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February 12, 2014, 7:55 PM

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Bloomberg:

Apple to unveil updated Apple TV set-top box by April, release for holidays amid Time Warner, other partner negotiations — Apple Said to Plan New Set-Top Box Amid Time Warner Cable Talks — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is planning to introduce a new Apple TV set-top box as early as April …

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Strange bedfellows: Microsoft could bring Android apps to Windows — Of Microsoft's many challenges in mobile, none loom larger than the app deficit: it only takes a popular new title like Flappy Bird to highlight what the company is missing out on. Windows 8 apps are also few and far between …

Ryan Whitwam / Android Police:

Verizon “More Everything” Launches Tomorrow - Increased Data Caps, Lower Prices For Edge Subscribers — The big US carriers are currently falling all over themselves to tweak their plan offerings to be more competitive with each other. After changing the upgrade window of its Edge plans last month …

More: Engadget, Re/code, BGR, Gigaom, PhoneNews.com, PhoneArena, Electronista, Android Central and FierceWireless. Tweets: @vzwnews

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

IDC: Android and iOS accounted for 95.7% of global smartphone shipments in Q4 2013, and 93.8% for the year — Android and iOS accounted for 95.7 percent of all smartphone shipments in Q4 2013, and for 93.8 percent of all smartphone shipments for the whole year.

More: IDC, 9to5Google, The Register, PC World, Examiner, AppleInsider, NYT Bits, TechnoBuffalo, BGR and Business Insider

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Apple maintains enterprise dominance; Windows Phone lags

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, CITEworld, Good Technology and Re/code

Daniel Terdiman / CNET:

Steve Jobs time capsule dug up after 30 years: Exclusive video — Lost Steve Jobs mouse found after 30 years — For 30 years, a potentially priceless piece of technology history was lost somewhere beneath Aspen, Colo. — At the Aspen International Design Conference in 1983 …

More: PC Magazine, Digital Trends, The Verge, Geek.com, AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, Business Insider, Examiner, MacNN, The Mac Observer, The Technology Chronicles, 9to5Mac, SiliconBeat and SlashGear. Tweets: @dsilverman

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Slack, Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield's Business Collaboration App, Exits Beta & Goes Freemium — Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of Flickr who eventually left its acquirer Yahoo and started TinySpeck (and an ill-fated multiplayer game called Glitch), last year decided to take a different turn …

More: Gigaom, Techvibes Global News, Macworld, Engadget, ReadWrite, Fortune, Laughing Squid and VentureBeat. Thanks:@mayarahkonen

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Email Attack on Vendor Set Up Breach at Target — The breach at Target Corp. that exposed credit card and personal data on more than 110 million consumers appears to have begun with a malware-laced email phishing attack sent to employees at an HVAC firm that did business with the nationwide retailer …

More: Ars Technica, Nextgov and Business Insider

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Cisco's Q2 mixed as revenue slides, EPS exceeds target — Summary: Non-GAAP earnings were 47 cents per share on a revenue of $11.2 billion, down eight percent year-over-year. — Cisco talks a big talk when it comes to the value of the Internet of Things in the long run …

More: NVIDIA, Tech Trader Daily, Mercury News, The Register, Marketwired, PC World, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, Re/code, Wall Street Journal and CNBC

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google partners with VMware to let Chrome OS users access their Windows desktops, data, and applications — Google today announced it has partnered with VMWare to bring Windows access to Chrome OS. More specifically, if you own a Chromebook, you can now use VMware Horizon DaaS to manage …

More: Google Enterprise Blog, ZDNet, GeekWire, PC World, InfoWorld, TechCrunch, SlashGear, BetaNews, Softpedia News, CITEworld, Gigaom and 9to5Google

Jared Nelson / Touch Arcade:

‘CandySwipe’, a Game Released Two Years Before ‘Candy Crush’, is the Latest Victim of the King.com Candy Trademark “Saga” — Last month, Candy Crush Saga creator King.com angered the entire internet by announcing their intention to trademark the word “candy” (and the word “saga” but that's another, er, saga).

More: CandySwipe, AndroidGuys, IGN, Kotaku, Geek.com, Gamezebo, App Advice, Forbes, Gamasutra, GamesIndustry International and IP Osgoode

Tweets: @totalbiscuit and @bfod

Joe Brown / Wired:

A Snapchat Hack Is Sending People Pictures of Smoothies — This happened to me about an hour ago: I started getting texts from friends asking if I had intentionally snapped them photos of smoothies festooned with the URL of a scammy website. I had not. Honest mistake; I get weird on Snapchat.

