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Ian Sherr / CNET:

Facebook takes down Creative Labs webpage, removes Slingshot, Riff, Rooms from app stores — Facebook shuts down Creative Labs, apps — The initiative behind some of the company's most experimental apps has gone away, along with the apps it produced over the past year.

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Dropbox says it will shut down Mailbox app on February 26 2016, Carousel on March 31 — Dropbox is shutting down its Mailbox and Carousel apps — Dropbox is doing away with Mailbox, the email app it acquired in March 2013, and Carousel, the company's attempt at a standalone photo management app.

Vijay Umapathy / Gmail Blog:

Google adds Reminders to Calendar on iOS and Android to help with your to-dos, works with Google's Inbox, Keep, and Now — Add to-dos to your Google Calendar using Reminders — You might already create calendar entries to remind you to call the doctor or pick up groceries on the way home.

More: VentureBeat, Android Authority, Digital Trends, PCMag India feed, ITworld.com, Droid Life, AndroidGuys, Tech Times, Fone Arena, WebProNews and PhoneDog.com

Akarshan Kumar / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter stops cropping photos in timeline, introduces larger multi-photo displays — A new look for your twitter.com photos — Today, we're introducing a richer photo experience on twitter.com. — While Twitter began as an all-text platform, rich media has become essential to the experience.

More: The Daily Dot, Fone Arena, Gigaom, SlashGear, Tech Times, Marketing Land, Mashable, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge and WebProNews. Tweets: @bluechoochoo

Billy Steele / Engadget:

Adobe Lightroom mobile on Android is now available for free — Adobe ditched the Creative Cloud requirement for Lightroom mobile on iOS back in October, and now it's doing the same for Android. With an update to version 1.4 for the Android app, the photo-editing software is now free to use.

More: Lightroom Journal, Digital Trends, Android Police, Pocketnow, The Verge, Droid Life, Fone Arena, ZDNet, Tech Times, The Next Web, The Phoblographer and PetaPixel

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

Sinclair bought Circa assets for $800K in August, plans to hire 70 journalists, relaunch in spring 2016 — Sinclair Acquired and Will Relaunch Mobile News Site Circa — TV station owner plans to hire 70 journalists for new push in digital media — Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. …

More: NASDAQ.com, International Business Times, Poynter, Tech Insider, CNNMoney, Broadcasting & Cable and The Verge

Tweets: @erik_hayden, @adamweinstein and @dangillmor

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Matt Weinberger / Business Insider:

Gigster raises $10M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz for on-demand business app development — This startup is making waves by letting top-gun programmers work how they want, when they want — San Francisco-based Gigster, a two-year old startup that graduated from the Y Combinator …

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David E. Sanger / New York Times:

Hillary Clinton Urges Silicon Valley to ‘Disrupt’ ISIS — WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton said on Sunday that the Islamic State had become “the most effective recruiter in the world” and that the only solution was to engage American technology companies in blocking or taking down militants' websites, videos and encrypted communications.

More: Breitbart, Techdirt, Telegraph, Quartz, The Next Web, Gizmodo, MacDailyNews, Fortune, Tech Times and Bloomberg Business

Reuters:

Source: Obama administration to lean on social media services to flag “active terrorist plotting”, prevent encryption from providing “a dark space” for plotting

More: Reuters, International Business Times, CNNMoney, Patently Apple, Techdirt, SiliconBeat, CNET, PCMag India feed and VentureBeat. Tweets: @mattblaze

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Raises iTunes Match and Apple Music Library Matching Limits to 100,000 Tracks — Over the past couple of days, MacRumors has received several reports from users who have been able to upload music libraries of greater than 25,000 tracks to iTunes Match or Apple Music's similar scan-and-match feature …

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges sentenced to 71 months in prison for Silk Road theft, must forfeit $475K in assets — Rogue Secret Service agent who stole from Silk Road sentenced to nearly 6 years — Feds remind Shaun Bridges of former agency's motto: “Worthy of Trust and Confidence.”

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Associated Press, CoinDesk and BBC

Joseph Cox / Motherboard:

French government is considering legislation banning free and shared WiFi during states of emergency, and blocking the use of Tor — After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi — After the recent Paris terror attacks, the French government is proposing …

More: Breitbart, Ars Technica UK, PC Magazine, Telegraph, The Stack, Tech Times, SC Magazine, Mashable, Boing Boing, The Next Web, TechSpot, GamePolitics, BGR, DSLreports, The Verge, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Neowin, Engadget, Ubergizmo, Business Insider and The Daily Dot

Tweets: @occupytoronto, @mattblaze, @timbeejones and @tutanota_de

Charles Piller / STAT:

Alphabet renames Google Life Sciences to Verily — Verily, I swear. Google Life Sciences debuts a new name — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Life Sciences — the Silicon Valley giant's new foray into health and medicine — announced a new name Monday that slips easily off the tongue …

More: The Verge, VentureBeat, Re/code, BuzzFeed, USA Today, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Forbes, SlashGear and TechnoBuffalo

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Turns On Safe Browsing In Chrome For Android — Google's Safe Browsing technology is now enabled by default on Android to protect mobile Chrome users from accessing phishing sites and web pages that harbor malware. — Until now, Safe Browsing was only available to desktop users …

More: Google Online Security Blog, The Verge, ZDNet, Android Police, Engadget, Android Central, VentureBeat, Fone Arena, 9to5Google, gHacks Technology News, Tech Times, MediaPost, The Next Web, xda-developers, Droid Life, iDigitalTimes.com and SlashGear

Robin Wauters / Tech.eu:

Google Ventures will merge its EU and US funds into a single global fund, keep teams in place — Google Ventures to discontinue its $125 million European fund — The Wall Street Journal reports that Google Ventures is dialling down seed deals. The FT reports that Google's venture capital arm is on a ‘bumpy ride’.

More: Re/code, The Next Web and Business Insider

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:

Google Ventures says it participated in fewer seed-stage deals in 2015, continues to invest heavily in healthcare and life sciences

More: SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Financial Times, PYMNTS.com, Medium, TechCrunch, bizjournals, The Register, 9to5Google, ParisLemon and iamwire

Tweets: @ft, @ychernova, @tech_eu, @googleventures and @danprimack

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