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February 6, 2014, 11:35 AM

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TechCrunch:

Amazon Acquires Video Gaming Studio Double Helix Games — Amazon has acquired a gaming studio called Double Helix Games, TechCrunch has learned, and Amazon now confirms. The deal was for both talent and IP, we understand. Financial terms have not been disclosed.

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iWatch time: Apple seeking physiologists to run fitness, energy expenditure tests — Apple has published a job listing on its website seeking physiologists and engineers to run tests related to health and fitness data. This job will require the employees to “design and run user studies related …

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Business Insider, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, I4U News and Softpedia News. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@apollozac

Robert McMillan / Wired:

Apple pulls popular Bitcoin wallet app Blockchain from App Store, used by over a million people — Apple Yanks World's Most Popular Bitcoin Wallet From App Store — Apple has removed the world's most popular bitcoin wallet from its App Store. — Late Wednesday, the tech giant yanked …

Bloomberg:

HTC Sees New Devices and Fresh Marketing Push Driving Turnaround — HTC Corp. (2498) said an updated version of the One smartphone, its first wearable device and a renewed focus on marketing will help turn around the company this year after two straight annual declines in revenue.

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Sony to exit VAIO PC business, spin off TV business, cut 5000 jobs worldwide — Sony sells its VAIO PC business, makes TV arm its own subsidiary — Sony said it was “addressing various options” as recently as yesterday when it came to its VAIO PC and laptop arm, and while announcing …

More: Sony Global, New York Times, VentureBeat, Gigaom, ZDNet, Android Central, InfoWorld, BGR, Re/code, It's a Gadget, WebProNews, TechEye, MobileBurn.com, BetaNews, Tech in Asia, Tech Trader Daily, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, DisplayBlog, Reuters, TechSpot, Geek.com, Inquirer, Xperia Blog, SlashGear, CNET, The Next Web, Electronista, IntoMobile, Ubergizmo, Agence France Presse, CNET and BBC. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Richard Byrne Reilly / VentureBeat:

New York Police Department is beta-testing Google Glass — Caption: Google Glass: watching me, watching you. — Source: Jolie O'Dell/VentureBeat — Google Glass may soon become a favored tool for law enforcement agencies in the United States. — The New York City Police Department's massive …

More: Betabeat, Glass Almanac, Digital Trends, bizjournals, Gizmodo, Geeky Gadgets, SocialTimes, Softpedia News and 9to5Google. Tweets: @digiphile

Saqib Iqbal Ahmed / Reuters:

Twitter stock opens down 25%, wiping out about $9.8 billion in market value — Investors dump Twitter stock as results divide Wall Street — (Reuters) - Twitter Inc's shares fell almost 25 percent on Thursday, wiping out about $9.8 billion in market value, after the company reported a sharp slowdown in user growth.

More: TechCrunch, Associated Press, Business Insider, New York Post and Mashable

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Twitter Crushes With Q4 Revenue Of $242.7M, But Shows Slow User Growth To 241M Actives

More: Gigaom, SiliconANGLE, CITEworld, Adotas, Inquirer, ReadWrite, hypebot, eWeek, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, VatorNews and CNBC

Tweets: @danprimack, @mikeisaac, @sarahfkessler, @benedictevans, @johnhalton, @pkafka, @jason_kint, @tim, @mikeisaac, @twitterir and @nickbilton

Steve Hargreaves / CNN Money:

Twitter forecasts slowing sales and user growth

Tweets: @cnnmoney

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Indie smash hit ‘Flappy Bird’ racks up $50K per day in ad revenue — The enigmatic and oppressively difficult mobile game Flappy Bird has turned into quite the cash cow for Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen. In an interview with The Verge, Nguyen revealed that the game …

More: Los Angeles Times, The Next Web, CNN, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, Polygon, TechSpot, Network World, Gigaom Research, Gearburn, iPhone in Canada Blog and iPhone Hacks

Tweets: @paul_austin and @ourielohayon

Raffi Krikorian / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter Data Grants: Pilot project giving a few research institutions access to public and historical Twitter data — Introducing Twitter Data Grants — Today we're introducing a pilot project we're calling Twitter Data Grants, through which we'll give a handful of research institutions access to our public and historical data.

