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February 7, 2015, 11:10 AM

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Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals:

Facebook acquires 56 acres immediately south of current Menlo Park HQ at an estimated $400M — Exclusive: Facebook buys 56 acres in Menlo Park, considers future of the campus — Facebook Inc. has already changed how people connect online. Now it's thinking about transforming the Silicon Valley tech campus.

More: VentureBeat and SlashGear. Thanks:@svbiznate

Ben Fox Rubin / CNET:

Corning attempts to combine the toughness of Gorilla Glass with scratch-resistance close to sapphire in new material called Project Phire — Corning fires up new super scratch-resistant glass — The glassmaker unveils Project Fire, a new Gorilla Glass-like material that's both extremely tough and scratch-resistant.

More: Corning Incorporated, Android Authority, Tech Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks, iMore, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, MacRumors, AppleInsider and MobileSyrup.com. Thanks:@jeskillings

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Google Uses Hangouts As A Virtual Genius Bar To Sell Google Devices — In 2013, Google expanded its Hangouts video conferencing service into a commerce platform called Helpouts, where people buy and sell services like cooking or technical advice via live video.

More: Phandroid, Engadget, SlashGear and The Next Web. Tweets: @amir

Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:

Why Twitter's Stock Popped 16% Despite Paltry User Growth — Twitter finally got its wish. — Investors didn't react to its quarterly earnings report based on just one number: the growth rate of monthly active users. — At last, investors seem to be recognizing Twitter's achievements on the business side.

More: VentureBeat, Mashable and WebProNews. Tweets: @wsjd

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter Confirms Google Firehose Deal To Target Logged Out Users

More: Bloomberg View, CNBC, Geeky Gadgets, GeekWire, Techcircle.in, Mashable, Ubergizmo, Search Engine Land, Mashable, PC Magazine, Marketing Land and Backchannel

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

The first Tizen smartphone isn't an “Android killer”—it's a bad Android clone — Review: Samsung's Android alternative arrives, but it's no match for the real thing. — This is the Samsung Z1—the world's first Tizen phone. After one of the bumpiest pre-launch situations in recent memory …

More: Ars Technica, Fast Company, GSMArena.com, BGR, AndroidHeadlines.com, CNET, Android Authority, Wall Street Journal and SamMobile

Nellie Bowles / Re/code:

Startups and Self-Loathing at the 8th Annual Crunchies Awards — There was a moment last night — when comedian T.J. Miller (who had called an Uber co-founder's girlfriend “bitch” multiple times) was smashing a TechCrunch piñata as a hundred people walked out of his performance …

More: The Daily Dot, Medium, The Bold Italic, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Business Insider, CBS San Francisco, Bloomberg View and TechCrunch

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Mashable:

UK government releases “equipment interference” guidelines for spy and law enforcement agencies — UK government asks: How's our hacking? — We know that the NSA likes taking unsolicited action inside the computers of others. We know the FBI is also very much into hacking.

More: GOV.UK departments and policy. Tweets: @lorenzofb and @csoghoian

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Matchstick streaming stick delays shipping to get Netflix and faster chips — Matchstick's Kickstarter backers will have to wait a bit longer to get the Firefox OS-based streaming stick: Matchstick is delaying shipments until August, the company announced Friday.

More: Kickstarter, Slashdot, Liliputing, AndroidHeadlines.com and Android Police

John Eggerton / Multichannel News:

Senators Urge FCC, FTC Investigation Of Supercookies — Nelson Says Practice Should Be Opt-in For Consumers — Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), ranking member on the Senate Commerce Committee, and a handful of other legislators have called on the FCC and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Verizon's use of so-called supercookies.

More: New York Times, RT, WBBH-TV, CIO.com and Associated Press

Jonnelle Marte / Washington Post:

TurboTax resumes processing state returns after fraud reports prompt halt — TurboTax temporarily stopped processing state tax returns after noticing an increase in suspicious filings, the tax preparation software company said Friday. — The company resumed e-filing of state returns …

More: Associated Press, SFGate and Reuters

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Chat App Line's Latest Experiment Is A YouTube-Like Video Service — Messaging app company Line continues to build out its business beyond its core chat service after it launched a YouTube-like video service in Thailand. The company, which claims 181 million active users worldwide …

Andrew Chung / Reuters:

US court orders Symantec to pay $17M for violating two patents owned by Intellectual Ventures related to its email and Internet protection products — U.S. court orders Symantec to pay $17 mln for patent infringement — (Reuters) - Symantec Corp, maker of the popular Norton antivirus software …

More: GeekWire and Seeking Alpha

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