News: 2014-01-12
Technology
Amazon’s Current Employees Raise the Bar for New Hires – WSJ.com
The inspiring heroism of Aaron Swartz | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | theguardian.com
Remembering Aaron Swartz, Who Passed Away One Year Ago Today | Freedom of the Press Foundation
Exclusive: More well-known U.S. retailers victims of cyber attacks – sources
Neiman Marcus Says Customer Credit Cards May Be Compromised – Bloomberg
Jelly Bean claims 59.1 percent of Android device share as KitKat inches forward
Kim Dotcom’s Mother Was Raided, Too | Motherboard
Nassim Taleb Lashes Out On Twitter – Business Insider
United States
Subprime Auto Lenders to Ease Standards Further: Moody’s – WSJ.com
Push is on to get ‘kill switch’ into smartphones
Christie aide is latest to use private emails – Yahoo News
Wisniewski raises possibility of Christie impeachment over bridge scandal | NJ.com
After 12 years, £390bn, and countless dead, we leave poverty, fraud – and the Taliban in Afghanistan
U.S. profits could bounce in 2014 if economy gains steam
Canada
Canada Jobless Rate Tops U.S. for First Time in 5 Years – Canada Real Time – WSJ
Target Corp warns of larger losses at Canadian stores in fourth quarter | Financial Post
Ice storm in Eastern Canada chilled retail sales: reports | Financial Post
Japan
What Is a ‘Class-A War Criminal’? More on the Yasukuni Controversy. – James Fallows – The Atlantic
Elsewhere
Singapore Ranks as Least Emotional Country in the World
Singapore Confronts an Emotion Deficit – Businessweek
A color-coded map of the world’s most and least emotional countries
14 Absurd Ads From Before We Knew Cigarettes Could Kill You
Messi, Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic: football’s new superheroes – FT.com
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