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January 25, 2014, 10:15 AM

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Wall Street Journal:

Apple Moves Toward Expanded Mobile-Payment Service — Apple Inc. laying the groundwork for an expanded mobile-payments service, leveraging its growing base of iPhone and iPad users and the hundreds of millions of credit cards on file through its iTunes stores.

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Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:

When Gmail Went Down, Yahoo Poked Fun On Twitter, Then Apologized — Gmail was down briefly today, and Yahoo — which suffered its own and much longer-lasting email woes recently — still decided it was a good opportunity to have some fun, tweeting about the failure then later apologizing.

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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Gmail And Google+ Go Down Across The World, Service Returns After Roughly 50 Minutes

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's Windows 8.1 Update 1: Rumored release target is March 11 — Summary: Windows 8.1 Update 1 may be headed for a March 2014 release and could include some under-the-hood changes to reduce memory and disk space requirements for cheaper tablets. — There's nothing like ending the week with a few fresh Windows rumors.

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Facebook's referral traffic share grew over 48% in Q4 2013, Pinterest was up 30%, but Twitter dipped 4% — Social discovery and sharing platform Shareaholic today released a report covering referral traffic data from the eight largest social media sites in Q4 2013.

More: Shareaholic, Marketing Land and Inside Facebook. Thanks:@dannywong1190

Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline.com:

Sony Pictures, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Make Movie Deal For ‘Lean In’ — EXCLUSIVE: In a deal spearheaded by Sony Pictures production president Hannah Minghella, the studio has made a preemptive acquisition of film rights to Lean In: Women, Work, And The Will to Lead, the 2013 book written by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.

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Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Bay area tech companies should give back and promote good public policy in their community — It Doesn't Have To Be This Way — There is a story being told about us here in the tech industry in San Francisco — that we are entitled, or that we are oblivious. I don't believe that's true.

More: Anil Dash and Vanity Fair. Tweets: @kevinmarks, @stephenfleming, @stephenfleming, @martinsfp, @anildash and @sg

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Acquires Virtual World Gaming Startup Cloud Party, Will Shut It Down — Yahoo is doing more than just throwing shade at Google on Twitter today and then taking it back - the company has acquired Cloud Party, a browser-based game creation engine. In a blog post today …

More: Cloud Party Blog, Softpedia News, I4U News, PC World and bizjournals

Ryan Huang / ZDNet:

South Korea rules pre-installed phone bloatware must be deletable — Summary: New guidelines will require the industry to allow smartphone users the option to delete unnecessary pre-loaded applications, to rectify unreasonable practices and reduce inconvenience.

More: The Korea Observer, BGR, Electronista, MobileBurn.com, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, Phandroid, Wired.co.uk, Engadget, Inquirer, CNET, Android Central, Tech in Asia and The Next Web

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Union Square Ventures finalizing a $350M fundraise for its next early-stage and “opportunities” funds — Union Square Ventures raises new funds — Early Twitter backer closes in on $300 million for new investments. — FORTUNE — Union Square Ventures …

Zach Miners / PC World:

DOJ files its first lawsuits over counterfeit apps — The U.S. Department of Justice has filed its first lawsuits over counterfeit smartphone apps, charging four men who now face up to five years each in prison. — “These crimes involve the large-scale violation of intellectual property rights …

More: Ars Technica, The United States Department …, Bloomberg and TheHill

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