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January 26, 2015, 12:00 PM

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Guardian:

WikiLeaks demands answers after being notified that Google handed over three staffers' emails to the US government in 2012 — WikiLeaks demands answers after Google hands staff emails to US government — Search giant gave FBI emails and digital data belonging to three staffers

More: PandoDaily, Politico, Inquirer, PC World, WikiLeaks, bizjournals, Gizmodo, The Independent, Computerworld, The Drum, WebProNews, Gizmodo UK, Sydney Morning Herald, Gigaom, UPI and Slashdot

Tweets: @emilybell, @ioerror, @couragefound and @dangillmor

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Google signs deal with NFL to show highlight clips in YouTube and Search, will share ad revenues — NFL Video Highlights — And More — Come to YouTube and Google — It took a long time but it's finally done, just in time for the Super Bowl: Pro football finally has a deal with Google to distribute some of its video.

More: 9to5Google, Android Police, TechHive, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Forbes, Tubefilter, WebProNews, SlashGear, The Verge, Android Central and YouTube Blog

Tweets: @noahchestnut and @karaswisher

New York Times:

Verizon's Mobile ‘Supercookies’ Seen as Threat to Privacy — For the last several months, cybersecurity experts have been warning Verizon Wireless that it was putting the privacy of its customers at risk. The computer codes the company uses to tag and follow its mobile subscribers around the web …

Tweets: @robpegoraro and @juliaangwin

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Signs of progress: One month with Android Wear 5.0 — Android Wear 5.0 came out last month—it was the third noteworthy update to the wearable OS, following versions 4.4W.1 and 4.4W.2. It's not a significant enough update to merit its own standalone review, but it's been a while since our last check-in with the platform.

Julie Bort / Business Insider:

A Rare Glimpse Inside The Life And Mind Of Oracle CEO Mark Hurd — “My day starts at 4:30 a.m. and I sort of have two speeds, fast and stop,” Mark Hurd quipped cheerfully when we asked about his day. — We were meeting at Oracle's upscale executive offices on the top floor of the main building …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

A16Z Leads $58M Round In UK's TransferWise To Ramp Up Its P2P Transfer Business — TransferWise, the fast-growing UK-based P2P money transfer startup that has reportedly been in talks with Facebook for remittance services, has raised a large tranche of funding led by one of the social network's earliest backers.

More: TransferWise Blog, Business Insider, New York Times, bizjournals, Wall Street Journal, PE Hub Blog, ArcticStartup, Guardian, PYMNTS.com, Gigaom and Tech City News. Tweets: @pmarca

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Oculus announces Story Studio to make its own VR movies, first film “Lost” debuts this week — Oculus is now making its own virtual reality movies — Story Studio is the company's internal team exploring what it calls ‘VR cinema’ — The prominence of virtual reality …

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, Reuters and Wired

Gulsen Solaker / Reuters:

Turkish court orders Facebook to block pages insulting Mohammad: media — (Reuters) - A Turkish court has ordered Facebook to block a number of pages deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad, threatening to stop access to the whole social networking site if it does not comply, local media reported.

More: The Next Web, BetaNews, Anadolu Ajans Güncel Haberler, VentureBeat, The Verge, WebProNews and Neowin

Se Young Lee / Reuters:

Samsung Electronics to be main chip supplier for next iPhone: South Korea paper — (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) will be the main supplier of processors powering Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) next iPhone, Maeil Business Newspaper reported on Monday, citing unidentified sources in the semiconductor industry.

More: news.mk.co.kr, PC Magazine, CNET, bizjournals, TUAW, iMore, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, Ubergizmo, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Tech Times, Engadget and Neowin

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Facebook Is Testing A Simple App For Low-End Android Phones — Not content with spinning out apps for stickers inside Messenger, Groups and new addition Rooms, Facebook has launched another standalone app. Facebook Lite, which some may recall as a simplified version of its mobile website from 2009-2010 …

More: The Verge, BetaNews, Android Authority, Gigaom, SiliconANGLE, Android Police, Business Insider, CNBC, SocialTimes, PhoneDog.com, The Next Web, Android Central, gHacks Technology News, Tech2, Ubergizmo, Lifehacker and Android Beat

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