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Tiina Jaatinen / Conversations:

Nokia Lumia to become Microsoft Lumia; Nokia branding to continue on entry-level phones — Say hello to Microsoft Lumia — When we announced that the Nokia Devices & Services business would become part of Microsoft, we also shared that Lumia, our smartphone brand, would become part of the Microsoft family.

Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:

Apple's music sales down 13% this year; Beats Music to relaunch as part of iTunes in 2015 — Apple iTunes Sees Big Drop in Music Sales — Dive of at Least 13% in Download Sales Underscores Music Industry's Fragile Recovery

More: Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, The Verge, MacRumors, AppleInsider, TUAW, Business Insider, iMore, The Next Web, iLounge, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, SlashGear and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @joshconstine. See also Mediagazer

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Nest Acquires Home Automation Hub Revolv, but Will Stop Selling It — Nest today said it had acquired Revolv, the smart-home automation device maker, for its developer platform. — The deal closed this morning with undisclosed terms. It wasn't about adding the Revolv home automation hub …

More: Nest, Revolv, The Verge, 9to5Google, Gigaom, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Forbes, Connectedly and Droid Life. Tweets: @mikeisaac

Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors:

AT&T Locking Apple Interchangeable SIMs in iPad Air 2 and Retina Mini 3 — Apple's new Apple SIM card in the iPad Air 2 and the Retina iPad mini 3 is designed to be universal, usable across a variety of wireless carriers in the US and UK, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and UK's EE.

John Markoff / New York Times:

Google VP Alan Eustace breaks Felix Baumgartner's world record for highest-altitude jump — Alan Eustace Jumps From Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner's World Record — Credit: J. Martin Harris Photography/PSDC — ROSWELL, N.M. — A well-known computer scientist parachuted …

More: Business Insider, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Verge, PC World, Associated Press, Gizmodo, Re/code, bizjournals and SlashGear

Tweets: @mattnorlander, @levie, @b_fung, @mhelft, @msquinn, @timoreilly and @parislemon

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Deezer Buys Stitcher, Adds 35K Talk Radio Shows And Podcasts To Its Music Platform — Deezer, the Paris-based music streaming service that competes against the likes of Spotify and Rdio, is switching up its game in the battle for more differentiation, more users and a higher profile in the U.S …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Quietly Launches A Functional App Store Within Its Main Android Application — Until recently, if you wanted to install an application from Amazon's own Appstore onto your Android device, you would have to install the Amazon Appstore app separately. And this is a bit of a hassle …

More: The Verge, The Next Web and SlashGear. Thanks:@johnnotjon

Agam Shah / PC World:

Google to build Play-like hardware store for Project Ara

More: Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, Upstart Business Journal, BGR, Fudzilla, PhoneDog, TechRadar.com, GSMArena.com, MobileSyrup.com, TechnoBuffalo, Pocket-lint, Phandroid, Engadget, Ubergizmo, PhoneDog.com and Android and Me

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Google adds information about video games to Knowledge Graph in search results — Google search finally adds information about video games — Google has expanded its search engine with the ability to recognize video games. If your query references a game, a new Knowledge Graph panel …

More: Search Engine Land, TechSpot, Android Police, Canadianreviewer.com, 9to5Google, GamePolitics blogs, AndroidHeadlines.com and Google

Scott Gilbertson / Ars Technica:

Ten years of Ubuntu: How Linux's beloved newcomer became its criticized king — It may not be Superman, but Ubuntu has done wonders for Linux. — Nicolás Demarchi — In October of 2004, a new Linux distro appeared on the scene with a curious name—Ubuntu.

More: The Register and Mike Linksvayer

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Only employees, not Wall Street, can pressure Bezos to slow spending on new Amazon initiatives — Amazon Employees, Not Investors, Will Have to Pressure Jeff Bezos to Slow Down — Thursday's quarterly earnings report from Amazon spooked Wall Street. The 95 cents per share loss …

More: GeekWire, Re/code and Amazon.com

Xinhua News Agency:

Tim Cook says bringing Apple Pay to China is his top priority there — China Exclusive: Tim Cook: Apple wants everything it develops to enter China market — Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook said he hopes to adapt all of Apple's developments to work for the Chinese market, which he describes as a “key market” for the tech giant.

More: Reuters, AppleInsider, PC World, BGR, SiliconBeat, The Hill, iMore, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, TechnoBuffalo, TUAW, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider, MacNN and New York Times

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Apple awards eight top executives stock worth up to $27M each; vesting begins in April 2017 — Apple hands 8 execs stock awards worth up to $27M — Apple recently awarded eight executives stock grants that were worth almost $13 million each at Thursday's closing price, with as much as another $14 million up for grabs.

More: Cult of Mac

BuzzFeed:

NSA's director of SIGINT leaves position after reports of a potential conflict of interest — Exclusive: Shakeup At NSA After BuzzFeed News Reports On Potential Conflict Of Interest — Top National Security Agency official Teresa Shea is leaving her position after BuzzFeed News reported on her and her husband's financial interests.

More: The Intercept. Tweets: @schoofsfeed and @20committee

Todd Shields / Bloomberg:

U.S. TV Airwaves Auction for Smartphones Delayed to 2016 — The Federal Communications Commission delayed to early 2016 an auction of U.S. airwaves surrendered by television stations that's intended to help feed the growing number of smartphones and tablets.

More: FCC.gov, PC World, BGR, The Verge, Re/code, Reuters, Broadcasting & Cable, Wall Street Journal, FierceWireless, Seeking Alpha, TmoNews and Benzinga

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