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February 13, 2014, 5:05 AM

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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:

Comcast to Buy Time Warner Cable in $44.2 Billion All-Stock Deal, Says CNBC — CNBC's David Faber this evening tweeted that multiple unnamed sources have indicated him Comcast (CMCSA) will announce tomorrow a deal to purchase Time Warner Cable (TWC) for $159 per share, in an all-stock deal.

David Gelles / DealBook:

Comcast Set to Acquire Time Warner Cable for $45 Billion — Comcast will announce a deal to acquire Time Warner Cable in an all-stock deal worth more than $45 billion that will unite the biggest and second largest cable television operators in the country, according to people briefed on the matter.

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Here's Why the Biggest Cable Company in the Country Thinks It Can Get Bigger — So Comcast, in a sort-of surprise, is going to end up buying all of Time Warner Cable for itself. — If you are a regular person, and you hear that the biggest cable company in the country is going to buy …

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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 …

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Here's What the New Apple TV Could Look Like (Hint: Check Your iPad) — Apple is reportedly prepping a new version of Apple TV, which would work like a cable set-top box. Apple is working with Time Warner Cable to launch the device this year, Bloomberg says.

More: Gigaom, MacRumors and The Verge. Tweets: @fmanjoo

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 …

More: Phandroid, GeekWire, TechnoBuffalo, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, Lifehacker, Gigaom, It's a Gadget, BetaNews, Business Insider, Pocketnow, MobileBurn.com, Pocket-lint, Examiner and BestTechie. Tweets: @jbrodkin

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

An Android-embracing strategy is technically possible, but could demotivate Microsoft's developer base

More: LiveSino and GeekWire. Tweets: @maryjofoley

Yoni Heisler / TUAW:

A look at Apple's R&D expenditures from 1995-2013 — For a company that makes as much money as Apple, you might be surprised to learn that it spends far less on Research and Development (R&D) than many of its competitors, including bigwigs like Google, Microsoft, and Samsung.

More: MacDailyNews. Tweets: @hkanji and @pmarca. Thanks:@anderzole

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Gary Vaynerchuk Launches New $25 Million Seed Fund — Gary Vaynerchuk, the well-known entrepreneur, is launching a $25 million seed fund, which is backed by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross. — In an interview, Vaynerchuk said it was not a “pure investment play,” but will focus on operating …

Tweets: @garyvee and @marshallk

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: Droid Life, Engadget, Re/code, CNET, PhoneNews.com, Examiner, App Advice, FierceWireless, Electronista, PhoneArena, Gigaom, The Verge, Android Central and BGR. 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: Business Wire, AppleInsider, 9to5Google, MobileSyrup.com, WinBeta, The Register, PC World, Examiner, NYT Bits, My Nokia Blog, ZDNet, Business Insider, BGR and TechnoBuffalo

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Apple maintains enterprise dominance; Windows Phone lags

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors and CITEworld. Tweets: @atestu

Chitika:

Tablet Hourly Usage Study: iPad Dominates, Surface Users More Active During Working Hours — Microsoft has positioned its Surface tablets as devices more fit for work activities as compared to those from other manufacturers. The question remains though, are Surface tablets actually being used …

More: PC Magazine, PadGadget, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog and Fortune

Tweets: @dujkan and @benbajarin

Kurt Wagner / Mashable:

Facebook Testing ‘Water Taxi’ to Shuttle Employees From San Francisco — All aboard the Facebook ferry. — The social network launched a private ferry service last week that will shuttle employees between San Francisco and Redwood City, just a few miles from company headquarters in Menlo Park …

More: The Technology Chronicles, SiliconBeat and Business Insider. Thanks:@kurtwagner8

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, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, Gamasutra, Adotas and Gigaom

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Dropbox Hires Google's Woodside as Operating Chief — Company Veteran Was Motorola CEO Under Google — Dropbox Inc., the fast-growing online storage company, plans to name Google Inc. executive Dennis Woodside as its first chief operating officer, according to three people familiar with the matter.

More: Gigaom, The Verge, CNET, Android Central, Re/code, SlashGear, Pulse 2.0, Engadget, Business Insider, Droid Life, 9to5Google and Pocket-lint

Tweets: @jessicalessin, @msuster, @gassee, @amir and @hunterwalk

Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:

Netflix's Streaming Quality Is Based On Business Decisions by Netflix & ISPs, Not Net Neutrality — Over the past two days, there's been some news articles suggesting that some ISPs, like Verizon, may be purposely throttling or slowing Netflix's video content over their last mile network, because of the recent Net Neutrality rulings.

Thanks:@danrayburn

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

ISP lobby has already won limits on public broadband in 20 states — We must stop the proliferation of Internet! — South Park Studios — It's no secret that private Internet service providers hate when cities and towns decide to enter the telecommunications business themselves.

More: Consumerist

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Marc Andreessen: Tech Is Still Recovering From A Depression — Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and Goldman Sachs COO Gary Cohn sat down today at the Goldman Sachs conference in San Francisco, to talk about the thing investors always talk about: Tech.

Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:

Datacoup will pay you $8/month to track your social media accounts and credit-card transactions — Startup Datacoup Will Pay You $8 a Month If You Feed It Data from Facebook, Twitter, and Your Credit Card — A startup called Datacoup is far from the only tech company hoping to get rich …

More: VCPOST and Motherboard. Tweets: @techreview

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Finally, here come the 64-bit Windows 8.1 tablets — At least one major PC maker is expected to show an Intel “Bay Trail” tablet running 64-bit Windows 8.1 at Mobile World Congress, according to a source familiar with upcoming plans for those tablets. — Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo …

More: TechSpot and The Tech Report

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Ahead of Acquisition Binge, Lenovo Quarterly Revenue Tops $10 Billion for First Time — Lenovo, which is in the process of buying IBM's server business and Google's Motorola phone business, said Thursday that its existing business topped $10 billion in quarterly revenue, a first for the company.

More: Lenovo Newsroom, Bloomberg, ZDNet, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Digits, Emerging Markets Daily, New York Times, Electronista, BBC, CNET and SlashGear

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Mt. Gox's Original Creator Is At Work On A Secret Bitcoin Project — In what should be one of the greatest and weirdest pivots of all time, Jed McCaleb transformed Mt. Gox (short for Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange) from a card-trading platform into what became the world's one-time leading Bitcoin exchange.

More: Business Spectator, Guardian and eWeek. Thanks:@ryanlawler

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Inside Endgame: A Second Act For The Blackwater Of Hacking — In the classic hacker career narrative, a juvenile genius breaks into the Internet's most sensitive networks, gets caught and then settles into a lucrative corporate gig selling his skills for defense.

Tweets: @kashhill and @bupbin. Thanks:@kashhill

Ian Birnbaum / PC Gamer:

Source: Former Steam head Jason Holtman has left Microsoft — Photo by Dan Griliopoulos. — Microsoft's often troubled relationship with PC gaming took a positive step in our eyes when the company hired Jason Holtman, previously the head of Steam at Valve, last summer.

More: Neowin, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Joystiq, SlashGear, Polygon and Blue's News

Tweets: @verge and @elahti

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