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January 13, 2015, 5:35 PM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Leaked Apple Watch iPhone “Companion” app reveals activity reminders, monograms on clock faces, watch passcode, and ability to unlock watch from phone  —  Apple Watch iPhone ‘Companion’ app revealed w/ new Watch features, monograms  —  Yesterday, we reported …
Emily Vacher / Facebook:
Facebook to show AMBER alerts in News Feed to users in targeted search areas to help find missing children  —  Introducing AMBER Alerts on Facebook  —  Today, we are announcing a partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to send AMBER Alerts to the Facebook community to help find missing children.
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Uber gives the city of Boston anonymized trip data to enable smarter city planning, ease traffic congestion; more cities to follow  —  Uber Offers Trip Data to Cities, Starting With Boston  —  For the first time, Uber is giving government officials a look inside its rich trove of transportation data.
Washington Post:
Obama proposes legislation to protect firms that share cyberthreat data with the government, criminalize sale of botnets and stolen financial info, more  —  Obama to propose legislation to protect firms that share cyberthreat data  —  President Obama plans to announce legislation Tuesday …
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Google Domains opens to all in the U.S., gets Blogger and Dynamic DNS integration  —  Google today announced Google Domains, the company's domain registration service, is now available to all in the U.S. While the invitation restriction has been lifted in the company's home country …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Why David Cameron's proposal to ban encrypted messaging services won't work, and would make Britons less secure  —  What David Cameron just proposed would endanger every Briton and destroy the IT industry … What David Cameron thinks he's saying is, “We will command all the software creators …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
App Annie Raises $55 Million Series D, Launches New Product For Tracking App Usage  —  App Annie, a company whose data on app downloads, rankings, app store trends and more has made it a go-to resource for anyone invested in today's app economy, today announced a new $55 million round of Series D funding.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Amazon signs Woody Allen to write and direct his first ever TV series, for Prime Instant Video  —  Amazon Signs Woody Allen For His First TV Series, To Run On Prime Instant Video  —  The streaming video market has become very serious business, and Amazon today announced its latest talent grab …
Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot:
Ross Ulbricht admits he created Silk Road, but says he's not Dread Pirate Roberts  —  For the first time, Ross Ulbricht has admitted that he invented the Silk Road.  —  Ulbricht's defense, which has pleaded not guilty to seven felony charges, admitted that he came up with the idea as …
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Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal:
Ionic Security Raises $40 Million to Secure Data Against Cyberthieves … The cost of cybercrime in the U.S. is rising for companies in all industries, according to a study last year by the Ponemon Institute, and more companies are starting to assume they have been hacked, even if they don't know for sure.

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