News: 2014-01-16
Technology
Winamp lives on after acquisition by Radionomy | The Verge
Gapps Manager Gets You the Right Google Apps for Your Rooted Phone
Marc Andreessen talks about the pros and cons of net neutrality and the need for innovation
Hate Parking Tickets? Fixed Fights Them In Court For You | TechCrunch
Even President Obama Thinks That Facebook Isn’t Cool Anymore | TechCrunch
You can now 3D print directly from Adobe’s Photoshop
BBC News – Yahoo’s chief operating officer in surprise departure
Spotify Drops Free Web Listening Time Limit Everywhere – A Big Scalability Milestone | TechCrunch
Report: Just 15% of T-Mo Postpaid Subscribers Looking to Churn
Apple CEO Signals Company Plans to Broaden Alliance with China Mobile – WSJ.com
Zuckerberg Calls Snapchat A “Privacy Phenomenon” | TechCrunch
Why is everyone disappointed by Google buying Nest? | The Verge
Blackphone Promises To Be a Cellphone to Beat the NSA
Europe
Coming ‘oil glut’ may push global economy into deflation – Telegraph
Punch Taverns’ financial engineering has harmed the pub industry | Business | The Guardian
BBC News – Oslo’s rapid growth redefines Nordic identity
Car sales in Europe at lowest level since 1995 – Telegraph
ekathimerini.com | Interest in Greece as investment destination is mounting
Economist’s View: Does Sweden Have a Housing Bubble?
North America
BBC News – Retailers JC Penney and Sears to cut thousands of jobs
Sears Canada to cut more than 1,600 jobs | Toronto Star
More Americans Worse Off Financially Than a Year Ago
In 15 states, deeply underwater foreclosures still reign
Credit standards going easy on jumbo mortgages | 2014-01-14 | HousingWire
For Recent Grads, Good Jobs Really Are Hard to Find – Washington Wire – WSJ
Calculated Risk: NY Fed: Empire State Manufacturing Activity indicates faster expansion in January
Fed Tapering – Shades of 1937? | The Big Picture
Lack of trickle down in West Virginia leaves poorest high and dry | Al Jazeera America
Emerging Markets
Argentina Says Consumer Prices Rose 10.9% on Year in December – WSJ.com
Turkish Lira, Rand Sink to Lows Versus Dollar – WSJ.com
Asia/Australia
Australian Dollar Hits Over 3-Year Low – WSJ.com
Australian Employment Tumbles in December – WSJ.com
Australia posts its lowest annual jobs growth in 17 years | Business | theguardian.com
Japan machinery orders hit five-year high
BBC News – China cloning on an ‘industrial scale’
Finance/Markets
Banking regulation meets law of unintended consequences
BlackRock’s fourth-quarter profit rises 24 percent
Bank of America shares hit three-year high after profits triple – Telegraph
Firms Tripling Junk Returns Lure Most Since ’07: Credit Markets – Bloomberg
Elsewhere
13 Nail-Biting Images Of San Francisco’s Bay Bridge Under Construction
This pile of cash is actually just carved wood
Muhammad Ali with his winnings | Retronaut
Tin Foil Hats Just Got a Major Hardware (and Fashion) Upgrade
What Do People Have Against Eating Steak? – Bloomberg
Why We Love Narcissists – Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic – Harvard Business Review
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