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BlackBerry-Fairfax deal dies; Thorsten Heins out — BlackBerry Ltd. is abandoning a plan to find a buyer and will instead raise $1-billion of new funds and replace its chief executive and some directors, sources said. — The Waterloo, Ontario-based smartphone company had spent the past …
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Apple CEO Tim Cook pens op-ed urging Congress to pass bill prohibiting anti-gay discrimination — Tim Cook: Workplace Equality Is Good for Business — Long before I started work as the CEO of Apple, I became aware of a fundamental truth: People are much more willing to give of themselves …
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| Deborah Kan / Digits: |
Google's Schmidt: NSA Spying on Data Centers Is ‘Outrageous’ — HONG KONG—Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt bristled at reports that the U.S. government allegedly spied on the company's data centers, describing such an act as “outrageous” and potentially illegal if proven.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Henri Lamiraux, Apple's top iOS Engineering Vice President, leaves company after 23 years — Henri Lamiraux, Apple's top Vice President of Engineering for the iOS iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system has left the company, according to a source and corroborated by his LinkedIn profile.
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| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
Report: Windows Phone overtakes iOS in Italy and makes progress in Europe — There's good news for Microsoft's mobile efforts, as according to a latest report from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech showing data for the three months to September 2013, Windows Phone has overtaken iOS in Italy and now makes …
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| Timothy B. Lee / The Switch: |
How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the Internet to its knees — On November 3, 1988, 25 years ago this Sunday, people woke up to find the Internet had changed forever. The night before, someone had released a malevolent computer program on the fledgling computer network.
Tweets: @alecjross, @davemcclure, @damianogui and @odannyboy
| Ian Brown / Guardian: |
Will NSA revelations lead to the Balkanisation of the internet? — As countries move to protect their citizens' digital privacy, Ian Brown considers their options and the potential impact — There has been criticism of America's National Security Agency and Britain's GCHQ from Latin American nations …
Tweets: @qthrul
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Apparent hack of limo reservation service exposes 850k customers, including VIPs and celebs — Hackers Take Limo Service Firm for a Ride — A hacker break in at a U.S. company that brokers reservations for limousine and Town Car services nationwide has exposed the personal and financial information …
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Twitter Confronts Obstacles Abroad on Members, Ads — Three-fourths of Twitter Inc. users are overseas. But only one-fourth of its revenue comes from non-U.S. advertisers. To Twitter, that is a “substantial opportunity” as it readies to go public as soon as this week.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Tweets: @joshconstine
| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: Under a New Chief, Yahoo Still Seeks Its Voice — In Google's early days, when employees were preparing to release a new project, they had to make a pilgrimage to see Marissa Mayer, employee No. 20, and the head of design and user interface. This was not fun.
Tweets: @samgustin and @om
| Drew Fitzgerald / Wall Street Journal: |
Best Buy promotes price-matching in a move to embrace showrooming — Fear of ‘Showrooming’ Fades — Best Buy, Other Retailers Are Optimistic Price-Matching Can Stanch Trend — Drew FitzGerald … ‘I think that Best Buy has killed showrooming,’ says Chief Executive Hubert Joly. Bloomberg News| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Apple's iCloud Keychain: It works, but with frustrating limitations — In the latest versions of OS X and iOS, Apple's new iCloud Keychain provides one of the most important pieces of functionality for security-conscious users: a password manager. — Unfortunately, it's kind …
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