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After a lackluster quarter, Yahoo acquires AdMovate to boost its mobile ad team — Yahoo has announced yet another acquisition. This time, the company in question is AdMovate, a startup that says it helps advertisers “deliver personalized, hyper-local targeted offers through the mobile channel.”
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Google Glass Had a Vulnerability for Being Taken Over Via QR Code, But It Has Been Fixed — A Google Glass security vulnerability that allowed an outsider to take control of the wearable computing device via QR code has been fixed. — Basically, since Glass allows users to connect to Wi-Fi …
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| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Tumblr iPhone app fixed after plaintext password goof spotted — Tumblr has been forced to rush out a patched version of its iPhone and iPad apps, and has advised all users to change their password, after researchers discovered the apps had been transmitting login credentials in plain text.
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Tumblr Staff, The Register, Graham Cluley, The Verge, Gizmodo, ReadWrite, The Atlantic Wire, Betabeat, BuzzFeed, The Register, The Mac Security Blog, GSMArena Blog, The Next Web, MobileSyrup.com, TechnoBuffalo, TechHive, Mashable, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, CNET, AppleInsider and Engadget
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| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
6,000 mobile developers: Android most popular, iOS most profitable, Windows Phone most ‘next’ — The biggest mobile developer study in history with 6,000 respondents from 115 countries says that while iOS developers make an average of $5,200 per month in app revenue and Android developers pull in $4,700 … | Bill Gurley / Above the Crowd: |
Transitioning To a Mobile Centric World — “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” — Freewill, Rush — If you happen to be a sports fan (I am), one of the coolest features to emerge in our lifetime is the ability to program your DVR remotely.
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Revamped Google Maps for iOS launches: supports iPad, indoor maps, enhanced navigation — In line with last week's expectations of an updated Google Maps app, Google has begun rolling out version 2.0 of Google Maps for iOS today. Most notably, the new application includes support …
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| Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times: |
Universities Face a Rising Barrage of Cyberattacks — America's research universities, among the most open and robust centers of information exchange in the world, are increasingly coming under cyberattack, most of it thought to be from China, with millions of hacking attempts weekly.| Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal: |
Smartphone Upgrades Slow as ‘Wow’ Factor Fades — Fewer Customers Trade in Devices—A Potential Problem for AT&T, Apple and Others — Fewer people are upgrading their smartphones—a trend that could make it harder for companies from AT&T Inc. to Apple Inc. to keep up the pace of revenue growth.| Michelle Meyers / CNET: |
In another Aereo win, court refuses to rehear New York case — Appeals court clears the way for the TV-over-the-Web service to continue around New York City. But broadcasters aren't giving up their legal battle against the Barry Diller-backed service and its ambitious expansion plans.
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| Simon Bisson / CITEworld: |
Xamarin raises $16 million to build “delightful” tools for mobile devs — Mobile application development tools company Xamarin today announced a series of significant milestones. With over 358,000 registered developers (and approaching 20,000 paid seats), the company has today closed a $16 million Series B funding round.| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Google tests encryption to protect users' Drive files against government demands — Encryption is being tested to armor user files stored on Google Drive, sources say, a move that could curb surveillance attempts by the U.S. and other governments. — Google has begun to experiment …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Lumia 625 leaks with LTE and Nokia's biggest screen ever — Nokia is preparing to launch a Lumia 625 in the coming weeks with a 4.7-inch display and LTE support. Sources familiar with Nokia's plans have confirmed to The Verge that the handset will debut as one of the cheapest and biggest Lumias yet.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Acer preparing 8-inch Windows 8 tablet successor to address complaints — Acer is preparing to release a refreshed version of its Iconia W3 tablet. After only being announced in early June, and recently released to retailers, Acer's 8-inch Windows 8 tablet has been criticised over its poor display and bulky size.| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
UK spies aren't breaking law by using PRISM data, security oversight committee claims — The British Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee has rebuffed claims that UK intelligence services broke local law by taking PRISM data from the Americans. However, the committee also said it needed to study the law more closely.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Hunter Walk And Satya Patel's Homebrew Is A $35M Seed-Stage Fund To Invest In The “Bottom Up Economy” — Former Googler/YouTuber Hunter Walk has been making angel investments for some time now, and recently began observing that although he was one of the smallest parts of the cap table …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Almunia Says The EU Antitrust Ball Is In Google's Court, While FairSearch Releases More Data Against Google's Proposed Remedies — We are still waiting for the antitrust commissioner in Europe to make his next formal statement on negotiations with Google, after the search giant in April … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
BitTorrent's serverless P2P sync software hits beta, adds Android support — BitTorrent, Inc. today plans to release a beta version of BitTorrent Sync, software that provides Dropbox-like syncing using the same peer-to-peer file sharing technology that powers BitTorrent clients.
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Engadget, The Next Web, CNET, BetaNews, VentureBeat, TorrentFreak, TechHive, GigaOM, TechCrunch and ExtremeTech
| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Russia says ‘nyet’ to Apple's iPhone — Why the big three Russian mobile phone carriers cut their ties with Apple. — FORTUNE — There's good money to be made selling cell phones in Russia, a country with more than 180 million mobile subscribers. Three Russian carriers account for eight … | TechCrunch: |
Withings Raises $30 Million From Bpifrance And Others To Fuel International Growth — Health gadget company Withings will announce in a few minutes a new funding round from Bpifrance, Idinvest Partners, 360 Capital Partners and existing investor Ventech. Out of the $30 million … | Jordan Novet / GigaOM: |
Puppet Labs acquires Cloudsmith to ease devops' automation burden — Puppet Labs, a fan favorite configuration management tool among devops folks, has acquired Cloudsmith to make Puppet tools easier to use and deploy going forward. Devops refers to the movement to get software developers …
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TechCrunch, Puppet Labs, InfoWorld, Data Center Knowledge and Wired
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
TV + smartphone, via web: Microsoft lays out vision to link big and small screens — Earlier this month, in advance of the July 4 holiday, Microsoft and Nokia released a collaborative experience for Xbox Live called Nokia Music Mix Party — letting different people in a room use their smartphones …
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Driverless cars to be tested on UK roads by end of 2013 — Driverless cars will be tested on public roads by the end of 2013, says the UK government. — So far, UK trials of the autonomous vehicles have taken place only on private land. — Driverless cars are guided by a system of sensors …
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