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February 4, 2014, 8:15 PM

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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 …

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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.

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Tweets: @karaswisher and @toddbishop

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: CNN, eWeek, The Switch, Digits, Tech Trader Daily, IntoMobile and GeekWire. Tweets: @karaswisher

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

With Nadella's Appointment, The “Search CEOs” Now Run Google, Yahoo & Microsoft — Satya Nadella being named CEO of Microsoft isn't just big news for Microsoft. It's big news for search. For the first time in ages, the three major search companies in the US are all run by CEOs who either came …

More: Search Engine Watch. Tweets: @bill_gross and @pmarca

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Longtime Developer Scott Guthrie to Lead Microsoft's Server Group, for Now — With Satya Nadella becoming CEO, a vacancy was left atop the Server and Enterprise Group he had been running. — Microsoft confirmed late Tuesday that corporate VP Scott Guthrie, who has been leading Windows Azure efforts …

More: ReadWrite and Dice News

Microsoft Corporation:

Steve Ballmer email to employees on new CEO

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Kara Swisher / Re/code:

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

More: Computerworld, Guardian, Forbes and Valleywag

Bloomberg:

Thompson Replacing Gates as Microsoft Chairman in Revamp

More: Bloomberg and ZDNet

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.

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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: Los Angeles Times, Computerworld, Engadget, ABC News, NYT Bits, iDownloadBlog.com, Digits, SiliconBeat, CNBC, Motherboard, ZDNet, The Next Web and Slate. Tweets: @ranjanxroy

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

YouTube co-founder: Mixbit isn't shutting down — YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley denied reports Tuesday that his video remix platform Mixbit is shutting down. Hurley took to Twitter to contradict a VentureBeat article that claimed MixBit was about to fold:

More: The Next Web. Tweets: @chad_hurley

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

YouTube founders' startup Avos is laying off 80% of staff & killing video app Mixbit

More: Valleywag. Thanks:@tched

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Microsoft Injects $15M Into Foursquare, Strikes Licensing Deal For Location Data — The big news from Microsoft this week isn't only about its new CEO Satya Nadella. — Today, the company announced that it has made a $15 million strategic investment in Foursquare, the New York-based startup focused …

More: Digits, The Foursquare Blog, Bloomberg, NYT Bits, Re/code and ReadWrite

Tweets: @danprimack, @sarahfrier and @alex

Thanks:@austincarr

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.

More: Daring Fireball, Notes from Figure 53, Examiner, VatorNews, MacRumors, GeekWire, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, Pocketnow and SlashGear

Tweets: @viticci and @fiftythree

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple hires sleep research expert Roy J.E.M Raymann from Philips for iWatch team — Joining a longlist of Apple executives and new hires thought to be working on Apple's highly anticipated iWatch project, the company has recently picked up Roy J.E.M Raymann from Philips Research …

More: MacRumors, The Mac Observer, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@llsethj

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: Computerworld, AppleInsider, MacRumors and Gizmodo

Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal:

RadioShack to Close About 500 Stores Within Months—Sources — Electronics Retailer, Advisers Continue to Work on Restructuring — RadioShack Corp. is planning to close around 500 stores in the coming months as the electronics retailer continues working with advisers to restructure the company …

More: Gigaom Research, Business Insider, BuzzFeed and Reuters

TechCrunch:

Source: Flipagram Raising $50-$60M At A $300M Valuation From Sequoia — Buzzy mobile video app Flipagram is raising $50 to $60 million in funding at a $300 million valuation. We're hearing from a source that Sequoia is in the round. — The WSJ reported recently that Flipagram …

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Google's Schmidt gets second $100 million stock award — (Reuters) - Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will be awarded $100 million in restricted stock units, the company said on Tuesday, marking the second time in less than three years that the Internet company's former chief executive officer …

More: PC World, Re/code, CNNMoney.com, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and USA Today

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Facebook releases “Conceal,” a lightweight tool to make Android apps safer — Writing secure crypto apps is hard. Facebook hopes to make it easier. — Producing secure cryptographic code has never been easy, especially for developers cranking out smartphone apps on tight deadlines.

More: Facebook Code, The Register and Wired

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Apple and Microsoft join US carriers in $750 million commitment to education — iPads, MacBooks, Windows 2-in-1s, teacher training, and wireless broadband have all been promised as part of a wide-ranging commitment from US companies to support Barack Obama's ConnectED plan.

Washington Post:

Senate cybersecurity report finds agencies often fail to take basic preventive measures — The message broadcast in several states last winter was equal parts alarming and absurd: “Civil authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living. .

More: Techdirt, ZDNet, Gizmodo and Federal Computer Week

Shane Cole / AppleInsider:

Flash flaw could allow attackers to remotely control Macs and PCs, Adobe issues critical update — Adobe on Tuesday released a security update for their Flash Player to address a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely take control of users' computers, an exploit that the company says has been documented in the wild.

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