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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Facebook Messenger for Android drops account requirement, taking on SMS and WhatsApp — The race to replace SMS is on — Facebook has entered the race to replace SMS in earnest today, announcing that its messenger app for Android will no longer require a Facebook account to sign up.
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Facebook Newsroom, Forbes, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, BGR, The Next Web, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, CNET, NYT Bits, GigaOM, memeburn, BuzzFeed, SlashGear and WebProNews. Tweets: @nunomaia
| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
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Inside Facebook and Ars Technica
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
iTunes Music Store Launches in 56 New Countries, Movies Arrive in Four — Earlier today, we noted that the iTunes Music Store had gone live in Russia and Turkey, but now that changes have propagated throughout iTunes and we've had time to collect reports, it now appears that Apple … | Edmund Lee / Bloomberg Tech Blog: |
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TUAW, Macgasm and iDownloadBlog.com
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Mary Meeker's Latest Must-Read Presentation On The State Of The Web — Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker is doing a year-end presentation on the state of the web at Stanford tonight. — We have the slides of her presentation here. — As usual, it's a must read for anyone in the industry, or anyone with interest in technology.
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VentureBeat, AllThingsD, The Next Web, TechCrunch, CNET and GigaOM
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See also Mediagazer| Matthew Izatt / Gmail Blog: |
The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0 — Six months ago, our team set out to completely rebuild the Gmail app for iPhone and iPad to give you you a faster, sleeker, and easier experience on iOS. The result? Version 2.0. With version 2.0 of the app, you'll get a totally new look and feel …
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TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Mac and Gizmodo
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Why ‘The Daily’ Failed — Jeff Sonderman, writing for Poynter: … #1 I agree with. The Daily had no personality, no focus. It wasn't tawdry enough to be a New York Post-style tabloid, and wasn't serious enough to compete with the New York Times. #2 I completely disagree with.
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TechCrunch, Reuters, Marco.org, Talking Points Memo, John Pavlus, SplatF, BuzzFeed and ReadWrite
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See also Mediagazer| Peter Ha / Gizmodo: |
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Poynter, The Verge, Nieman Journalism Lab, CNNMoney.com, Associated Press, TUAW, GigaOM and Jack Shafer. Tweets: @levie. See also Mediagazer
| Jemima Kiss / Guardian: |
Soundcloud revamps site as users hit 180 million — The ‘YouTube of audio’ claims to now reach 8% of the world's internet population as mobile audio takes off — If the future of the internet is mobile, things are looking very good for Soundcloud, the Berlin-based sound-sharing site.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Evernote Expands Its Premium Offerings: Evernote Business Now Live In 7 Countries With Sharing, More Data And A New Searching Algorithm — Evernote, the popular personal information and productivity app that last week announced another $85 million in financing and more than 45 million users …
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Evernote Blogcast, CNET, ZDNet, AllThingsD, Engadget, ReadWrite, VentureBeat, CITEworld, PandoDaily, The Next Web, MacStories, Mashable! and The Appside
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Nokia selling Espoo headquarters to raise cash, but won't be moving out — Nokia is about to add roughly $220 million to its balance sheet through the sale of its central HQ building in Espoo, Finland. The company will continue to operate within the premises as previously …
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| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
And whomp, here it is: The Pivotal Initiative brought to you by VMware and EMC — At long last here it is: The long-simmering VMware-EMC spin-off that is. The Pivotal Initiative will focus on bringing resources from the two parent companies to bear on big data and cloud application platforms … | Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
US Patent & Trademark Office Grants Apple Registered Trademarks for “Retina” & “Game Center” Icon — On December 4, 2012, the US Patent & Trademark Office granted Apple two Registered Trademarks. The first trademark covers the word “Retina” representing Apple's brilliant Retina display …
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
John McAfee confirms he is in Guatemala after all, and is planning a press conference tomorrow — It was only yesterday that we reported that man-on-the-run fugitive John McAfee was claiming to have falsified the metadata of a photo that placed him in Guatemala.
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Who is McAfee?, Guardian, Forbes, Betabeat, SecurityWeek, WebProNews, Daily Dot, Gawker and PetaPixel. See also Mediagazer
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple hiring ‘dozens’ of former Texas Instruments engineers to boost chip-making operations in Israel — Apple has been expanding its workforce in Israel over the past couple of weeks, tapping a pool of former Texas Instruments (TI) employees in the country to build up research and development centers … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Urban Airship Acquires Tello, Maker Of PassTools For Apple's Passbook, Because Not All Brands Need Fully Featured Apps — A little over a year after Urban Airship's acquisition of location startup SimpleGeo, the company has moved to once again expand its feature set by acquiring venture-backed Tello in an all-stock deal.
