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Exclusive: Foursquare Raises a $35 Million Round and Adds DFJ's Schuler to the Board — Foursquare, the iconic social location service, has raised $35 million in a Series D round, led by DFJ Growth and the Capital Group's Smallcap World Fund. — The company confirmed the raise …
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The Foursquare Blog, The Verge, Business Insider, TechCrunch and Mashable
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Target confirms breach: 40 million accounts affected — Summary: Customer name, credit or debit card number, and the card's expiration date and CVV (the three-digit security code) were breached, the retailer said. — Target on Thursday confirmed that its payment card data was compromised …
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eWeek, NBCNews, Washington Post, Examiner, BetaNews, Business Insider, Inquirer, CNET, Mashable, Wall Street Journal, MacDailyNews, BGR, Reuters, Geeky Gadgets, Softpedia News, AllThingsD, SlashGear and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @asymco
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Sources: Target Investigating Data Breach — Nationwide retail giant Target is investigating a data breach potentially involving millions of customer credit and debit card records, multiple reliable sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The sources said the breach appears to have begun …
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Target Pressroom, NYT Bits, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Betabeat, New York Times, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Help Net Security, Network World, BBC, Reuters, Mashable, SlashGear, NBCNews, Ars Technica, Business Insider, Lifehacker, We Live Security, TechnoBuffalo, SecurityWeek, WebProNews, Gawker, Associated Press, Marketing Pilgrim, Computerworld, Graham Cluley, CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, Digital Trends, bizjournals and The Verge. Tweets: @innismir
| New York Times: |
Obama Panel Recommends New Limits on N.S.A. Spying — WASHINGTON — A panel of presidential advisers who reviewed the National Security Agency's surveillance practices urged President Obama on Wednesday to end the government's systematic collection of logs of all Americans' phone calls …
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Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Lawfare, Guardian, InfoWorld, Guardian, Gigaom Research, Salon, SiliconANGLE, CNET, FierceWireless, Fox News, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Bloomberg
Tweets: @csoghoian, @ggreenwald, @normative, @csoghoian, @trevortimm, @tonyromm, @csoghoian, @sangernyt, @emptywheel and @jswatz
| Andrew Zajac / Bloomberg: |
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg Sell Shares, Facebook Stock Price Drops — After a nice run on the Nasdaq, Facebook and its CEO are selling a big block of shares. Wall Street's reaction: We're selling, too. — Facebook says it is planning a secondary sale of 70 million shares …
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| Alex Payne: |
Bitcoin, Magical Thinking, and Political Ideology — Last week, investor Chris Dixon posed a provocative dichotomy when introducing his employer's USD $25M investment in Bitcoin service Coinbase: … Now working at vogue venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Dixon is in a fine position to speak for Silicon Valley.
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Charlie's Diary, Business Insider and CoinDesk
Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts, @konklone, @fdestin, @hunterwalk and @buzz
| Mike Deri Smith / BBC: |
Porn filters block sex education websites — The new filters are designed to block sites unsuitable for children — Pornography filters used by major internet service providers are blocking websites offering sex education and advice on sexual health and porn addiction, the BBC has learned.
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Tweets: @refugecharity, @jackschofield and @hvklav
See also Mediagazer| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple's Redesigned Mac Pro Now Available for Online Orders — In line with yesterday's announcement, Apple's redesigned Mac Pro is now available for order through the company's online stores. The Mac Pro currently ships by December 30, though upgraded versions list a non-specific “January” shipping estimate.
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| Donna Tam / CNET: |
DA to Apple: Make iPhone's Activation Lock the rule — San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón released survey results Wednesday that he says makes an argument for Apple to enable its Activation Lock security feature on every phone. — When enabled, Activation Lock … | Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows: |
Windows Phone Turned the Corner in 2013 — We're number three. And no, that doesn't suck — 2013 was nothing less than a blockbuster success for Windows Phone, which went from industry also-ran to the undisputed third mobile ecosystem, and is poised to challenge iPhone for the number two spot.| Reuters: |
Exclusive: Dish eyes 2014 bid for T-Mobile - sources — (Reuters) - Dish (DISH.O) is considering making a bid for T-Mobile (TMUS.N) next year, according to people close to the matter, in what would be the satellite TV provider's second attempt in as many years at acquiring a major wireless operator … | The Switch: |
Research shows how MacBook Webcams can spy on their users without warning — The woman was shocked when she received two nude photos of herself by e-mail. The photos had been taken over a period of several months — without her knowledge — by the built-in camera on her laptop.
