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February 18, 2015, 9:15 PM

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Ritsuko Ando / Reuters:

Sony three-year plan to focus on PlayStation and camera sensors; company may exit smartphone and TV markets — Sony sees 25-fold profit jump by 2018; could exit TVs, phones — (Reuters) - Sony Corp (6758.T) aims to boost operating profit 25-fold within three years by growing its camera sensors …

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Sony will spin off its audio and video business as it searches for profitablity

More: Wall Street Journal, CNET, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Network World, PC Magazine, TechSpot and Pocket-lint

Tweets: @reckless and @reckless

Jessi Hempel / Wired:

White House Names DJ Patil as the First US Chief Data Scientist — It's finally official: The White House has named DJ Patil its first ever Chief Data Scientist and Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy. — Yes, that's a mouthful. Even as an acronym, Patil's new title is ten letters long: CDCaDCTODT.

More: The White House, SiliconBeat, Engadget, Gigaom and Nextgov

Tweets: @dpatil, @jess, @joshelman and @whitehouseostp

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

Uber expands Series E round by $1B, bringing the total capacity for round up to $2.8B — Facing Demand, Uber Expands Funding Round by $1 Billion — Uber, the ride-hailing service, likes to trumpet its popularity with consumers. Their fervor is surpassed, perhaps, only by investors'.

More: VatorNews, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Business Insider, Forbes and Re/code

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

Samsung will buy Apple Pay competitor LoopPay — Samsung will buy LoopPay, a mobile payments company. — LoopPay's technology allows mobile payments through traditional magnetic credit card readers. That means it can theoretically work in a lot more places than Apple Pay, which requires special payment pads to work.

More: Business Wire, Re/code, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, New York Times, ReadWrite, VentureBeat, PC World, MacRumors, Ars Technica, iMore, AppleInsider, ZDNet, Gigaom, Forbes, The Verge, BGR, 9to5Google, Cult of Mac and VentureBreak. Tweets: @nytimesbits

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Patent troll claims to own Bluetooth, scores $15.7M verdict against Samsung — Big patent trolls see court wins, twice in two weeks. Will it matter for reform? — Gordon Bremer didn't invent Bluetooth 2.0. In fact, as he admitted on the stand last week in an East Texas federal court …

More: Business Insider, Inquirer, Electronista, SlashGear, Slashdot, VentureBreak, Telecompaper, ITProPortal, AndroidHeadlines.com, PR Newswire, GSMArena.com, Christian News …, TrustedReviews, indiatoday.intoday.in and www.gizbot.com/

Dustin Volz / National Journal:

Google Calls FBI's Plan to Expand Hacking Power a ‘Monumental’ Constitutional Threat — Any change in accessing computer data should go through Congress, the search giant said. — Google is warning that the government's quiet plan to expand the FBI's authority to remotely access computer files amounts …

More: Google Public Policy Blog, Guardian, The Hill, Ars Technica, SiliconBeat, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Gigaom, The Verge and Slashdot

Tweets: @csoghoian, @mattcutts and @declanm

Lauren Goode / Re/code:

Ray Super Remote is a $199 touchscreen remote that can recommend content, easily switch inputs — Ray Wants to Change Your TV Experience, With a Touchscreen Remote Control (Video) — As more set-top boxes, game consoles and sticks that stream Web video crowd the main television set in the home …

More: Digital Trends, PC World, PC Magazine, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Virtual Press Office, Gigaom and Variety

TechCrunch:

Snapchat Now Lets You Shoot Video And Play Music At The Same Time — Snapchat has solved one of the most annoying problems with mobile video so you can finally record your dance parties, even if you're the DJ. — The startup been experimenting for some time with ways to better integrate music into its application.

More: Gigaom, The Verge, Engadget, Business Insider, iMore, Google Operating System and Inc.com. Tweets: @joshconstine

Barb Darrow / Gigaom:

Microsoft debuts its Azure Machine Learning service with support for Python, R languages and a preview of its Hadoop-based HDInsight tool that runs on Linux — Microsoft embraces Python, Linux in new big data tools — Continuing its quest to make Microsoft Azure comfy for the non-Windows world …

More: TechNet Blogs, VentureBeat, BetaNews, The Official Microsoft Blog, TechCrunch, GeekWire and ZDNet

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple reportedly poached employees from A123 Systems to work on battery tech, now faces unfair competition lawsuit — Apple has poached five key engineers from A123 Systems to work in a new battery division at the Cupertino technology company, with some hires possibly going as far back as June, a new report claims.

More: Law360, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iMore, MacDailyNews and Ubergizmo

Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch:

Breath analysis startup Breathometer announces partnership with Uber, now prompts drunk users to order Uber or a cab — Breathometer Now Calls Ubers To Drive The Drunks Home — Breathometer and Uber are teaming up to get the drunks home safely. — We wrote before that Breathometer …

More: Forbes, Engadget and GeekWire

Lucian Constantin / PC World:

Samsung smart TVs don't encrypt the voice data they collect — Samsung does not encrypt voice recordings that are collected and transmitted by its smart TVs to a third party service, even though the company has claimed that it uses encryption to secure consumers' personal information.

More: Pen Test Partners, SamMobile, Fox News and BBC. Thanks:@bradchacos

Ryan Merket / reddit:

Reddit opens voting for users to choose 10 charities to receive 10% of 2014 $8.2M ad revenue — reddit donate - 10% of our 2014 advertising revenue will be donated to 10 charities you choose. Voting begins now! — Here at reddit, one of the things that gets us out of bed every morning …

More: VatorNews, Mashable, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Next Web, SlashGear and GamePolitics blogs

John Cook / GeekWire:

Software maker K2 raises more than $100M to help businesses build custom applications … K2 may not be the best known software company in the Seattle area. In fact, most people hearing the name probably first think of the Seattle-based ski manufacturer. — But in the shadow of companies …

More: TechCrunch, Brier Dudley's blog, Forbes, Xconomy and www.k2.com

Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal:

Storvisor Emerges as Springpath With $34 Million to Simplify Data Storage — Springpath Inc. emerged from stealth Wednesday with $34 million in funding and a new software platform that is intended to dramatically simplify how data storage is done. — Formerly known as Storvisor …

More: Gigaom and Data Center Knowledge

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

US carriers still stink at unlocking phones, analysis finds — Sprint is especially bad, while Verizon is the most customer-friendly. — A consumer rights activist who led the charge against restrictions on phone unlocking has graded the four major US carriers and found three …

More: TechCrunch, Techdirt, Techlicious Blog …, Re/code, Sina.is, Computerworld, FierceWireless, BGR, VentureBeat, BetaNews, DSLreports, SlashGear, Network World, Android Authority and Network World

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