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 | Ryan Lawler "I work at Evernote and we're about to get acquired... Watch this space" That could be the first big acquisition rumor to have found its way onto Secret, the... read more | |  | Catherine Shu Google paid $750 million for a 5.94% stake in Lenovo Group on Jan. 30, according to a disclosure on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The purchase was made on the... read more | |  | Jordan Crook In 2012, after five generations of iPhone, Apple switched up the size of their flagship smartphone. Rather than sporting a 3.5-inch display, as it had for five... read more | | | |  | Frederic Lardinois | |  | John Biggs Today in bitcoin ephemera I present this interesting bet between VC Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz and Felix Salmon, noted bitcoin curmudgeon. Ben has... read more | |  | Natasha Lomas The presence of Bluetooth LE/4.0 in the latest generations of smartphones and tablets has let to an explosion of hardware/sensor add-ons that extend the... read more | |  | Catherine Shu Mt. Gox has temporarily suspended Bitcoin withdrawals in order to resolve a technical issue, the company said on its site. read more | | |
 | The hot new book about the digital economy is Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson's The Second Machine Age: Work,... read more | |  | With the Super Bowl right around the corner, for many Americans this weekend is all about football -- but tech... read more | |  | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — seem perfectly willing... read more | | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | |
