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February 4, 2014, 11:55 AM

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Microsoft Corporation:

Microsoft Board Names Satya Nadella as CEO — Bill Gates steps up to new role as Technology Advisor; John Thompson assumes role as Chairman of Board of Directors. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Satya Nadella as Chief Executive Officer and member …

Microsoft Corporation:

Satya Nadella email to employees on first day as CEO — Today is a very humbling day for me. It reminds me of my very first day at Microsoft, 22 years ago. Like you, I had a choice about where to come to work. I came here because I believed Microsoft was the best company in the world.

Bloomberg:

Thompson Replacing Gates as Microsoft Chairman in Revamp — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) said John Thompson will take over as chairman, replacing Bill Gates to oversee the company's transition to devices and Web-based computing as the personal-computer market shrinks.

More: ZDNet and Bloomberg

Barb Darrow / Gigaom:

Nadella's the one: Microsoft names new CEO, Gates stays on board, Thompson is chairman — Well, it's finally over. After five months of cloak and dagger and dueling leaks, Microsoft has named Satya Nadella, its cloud chief, as its third-ever CEO, replacing long-time veteran Steve Ballmer.

More: GeekWire, The Verge, Ars Technica, Re/code, Gizmodo, The Verge, Forbes, Softpedia News, Pocketnow, Geek.com, BBC and Computerworld

Tweets: @anildash and @tim_stevens

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Microsoft's Bill Gates “Steps Up” To New Role As Technology Advisor: Was He Pushed Or Did He Jump? — Along with the news today that Satya Nadella will be the next CEO of Microsoft, another big change in the executive ranks: Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, is leaving his role as chairman …

More: InfoWorld, MobileSyrup.com and Business Insider

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Ready for Their Close-Ups: Nadella, Gates, Ballmer and Thompson Do YouTube on CEO Pick (Video)

More: Digits and DailyFinance.com

Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:

Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary. — It's been an amazing journey so far, and I'm so grateful to be a part of it. It's rare to be able to touch so many people's lives, and I try to remind myself to make the most of every day and have the biggest impact I can.

More: Techvibes, Los Angeles Times, AllFacebook, ZDNet, Guardian, LinkedIn Pulse, Search Engine Roundtable, Gizmodo, Technology Personalized, NBC Bay Area, Mashable, The Next Web and WebProNews

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Facebook celebrates 10-year anniversary with personalized ‘Look Back’ videos just for you — As Mark Zuckerberg reflects upon Facebook's first ten years as a company today, he's encouraging the community he built to do the same. Starting this morning, hundreds of millions of Facebook users …

More: Digits, TechCrunch, The Register, Digits, The Next Web, San Francisco Chronicle, NYT Bits, Slate, Telegraph, CNBC, Engadget, Washington Post, memeburn, BBC, NBC Bay Area, USA Today, CNET and Electronista. Tweets: @ranjanxroy

Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:

Apple Building Out Their Own CDN To Deliver Content To Consumers — Over the past year, there has been speculation of when or if Apple would build out their own content delivery network for the purpose of delivering content to consumers. To date, all of the CDN deployments done by Apple …

More: Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Data Center Knowledge, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Geeky Gadgets, Softpedia News, Techie News, The Next Web, App Advice, Pulse 2.0, ZDNet and CNET. Thanks:@danrayburn

Martyn Williams / Computerworld:

North Korea goes OSX-like with new operating system — The latest version of the software dumps a Windows-like interface for a Mac-style desktop — If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, might the folks in Cupertino be pleased when they see the latest version of North Korea's home-grown operating system?

More: MacRumors, Network World, MacDailyNews, Electronista and Cult of Mac

Erica Klarreich / Wired:

Cryptography Breakthrough Could Make Software Unhackable — As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a “zero-knowledge” proof, a type of mathematical protocol for convincing someone that something …

More: ExtremeTech. Tweets: @glynmoody and @glynmoody

Bonnie Cha / Re/code:

Samsung Galaxy Note Pro, Tab Pro Series Coming to U.S. February 13 — Just in time for Valentine's Day, Samsung announced today that its Galaxy Note Pro and Galaxy Tab Pro tablets will be available starting Feb. 13 in the U.S. — First introduced at CES, there are four models in the series.