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Forbes, GigaOM, Marketing Land, The Next Web, Urban Airship, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, ReadWrite and blog.tello.com
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Last.fm Founders' Next Track: Lumi, A Site That Uses Your Browsing History To Help You Discover Things On The Web — Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel, two of the co-founders of the music discovery and streaming site Last.fm, went into a kind of startup hibernation two years after selling their early-moving …
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GigaOm, Softpedia News, Mashable!, AllThingsD and The Next Web
| Humayun Khan / BetaKit: |
Clarity Adds $1.6M from 500 Startups, Mark Cuban to Be ‘Lifeline for Entrepreneurs’ — BetaKit covered San Francisco and Moncton, NB-based Clarity, which lets anyone get access to entrepreneurial advice over the phone, when it hit 10,000 calls after launching in May 2012.
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GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Next Web and The New Republic
| Jonathan Rudenberg: |
SMS Vulnerability in Twitter, Facebook and Venmo — Twitter users with SMS enabled are vulnerable to an attack that allows anyone to post to their account. The attacker only needs knowledge of the mobile number associated with a target's Twitter account. Messages can then be sent to Twitter with the source number spoofed.
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CNET, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Dennis Fisher and Softpedia News
| Jamie Yap / ZDNet: |
Sharp gets $120M investment from Qualcomm — Summary: Both companies agree to jointly develop and commercialize display panel technology, after Qualcomm agrees to inject US$120 million equity investment into Sharp and become a minority stakeholder. — Jamie Yap| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
CA to app devs: get privacy policies or risk $2500-per-download fines — They had a month—and now it's over. Any California mobile-app developers who don't have a privacy policy obviously available to consumers need to get one and fast. If they don't, they could be facing potentially massive fines: up to $2,500 per app download.
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Yahoo Acquires Startup OnTheAir — Yahoo has acquired a startup called OnTheAir. — It's been described in the past as a “Skype Meets Google+ Hangouts.” — Here's the blog post from OnTheAir, announcing the news: — We are excited to share some big news: OnTheAir has been acquired by Yahoo!.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Ashton Kutcher's portrayal of Steve Jobs to debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January — This coming January is likely to be the first time that anyone outside of a production facility will get a look at jOBS, the new biopic of Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher.| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Poshmark Nabs $12M Series B Led By Menlo Ventures To Expand Its Mobile Fashion Marketplace Beyond iOS — Clothing swap meets have been happening for many years, so they are indeed a tried-and-true “industry” of sorts — but can one be worth tens of millions of dollars?
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VentureBeat, Forbes, GigaOM, AllThingsD and PandoDaily
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Nest's Tony Fadell Talks Thermostats, Apple, Kickstarter And Hardware Startups At LeWeb — At LeWeb Paris this morning, Nest Labs' Founder and CEO Tony Fadell took the stage with the Iliad Group's founder Xavier Niel to talk about his advanced thermostat and the Internet of Things.
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CNET, memeburn, MTV Multiplayer and PalmAddict
| Chris Kanaracus / Computerworld: |
HP's Whitman affirms commitment to Autonomy, stresses that HP remains ‘quite profitable’ — Whitman is trying to right HP's ship following the revelation about accounting improprieties — Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has once again affirmed the company's commitment …
| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
Younity skips storage limits, making all your files available on all your devices — Despite all the cloud storage and syncing solutions out there, most consumers still struggle with accessing all of their files across multiple devices. A big part of the problem is that the average user …
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CNET, VatorNews, The Next Web and socalTECH.com
| Mark Hosenball / Reuters: |
Swiss spy agency warns U.S., Britain about huge data leak — (Reuters) - Secret information on counter-terrorism shared by foreign governments may have been compromised by a massive data theft by a senior IT technician for the NDB, Switzerland's intelligence service, European national security sources said.
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CNET, Betabeat, ZDNet and SecurityWeek
| Matthew Cleevely / The n Bells: |
Apple - Think Twice. — Apple - Think DifferentTwice. — I'm writing this because I think Apple may have changed. I have been a loyal customer for 11 years, but will think twice before every buying from them again. I hope anyone reading this will do the same.
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Business Insider and Guardian. Tweets: @qthrul, @rpmcb, @webandy, @wikichen and @jackschofield
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
France Telecom Invests Up To $20M In Lookout, Preloads Its Mobile Security Solutions On To Android Handsets — Lookout, the mobile security company with ambitions to become the Symantec of the wireless world, is picking up a new backer, and and a major distribution partner in its bid to become a household name.
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AllThingsD, SiliconANGLE, Computerworld, ZDNet, The Next Web, Know Your Mobile, Softpedia News and Inquirer
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