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February 7, 2014, 11:00 PM

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Daisuke Wakabayashi / Digits:

Apple's Tim Cook Discusses Emerging Markets and Plans for Cash — Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company's best days are still ahead. It's not a particularly unusual message coming from a CEO. But Apple is facing pointed questions that the iPhone's growth will slow and that the company's innovative run is coming to an end.

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Three bitcoin traders charged with money-laundering in Florida after sting involving US Secret Service and local police — Florida Targets High-Dollar Bitcoin Exchangers — State authorities in Florida on Thursday announced criminal charges targeting three men who allegedly ran illegal …

More: SlashGear, CoinDesk and The Verge

Maxim Lott / Fox News:

Russia bans bitcoins — If you're going to the Sochi Olympics in Russia, don't bring bitcoins. Yesterday the Russian Prosecutor General's office released a statement that clearly prohibits Russians from using the new digital currency. — “Bitcoin is a money substitute and cannot be used …

More: TechCrunch, RT, BetaNews, Salon, VentureBeat, HotHardware.com News, The Register, Russia Beyond The Headlines, Wired, The Voice of Russia, News, USA Today and Hit & Run. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

“Veep” for Geeks! Here's the Teaser for HBO's Upcoming “Silicon Valley” — On April 6, HBO will debut a new half-hour comedy show that takes on the high-tech world, titled “Silicon Valley.” — It's a rainy Friday in winter, so let's all pick our heads up from our smartphones …

More: TechCrunch, The Verge and SlashGear

Tom Warren / The Verge:

New Windows 8.1 Update 1 leak reveals boot-to-desktop and UI changes — A near-final version of Windows 8.1 Update 1 has leaked online today, revealing what appear to be final changes that Microsoft is making to its upcoming update. While Microsoft has been testing changes during the beta phase …

More: Windows Phone Central and Softpedia News

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, Engadget, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Techdirt, The Verge and Gizmodo. Tweets: @gorman_siobhan

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

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

More: Ars Technica, IC ON THE RECORD, ODNI Newsroom Feed, NationalJournal.com, SlashGear, 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: @thurrott, @marypcbuk and @alexdc

Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence:

Mastercard and Visa to switch from swipe-and-sign credit cards to PIN based cards by Oct 2015 — October 2015: The End of the Swipe-and-Sign Credit Card … It's a payment ritual as familiar as handing over a $20 bill, and it's soon to go extinct: prepare to say farewell to the swipe-and-sign of a credit card transaction.

More: Business Insider, TechSpot and Skift

Tweets: @vivekmaya, @jeffwilcox and @frankluntz

Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:

Hackers can use Snapchat to disable iPhones, researcher says — A cyber security researcher has discovered a vulnerability within the Snapchat mobile app that makes it possible for hackers to launch a denial-of-service attack that temporarily freezes a user's iPhone.

More: TechCrunch, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com and The Next Web. Thanks:@sal19

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Alleged Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Pleads Not Guilty On All Charges — Last November, Ross Ulbricht's lawyer Joshua Dratel told reporters only hours after first meeting his client that he planned to show that Ulbricht is not the “Dread Pirate Roberts” who created the Silk Road anonymous drug site.

More: PC World, Reuters, Associated Press, Mashable, The Verge, The Daily Beast, CoinDesk, NY Daily News and Bloomberg

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: Forbes, StreetInsider.com, PandoDaily, Digital Media Wire, San Francisco Chronicle, Venture Capital Dispatch, Businessweek, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, Digital Trends, The Verge, TechSpot, Skift, Business Insider, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog and The Technology Chronicles. Thanks:@anthonyha

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: blog.linkedin.com, The Next Web, The Technology Chronicles, ReadWrite, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Re/code, iMore and VentureBeat

Diane Bartz / Reuters:

DOJ ends probe of Samsung's essential patents use after sales ban veto by Obama Administration — U.S. ends probe of Samsung's use of essential patents — (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department will close its investigation into Samsung Electronics' use of a special class of essential patents …

More: The United States Department …, Gigaom, The Verge, AppleInsider, Associated Press, Electronista, CNET and Sammy Hub

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