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February 7, 2014, 2:25 PM

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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Tim Cook Says Apple Working on ‘Some Really Great Stuff’ in New Product Categories — Apple will launch products in new categories and the company is working on “really great stuff”, according to an interview with CEO Tim Cook in The Wall Street Journal this evening.

Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:

Apple Repurchases $14B of Own Shares in 2 Weeks — CEO Cook Says Company Wanted to Be ‘Aggressive’ and ‘Opportunistic’ — CUPERTINO, Calif. - Apple Inc. has bought $14 billion of its own shares in the two weeks since reporting financial results that disappointed Wall Street, Chief Executive Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal.

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Tweets: @michyuan, @sammywalrusiv, @sandycannold and @drewdowell

Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:

NSA struggles with cellphone coverage, collects only 20% or less of total US call data — NSA Collects 20% or Less of U.S. Call Data — Program Doesn't Cover Records for Most Cellphones — WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency's phone-data program, which has been at the center …

More: Washington Post, VentureBeat, Techdirt, Ars Technica and Gizmodo. Tweets: @gorman_siobhan

Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:

NSA Collects 20% or Less of U.S. Call Data — The National Security Agency phone-data program has been described by lawmakers as collecting records on virtually every phone call placed in the U.S. In fact, it collects data for about 20% or less of that data.

More: Engadget and SlashGear

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

FISA Court Agrees To Changes That Limit NSA's Ability To Query Phone Records

More: Ars Technica, IC ON THE RECORD, NationalJournal.com, Just Security, Nextgov and McClatchy Washington Bureau

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

Apple, Google, Microsoft: Where does the money come from? — Summary: If you want to know why big tech companies act the way they do, follow the money. Based on the latest SEC filings, Apple's still a successful hardware company, and Google's still in the advertising business.

More: Apple Gazette and BGR India. Tweets: @alexdc and @marypcbuk

Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits:

California Bill Would Require Antitheft Technology for Cellphones — A smartphone is sleek, compact and valuable, which makes it a perfect target for a thief. Californian lawmakers want to require cellphone companies to fix that problem. — In the last year, officials in San Francisco …

More: MacRumors, The Technology Chronicles, VentureBeat, internetretailer.com, PC Magazine, DSLreports, Network World, AndroidGuys, PhoneNews.com, FierceWireless, CNET, Engadget and bizjournals

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

GoPro Files For IPO As The Action Camera Maker Prepares To Go Public — Action camera company GoPro has filed the initial documents for its initial public offering, according to a press release from the company this morning and confirmed by GoPro to TechCrunch.

More: PR Newswire, Forbes, The Verge, PC Magazine, Re/code, The Technology Chronicles, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, PE Hub Blog and Skift. Thanks:@anthonyha

Cade Metz / Wired:

Facebook Deploys Robots to Save Blu-ray From Extinction — One day, your Facebook photos will sit in the hands of robots. — Behind the scenes at Mark Zuckerberg's social networking giant, Facebook engineers have already built these robots, and one of them was on display last week in downtown San Jose …

More: SlashGear

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

Google Asks French Court to Suspend Privacy Notification Order — Order Forces Google to Notify Users of a Privacy Fine on its French Home Page — PARIS—Google Inc. asked a French court Thursday to suspend an order forcing it to notify users of a privacy fine on its French home page …

More: The Verge, ZDNet, Engadget, Marketing Land and ZDNet

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Facebook Now Lets You Edit Your “Look Back” Movie — Earlier this week, we learned that Facebook would soon let you edit the automatically-generated “Look Back” videos the company had made to celebrate Facebook's 10th anniversary. — Sure enough: they just launched the editor.

More: TechCrunch, I4U News, SlashGear and AllFacebook

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Rdio teams up with Tesla for its first automotive integration — Music subscription service Rdio is getting into the automotive game, and it's got an interesting partner for its first integration: Tesla is going to use Rdio as its default dashboard audio service in Europe …

More: Engadget, Electronista, TechnoBuffalo, The Next Web and SlashGear

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

LinkedIn kills its Intro email service after less than four months — LinkedIn just announced that it'll be shutting down Intro, a service meant to integrate LinkedIn contact details right into the iOS Mail app, after less than four months. LinkedIn simply said it was discontinuing the service …

More: The Next Web, blog.linkedin.com, Re/code and TechCrunch

Kashyap Deorah / OpenTable Blog:

Pay Your Check with OpenTable Mobile: Pilot Payment Program Launches in San Francisco — First, OpenTable made it simple to book a restaurant reservation at any time of day or night with just a few clicks. Now, we're pleased to announce that it will soon be just as easy to pay for your meal.

More: TechCrunch, VatorNews, iMore, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, App Advice, Eater National, MacRumors and The Next Web

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

OpenTable Buys Ness For $17.3M To Beef Up Mobile And Restaurant Recommendations

More: Press Room, PE Hub Blog, VatorNews, Press Room, Internet2Go, silicontap.com, Re/code, bizjournals, Skift, App Advice and Eater National

Tweets: @jess and @chloepark

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Beats In Q4 With Revenue Of $447.2M, But Growth Concerns Dampen After Hours Trading — Today, following the close of regular trading, LinkedIn reported its fourth-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $447.2 million and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.39 .

More: blog.linkedin.com, SiliconANGLE, SocialTimes, TheDomains.com, Reuters, VatorNews, GeekWire, VatorNews, Re/code, MarketWatch, ZDNet, Gigaom, Forbes and Tech Trader Daily

Mike Isaac / Re/code:

LinkedIn to Acquire Job-Seeking Site Bright for $120 Million

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