More: SiliconANGLE, 9to5Google, PC World, BGR, Engadget, Electronista, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Engadget, AndroidGuys, ZDNet, PhoneArena, Gotta Be Mobile, Gigaom and Phandroid

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Dogecoin to allow annual inflation of 5 billion coins each year, forever — BitBurgers is one of the few businesses that accepts Dogecoin. — Cory Doctorow — For the last two months, developers and users of Dogecoin, the shiba-themed altcoin (alternative Bitcoin) …

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

New bill would restore net neutrality pending FCC action — A new pair of bills have been introduced to the Senate and House to protect Net Neutrality after a circuit court ruling struck down the FCC's previous rules earlier this month. A permanent solution will ultimately come from the FCC …

More: The Switch, Congressman Henry Waxman, Inquirer, Ars Technica, InfoWorld, Business Insider, The Register, Techdirt and PandoDaily. See also Mediagazer

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Netflix to Raise $400 Mil in Additional Debt to Fund Original Content, Euro Expansion — Netflix formally announced it is seeking to offer $400 million aggregate principal amount of 10-year senior notes due 2024 to institutional investors, coin it expects to use for acquiring original content and expanding into Europe.

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Verge, Business Insider, PR Newswire and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek:

App Misconfiguration, Mobile Apps With Poor Encryption Pose Risks, HP — Many applications are misconfigured and most mobile apps don't use encryption properly, according to Hewlett-Packard's 2013 Cyber Risk report released Feb. 3. — HP's research shows that 46 percent of mobile apps …

More: Businessweek, SC Magazine, Help Net Security and BetaNews

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

FiftyThree Files Trademark For “Paper” — Yesterday, as Facebook launched its news reader app Paper, design-focused startup FiftyThree called out Facebook publicly for using their brand name. Facebook declined to change the name of their brand new reader app. — But FiftyThree has taken action to protect its brand name.

Jacob Kleinman / TechnoBuffalo:

AT&T Ends $450 Offer to Switch From T-Mobile — AT&T is no longer offering a full $450 in credit when you switch over from T-Mobile, a point T-Mobile CEO John Legere made on Twitter today. … TechnoBuffalo reached out to AT&T for an explanation and a spokesperson said that the offer …

More: Gigaom, Digits, DSLreports, Re/code, FierceWireless, CNET, AndroidGuys, GeekWire, Electronista and Geeky Gadgets. Tweets: @johnlegere. See also Mediagazer

Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku:

Microsoft's Kinect Is Now Guarding the Korean Border — North Korea and South Korea are separated by the most heavily armed border on Earth. But rest easy, there's a new guard on the lookout: Kinect. — Self-taught South Korean programmer Jae Kwan Ko developed a Kinect-based software system …

More: GameSpot, Polygon, Business Insider, T3 News, The Verge, Geeky Gadgets, SlashGear, I4U News, Engadget, Windows Phone Central, VG247, CNET, Softpedia News, Geek.com and Mashable

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:

ARM Royalty Growth Slows as Cheap Smartphones Take Over — ARM Holdings Plc (ARM), the semiconductor designer whose products power Apple Inc.'s iPhone and iPad, reported slower growth in royalty revenues in the fourth quarter as the market for high-end smartphones cooled.

More: New York Times, Gigaom, Telegraph, Reuters, RTTNews, Inquirer, Guardian and Wall Street Journal

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Telefónica lands exclusive deal to bring chat app Line to Firefox OS in Europe and Latin America — Mobile operator Telefónica has announced a partnership with Line, the messaging service from Japan with over 300 million registered users. The deal is Line's first with an overseas carrier …

More: TechCrunch, Gigaom, Re/code and Tech in Asia. Tweets: @angeljimenez

Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:

Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon Existing Users — When Adobe announced their new DRM a couple weeks ago some said that we would soon see compatibility issues with older devices and apps as Adobe forced everyone to upgrade. — At that time I didn't think Adobe …

More: TechLifeWeb. Tweets: @thesfreader and @fakebaldur. See also Mediagazer

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