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9to5Mac, Forbes, Gotta Be Mobile, TechSpot, MacRumors, SiliconANGLE, TechEye, The Register, TechnoBuffalo, Guardian, Mashable, CNET, SiliconBeat, Redmond Pie, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, Ars Technica, MacNN, Patently Apple, iPhone Hacks, Business Insider, Yahoo! News, Engadget, AppleInsider, BGR, The Verge, Cult of Mac and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
No One Buys Music on the Web Anymore. Except When They Buy a Million Beyonce Albums in Five Days. — Sales of music downloads, which were supposed to rescue the music business from the decline of the CD, have been flattening for a few years. Then things got worse: This year, digital sales were down 4 percent through Thanksgiving.
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9to5Mac and iDownloadBlog.com
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
British Airways is first European airline to allow electronics use during takeoff and landing — Following the wave of US airlines that changed policy after the FAA reassessed the rules, British Airways is letting passengers keep their electronic devices switched on for the entirety of their flight.
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Senate Report Opens a Window Into Hidden World of Data Aggregators — Today, the powerful Senate Commerce Committee issued a damning report on the invasive practices of the online data broker industry. The Committee's report is the result of a year-long investigation targeting nine …
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Motherboard, Adweek, TheHill, Gawker, TheHill, Broadcasting & Cable and Digits
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Hot mod: Cyanogen raises another $23 million to become the next big version of Android — The effort to turn CyanogenMod into the next big mobile operating system just got a big new vote of confidence. The company announced today that it has raised an additional $23 million …
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Gigaom, CyanogenMod, GeekWire, Engadget, TechCrunch, 9to5Google and Peter Levine
| Barbara Lewis / Reuters: |
Europe reaches deal on common mobile phone battery charger — (Reuters) - Mobile phone makers will have to provide a standard battery charger that can fit any device, including smart phones, under a provisional deal on a new EU law reached on Thursday. — Provided the outline agreement …
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European Parliament News, Gigaom and The Next Web
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Twitter's Vine gets vanity URLs: sign-up starts Dec. 20 for verified accounts and Dec. 23 for all others — As a holiday treat, Twitter has announced that it will begin allowing Vine users to register for vanity URLs for their profiles. The race begins on Friday, December 20 at 9am PST …
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TechHive, Marketing, IntoMobile, Inquirer, CNET and Digital Trends
| Ron / WinBeta: |
Microsoft pulls Dec 2013 firmware update for Surface Pro 2 as troubles become widespread — On December 10th, Microsoft rolled out a firmware update for the Surface Pro 2. Immediately upon downloading that firmware update, numerous users began experiencing an error code (80070490) when attempting to install the update.
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Gigaom, Inquirer, The Verge, Computerworld, answers.microsoft.com, SlashGear, TechRadar.com, BGR, PC Pro and PC World. Thanks:@winbetadotorg
| Jon Bruner / O'Reilly Radar: |
Active Twitter accounts follow a median 117 users, 76% follow more people than follow them — Tweets loud and quiet — Writers who cover Twitter find the grandiose irresistible: nearly every article about the service's IPO this fall mentioned the heroes of the Arab Spring who toppled dictators … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Lyft tells TechCrunch its revenues are growing 6% per week — Hey Uber, Lyft Is Growing Faster Than You — Uber's revenue numbers, which were leaked to Gawker just a few weeks ago, look bold at roughly $20 million per week. — But there isn't necessarily a definitive market winner yet …
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Tweets: @zgoldstein, @joshconstine, @curious_heather, @rachelbotsman and @mdudas
Thanks:@alexia| Rich Trenholm / Crave: |
Jolla Sailfish phone on sale in UK and Europe for £331 … Bored of Android or the iPhone? The latest upstart smart phone system, Sailfish, born within Nokia, is on sale now in the shape of the case-swapping Jolla phone. — The Jolla phone is available to buy now for €399 …
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The Next Web, ZDNet, Computerworld, Digital Trends, Know Your Mobile, Gigaom, Geeky Gadgets and stuff.tv
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