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March 13, 2014, 1:45 PM

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Businessweek:

Target could have stopped theft of 40M credit card numbers after security alarms, but didn't — Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It — The biggest retail hack in U.S. history wasn't particularly inventive, nor did it appear destined for success.

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple developing Preview and TextEdit apps for iOS to view files stored in iCloud by OS X versions — iOS 8: Apple works to further push iCloud as the future of the file system — When Apple introduced both iOS and iCloud, its goal was to eliminate the classic file system found in Mac OS X …

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Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Just a Month After Google Capital Funding, Renaissance Learning Sells for $1.1B — Google Capital valued Renaissance Learning at $1 billion when it put $40 million into the educational assessment company in mid-February. Just a month later, Renaissance Learning is worth $1.1 billion …

More: VatorNews, SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, PE Hub Blog, Fortune and WebProNews

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Event ticketing platform Eventbrite has raised around $50M in new funding at a valuation of over $1B — Exclusive: Eventbrite joins $1 billion club — Popular event ticketing company raises around $50 million in new round of funding at a big valuation. — FORTUNE — Event ticketing …

More: The Technology Chronicles, VatorNews, Re/code, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Tweets: @rafat and @danprimack

Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

Amazon is raising the price of Prime to $99/year, adds same-day Prime Fresh delivery for $299/year — Amazon Prime customers, who have been paying $79 per year for unlimited two-day shipping and other perks, will pay $99 per year when their membership renews. Here's the text I saw on my Prime page this morning (h/t @sarahw):

More: PandoDaily, Fortune, VatorNews, BetaNews, Inquirer, Business Insider, CNET, CNNMoney.com, AppleInsider, Tech Trader Daily, iMore, The Verge, Quartz, Re/code, GeekWire, The Switch, Ars Technica, Examiner, TechCrunch, Variety, VentureBeat, internetretailer.com, ZDNet, ReadWrite, Wall Street Journal, BGR, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Engadget, Reuters, Bloomberg, NBC Bay Area, WebProNews and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @om

Javed Anwer / Times of India:

Sources: Microsoft makes Windows Phone OS free for two Indian phone makers — MS offers Windows Phone OS free to Indian players — NEW DELHI: Desperate times call for desperate measures. With Windows Phone failing to make a significant dent in the market share of Google's Android …

Mark Milian / Bloomberg:

Masayoshi Son on how Softbank scored the deal to become iPhone's exclusive carrier in Japan — How Steve Jobs Got the iPhone Into Japan — The iPhone, it's safe to say, is big in Japan. Toward the end of last year, three out of every four smartphones sold in Japan were iPhones …

More: AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechSpot, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, The Loop, MobileBurn.com, MacDailyNews and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @iankennedy. Thanks:@srikardr

Bloomberg:

Starbucks Plans to Test Mobile Ordering This Year — Starbucks Corp. (SBUX), the world's largest coffee-shop operator, will test a smartphone service this year that lets customers order items ahead of time at some U.S. cafes, part of a push to promote its mobile application.

More: GeekWire, CNET, Consumerist, Shiny Shiny, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget and Businessweek

Bloomberg:

Facebook unveils 15-second video ads selling for $1M-$2.5M a day, targets TV marketing budgets — Facebook Unveils Video Ads to Court TV's Market — Facebook Inc. (FB) is releasing its long-awaited video-advertising product today, as the world's largest social network moves to diversify …

More: facebook.com, Re/code, The Next Web, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Business Insider and Mashable

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

United Airlines introducing iOS-exclusive in-flight movie service in April — United Airline to Intro In-Flight Movie Service Starting in April Exclusively for Apple iDevices — Starting this April, United Airlines will roll out a new personal device entertainment system onboard select aircraft …

More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, PC Magazine, ReelSEO Video Marketing, PadGadget, MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Cult of Mac, TechnoBuffalo, everythingiCafe, Apple Gazette, TechCrunch, MacRumors, SlashGear and App Advice

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Banjo Raises $16M To Grow Its Experiential Real-Time News And Events Platform — Startup Banjo has raised a new $16 million Series B round of funding, bringing its total raised to date to $21 million. The round was led by Balderton Capital, and included participation from BlueRun Ventures and Vegas Tech Fund, among others.

More: Wall Street Journal, PE Hub Blog and Re/code

Amir Efrati / The Information:

Amazon Eyed Overseas Markets in Smartphone Talks — As Amazon prepares to launch its long-awaited smartphone, opportunities in non-U.S. markets loom large. — Amazon executives last spring held talks with possible hardware partners that included detailed discussions on strategies for China …

More: SlashGear, Softpedia News and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @theinformation

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Google removes underlined links, says goodbye to 1996 — Google started life as a research project in 1996 to crawl the internet and create a search engine. 18 years later, Google is now removing the last of the design left over from that era. Starting today, the '90s-style underlined links …

More: Search Engine Land, Los Angeles Times, Jon Wiley, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, PC World, Search Engine Land and Search Engine Roundtable

Luke Johnson / Trusted Reviews:

Huawei to release dual OS Android-Windows Phone handset in the US in Q2 — Huawei: We are still committed to Windows Phone but dual OS is better — More Huawei Windows Phone handsets are incoming — With the Windows Phone platform continuing to increase its market share …

More: PC World, CNET, The Verge, BGR, DailyTech, WinBeta, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Engadget, Phandroid and WMPoweruser

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft's Office 365 Personal is limited to two devices, coming this spring for $69.99/year or $6.99/month — Microsoft today announced Office 365 Personal, a new subscription offering of the company's productivity suite in the cloud. Designed for the individual, it is limited to just one PC or Mac …

More: Office Blogs, GeekWire, PC World, LiveSide.net, Engadget, CITEworld and TechCrunch

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

IPO-bound MuleSoft raises $50M and doubles its valuation to $800M as SaaS adoption explodes — Want a recipe for startup success? Identify a category defining trend early - like mobile or the cloud - and then anticipate and solve one of the new problems that trend will create.

More: Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Gigaom

Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom:

T-Mobile plans to upgrade its 2G EDGE footprint to 4G LTE by mid-2015 — You should be able to bid a final goodbye to that dreaded “E” icon on your T-Mobile handset within the next 15 months. — Celebrating the one-year anniversary of it's LTE network launch on Thursday …

More: CNET, iMore, IntoMobile and WebProNews

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

ER doctors use Google Glass and QR codes to identify patients — Dr. Steve Horng at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. — John Halamka — A tech-savvy hospital in Boston developed a custom information-retrieval system for Google Glass, which lets ER doctors scan a QR code …

More: SiliconANGLE, Life as a Healthcare CIO, CNET, Mashable, VentureBeat, Gigaom, Digital Trends and 9to5Google. Tweets: @mikeloukides

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

Google drops price of all monthly Google Drive plans to $2/100GB, $10/1TB, $100/10TB — Google announced today on its blog that it's lowering the monthly pricing plans it offers for users buying extra storage on Google Drive. Google attributes the changes to “recent infrastructure improvements” …

More: The Official Google Blog, The Next Web, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, The Verge and TechCrunch

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

Bright House cable network to build ultrafast gigabit residential broadband in Tampa, Florida — Bright House to Build Ultrafast Broadband Network — Bright House Networks, part of the Newhouse family's media empire, said it will build an ultrafast gigabit broadband network in Tampa …

More: Engadget. Tweets: @shaliniwsj

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