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Email Company Reportedly Used By Edward Snowden Shuts Down Rather Than Hand Data Over To Feds — When Edward Snowden emailed journalists and activists in July to invite them to a briefing at the Moscow airport during his long stay there, he used the email account “edsnowden@lavabit.com” according to one of the invitees.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Silent Circle Preemptively Shuts Down Encrypted Email Service To Prevent NSA Spying — “We knew USG would come after us”. That's why Silent Circle CEO Michael Janke tells TechCrunch his company shut down its Silent Mail encrypted email service. It hadn't been told to provide data to the government …
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Thanks:@alex| Jennifer Granick / The Center for Internet and Society: |
Give Me Complicity or Give Me Death: Lavabit Chooses Death — Today, Lavabit, an email service provider that promised its customers better privacy and security than other publicly available services, shut its doors. Reading between the lines of a cryptic message posted on the site's homepage …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Tumblr Had $16.6 Million Left When Yahoo Bought It — In the wake of Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr, there was some chatter about how much runway David Karp would have had if he hadn't sold the company. — Now we know, sort of: Tumblr, which had raised $125 million since 2007, had $16.6 million in cash left when Yahoo bought it.| Jonathan Allen / Reuters: |
NSA to cut system administrators by 90 percent to limit data access — The National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by former contractor Edward Snowden, said Thursday it intends to eliminate about 90 percent of its system administrators to reduce the number of people with access to secret information.| James Temple / The Technology Chronicles: |
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Shell Company Related To Cowardly Patent Troll, Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures, Forced To Settle Frivolous Lawsuit Against One-Man Business After Law Firm Donates Nearly $200,000 Worth Of Defense — This story will circulate a lot today. I'd like to suggest a more informative …
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T-Mobile CEO Says More Apple Products Coming — T-Mobile CEO John Legere says that it is the company's message, not the arrival of the iPhone, that is behind a recent surge in new customers. — In an interview after the company's second-quarter earnings announcement … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
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These Silicon Valley Titans Think You Probably Shouldn't Start a Company — From the ninth-floor offices of Asana — the software startup run by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz — you can see the high rises of downtown San Francisco twinkling in the moonlight, with the Bay Bridge looming beyond.| Jonathan Seff / Macworld: |
Roku app now beams videos from your iOS device to your TV — Roku has moved a step closer to Apple's AirPlay abilities with a cool new trick in the latest version of its iOS app. Play on, Roku. The 2.3 update expands on the “Play on Roku” feature introduced back in September 2012.| Benedict Evans: |
Amazon's profits — The problem with Amazon is not that it doesn't make a profit, but that you don't actually know what the profits are. — On the face of it, this sounds like an absurd statement - it doesn't make any profits. After all, look at this chart - massive revenue growth, zero profit.
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
With KeyMe, an iPhone Pic Now Means You Can Always Print More House Keys Later — A little bit of prepping in advance could save a lot of headache next time you lock yourself out, lose your keys, or need to let a friend into your place when you're not there.
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| Nancy Gohring / CITEworld: |
Acer the latest to turn to Google after poor Windows sales — Acer, the electronics maker that once seemed to be a big Windows 8 booster, is turning its back on Microsoft. — After posting a second quarter loss this week, it said it's going to aggressively work on selling more Chromebooks and Android devices.
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Apple's Operating System Guru Goes Back to His Roots — That iPad in your hand? It feels like the most modern of computers. But like the iPhone and the Macintosh, the Apple tablet revolves around a core piece of software that can trace its roots all the way back to the early 1970s.| Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer: |
Patch Expected to Lay Off 500 Employees Tomorrow — Hard times are hitting Patch, AOL's network of hyperlocal news sites. In an earnings call yesterday, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said that he expects to shut, sell or find partners for nearly 300 of the 900 sites, Newsday reported this morning.
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Twitter Partners With Datalogix To Track When Tweets Lead To Offline Sales — What's the value of a retweet? Or a follower? Those questions get asked all the time in discussions about social media and advertising. Now Twitter is announcing a partnership with Datalogix …
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YouTube's Founders Challenge Vine and Instagram with New Video App — After months of teasing, the wait is over: Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who brought us the video-sharing site YouTube, are taking the wraps off their newest project, a video creation app called MixBit.
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