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January 17, 2015, 6:50 PM

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Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:
Elon Musk planning low-orbit Internet satellite system to compete with OneWeb, based out of SpaceX's new Seattle office  —  Revealed: Elon Musk's Plan to Build a Space Internet  —  Because he doesn't have enough going on, Elon Musk—he of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, SolarCity, and the Hyperloop—is launching another project.
Spiegel Online:
New Snowden documents show scope of United States' cyber war plans: infiltrate and control or destroy enemy systems and networks  —  NSA Preps America for Future Battle  —  The NSA's mass surveillance is just the beginning.  Documents from Edward Snowden show that the intelligence agency …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Sources: Google is interested in buying mobile payments company Softcard, price could be less than $100M  —  Google Is In Talks With Mobile Payments Company Softcard  —  Apple has Apple Pay, and now it looks like Google may be fattening up its own wallet.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Facebook doubles its office space in Seattle, where it has grown from 90 to 400 employees in two years  —  Facebook soars to 400 employees in Seattle — and now it's doubling its space to make room for more  —  Facebook's Seattle office has reached a whopping 400 employees — and it's showing no signs of slowing down.
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal:
Palantir was valued at $15B in November, making it the third most valuable VC-backed company  —  Palantir Raising More Money After Tagged With $15 Billion Valuation  —  Palantir Technologies, one of the more secretive companies in Silicon Valley, was valued at $15 billion in November …
Paul Carsten / Reuters:
Alibaba is beta testing DingTalk, a communications app for small and medium sized businesses  —  Alibaba's latest mobile messaging effort: social networking for businesses  —  (Reuters) - China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N), the world's biggest e-commerce company …
Steven Levy / Backchannel:
How Google Search is using Knowledge Graph, Voice Search, and Google Now to transition to the mobile dominant world  —  How Google Search Dealt With Mobile  —  Google's flagship product has been part of our lives for so long that we take it for granted.  But Google doesn't.
National Journal:
CIA review panel exonerates CIA personnel who searched Senate Intelligence Committee computers  —  CIA Review Board Clears Spy Agency of Wrongdoing in Senate Hack  —  The new report contradicts earlier statements from the agency.  —  A CIA review panel announced Wednesday it had cleared …
Ben Woods / The Next Web:
Google makes it easier to buy tickets for live events, straight from search results and Maps  —  Google has inked a deal with live event companies Ticketfly, Ticketmaster and AXS to integrate sales for live shows into its Search and Google Maps search results on mobile or desktop, as well as within the Google Maps app.

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