @rsarver. See also Mediagazer

Mike Isaac / Re/code:

Paper, Facebook's new app for browsing and creating stories, will launch Feb. 3 for US iPhones

More: Facebook, BGR, CNET, Guardian, Mashable, Android Community, Gigaom, The Verge, AllFacebook, Marketing Pilgrim, Inside Facebook, Macworld, bizjournals, WebProNews, iPhone, SiliconANGLE, Apple Bitch, Digital Trends, memeburn, blogs.ft.com, ReadWrite and iMore

Tweets: @benedictevans, @bougie, @rsarver, @robertandrews, @mikeisaac and @whatthebit

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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.

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, CNET, SiliconBeat and Valleywag

Tweets: @bw, @rubinafillion and @bradstone

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Facebook changes stance, plans to allow anonymous logins in new set of apps

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @bw. Thanks:@ingridlunden

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

PayPal Wants Role in Apple's Mobile Payments Dreams — Apple may finally appear serious about facilitating the purchase of physical products in retail stores through its devices — and that has gotten the attention of at least one potential major competitor.

More: BGR, TechnologyTell, Gigaom Research, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneArena, AppleInsider and Telegraph. Tweets: @chris_ciaccia. Thanks:@delrey

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft backpedals: Windows 8.1 update hides tile interface by default — Microsoft is once again planning to alter the way its Start Screen works in Windows 8.1 Update 1. While the software giant originally released Windows 8.1 last year with an option to bypass the “Metro” interface at boot …

More: CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, Kotaku, Gotta Be Mobile and TechSpot

Tweets: @harrymccracken and @tomwarren

Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits:

Salesforce CEO Benioff on How to Fix San Francisco — These days, you could call Marc Benioff a kind of anti-Tom Perkins. — The billionaire head of Salesforce.com doesn't have anything personal against the co-founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. But he adamantly disagrees with Perkins' recent defense of the tech elite.

Tweets: @benioff, @pmarca, @georgia_wells, @evelynrusli, @bxchen, @jameshiga and @wsjd

Associated Press:

Google's first-ever stock split scheduled for April 2 — Google poised to execute long-delayed stock split — SAN FRANCISCO—Google is finally ready to split its stock for the first time, more than three years after co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin began discussing a move engineered …

More: The Verge and AndroidHeadlines.com

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Detects Mass Hack Attempt On Yahoo Mail, Resets All Affected Passwords — The details are a bit sparse right now, but Yahoo has just disclosed by way of their Tumblr that they've detected what they're calling a “coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts”.

More: Yahoo, Los Angeles Times, BetaNews, Computerworld, ReadWrite, The Register, Ars Technica, NYT Bits, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge and The Snitch. Tweets: @nycjim

CBC News:

Snowden documents reveal Canadian spy agency used airport Wi-Fi to track passengers “for days after they left the terminal” — Canadian spy agency used airport Wi-Fi to track passengers for days after they left the terminal — Electronic snooping was part of a trial run for U.S. NSA and other foreign services

Tweets: @csoghoian, @emptywheel, @stephenlautens and @rj_gallagher

Wall Street Journal:

Obama to Nominate Navy Cybersecurity Chief to Head NSA — If Confirmed by Senate, Vice Admiral Michael Rogers Would Succeed Gen. Keith Alexander … President Barack Obama plans to nominate the Navy's cybersecurity chief to become the next director of the National Security Agency and the commander of the U.S. Cyber Command.

More: Guardian, Reuters, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, CNET, BBC, Lawfare, SecurityWeek and NPR

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Incredible Labs Acquired By Yahoo, Mobile Assistant App Donna To Be Shut Down — Incredible Labs, the startup behind mobile personal assistant app Donna, has been acqui-hired. Five of the seven members of the team will join Yahoo, and Donna will be shut down.

More: Donna Blog, Half Of What I Say Is …, Re/code, VatorNews, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, Electronista, Engadget and WebProNews

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