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- Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer fired her COO, Henrique de Castro, just 15 months after she hired him. He walks out with a $20 million stock package.
- Read Mayer's "confidential" memo on de Castro here.
- Microsoft is considering Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg to replace Steve Ballmer atop the company.
- CES booth babes are nearly extinct. Here is what they're being replaced with.
- AOL has disposed of its controlling interest in Patch, the local news service.
- Facebook and Dropbox have a 'secret' hiring process.
- Apple will refund customers whose kids bought stuff from the App Store without their permission.
- Spotify has dropped its limits to free listening. Its ad and subs model appears to be working, in other words.
- Netflix could be screwed under the new net neutrality rules, if internet service providers begin charging it more of throttling its bandwidth.
- Brian Krebs has a detailed piece on how, exactly, Target's point of sales system hacked and 110 million credit card numbers stolen.