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Remotely Assembled Malware Blows Past Apple's Screening Process — Research unmasks a weakness of Apple's App Store: new apps apparently are run for only a few seconds before approval. — WHY IT MATTERS — More than 600 million devices with Apple's iOS have been sold.
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Softpedia News, iMore, MacRumors, The Next Web, AppleInsider, CNET, The Mac Observer, BGR and The Mac Security Blog
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| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
EdgeRank Is Dead: Facebook's News Feed Algorithm Now Has Close To 100K Weight Factors — The next time you tell a client how Facebook selects and ranks the content that shows up in the News Feed, you'll need to do it without using the word EdgeRank. — EdgeRank, Facebook's original News Feed ranking system, is dead.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Inside the bitter YouTube battle between Microsoft and Google — Why do these companies love to hate each other? — The gloves are off: Microsoft and Google find themselves battling in more product areas than ever while fighting a very public war of words.
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| Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire: |
ICANN officially kills Google's plan for dotless Search top level domain name — Board resolution quashes dotless domains again, at least for now. — ICANN's New gTLD Program Committee has passed a resolution confirming a prohibition on so-called dotless domain names …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Carl Icahn Denied in Bid to Upend Dell Buyout Vote — Carl Icahn, the activist investor, can't seem to get a break from the Delaware Chancery Court. — A judge in that court turned away Icahn's petition asking it to intervene and stop a buyout vote scheduled for Sept. 12.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Names Maynard Webb Permanent Board Chairman — “Maynard Webb's leadership and guidance have been an invaluable part of our board since he joined it in 2012,” a Yahoo spokesperson said in a statement. “We are honored that Maynard will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.”| Greg Bensinger / Digits: |
China's Alibaba Invests In ShopRunner, Amazon.com Rival — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. recently agreed to what could be a major investment in website ShopRunner Inc., a U.S.-based competitor to Amazon.com Inc. in offering two-day shipping, according to people familiar with the deal.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Taxi E-Hail Startup Flywheel Launches In Los Angeles To Take On Uber, Lyft, And SideCar — Mobile taxi-hailing app Flywheel is growing fast, doubling its number of rides over just the last two-and-a-half months. And with new funding in place, it's looking to enter new markets to provide …
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| Mark Hosenball / Reuters: |
Snowden downloaded NSA secrets while working for Dell, sources say — (Reuters) - Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden began downloading documents describing the U.S. government's electronic spying programs while he was working for Dell Inc in April 2012, almost a year earlier …
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Gizmodo, The Verge, Daily Dot, Ars Technica, ZDNet, Hillicon Valley, Washington Post and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @charlie_simpson
| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Virus targets the social network in new fraud twist — (Reuters) - In the world of cyber fraud, a fake fan on Instagram can be worth five times more than a stolen credit card number. — As social media has become increasingly influential in shaping reputations, hackers have used …
Tweets: @josephmenn
| Zach Honig / Engadget: |
Moto X Skip NFC smartphone key official, ships free with Moto Maker orders — Skip for Moto X surfaced on Motorola's site briefly yesterday, giving us some insight into the company's new PIN-free unlocking tool before the $20 product was pulled. Today, though, Google's smartphone arm … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
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AT&T, The Verge, Electronista, Gotta Be Mobile, Macgasm, 9to5Google, The Next Web, TechHive, AnandTech, CNET, Yahoo! News, Engadget, SlashGear, VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, ReadWrite, Gizmodo, GigaOM and Engadget. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
BlackBerry CEO to Make $55.6 Million If He Sells Company — BlackBerry Ltd. (BB) Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins stands to make $55.6 million if he sells the company and is ousted. — That's the amount he's entitled to receive if BlackBerry has a change of control and Heins is pushed …
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Business Insider, BGR, Tech Trader Daily, CrackBerry.com, AllThingsD, MobileSyrup.com and ValueWalk. Thanks:@sarahfrier
| Jungah Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Said to Introduce Wristwatch-Like Smartphone Next Month — Samsung will introduce a wristwatch-like device named the Galaxy Gear next month that can make phone calls, surf the Web and handle e-mails, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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SamMobile, Guardian, SiliconANGLE, eWeek, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, TechnoBuffalo, ReadWrite, Redmond Pie, WebProNews, Businessweek, PC Magazine, TechSpot, Telegraph, PhoneArena, Digits, BGR, GigaOM, Slashdot, dailywireless.org, InvestorPlace, The Verge, SlashGear, TechHive, Gotta Be Mobile, Business Insider, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, MobileSyrup.com, TechCrunch, Engadget, Sammy Hub, Mashable and iClarified. Tweets: @bloombergnews
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