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February 27, 2014, 7:10 PM

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Guardian:

GCHQ, aided by NSA, intercepted and stored webcam images of millions of global Yahoo users — UK spy agency intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users — • Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk — • 1.8m users targeted by GCHQ in six-month period alone

More: New York Times, PandoDaily, TheHill, PC Magazine, Computerworld, CNET, ZDNet, Ars Technica, Techdirt, Gizmodo, Mercury News, Los Angeles Times, Geekosystem, Guardian, Telegraph, The Next Web, The Register, DSLreports, Slate, Charlie's Diary, TechSpot, The Verge, Forbes, BGR, BetaNews, VentureBreak, It's a Gadget, Softpedia News, Gigaom, Gawker, Boing Boing, Digital Trends, Inquirer, Fox News, The Technology Chronicles, Electronista, USA Today, Ubergizmo, BBC, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Wired.co.uk, Engadget, Mashable, emptywheel and TechPresident Thanks:@zackwhittaker

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Amazon Talks to Music Labels About a Streaming Service — Amazon gives away movies and TV shows to people who join its Amazon Prime subscription service. When will it start giving away music, too? — Maybe this year. People have been predicting that Amazon would offer a Spotify …

More: The Verge, MacRumors, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Next Web, 5by5 Master Audio Feed, TechnoBuffalo, Pocket-lint, App Advice and SlashGear

Steven Russolillo / Wall Street Journal:

Yellen on Bitcoin: Fed Doesn't Have Authority to Regulate It in Any Way … Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen said the central bank doesn't have the authority to regulate bitcoin. — “The Federal Reserve simply does not have authority to supervise or regulate bitcoin in any way,” …

More: Business Insider, Engadget, TechCrunch, Guardian and Reuters

Tweets: @obra and @onemanatatime

Fred Wilson / AVC:

Fred Wilson to Senator Manchin: “Benefits of Bitcoin will be as important, impactful, and beneficial as that of the Internet”

More: Union Square Ventures, The Verge, Feld Thoughts, The Switch, Wall Street Journal, Inquirer, Bloomberg View, Mashable, SiliconANGLE, CoinDesk, ITworld.com, Engadget, Ars Technica and Bitcoin Foundation

Tweets: @fredwilson, @bradusv and @polemitis

Daniel Terdiman / CNET:

It's official: Google Barge moving to Stockton — The guessing game about Google Barge's future destination after leaving its current construction site on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay is over. — CNET has confirmed that Google Barge will be heading to Stockton, Calif. (a move we first reported was imminent).

More: Associated Press, Lastest ITProPortal news, Softpedia News and SiliconBeat

Tweets: @clairecm and @mikeisaac

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Google donates $6.8 million to fund free transit rides for San Francisco youth — Amid widespread protests over tech companies' use of public transit infrastructure, Google said today it would fund two years of free transit rides for San Francisco youth. The $6.8 million grant …

More: Los Angeles Times, sfmayor.org, New York Times, Associated Press, bizjournals and NBC Bay Area

Tweets: @benioff, @_danilo, @bhaggs and @mattyglesias

eBay, Inc.:

eBay chairman Omidyar defends board members, CEO against Icahn attack, says PayPal should remain part of the company — Statement by Pierre Omidyar, eBay Inc. Chairman of the Board — I am eBay Inc.'s founder, board chairman and largest shareholder. — A new eBay shareholder, Carl Icahn …

More: Digital Media Wire, ZDNet, USA Today, Shareholders Square Table, CNET, CNNMoney.com, TechCrunch and GeekWire

Tweets: @pierre and @pmarca

Steven Perlberg / Business Insider:

Carl Icahn Goes After The eBay Board In A New Open Letter With 6 Facts

More: Shareholders Square Table and Guardian. Tweets: @cnbc

Todd Spangler / Variety:

ABC will live-stream Oscars on web and mobile only to pay-TV subscribers in select markets — ABC Will Live-Stream Oscars to Web, Mobile Apps for First Time — But There's a Catch — Alphabet net to offer kudocast through Watch ABC apps and website, accessible only through certain pay-TV partners

More: USA Today, The Verge, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iMore, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, Yahoo Tech, Engadget and CNET. Tweets: @zseward. See also Mediagazer

Steven Brill / TIME:

How an ad-hoc team of outside coders and troubleshooters revived HealthCare.gov — Obama's Trauma Team — How an unlikely group of high-tech wizards revived Obama's troubled HealthCare.gov website — more than two weeks after the launch of HealthCare.gov—White House chief …

Tweets: @jonfoxux, @ferlatte and @benlabolt

Luke Baker / Reuters:

Europe invites Apple, Google to discuss ‘in-app’ purchases — (Reuters) - The European Commission announced plans on Thursday to tackle one of the scourges of the modern age - games on tablets and mobile phones that allow adults and children to rack up vast credit card bills by making “in-app” purchases.

