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Bloomberg:

Apple Said to Prepare New 12.9-Inch IPad for Early 2015 — Apple Inc.'s suppliers are preparing to manufacture the company's largest-ever iPad, with production scheduled to commence by the first quarter of next year, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Walt Mossberg / Re/code:

Tim Cook says the recent slump in iPad sales is just a “speed bump” — In Defense of Tablets — The tablet is doomed. It was a fad. Who needs one, anyway? — At least that's the conventional wisdom forming around the iPad and other tablets in the wake of some recent negative sales news.

More: MacRumors, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, MacDailyNews and MacNN

Cliff Kuang / Wired:

Instagram releases Hyperlapse iOS app for creating fast, smooth time-lapse videos — Hyperlapse, Instagram's New App, Is Like a $15,000 Video Setup in Your Hand — Today, Instagram is lifting the veil on Hyperlapse, the company's first-ever app outside of Instagram itself.

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Documents and interviews reveal Uber's sophisticated, nationwide scheme to poach Lyft drivers — This is Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft — ‘Brand ambassadors’ with burner phones and credit cards attempt to #shavethestache — Uber is arming teams of independent contractors …

More: Uber Blog, The Next Web, Haywire, ReadWrite, The Daily Dot, Beyond Devices, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Mashable, SlashGear, Daring Fireball, GeekWire and Valleywag

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Thanks:@mattlynley

Wall Street Journal:

Kleiner Perkins investing up to $20M in Snapchat at a valuation of nearly $10B — Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Agrees to Invest in Snapchat — Ephemeral Messaging Service Gets a Venture-Capital Shot in the Arm — Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has agreed to invest in Snapchat Inc. …

More: TechCrunch, CNBC and Mashable

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Snapchat Said to Have More Than 100 Million Monthly Active Users

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Uber Begins Testing Lunch Delivery With UberFRESH — Uber isn't done producing variations on the theme of on-demand wheels - the startup has now begun testing uberFRESH, a service that provides lunch between 11:30 AM and 2:30 PM to customers in the Santa Monica trial area first …

More: Electronista, GeekWire, The Verge, The Next Web, VatorNews, GadgeTell and Engadget

Tweets: @andrewmason and @ryanlawler

Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times:

LA suspends iPad program for schools amid accusations that officials had close ties with Apple — L.A. Unified halts contract for iPads — L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy suspended future use of a contract with Apple on Monday that was to provide iPads to all students …

Roger Cheng / CNET:

T-Mobile expands family plan, bulks up tablet data offer — The wireless war between Sprint and T-Mobile heats up as T-Mobile fires yet another salvo for a second consecutive day. — T-Mobile CEO John Legere at CES 2014. Legere has been eager to fire back at Sprint after its new round of promotions.

More: T-Mobile Newsroom, GeekWire, Engadget, GadgeTell, PC Magazine and 9to5Google

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Chitika and comScore data suggests Amazon unlikely to have sold more than 35,000 Fire phones — Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data suggests — Amazon doesn't give sales data for its devices, but figures from comScore and Chitika suggest only modest sales so far

More: BGR, Gigaom, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Daring Fireball, Phandroid, PandoDaily, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Neowin, Pocketnow, MacDailyNews and Droid Life

Faryaab S. / SamMobile:

Exclusive: Galaxy Note 4 to sport Synaptics' Natural ID tech, New fingerprint features — Since the beginning of the month, we have been exclusively revealing details about Samsung's upcoming flagship phablet device, the Galaxy Note 4, bit by bit. Last week, we spilled the beans …

More: Electronista, Pocketnow, BGR, SlashGear, Phones Review, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Community, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, Geeky Gadgets, Geeky Gadgets, Phandroid, Android Central, Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Google and Ubergizmo

Sue Marek / FierceWireless:

Lurie named CEO of AT&T Mobility, de la Vega to oversee mobile and enterprise — AT&T (NYSE: T) promoted Glenn Lurie to president and CEO of AT&T Mobility. Lurie was previously the president of AT&T Mobility's Emerging Enterprises and Partnerships business.

More: Re/code, CNET, The Verge, Engadget, iMore, Bloomberg and Seeking Alpha. Thanks:@fiercewireless

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Google getting into cloud-based visual effects with Zync buy — Summary: Previously a proud Amazon EC2 customer, the visual effects provider is also moving over to Google Cloud Platform. — Google is acquiring Zync Inc., bolstering the Internet giant's cloud-based offerings for creative professionals.

More: Google Cloud Platform Blog, New York Times, Re/code, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Business Insider, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Square Cash 2.0 Adds Free Money Transfer By Text Message, Payment Notes And More — Square has a new update out for its Cash app that lets users send cash by text, greatly improving the versatility of the mobile payment app. The update also improves the user interface for sending …

More: 9to5Mac, Android Police, VentureBeat, Gigaom, AppleInsider and Engadget

Bill Steele / Cornell Chronicle:

Researchers unveil Robo Brain, a giant repository of information collected from the internet that robots can access — ‘Robo Brain’ mines the Internet to teach robots — To serve as helpers in our homes, offices and factories, robots will need to understand how the world works and how the humans around them behave.

More: Wired, Engadget, Washington Post, Tubefilter, BBC, Business Insider, Science World, Science World Report, CrazyEngineers, HotHardware.com News, BetaBoston, TechCrunch, CNET and The Mary Sue. Tweets: @marshallk

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Pinterest Adds New Analytics Dashboard to Entice Future Advertisers — Pinterest has a new strategy for getting brands on its service: Show, don't tell. — The online inspiration and discovery company unveiled a new, free analytics dashboard for businesses on Tuesday …

More: Pinterest for Business, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, US News, Marketing Pilgrim, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, The Next Web, WebProNews, internetretailer.com and Bloomberg

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