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• Facebook builds platform for companies to share cybersecurity threat data

  Facebook has built a platform where organizations can share information about the security threats they face in order to better fend off cyberattacks.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, February 4

  ARM's fastest mobile chip ever comes out of the gate ... SAP puts entire enterprise suite on Hana ... Hack cost Sony $15 million through December, but $35 million for fiscal year ... and more news.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, February 3

  Uber to work on self-driving cars ... End of the line for Windows RT? ... FCC ready to propose neutral net ... and more news.

• Firefox deal continues to swing U.S. search toward Yahoo

  Google's share of the U.S. search market fell further in January, an Irish metrics company said Monday, again attributing the decline to last year's change by Firefox to dump Google as the browser's default.

• Yahoo gains US search share at Google's expense

  Gaining the status of default search engine in Firefox is paying off for Yahoo, which has grown its share of the U.S. search market over the last three months while Google's portion has dropped slightly.

• SEO and SEM predictions and tips for 2015

  Ask any digital marketing expert about the major trends they expect to see in 2015, and he or she will likely answer with one word: mobile.

• Yahoo to spin off its stake in Alibaba

  Yahoo will spin off its stake in Alibaba Group to form a new investment company, placating shareholders who wanted more value from Yahoo's share in the Chinese e-commerce giant.

• After being dumped by Firefox, Google wants users back

  After Google's share of the U.S. search market slipped in December, the Mountain View, Calif. company has been trying to entice Firefox users back to the fold.

• Yahoo's U.S. share on Firefox quadruples after deal

  Mozilla's deal with Yahoo has quadrupled the search provider's usage by those running Firefox in the U.S., but the browser's users still prefer Google, according to data from an Irish analytics company.

• Yahoo search share creeps up after Firefox deal

  Yahoo has inched ahead in the U.S. search market after becoming the default search tool in Mozilla's Firefox browser, according to StatCounter, a web analytics company.

• Google's work on full encryption chugs along, with Yahoo's help

  Google is making progress developing a user-friendly tool for fully encrypting people's messages on their computers, with coding help from Yahoo and a transition to GitHub.

• Salesforce and Atlassian team up to help startups give back

  Cloud CRM provider Salesforce has long distinguished itself from other Silicon Valley heavyweights by refusing to move its corporate headquarters and offices from San Francisco itself, even as titans like Google, Facebook and Yahoo sprawl their offices all over the East Bay and the Peninsula that sits to the south.

• Update: Firefox 34 seeks user OK before changing search to Yahoo

  As anticipated, Mozilla today updated Firefox to version 34, automatically switching the browser's default search from Google to Yahoo for most users in North America.

• Mozilla will automatically switch Firefox search to Yahoo for most U.S. users

  Mozilla will automatically change the default search engine in Firefox from Google to Yahoo for most U.S. users when it updates the browser this month.

• Mozilla unveils search tool tweaks in next week's Firefox 34

  Along with its impending switch to Yahoo as the default search engine for Firefox, Mozilla will also change how users conduct searches in the browser, the company said Tuesday.