More: EU Press Room, BGR, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocket-lint, Dow Jones Newswires, Gigaom, iDownloadBlog.com …, bizjournals and MobileBurn.com

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Salesforce Q4 Beats Street, as CFO Smith Plans Exit — Cloud software company Salesforce.com just announced quarterly earnings results that were slightly better than what analysts had estimated, and the company announced that CFO Graham Smith will retire next year.

More: PR Newswire, Business Insider, PC World, ZDNet and ZDNet

Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

Tinder: Now Doing 750 Million Swipes & 10 Million Matches Per Day … Hot dating app Tinder is doing 750 million “swipes” per day that lead to 10 million introductions, up from 5 million matches in December. — The latest stats came from Tinder founder and CEO Sean Rad, speaking at Upfront Summit …

More: Business Insider and Los Angeles Times

Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:

Warner Bros. considering $10M-15M investment in gaming-centric video network Machinima — Warner Bros. Considers Investment in Machinima — Warner Bros. is mulling an investment in Web video network Machinima. — The film studio is said to be considering putting $10 million to $15 million …

More: VentureBeat and Tubefilter. Tweets: @benfritz. See also Mediagazer

Greg Sterling / Marketing Land:

Pew's “The Web at 25”: 87% of Americans use the Internet, social media ranked easy to quit — Survey: Of Major Technologies, Social Media Is The Easiest To Give Up — Based on a new survey of just over 1,000 US adults, the Pew Research Center has released findings commemorating the 25th anniversary of the web.

More: Pew Internet, Pew Internet, Poynter, Washington Post, Computerworld, PC World and internetretailer.com

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Facebook Messenger for Windows will shut down on March 3 — Facebook today began prompting Facebook Messenger for Windows users with a message saying the app is shutting down next week. Without much of an explanation, the company plans to kill off Windows support for Facebook Messenger on March 3.

More: PC Magazine, SlashGear, Marketing Pilgrim, PC World, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, gHacks Technology News, Engadget and AllFacebook. Thanks:@epro

Tim Stevens / CNET:

Ford ‘not married’ to Microsoft for next-gen Sync, but BlackBerry isn't necessarily in — BARCELONA, Spain — There's been no shortage of talk and speculation of late surrounding Ford's relationship with Microsoft. — Microsoft has, since the beginning of Sync, provided the software underpinnings …

More: DailyTech, CrackBerry.com, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Ars Technica and Softpedia News

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

T-Mobile has turned every accepted practice in the mobile phone business on its head — T-Mobile Turns an Industry on Its Ear — A rash of consumer-friendliness has broken out across the mobile data industry. Over the last year, the four major carriers — AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile …

More: Quartz. Tweets: @alexisohanian and @johnlegere

David Pierce / The Verge:

Moov is a fitness tracker that tells you how to improve your workouts — Meet Moov, the fitness tracker that turns Siri into your new personal trainer — Nikola Hu is running wrong. He's loping along, leaning back as he goes. Suddenly a voice emerges from his phone: “Your cadence is low.

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Gizmodo, Gigaom, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com …, iMore, Liliputing, Co.Design, USA Today, SlashGear, Fortune, Pocket-lint, CNET, Mashable, Ubergizmo and MacRumors

Eric Johnson / Re/code:

A Long Tail of Whales: Half of Mobile Games Money Comes From 0.15 Percent of Players — Oh, you've spent a couple dollars on Candy Crush? How cute. — In a mobile monetization report released today, app testing firm Swrve found that in January, half of free-to-play games' in-app purchases came from 0.15 percent of players.

More: VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, Inc.com, Guardian, Joystiq, destructoid and www.pocketgamer.biz. Tweets: @codinghorror

Associated Press:

California Court: Drivers Can Read Cellphone Maps … FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Drivers in California can legally read a map on their hand-held cellphones while behind the wheel, a state appeals court ruled Thursday. — The 5th District Court of Appeal reversed the case of a Fresno man …

More: TechCrunch, The Verge and 9to5Google

Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com:

Here's How The Comcast & Netflix Deal Is Structured, With Data & Numbers — There's been a lot of speculation involving the business and technical details surrounding the recent deal between Comcast and Netflix and plenty of wrong numbers and information being used.

More: Daring Fireball. Tweets: @gigastacey. Thanks:@danrayburn

Jake Smith / Pocket-lint:

Minecraft movie in the works as it crosses 100 million registered users — Hit video game Minecraft will be hitting the big screen, the game's creator Markus Persson announced on Thursday. — “Someone is trying leak the fact that we're working with Warner Brothers on a potential Minecraft Movie,” Persson tweeted.

More: Deadline.com, The Verge, Polygon, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Gamasutra, ComingSoon.net, Develop Feed, Geekosystem and Lazygamer .:. Tweets: @notch

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