More: Consumerist, VatorNews, ABC News, The Verge, Inquirer, TechCrunch, Telegraph, CNET, The Next Web, SlashGear and Business Insider

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Google's $3.2 Billion Nest Acquisition Is Now Final — Google said in a regulatory filing this morning that it closed its acquisition of Nest on February 7. — The $3.2 billion cash deal brings the smart thermostat and smoke-detecting hardware company and its team — led by Apple's former iPod head …

More: CNET, PC Magazine, The Next Web, Fortune, Ars Technica, The Verge, Electronista, SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, Cult of Mac, Engadget, 9to5Google, WebProNews and Mashable

Erin Griffith / Fortune:

Betaworks unveils Alphaworks, a new equity crowdfunding platform — The New York “startup factory” has invested $1 million alongside SV Angel and Lerer Ventures to make equity crowdfunding easier for startups. — FORTUNE — Since forming in 2008, Betaworks has launched dozens of its own products and invested in 130 startups.

More: TechCrunch. Thanks:@pe_feeds

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Nokia Lumia Icon coming to Verizon February 20th for $200 (hands-on) — Yes, Windows Phones are finally keeping up with the Joneses. Thanks to the latest update, smartphones running Microsoft's mobile OS can now have top-of-the-line components. We got a good taste of how this feels …

More: The Verge, Verizon Wireless, BetaNews, Windows Phone Central, Gigaom, LAPTOP Mag, CITEworld, Ars Technica, Computerworld, ReadWrite, The Next Web, Electronista, BGR, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile and IntoMobile

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Virgin America announces social network to help you make business contacts in the sky — As Virgin Atlantic begins testing Google Glass as a check-in tool, its American counterpart has announced the launch of a custom social network designed to connect passengers in flight.

More: Virgin America, ZDNet, Business Insider, POPSUGAR, PC World and PC Magazine. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

IBM's Watson Group Makes First Startup Investment In “Social Health Management” Pioneer, Welltok — Remember Watson? Yes, the artificially intelligent, question-answering computer system developed by IBM that trounced two former champions on Jeopardy like they were a couple of kindergartners.

More: Re/code, Venture Capital Dispatch, Digits, PE Hub Blog, bizjournals, Xconomy and Gigaom

Shara Tibken / CNET:

PCs sales may suck, but people still are buying Nvidia GPUs — Nvidia can always count on the gamers. — The Santa Clara, Calif., graphics chipmaker on Wednesday posted fiscal fourth-quarter revenue and earnings that were better than analysts had expected.

More: Tech Trader Daily

John Cook / GeekWire:

Zillow posts record net income of $2.7M as Q4 sales rise 70% — Zillow just posted another blockbuster quarter, beating analysts estimates and charging ahead of its original forecasts. The Seattle online real estate company, which was founded in 2005 by former Expedia veterans Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink …

More: Zillow, Inc., GeekWire, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Reuters and TheStreet.com

Reuters:

Toyota to recall 1.9 mln Prius cars for software defect in hybrid system — Toyota Motor Corp on Wednesday issued a recall covering all 1.9 million of the third-generation Prius cars sold worldwide, due to a programming glitch in their hybrid system. — About half of the recalls are in Japan …

More: Toyota, New York Times, Bloomberg, Daily Mail, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, Geek.com, Gizmodo, The Verge and WebProNews

Tweets: @ryan and @ryan

Grant Gross / PC World:

White House pushes cybersecurity framework for critical infrastructure — A new cybersecurity framework released Wednesday by U.S. President Barack Obama's administration aims to help operators of critical infrastructure develop comprehensive cybersecurity programs.

More: The White House, The Register, The Switch, Re/code, Engadget, ZDNet, Associated Press and NYT Bits

David Shepardson / The Detroit News:

Ford tells Congress it protects, collects some driver data — Washington — Ford Motor Co. told Congress that it collects some vehicle location data, but only to help drivers and “troubleshoot and improve our products.” — The Dearborn automaker said it collects limited data …

More: The Verge and Adweek

Zach Rodgers / AdExchanger:

Facebook Drops Two Mobile Ad Partners For Keeping Data Too Long — Facebook has cut two partners from its mobile ad measurement program for failing to honor its policies around data retention and disclosure, AdExchanger has learned. — The companies, HasOffers and Kontagent …

More: Re/code, Marketing Land, Gigaom and Adotas

Mark Scott / NYT Bits:

Supercell Revenue and Profit Soars — LONDON - Supercell, the Finnish gaming company behind the popular Clash of Clans and Hay Day franchises, has pretty good reason to be happy. — On Wednesday, the tech company announced that its revenue had risen almost ninefold last year, to $892 million, compared with 2012.

More: Reuters, Gamasutra, TechCrunch, CNET, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat and Associated Press

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