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February 8, 2014, 4:35 PM

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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

How Milo founder Jack Abraham and a small team designed eBay's new feed in two weeks — You Can Explain eBay's $50 Billion Turnaround With Just This One Crazy Story — Back in the middle of the last decade, eBay, the massive auction site, was in trouble.

Tweets: @pierre, @semil, @hunterwalk, @anildash and @jackabraham

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Google posts large privacy violation notice on French homepage (UPDATE) — A French court on Friday refused Google's last-minute plea to suspend an order imposed by a privacy watchdog, meaning the search giant has to post a notice on its homepage for a period of 48 hours informing users …

More: Reuters, Marketing Land, Softpedia News, Washington Post and Engadget. Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts

Owen Good / Kotaku:

Creator of #1 free app Flappy Bird says he's pulling the game tomorrow — Flappy Bird's Creator Says He's Taking the Game Down — The creator of Flappy Bird, the difficult, barebones mobile game whose mere existence roiled video games discussion over the past two weeks …

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

From fashion to fitness: the experts behind Apple's wearable future — Apple has been developing a sensor-laden, fitness- and medical-focused wearable computer as indicated by several notable recent hires and information we have received from sources. — New Apple hires on both the senior executive …

More: MobileSyrup.com, ZDNet, Fortune and BGR. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@justinkahnmusic

The Coinbase Blog:

More security and granular control with the new API keys — API keys can now be customized in a number of ways. — Users can now have multiple API keys, the keys have a secret to sign requests and you can set granular permissions and whitelist IPs for each and every key separately. — Multiple API keys

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Coinbase's unusually powerful API keys made users who fell to phishing attacks more vulnerable

More: The Coinbase Blog, CoinDesk, Gigaom and Gizmodo. Tweets: @lorenzofb

Kyle Wilhoit / Trend Micro Simply Security:

Behind the NBC report that Olympic visitors can expect to be hacked: all attacks required user interaction, could happen anywhere — Details Behind the NBC Honeypots: Part 2 — Recently, I was asked by NBC to participate in an experiment to deploy honeypots in Moscow, Russia, to see how fast they would be compromised.

More: NBC Nightly News, Trend Micro Simply Security, NBC NEWS, PC Magazine, The Verge, Trend Micro Simply Security, Errata Security, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Techdirt, Motherboard, Cult of Mac, Mashable, FierceMobileIT News and Businessweek

Tweets: @cammywrites and @mikko

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Court sides with T-Mobile, bans AT&T's Aio Wireless from using magenta color — A federal court has granted T-Mobile a preliminary injunction against AT&T subsidiary Aio Wireless on grounds that the low-cost carrier's color scheme infringes on T-Mobile's iconic magenta.

Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal:

Programmatic ad tech plaform PubMatic planning IPO, aiming for a valuation of over $1B — Ad Platform PubMatic Working on IPO — PubMatic Inc., which automates the buying and selling of digital advertising space, has tapped bankers for a potential initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said.

More: VentureBeat, Bloomberg and Beet.TV

Business Insider:

Meet Shingy, AOL's Self-Proclaimed ‘Digital Prophet’ Who Has The Internet Buzzing — The Internet went bananas earlier this evening, as people began spreading a picture from an interview that was on MSNBC featuring a man with quirky-looking hair. … The man is David Shing, and here's everything you need to know about him:

More: Valleywag, msnbc, UPROXX and The Wire

Tweets: @rakeshlobster, @mitchellholder, @oliviaoshry and @drew

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

Mt. Gox suspends bitcoin withdrawals (temporarily?), market falls amid concerns of impropriety — The other shoe may have dropped for embattled Mt. Gox, the world's third-largest bitcoin exchange by volume. Last night Mt. Gox published a message on its website alerting users that it will be temporarily suspending bitcoin withdrawals.

More: InfoWorld, Computerworld and On Bitcoin

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Mozilla launches Accounts, an improved Sync feature, and a customizable UI to Firefox Aurora — Mozilla has announced several new features today designed to continue the Firefox browsing experience to any device you use. The company has announced that Accounts will be coming to the browser …

More: The Mozilla Blog, Future Releases, Softpedia News, Geeky Gadgets, The Register and TechCrunch

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.

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