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, TechCrunch, Telegraph, Engadget, Forbes, Gnip Blog, TechWeekEurope UK, ZDNet, PC World, SlashGear, The Register and The Next Web

Tweets: @janamal and @audreywatters

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Google, Intellectual Ventures case over patents ends in U.S. mistrial — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday declared a mistrial in a lawsuit brought by private patent owner Intellectual Ventures against Google Inc's Motorola Mobility unit after jurors could not unanimously agree, according to an Intellectual Ventures statement.

More: Intellectual Ventures, PhoneNews.com, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, The Verge and Gigaom. Tweets: @fedcourtjunkie

Abhijeet M. / SamMobile:

EXCLUSIVE: A look at Samsung's updated S Voice app — Samsung adds a multitude of features and services on top of what Google already provides with Android, and we recently offered our readers an exclusive look on updated versions of two of those apps - S Health and WatchON.

More: IntoMobile, Geeky Gadgets, TechnoBuffalo and Phandroid

Seth Rosenblatt / CNET:

Take a trip down memory lane to Google's first data center — Before Urs Hölzle became Google's first chief engineer, he took a tour of the company's server room at the Exodus data center in Santa Clara, Calif. Not yet a Google employee, Hölzle was taken there by Google co-founder Larry Page …

More: Urs Hölzle, Data Center Knowledge and Network World. Tweets: @sethr

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

AOL's Q4 Revenue Grows To $679M But Earnings Per Share of $0.43 Fall Short Of Estimates — AOL came in ahead of analyst estimates on revenue but not earnings in its in its fourth quarter of 2013, reporting $679 million in revenue and diluted earnings per share of 43 cents.

More: VentureBeat, AdExchanger, Re/code, New York Times and Reuters. See also Mediagazer

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

PubMatic Raises $13 Million From Nokia Growth Partners — A few days after the Rubicon Project filed for an IPO, one of its competitors in the race to build fast-growing programmatic advertising platforms, PubMatic, said it had raised $13 million in new funding.

More: PE Hub Blog

Burak Akinci / AFP:

Turkey lawmakers adopt ‘Orwellian’ Internet curbs — Ankara — Turkish MPs late Wednesday adopted new Internet legislation roundly criticised as a fresh assault by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on freedom of expression, access to information and investigative journalism.

More: Associated Press, CNET, The Switch, The Verge, BBC, Al Jazeera English and Reuters

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Cisco: The U.S. officially enters the gigabyte era of mobile data consumption — Mobile users the world over came close to doubling their mobile data consumption between 2012 and 2013 as average monthly usage peaked well over 1 GB in the U.S, and several other countries …

More: Cisco Blog, internetnews.com, VideoNuze Analysis, Cisco, Reuters, NYT Bits, eWeek, Re/code and dailywireless.org. Tweets: @symantec

Reuters:

Exclusive: Former HP stars Bradley, Donatelli on brink of exit - sources — (Reuters) - Two of Hewlett-Packard Co's most powerful executives, until they were sidelined by CEO Meg Whitman, are preparing to leave the company in the coming weeks, several sources say.

More: TechWeekEurope UK, Gigaom, PandoDaily, Re/code and The Register

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Mozilla And EverythingMe Preview “Firefox Launcher”, An Android Homescreen That Fights App Overload — Mozilla wants to help you find new apps and rediscover those you downloaded but forgot. So today it previewed Firefox Launcher for Android, a homescreen replacement powered …

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Netflix Now Pulls In Almost as Much Revenue as HBO — But HBO Is Far More Profitable — Reed Hastings has positioned Netflix as an “Internet TV network,” with HBO among its chief competitors. — And now Netflix is almost as big as HBO — at least in terms of topline revenue.

More: Wall Street Journal and The Verge

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