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February 3, 2015, 8:30 AM

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Brad Stone / Bloomberg Business:

Google developing its own Uber competitor, likely in conjunction with driverless car project — Exclusive: Google Is Developing Its Own Uber Competitor — The two companies are going to war over self-driving taxis — Don't Miss Out — … Uber faces an ever-growing cast of adversaries …

John Biggs / TechCrunch:

Uber Opening Robotics Research Facility In Pittsburgh To Build Self-Driving Cars — Driver-on-demand service Uber is building a robotics research lab in Pittsburgh, PA to “kickstart autonomous taxi fleet development,” sources close to the decision have confirmed to TechCrunch.

More: ABC News, The Verge, Gigaom, New York Times, VatorNews, Engadget, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Droid Life, Business Insider, Brad Ideas, Gizmodo and tech.co

Tweets: @hunterwalk, @mikeisaac, @danielgilman and @jonrussell

Thanks:@mjburnsy

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Report of Google's plan for Uber rival overblown; app is only internal tool for carpooling — Uber Chases Google in Self-Driving Cars With Carnegie Mellon Deal — Uber on Monday said it formed a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to develop driverless car and mapping technology …

More: Uber Blog, BGR, SiliconBeat, Electronista, CNET, The Technology Chronicles and VentureBeat

Tweets: @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @rolfewinkler, @evelynrusli and @mikeisaac

Bloomberg Business:

Amazon discussed buying some RadioShack stores to showcase its hardware and serve as pickup/drop-off centers — Amazon in Talks to Buy Some of RadioShack's Stores — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc., aiming to bolster its brick-and-mortar operations …

More: Wall Street Journal, Ink, Bits, & Pixels, Business Insider, VentureBeat, ParisLemon, The Verge, Fortune, SlashGear, BBC, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, GeekWire and The Loop

Tweets: @rakeshlobster and @sfnick

Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business:

Inside RadioShack's Slow-Motion Collapse … Nathan Hill learned a lot about entertaining himself during his time as a RadioShack employee. For 15 months during 2013 and 2014, he worked at two locations in two separate strip malls in suburban Phoenix. It was dull, but Hill …

More: The Next Web. Tweets: @llsethj

Bloomberg Business:

RadioShack in Talks to Sell Half Its Stores to Sprint, Shutter the Rest

More: ir.theice.com, CNBC, Business Insider, Ars Technica, The Register, 9to5Mac, Associated Press, Slashdot, Electronista, Hit & Run, ValueWalk, TechSpot, Ink, Bits, & Pixels, Macworld, CNET, Fortune, TWICE, TechnoBuffalo and GeekWire. Tweets: @mgsiegler

Steve Lohr / New York Times:

In Net Neutrality Push, F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating Internet Service as a Utility — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission this week is widely expected to propose regulating Internet service like a public utility, a move certain to unleash another round …

Julian Hattem / The Hill:

FCC draft proposal will target state laws in TN, NC that prevent municipalities from building and operating their own broadband services

More: Washington Post, Ars Technica, domain-b.com and PC Magazine

Tim Higgins / Bloomberg Business:

Apple plans to invest $2B in GT Advanced Arizona plant to convert it into a data center — Apple to Convert Failed Arizona Sapphire Plant Into Data Center — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. plans to invest $2 billion to convert an Arizona factory into a data center …

Toby Wolpe / ZDNet:

DataStax snaps up Aurelius and its Titan team to build new graph database — Summary:The prize in DataStax's acquisition of open-source firm Aurelius is not the Titan database but rather engineering expertise, which will be used in developing a new graph database.

More: Data Center Knowledge, Gigaom, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Forbes

David E. Sanger / New York Times:

NSA analysts will be required to delete incidental information on Americans within one year, on foreigners within five — President Tweaks the Rules on Data Collection — WASHINGTON — A year after President Obama ordered modest changes in how the nation's intelligence agencies collect …

More: Gigaom and The Next Web. Tweets: @trevortimm

Danny D. / SamMobile:

Samsung sends out invitations to March 1 event, hints at curved design for Galaxy S6 — Samsung starts sending out press invitations for March 1st, hints at curved design — Press invites for an event scheduled for March 1st have finally started making rounds.

More: The Verge, CNET, Business Insider, ValueWalk, Ubergizmo, The Register, Android Central, VentureBeat, Tech2, Android and Me, Droid Life, Gotta Be Mobile, Neowin and BGR. Tweets: @mkbhd

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Tinder Plus, The Paid Version Featuring An Undo Button And More, Arrives In U.S. Next Month — Tinder Plus, the long-awaited “premium” version of Tinder's service, offering features like an Undo button for errant swipes and a Passport option for searching outside your current geographic region …

More: SiliconANGLE, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, Droid Life and Phandroid

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

eBay layoffs begin with many involved in PayPal's disappointing in-store initiatives — Big Layoffs Begin at eBay and PayPal — The big job cuts eBay promised last month are here. — On Monday, eBay and PayPal began notifying employees who were losing their jobs as part of the cuts …

Tweets: @delrey

Biz Carson / Gigaom:

Reddit fires lead Notes engineer, says launch delayed until cryptocurrency law and technology improve — After key engineer leaves, what will happen to Reddit Notes? — A company changing its project outline for a year isn't surprising, nor is laying off staff — except when that the project …

More: Guardian, SlashGear, Fortune and Benzinga

StatCounter Global Stats:

Google US search share drops to 74.8% as Yahoo usage on Firefox almost triples since November — Yahoo gains further US search share in January — Google falls below 75% for first time — US Yahoo-on-Firefox usage almost triples since November — San Francisco, CA & Dublin …

More: TechCrunch, The Register, Business Insider, bizjournals, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Bidness Etc, The Tech Portal, ITProPortal, Telecompaper, SiliconBeat, ValueWalk, Ubergizmo, NASDAQ.com, Investor's Business Daily and Tech Insider

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Foursquare's original chief technical officer is the latest to leave the company — The company's first hire is moving on to “somewhere new” — Foursquare's original chief technical officer has left the company after more than five years, The Verge has learned.

Rachel King / ZDNet:

VMware's hybrid cloud roadmap takes direction with vSphere 6, Nvidia collaboration — Summary:VMware touted its OpenStack distribution will enable smaller IT departments with “little or no OpenStack or Linux experience” to deploy an OpenStack cloud within minutes.

More: InfoWorld, eWeek, VentureBeat, Gigaom, virtualization.info, OpenStack Blog for VMware, Bloomberg Business, FierceCIO News and CIO.com

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Pebble has now sold over 1 million smartwatches; new hardware and software are planned for this year — New hardware and software are planned for this year — While Google and Apple have been getting the lion's share of attention for smartwatches lately, indie darling Pebble …

More: Digital Trends, ZDNet, Tech Times, SlashGear, The Overspill, Tech2, Pocketnow, Gizmodo and Pocket-lint

Steven Musil / CNET:

Lenovo third-quarter profit beats estimates on smartphone boost — Net income declines 4.6 percent to $253 million but comes in better than expectations after Motorola acquisition. — Lenovo recorded third-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates as it expanded its footprint in the smartphone market.

More: Lenovo Newsroom, 9to5Google, Bloomberg Business, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, ZDNet, MarketWatch, South China Morning Post, BBC, Android Central, Reuters and Reuters. Tweets: @inafried

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