Sources: Amazon plans more physical stores, including retail stores that aren't bookstores, but has no immediate plans for 300-400 stores
Meet the Guy Behind Amazon's Secret Retail Store Plans — The man behind the Kindle is leading Amazon's project to create the retail stores of the future.
Google's search chief Amit Singhal to retire February 26, will be replaced by AI manager John Giannandrea
Google Search Chief Singhal to Retire, Replaced by AI Manager — Successor John Giannandrea works on machine intelligence — Google CEO Sundar Pichai has highlighted AI as crucial
Apple ordered to pay $625M to VirnetX after court finds FaceTime, VPN, iMessage infringed patents
Apple ordered to pay $625M in revived VirnetX patent trial — A federal jury on Wednesday found Apple guilty of willfully infringing on four VirnetX patents, awarding …
The quality and reliability of Apple's apps on iOS and OS X have gradually degradaded over the past few years
Mossberg: Apple's apps need work — People think of Apple as a maker of excellent premium hardware. In fact, many reviewers regard Apple devices as the best you can buy.
Premium Spotify subscribers can now play music directly on Amazon Echo
Amazon's Echo can now play music directly from Spotify — Playing Spotify music on the Amazon Echo is now as easy as saying three words: “Alexa, Play Spotify.” The e-retailer-slash-device-maker laun...
Sharp says it's leaning toward a takeover offer from Foxconn over offer from the Japanese government-backed fund INCJ
Sharp leaning toward takeover offer from Foxconn over offer from government-backed fund — NAGOYA, Japan — Sharp, the struggling Japanese technology company best known …
Justin Kan to restart his lifecasting channel, Justin.tv as a Snapchat channel
Justin.tv is coming back to life as a Snapchat channel — Justin Kan is relaunching the channel that created the modern live-streaming movement. Justin.tv, founded in 2007 and shuttered in 2014 …
GoPro CEO says firm will discontinue three of its cameras in April, but Hero 4 Black at $500, Hero 4 Silver at $400, and Hero 4 Session at $200 will remain
GoPro will slash camera lineup to just three models in April — Coming to terms with a rather miserable financial quarter …
YouTube Red to launch its first original programming, three films and a series, on Feb. 10
YouTube Set to Premiere First Original Movies, PewDiePie Series — YouTube next week is set to launch its first exclusive programming — a test of how many customers will fork over $10 per month …
Square NFC payment reader available in US Apple stores for $49, compatible with chip-enabled cards, Apple Pay, Android Pay, and Samsung Pay
Square is selling its NFC payment reader in Apple Stores — Last November, Square finally got on with the times and unveiled an NFC-friendly reader …
Cisco: Internet traffic will pass a zettabyte this year driven by mobile, will double again in 2019; 5.5B people will own a mobile device by 2020
Phones Will Drive Internet Traffic Past the Zettabyte Mark This Year — It's no real secret that the rise in the world's Internet traffic …
Microsoft announces Azure IoT Hub, its cloud service for managing internet-connected devices, will become generally available February 4
Microsoft launches IoT Hub to ingest data from the physical world — The service helps companies manage a massive fleet of embedded devices
Apple Music for Android now lets you save songs to an SD card
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Struggling GoPro falls short on earnings with quarterly revenue of $437M, down 31% YoY, announces new CFO Brian McGee
Katie Roof / TechCrunch :
Intel diversity report shows sluggish progress on minority representation, no gender pay gap, 5.4% increase in women to 24.8% of total workforce
Davey Alba / Wired :
Cisco says it agrees to pay $1.4B for Jasper, a platform to connect Internet-of-Things devices
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Sources: Google to commit to purchasing Qualcomm server chips pending benchmarks being met
Ian King / Bloomberg Business :
Adblock Fast, a plugin for Samsung's browser, removed from Google Play days after launching because it “interferes” with third-party apps
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Blockstream raises $55M Series A to develop interoperable blockchain tech
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Instagram extends max video ad length from 30 to 60 seconds to attract TV dollars; max user-posted video length remains at 15 seconds
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Google expands self-driving car testing to Kirkland, Washington, noting different traffic patterns and road conditions
David Shepardson / Reuters :
IBM buys German design agency Ecx.io, its third creative-services acquisition this week
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Pebble adds custom messages, Pebble Health watch face and API, new low power mode, more
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Dropbox execs say it has plenty of money in the bank, hired 500 people in 2015, 75 so far in 2016, adds 10M users per month and 25K business users quarterly
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