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February 3, 2015, 11:20 PM

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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, Ars Technica, The Verge, CNET, Android Authority, Bloomberg Business, ZDNet, MobileSyrup.com, The Register and eWeek

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, VentureBeat, GitHub and US News. Thanks:@themadhacker. See also Mediagazer

Julian Hattem / The Hill:

Obama wants $105M in budget to replicate the US Digital Service at 25 agencies

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

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

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Amazon launches Kindle Convert in the US, a $19 Windows app for scanning, turning paper books into e-books — Amazon's Kindle Convert Can Turn Your Paper Library Into E-Books — If you've been hanging on to those paper books because the idea of having to repurchase them all as Kindle titles is daunting …

More: Uncrunched, The eBook Reader Blog, Macworld, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

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

Jessica Plautz / Mashable:

Groupon founder Andrew Mason launches Detour, an iPhone app for location-aware walking tours in cities, starting with San Francisco — Groupon's ex-CEO launches audio tour app in San Francisco — Audio tours, often associated with museum field trips, are taking to the streets.

More: The Detour Blog, TechCrunch, Upstart Business Journal, Associated Press, Fast Company, Wired, Chicago Business, Business Insider and The Verge

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

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

Brad Sams / Neowin:

Microsoft pushes the open source door a little wider with .NET CoreCLR — Microsoft has been pushing the open source message for many months now, and today the company announced a few updates to this initiative. The Redmond-based company has taken the next step in completely open-sourcing …

More: MSDN Blogs, The Register, Channel 9, Phoronix, WinBeta and SD Times

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: The Register, Ars Technica, Engadget, SlashGear, IntoMobile, Phandroid, PC Magazine and Graham Cluley

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.

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

AT&T previews lawsuit it plans to file against FCC over net neutrality — AT&T says Title II proponents “are only deceiving themselves.” — AT&T seems resigned to the near-certainty that the Federal Communications Commission will reclassify broadband as a common carrier service in order to enforce net neutrality rules.

More: VentureBeat, AT&T Public Policy Blog, ABC News, Electronista, SlashGear and BGR

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: MacDailyNews and VentureBeat

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

Alastair Stevenson / V3.co.uk:

Samsung and Good Technology launch container and secure app ecosystem for Knox platform — Samsung secures Android apps with Good for Knox upgrade — Samsung and Good Technology have launched a joint mobile security suite for enterprise Android users nearly a year after first announcing plans for the service.

More: Samsung Mobile Press, Android Central, Computer Business Review, Computerworld, SamMobile, Android Authority, SamMobile and ZDNet

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, CIO.com, PC Magazine, Internet History Podcast, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, Phandroid, MacDailyNews, SlashGear, Hit & Run, Slashdot, Bloomberg Business, The Register and The Next Web. Tweets: @llsethj

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