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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple ads Genius movie, TV recommendations to Apple TV  —  Apple has added its Genius recommendation system from iTunes to Apple TV, offering to suggest titles related to previous purchases.  —  The suggestions are available from new Genius menu options under both Movies and TV, opening listings of related content.

Natalie Zmuda / AdAge:
Facebook Hires Former Levi's, Apple Exec Rebecca Van Dyck to Lead Marketing  —  As we saw in its IPO filing, Facebook does very little consumer marketing in a traditional sense.  But that may change: It's bringing on former Levi's and Apple exec Rebecca Van Dyck to head global marketing, according to people familiar with the matter.

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Path Now Has 2M Users, Having Doubled Since It Relaunched Two Months Ago  —  Path got the second version of its product a lot more right than the first.  The well-designed mobile journal app is now one of the most promising attempts to build a more personal and intimate social graph.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple updates iBooks Author to clarify that you own created content  —  Apple has updated its iBooks Author app in order to clarify the language of its End User License Agreement.  The changes to the EULA clarify that Apple does indeed intend the packaged product to be sold on the iBookstore only …

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Windows Phone developer lead leaves for Amazon's Kindle team  —  Summary: Brandon Watson, head of developer experiences for Windows Phone, is the latest exec to leave the Microsoft's phone unit.  —  Brandon Watson, known to many Windows Phone developers as head of the WP Developer Experience, is leaving Microsoft for Amazon.

Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Google Search Now Features Fresher Results, Faster Autocomplete and More Relevant Related Searches  —  In January, Google launched its Search Plus your World initiative and the jury is still out whether this was a useful change to its search experience or not.

David Cohen / All Facebook:
89 Percent Of Ad Agencies Used Facebook In Q4  —  Facebook continued to dominate the social media advertising sector in the fourth quarter,with 89 percent of agencies planning to incorporate the social network into their clients' campaigns, unchanged from the third quarter.

Kellex / Droid Life:
Google Issues Statement Regarding CDMA Nexus Devices  —  We reached out to Google to see if we could get some clarification or reasoning as to why CDMA devices would no longer be “supported” as developer devices and they responded.  Dan Morril, an Android engineer who you may be familiar with …

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
Verizon Galaxy Nexus removed from Google's developer support pages (update)  —  Google has seemingly eliminated the Verizon version of the Galaxy Nexus from the company's internally-supported “Nexus” program — a series of devices designed to showcase new versions of stock Android …

Kellex / Droid Life:
Google No Longer “Supports” the LTE/CDMA Verizon Galaxy Nexus?  —  Wow, so I'm not really sure where to start with this head-scratch-worthy news.  Thanks to a reader, we have now realized that the LTE/CDMA version of the Galaxy Nexus that thousands of you purchased, may no longer be considered a “supported” developer device by Google.

Amar Toor / Engadget:
Dropbox offers up to 5GB of free space to anyone willing to go beta  —  Here's some good news for all you Dropboxers out there: the company is offering a bundle of free storage space to anyone who tries the beta version of its new Experimental software.  It's really quite simple …

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
After 3 Years Of A Crummy Checkin Experience, Foursquare Is Working On A Speedier Solution  —  This week we met with Foursquare's Head of Product, Alex Rainert.  —  We mostly asked questions about the company's incredibly social founder, Dennis Crowley, with whom Rainert founded Dodgeball in 2005.

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
What is the mystery “entertainment device” Google is testing?  —  Google is asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission to test a mysterious Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled “entertainment device,” in employees homes in four U.S. cities.  So inquiring minds want to know, what exactly is it?

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Windows Phone Marketplace launches in five new regions, no sign of China yet  —  Microsoft is expanding the reach of its Windows Phone Marketplace to five more regions.  Windows Phone 7.5 users in Argentina, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru and the Philippines will be able to access apps and games from the Marketplace later today.

Nancy Messieh / The Next Web:
Tumblr now lets you highlight your posts, but it will cost you $1 each time  —  Just a day after the rather interesting announcement that Tumblr has hired a team to write about itself, they've announced a new feature for its users.  —  It reads: … The feature is now available when creating a brand new post.

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