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Introducing Video on Instagram — Over the past two and a half years, Instagram has become a community where you can capture and share the world's moments simply and beautifully. Some moments, however, need more than a static image to come to life. Until now these stories have been missing from Instagram.
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Instagram Launches 15-Second Video Sharing Feature, With 13 Filters And Editing — Instagram, the immensely popular photo-sharing app that was acquired by Facebook in a $1 billion deal last year, is not just for photos anymore. — At a press event at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters …
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Web's Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders — WASHINGTON — When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the social media company in 2010, he did not go to Google, Twitter or a similar Silicon Valley concern. Instead the man who was responsible for protecting …
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Samsung goes big with Windows 8-powered Ativ line — The Ativ laptops, PCs, and tablet were prominent amid a smorgasbord of product announcements. — NEW YORK — The Ativ name may be silly, but Samsung Electronics is betting heavily on it as the namesake for anything related to Windows.| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
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Galaxy S4 Active hands-on: what the original should have been — It's not technically premiering today, having already been announced earlier in the month, but Samsung's Galaxy S4 Active is very much present at the company's Premiere 2013 event in London. The new water- and dust-resistant variant …
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom hands-on: 10x telephoto, 100x intrigue (video) — It's easy enough to describe the Galaxy S4 Zoom, since it's essentially a Galaxy S4 Mini with a 10x zoom lens stuck on the back. But that sort of summary doesn't do it justice. When you hold the phone-slash-camera …
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Best Buy relaunching trade-in offer for ‘free’ iPhone 5 — Best Buy says it had the biggest day ever for its four-year old trade-in program on June 1. That's when the electronics retailer gave customers the opportunity to trade in iPhone 4 and 4S models and get a “free” iPhone 5 in return.
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Microsoft Explored Plans to Build Amazon Rival — Microsoft Corp. recently explored rolling out an e-commerce marketplace aimed at taking on heavyweights Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc., according to people briefed on the company's plans. — The software giant held discussions with retailers …
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Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant — Fisa court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA's surveillance of Americans' communication — • Document one: procedures used by NSA to target non-US persons| Adam Pasick / Quartz: |
Google admits those infamous brainteasers were completely useless for hiring — You can stop counting how many golfballs will fit in a schoolbus now. — Google has admitted that the headscratching questions it once used to quiz job applicants (How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?| Mat Honan / Wired: |
Inside Digg's Race to Build the New Google Reader — Andrew McLaughlin is, like, California-enthusiastic. Like, we're-totally-going-to-do-this- guys enthusiastic. The 43 year-old CEO of the recently re-imagined Digg is a believer in the way the Internet can make the world better.
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Introducing Aaron's Law, a Desperately Needed Reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — The Internet is up for grabs. — Foreign countries want to control it. Military regimes use it to spy, to oppress, and to attack public and private institutions. ‘Big Content’ sought to censor it and dismantle its architecture.
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WhatsApp Surpasses 250 Million Active Users — WhatsApp tells The Wall Street Journal it has more than 250 million monthly active users, the first time it has revealed the scope of its popular smartphone messaging app. — The figure is impressive for a company that launched its app …
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Aiming To Become The ‘Valedictorian’ Of Smart Calendar Apps, Tempo Raises $10M — Tempo, the SRI-incubated smart calendar app that launched in February, is announcing that it has raised a $10 million Series A. — The round was led by Relay Ventures and Sierra Ventures.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Oracle Shares Fall on Weaker Than Expected Q4 Sales — Oracle's earnings results for its fourth fiscal quarter just crossed the wires. While the bottom line was even with what analysts had expected, sales fell a little short of the consensus again by about $100 million.
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Cisco to acquire Composite Software for $180M — Summary: The networking giant wants to bolster its data virtualization software and services portfolio with the acquisition, which will build on its existing unified platform. — Zack Whittaker — Cisco said on Thursday its intention …
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F.T.C. Is Said to Plan Inquiry of Frivolous Patent Lawsuits — WASHINGTON — The chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission is expected on Thursday to recommend a sweeping investigation of “patent trolls,” companies that buy large portfolios of technology patents and use them to sue software designers …
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