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Zendesk Security Breach Affects Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest — Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach that allowed attackers into its system, where they could access data from three customers this week. Wired learned those three clients were Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr.| Mikkel Svane / Zendesk.com: |
We've been hacked — We feel that it's important our customers receive an update from us on a recent security situation. We have an investigation underway and do not have the answer to every question. — We've become aware that a hacker accessed our system this week.
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| Google Chrome Blog: |
The Chromebook Pixel, for what's next — Chromebooks were designed to make computing speedy, simple and secure. For many of you, they have become the perfect, additional (and yes, affordable) computer: ideal for catching up on emails, sharing documents and chatting via Hangouts.
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| Ryan Mac / Forbes: |
No One Is More Excited For Google Glass Than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — There is perhaps no one more excited for Google Glass than Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg. — On Wednesday at the University of California, San Francisco's Mission Bay medical campus, the Facebook CEO met …
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| Galen M. Gruman / InfoWorld: |
Hands-on with the Ubuntu Touch Linux smartphone — The early and surprisingly nice version bodes well for Canonical's Linux smartphone — but you may not want to install it yourself Ubuntu Touch's home screen Developers got their first hands-on peek yesterday of Canonical's Ubuntu Touch OS for mobile phones … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
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| AllThingsD: |
Native Instagram App Is Not Coming to BlackBerry 10 — BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins says the company has a clear shot at turning BlackBerry 10 into the “No. 3 mobile ecosystem in the world,” but to do that, the company needs a critical mass of native apps, particularly big-name ones.
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| Alex Weprin / TVNewser: |
NBCU Spent $195 Million To Buy Back Half Of MSNBC.com — Thanks to Comcast's 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, we now know how much NBCUniversal spent to buy back the 50% of MSNBC.com that was owned by Microsoft. — The total purchase price for Microsoft's stake was $195 million … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PayPal Here Is Coming To The UK, Its First Mobile Payment Market In Europe, Armed With A New Way To Read Your Card — Make way for one more player in the European mobile payments space, and a big one at that. Today, the online payments giant PayPal announced that from this summer …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Gives Graph Search To More People, Makes Those Left Out Jealous — Five weeks after launch, Facebook gave reporters a ‘State Of Graph Search’ today at its Menlo Park HQ. It's been rolled out from the original 100,000 users to “hundreds of thousands,” and now a news feed story …
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| Valéry Marchive / ZDNet: |
France to invest €20bn in high-speed broadband for the entire country — Summary: French president François Hollande wants very high-speed broadband to reach every household in the country by 2023 - a plan that will need private as well as public investment. — Valéry Marchive
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| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
Venture Capital Returns — This post is for everyone who thinks venture capital is an easy business. I'd like to dispel that notion. — Here are short term and long term returns for the venture capital business over the past ten years compared to the public equity markets in the US.| Jean H. Lee / Associated Press: |
NKorea to allow mobile Internet for foreigners — PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea will soon allow foreigners to tweet, Skype and surf the Internet from their cellphones, iPads and other mobile devices in its second relaxation of controls on communications in recent weeks.
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Nevada governor signs online gambling bill law after measure fast-tracked through Legislature — CARSON CITY, Nev. — Gov. Brian Sandoval signed legislation Thursday legalizing online gambling in Nevada, capping a dizzying day at the Legislature as lawmakers passed the bill through the Assembly and Senate as an emergency measure.
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| Ev Williams / Medium: |
When to Sell Your Company — On October 30, 2008, I wrote an email to Twitter's board of directors, which started: … This email was in reply to a thread in which we were briefly discussing an overture we'd received from a much larger company. Of course, in 2008 Twitter was much, much smaller than it is today.
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Google Maps SDK for iOS 1.1 gains support for ground overlays, keys now open to all developers — The Google Maps SDK for iOS has received a nice little update today, adding support for ground overlays for maps, gesture controls and geodesic polylines, whatever those are.| James Niccolai / Computerworld: |
HP's Whitman says ‘no plans to break up the company’ — HP's CEO has again dismissed rumors that HP may be broken up into smaller businesses — Hewlett-Packard's CEO has dismissed persistent rumors that the company might break itself up in a move that could create more value for shareholders.
| Josh Aberant / Twitter Blog: |
Introducing DMARC for Twitter.com emails — We send out lots of emails every day to our users letting them know what's happening on Twitter. But there's no shortage of bad actors sending emails that appear to come from a Twitter.com address in order to trick you into giving away key details …
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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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