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January 8, 2015, 3:45 PM

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Brian Womack / Bloomberg:

In the last year Google's share of US search traffic fell 4.1% to 75.2% in biggest drop since 2009; Yahoo's share grew 4% to 10.4% — Google Loses Most U.S. Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo Gains — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s dominance of the U.S. Internet search market slipped last month …

More: Business Insider, Search Engine Land, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google, Wired, Ubergizmo, Nextgov, SlashGear, BGR, Business Wire, Beyond Search and SiliconBeat

Alex Dobie / Android Central:

LG shows off a functional Open webOS-based smartwatch with Audi car integration at CES — Exclusive: The hottest smartwatch of CES isn't running Android Wear — it's Open webOS — We bring you the inside look at the most mysterious timepiece of CES 2015

Kazunori Takada / Reuters:

Sony to delay sale of PlayStation 4 in China — (Reuters) - Sony Corp will delay sales of the PlayStation 4 gaming console in China, originally scheduled for Jan. 11, due to “various factors”, according to a statement on Thursday. — Sony Computer Entertainment said in the statement that a new sale date had not yet been determined.

More: TIME, USA Today, PC Magazine, Business Insider, Connectedly, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Geeky Gadgets, The Verge, GamePolitics blogs, Tech in Asia, The Next Web, Neowin, VideoGamer.com, GamesIndustry.biz and Polygon. Tweets: @reuterstech

Tim Higgins / Bloomberg:

Apple: App Store sales grew 50% and generated $10B+ for developers in 2014, responsible for creating 1M+ US jobs — Apple Touts U.S. Job Creation, Says App Store Sales Rose 50% — Apple Inc. (AAPL), which has faced criticism for manufacturing its computing devices overseas instead of in the U.S. …

More: Apple, Apple, SiliconBeat, iMore, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Mashable and Daring Fireball

Tweets: @asymco, @asymco, @markgurman, @daiwaka, @benbajarin and @benbajarin

James Vincent / The Verge:

HTC's action camera can now stream live footage to YouTube — HTC is making its periscope-shaped Re camera a whole lot more functional with a software update that lets users live stream footage via YouTube. The camera's Android app will receive the update on January 9th …

More: Android Police, PC World, Android Authority, Tubefilter and Engadget

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Super cookies allow sites to track users using most popular browsers even in privacy mode — Browsing in privacy mode? Super Cookies can track you anyway — For years, Chrome, Firefox, and virtually all other browsers have offered a setting that doesn't save or refer to website cookies, browsing history, or temporary files.

More: ReadWrite, Macworld, Business Insider and Gizmodo. Tweets: @thenetmonitor

Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal:

GraphLab, Now Dato, Raises $18.5M for Machine-Learning Applications … More businesses are trying to use data to try to predict the future, and Dato, formerly called GraphLab Inc., has raised another $18.5 million to work on that problem. — The Series B round comes from Vulcan Capital …

More: GeekWire, VatorNews, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Forbes, PE Hub Blog and Data Center Knowledge

Stephen Pulvirent / Businessweek:

Samsung unveils its smart home strategy at CES, plans to develop open Internet of Things platform for developers — Samsung's Smart-Home Master Plan: Leave the Door Open for Others — The most important product at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show may not actually be a product at all.

More: BGR and Bloomberg. Tweets: @jpaskin and @mattturck

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Uber's Latest Experiment Is Uber Cargo, A Logistics Service In Hong Kong — Uber is often talked about for its potential to develop into a global logistics service, and customers in Hong Kong are getting a glimpse at what that might look like after a new service called Uber Cargo launched in the city-state.

More: Uber Blog, New York Times, Gigaom, CNET and The Next Web

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:

Google Capital Invests In Indian Real-Estate Platform CommonFloor — CommonFloor, which claims to be India's largest online real estate platform, has raised an undisclosed amount of new funding from Google Capital. What's notable about the funding is that it marks Google Capital's third investment …

More: PE Hub Blog, Wall Street Journal, The Economic Times and MediaNama

Associated Press:

Iranian court orders LINE, WhatsApp, and Tango be blocked — Iran orders 3 communication apps blocked — TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's official IRNA news agency says the judiciary has ordered three personal communication apps blocked, a decision President Hassan Rouhani's administration has long opposed.

More: PandoDaily, Reuters and i24news

Facebook Media:

Facebook says video posts per person have increased 75% globally, 94% in US since last year — What the Shift to Video Means for Creators — We're increasingly seeing a shift towards visual content on Facebook, especially with video. In just one year, the number of video posts per person …

More: Facebook IQ, The Awl, Socialbakers.com, ReadWrite, ReelSEO Video Marketing, Guardian, Re/code, PC Magazine, ValueWalk, PandoDaily, WebProNews, VatorNews, memeburn, VentureBeat, PC Advisor, AdExchanger, Marketing Land, Inside Facebook and AllFacebook

Tweets: @lheron, @heyveronica and @joshconstine

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:

Activist hedge fund Starboard suggests Yahoo merge with AOL, warns against big acquisitions — Activist Hedge Fund Again Warns Yahoo Against Making a Big Acquisition — With speculation picking up among investors about Yahoo going on a shopping spree, an activist hedge fund that has taken …

More: SiliconBeat, PR Newswire, Bloomberg, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Bloomberg, Fortune, Fortune, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal and ValueWalk. See also Mediagazer

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Amazon is building an end-to-end platform for hardware startups, part of an effort to become their main sales channel — Amazon Secretly Working on New Platform for Inventors — Amazon sells most of the name-brand electronics you can think of. Now, it appears, it wants to be the place …

More: GeekWire, PandoDaily, PSFK, WebProNews and Business Insider

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Publishing Platform Now Accessible To 230 Million Members In All English-Speaking Countries — Early last year, LinkedIn opened up its publishing platform to all members, initially arriving for a selection of English-language speakers on the network.

More: Official LinkedIn Blog, SiliconANGLE, ReadWrite, Computer Business Review, The Drum, Re/code, VentureBeat and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

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