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February 3, 2015, 9:15 PM

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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 …

Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business:

Inside RadioShack's Slow-Motion Collapse

More: 9to5Google, Computerworld, PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, Internet History Podcast, Gizmodo, Phandroid, MacDailyNews, SlashGear and Slashdot. Tweets: @llsethj

Brian Ries / Mashable:

Obama administration publishes 2016 fiscal budget proposal on Github and Medium — How the White House found a publishing ally in Medium — The White House published President Obama's 2016 fiscal budget on Monday using a medium that's become increasingly popular among its advisors …

More: White House.gov Blog, GitHub and VentureBeat. Thanks:@themadhacker. See also Mediagazer

Julian Hattem / The Hill:

Obama wants $105M in budget to replicate the US Digital Service at 25 agencies — Obama wants $105M to improve agencies' digital footprint — President Obama's budget request includes $105 million to expand a digital strike force modeled on the team that turned around HealthCare.gov.

More: National Journal, FederalNewsRadio.com, Nextgov, TechPresident, SC Magazine and Engadget

Ina Fried / Re/code:

ARM says next-generation A72 chip can triple the performance of today's chips, or match performance while using 75% less power — ARM Says Next-Gen A72 Chip Paves Way for Thinner, More Power-Efficient Phones — ARM, the British company whose chip designs are at the core of nearly …

More: PC World, eWeek, Ars Technica, Computerworld, The Verge, Android Authority, Bloomberg Business, CNET, MobileSyrup.com, The Register and ZDNet

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Alan Eustace, Google's SVP Of Knowledge, Is Leaving The Company — Another management change is underway at Google: TechCrunch has learned that Alan Eustace, a longtime Google employee and its SVP of Knowledge — and also the current world-record holder for making the highest-altitude free-fall jump — is leaving the company.

More: 9to5Google, Business Insider, SlashGear, Search Engine Land, bizjournals and Re/code. Tweets: @sacca

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

New Adware Found In Google Play Apps With Millions Of Downloads — A new report from security firm Avast out this morning reveals the discovery of a new form of malware on the Google Play store, which begins to display advertisements disguised as warning messages to end users when they unlock their Android smartphone.

More: Avast blog, Engadget, The Register, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, IntoMobile, Phandroid and Graham Cluley

Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web:

Microsoft launches Picturesque, its second free lock screen replacement app for Android — Microsoft quietly launches a free lock screen replacement app for Android — Things are busy at Microsoft Garage, where the company's employees share experimental projects they've been working on.

More: CNET, 9to5Google, Android Central, Microsoft, Android Police, NDTV Gadgets, VentureBeat, Lifehacker, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, Quartz, Gigaom, PC World and Engadget

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

With an Eye on Wall Street, Twitter Starts Selling Twitter Ads Outside of Twitter — Twitter is rolling out plans for a new revenue stream: Twitter ads that don't appear on Twitter. — Starting today, the company will start running its core “Promoted Tweet” ad unit on other people's apps and sites.

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple builds US sales team for IBM partnership to target healthcare, retail, finance, manufacturing customers — Apple builds national enterprise sales team for IBM partnership, targets industrial, healthcare, financial customers — Apple is looking to hire individuals across the US …

More: VentureBeat and MacDailyNews

Carlos Bohórquez Marín / The Yammer Blog:

Microsoft's updated Yammer comes with Android Wear support and Handoff for iOS and Yosemite — Take Your Team To The Next Level With Yammer On Mobile Devices — In recent years, we've all experienced the unprecedented migration of life and work to mobile devices.

More: VentureBeat, SlashGear, WinBeta, Android Police, Android Central and iMore

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

SAP revamps Business Suite with new UI, HANA analytics — SAP says its Business Suite 4 on HANA has been “reinvented for the digital age.” Adoption of the suite, which includes a new UI, is likely to be critical to SAP's 2020 outlook.

More: iTnews, New York Times, Computerworld, eWeek, TechRadar.com, Bloomberg Business, Reuters, Seeking Alpha, ChannelBiz UK, EnterpriseTech, Computerworld UK, The Register, TechWeekEurope UK, mobileenterprise.edgl.com and Benzinga

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Eero aims to eliminate WiFi dead-spots in homes using a mesh network created by a set of boxes — Eero Is A Smart Wireless Routing System That Wants To Do For WiFi What Nest Did For Thermostats — Have you tried to purchase or install a wireless router lately? I have, and it is hell.

More: The Next Web, Engadget, TechHive, Wired, Homebrew Blog, VentureBeat, Medium, Ars Technica, Hunter Walk, Gizmodo, Technology Personalized, The Register, TechSpot, The Verge, CNET, Xconomy, Gigaom and Electronista

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Cisco mobile network report: data traffic to grow tenfold to 25 exabytes/month by 2019 — The whole world is sucking down mobile data like it's water — We may be pushing more of our cellular activity over to Wi-Fi, but we're still guzzling mobile data like it's going out of style according …

More: Telegraph, New York Times, Re/code and Channel EYE

Rachel King / ZDNet:

VMware bolstering mobile device management tools with Immidio buy — Summary:Founded in 2008, Amsterdam-based Immidio touts its BYOD approach as one that considers and values end user and IT needs equally. — VMware has acquired Immidio, a private software company specializing in enterprise mobile device management options.

More: VentureBeat and virtualization.info

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Fundable Acquires Mentorship Service Clarity.fm As Part Of Its New Launch Platform, Startups.co — Equity crowdfunding platform Fundable is announcing that it has acquired Clarity.fm, the Dan Martell-founded startup that connects entrepreneurs with mentors like Mark Cuban, Brad Feld and Eric Ries over the phone.

More: VentureBeat, tech.co, Techvibes Global News and BetaKit

Joseph Paul / Indianapolis Star:

First-ever staffed Amazon store opens at Purdue University — Last semester, Zach Jordan spent around $400 renting textbooks for his classes at Purdue University. — This semester, the freshman mechanical engineering major decided to rent his books from Amazon and pick them up at the Web giant's …

More: Amazon.com, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, PC Magazine, Engadget, The Next Web and TechCrunch. Thanks:@benvblanco

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:

Bitcoin Mining Company KnCMiner Gets $15 Million Amid Lawsuits — Venture capitalists continue investing in bitcoin mining company KnCMiner, despite several lawsuits filed against it by customers. — Stockholm-based KnCMiner raised $15 million in a Series B round led by Accel Partners.

More: VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, Inside Bitcoins, Wired.co.uk and CoinTelegraph.Com News

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