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a new era for Microsoft is about to begin I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update it won't be long before Microsoft has a new leader bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft's board of directors are preparing to names satya nadella as the new chief executive he's currently in charge of Microsoft's cloud operating system which powers products like office 365 Bing SkyDrive Xbox Live and skype microsoft has been on the hunt for a new CEO since August when Steve Ballmer announced his retirement the perk of amazon prime may get more pricey amazon announced that it is considering a price increase in the u.s. to 100 or 120 dollars a year right now prime costs eighty dollars a year this unique subscription bundle includes free two-day shipping as well as unlimited streaming on the prime instant video library which is like netflix and kindle owners get to rent ebooks from the kindle lending library amazon's chief financial officer suggested that the price of prime may need to go up in the u.s. because shipping and fuel costs have increased back in october amazon raised the minimum spending requirement to $35 for non-prime members to get free shipping yahoo has reset the passwords of some of its mail users after an attempted hack to access email accounts Yahoo sent out text messages and emails to those that may have been affected and it also reset passwords for anyone that was compromised Yahoo is not saying how many accounts were attacked consider this a good time to freshen up any passwords that also use the same login as your yahoo account because when hackers have a key even if they can't get into yahoo they'll try to see what other doors that password can unlock there are 20 million songs available to stream on demand from Spotify but 4 million of those songs apparently have never been played not even once but there's a new service out to change that it's called for gotta 5 the service will play these neglected Spotify songs and then if a song is streamed even it's removed from the playlist here's a unique phone accessory we're keeping an eye on it's called the sense cover by moshe it brings a flip cover to the iphone 5 and 5s and it looks very similar to Samsung's Galaxy s4 flip cover this lets you view the time incoming caller ID and other notifications it has touch sensors to let you answer calls without opening the cover and there's a magnetic clasp to keep the cover folded back when you want to leave it open the Moshi sense cover is selling now for $45 in steel black or brushed titanium designs that your tech news update baby get more details at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey