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November 25, 2014, 7:00 PM

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Amir Efrati / The Information:

With Google's deal expiring in 2015, Yahoo and Microsoft compete to take over as default search engine in Safari for iOS — All Eyes on Apple as Google Search Deal Expires Next Year — Mozilla's decision last week to replace Google with Yahoo as the default search engine for the Firefox browser …

Aaron Smith / Pew Internet:

Survey finds majority of US internet users are familiar with web usage terms but not with historical concepts — What Internet Users Know about Technology and the Web — Before you read the report, test your own Web IQ by taking the interactive knowledge quiz.

More: Marketing Land, Associated Press, USA Today, PC Magazine, TechSpot, AllTwitter, Re/code, TIME, Roll Call, Computerworld, SocialTimes, Nextgov, SlashGear, The Next Web and Washington Post. Tweets: @mweinbergpk

Reiji Murai / Reuters:

Sony to cut TV, smartphone lineup; sees growth in PlayStation, image sensors — (Reuters) - Japan's loss-making Sony Corp plans to slash its TV and mobile phone product line-ups to cut costs, counting on multi-billion dollar revenue surges for its buoyant PlayStation 4 and image sensor businesses over the next three years.

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Twitter Introduces Offers: Discounts You Claim in Tweets and Redeem in Stores — First, Twitter dipped its toes into e-commerce. Now it wants a piece of bricks-and-mortar retail, too. — The social network today is introducing Twitter Offers, discounts that users can claim right …

More: The Twitter Blog, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, Macworld, Inc.com, Marketing Land, GeekWire, Seeking Alpha, Business Insider, TechCrunch, AdExchanger, New York Times, Gigaom, Adotas, SlashGear, The Verge, WebProNews, CNET, Engadget and internetretailer.com

Tweets: @minethatdata, @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac

Sam Sheffer / The Verge:

Coin beta review: limited utility, confusing setup, doesn't work at ATM, broke after 36 hours — My experience with Coin Beta in the real world — It worked, but then my unit stopped functioning — I don't carry around a traditional wallet. Instead, I've got a pile of cards held together with a hair-tie.

More: Gadget Review, PYMNTS.com, BGR, Crowdfund Insider and AndroidHeadlines.com

Tweets: @fmanjoo and @kevinroose

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Apple reaches record breaking $700 billion market cap as stock surge continues — Shares of Apple reached another major financial milestone on Tuesday, crossing the $700 billion market capitalization threshold just after trading began on Wall Street. — With shares of AAPL trading at an all-time high …

More: Reuters, Bloomberg, MacRumors, iMore, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, 9to5Mac and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @cnbc

Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

Spotify's 2013 revenues were €746.9M, 91% of revenue coming from subscriptions — Spotify revenues grew sharply in 2013, but operating losses also rose — Streaming music service's turnover up 74% to €746.9m, with 91% coming from its paying subscribers rather than ads

More: Re/code, Gigaom and The Verge. Thanks:@stuartdredge. See also Mediagazer

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Google Chrome will block all NPAPI plugins by default in January, drop support completely in September — Google today provided an update on its plan to remove Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) from Chrome, which the company says will improve the browser's security …

More: Chromium Blog, PC World and Google Operating System

Tweets: @venturebeat and @jaykannan

Bill Rigby / Reuters:

Microsoft to pay China $140 million for ‘tax evasion’ — (Reuters) - China has levied about $140 million in back taxes from Microsoft Corp in the first major case concerning cross-border tax evasion in the country, as regulators ramp up pressure on U.S. corporations doing business there.

More: Windows Phone Central and Seeking Alpha

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Lyft launches Driver Destination, allowing drivers to accept rides only on specific routes — Lyft Appeals To More Casual Drivers By Matching Them With Passengers To Share Commutes — For years, the founders of Lyft had imagined a world in which carpooling would become mainstream …

More: Lyft Blog, Fortune, Android Police, Re/code, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Engadget and SlashGear

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

IDC: iPad to see first annual decline with wider tablet shipment growth set to fall to 7.2% in 2014, down from 52.5% in 2013 — IDC: iPad Sees First-Ever Decline As Wider Tablet Shipment Growth Drops 7.2% In 2014 To 235.7M Units — As Apple rides a cresting wave in the stock market …

More: IDC, eWeek, VentureBeat, CNET, Android Authority, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, AppleInsider, MacRumors, WinBeta, Business Insider, ZDNet and Tech Trader Daily

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Dropbox's integration with Microsoft's Office apps is now live for iOS and Android devices — It was only earlier this month that Dropbox announced a deal with Microsoft to allow document editing capabilities from directly inside Dropbox, and today it's actually rolling out for mobile users.

More: The Dropbox Blog, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, WinBeta, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google and App Advice

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