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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 …
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Microsoft may pick new CEO in upcoming week, VP of Cloud and Enterprise Satya Nadella most likely candidate
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.
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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 …
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Mike Isaac / Re/code:
Paper, Facebook's new app for browsing and creating stories, will launch Feb. 3 for US iPhones
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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”.
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.

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