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February 3, 2015, 10:45 PM

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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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo to declare Small Business unit a separate entity as part of the plan to spin out Alibaba stake tax-free  —  Yahoo's Small-Business Unit Draws Short Straw in Alibaba Spinoff  —  For some Yahoo employees, this year is playing out like a plotline from the NBC sitcom, “The Office.”
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.

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