ESPN and Twitter are expanding their partnership, which involves posting sports-related videos on the short-messaging service. The deal is “part of a growing wave of tie-ups as TV networks and Twitter hunt for new advertising revenue,” The Wall Street Journal reports. “ESPN … plans to show video-highlight clips on Twitter of major sports events in the coming year.” 

Next month, Google is expected to begin powering its Chrome browser with Blink -- a Google-made “rendering engine,” which is responsible for turning HTML into the visual Web we all see. According to The New Yorker, however, “Chrome’s … move to Blink undercuts the primary olive branch it promised to Web developers upon Chrome’s release in 2008; those developers now need to test their Web sites in an additional rendering engine.” Google, for its part, insists that such innovation is necessary to keep the Web healthy.

Cyberattacks targeting US companies are only increasing, The New York Times reports. Worse still, “This time, officials say, the attackers’ aim is not espionage but sabotage,” NYT reports. “Senior administration officials said Sunday that they were still not certain exactly where the attacks were coming from, or whether they were state-sponsored or the work of hackers or criminals.” 

Yahoo has reportedly poached Path’s director of product management Dylan Casey. “The move over to Yahoo makes sense, as Casey worked closely with Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer during their shared tenures at Google,” AllThingsD reports. “It is not clear what he will be doing in his new position, but Mayer has been looking hard for good product leads.” 

Google on Monday launched a new mobile content recommendation service powered by Google+. “These recommendations will appear as small widgets at that bottom of the screen as users browse a news site that has enabled this service,” TechCrunch reports. Forbes has signed up as Google’s launch partner for the service. 

What does Wired.com’s Roberto Baldwin think of Amazon’s rumored 3D holographic screen-packing smartphone? It’s a “very dumb idea,” he declares. “The last place you want images floating in space is your smartphone.” Amazon is reportedly working on a retina-tracking phone that produces 3D images, which would float above the display, allowing users, as Baldwin jokes, “to relive [their] Star Wars fantasy of saving Princess Leia.” 

To ensure mobile users can watch all the streaming content they can stomach, ESPN has reportedly discussed subsidizing wireless connectivity on behalf of its users with at least one major U.S. carrier. More broadly, “some media companies whose mobile content gets a lot of traffic are considering arrangements with wireless carriers that would ensure their users can watch, surf and play as much as they want without being hit with stiff overage charges,” The Wall Street Journal reports. 

Salesforce has scooped up social bookmarking service Clipboard. “The deal was worth between $10 million and $20 million,” AllThingsD reports, citing a source. “Clipboard … built interesting hooks for saving rich Web content across devices.” Yet, according to AllThingsD, the startup will be shutting down its own services in order to add similar functions into Salesforce products. 

YouTube is ready to start testing a subscription service among a “small group of partners,” the video hub announced Thursday. “YouTube says that of the over 1M channels generating cash on YouTube, one of the most frequent requests has been ‘more flexibility in monetizing and distributing content’, which is what this new program is about,” The Next Web reports. Subscriptions will start at $.99 a month, and is expected to be offered more widely in the coming months. 

Better late than never, Flipboard has made its magazine curation service accessible to Android device users. “The popular service has released an update that will now brings in features iOS device owners have been experiencing for the past couple of months,” The Next Web reports. “In addition, to allow better organization with individually curated magazines, Flipboard has unveiled a new Web-based editor.”