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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 …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
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 to me and later …
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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 … | Gerry Smith / The Huffington Post: |
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| Libby Jacobson / Verizon Public Policy: |
Verizon to Publish Transparency Report Disclosing Law Enforcement Requests for Customer Information — NEW YORK — Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) today announced plans to publish an online report that will provide data on the number of law enforcement requests for customer information …
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Steam Machine Teardown — If last month's round of next-gen console launches left you in a fog, prepare yourself for the incoming Steam Machine. Valve has released only 300 beta kits into the wild, so grab your companion cube and hold tight—we're about to open one up.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
WhatsApp announces 400M active users, aims to “steer the conversation” away from registered users — WhatsApp Does a Passive-Aggressive Stats Release to Call Out Others for Bulls**t Metrics — There's a big difference between someone signing up for a service, and someone using it on a regular basis.
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WhatsApp Blog, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digits, The Next Web, Online Dating Insider and Forbes
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Up close and personal with the new Mac Pro (hands-on) — It's been talked about and endlessly dissected. It's either the future of professional computing or an overpriced, undersized trash can. It's the new Mac Pro, it's on sale starting today, and I've finally had a chance to hold it in my own two hands.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
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| eMarketer: |
Mobile Growth Pushes Facebook to Become No. 2 US Digital Ad Seller — Mobile now accounts for more than 22% of all US digital ad spending, compared with less than 3% in 2010 — US mobile ad spending is expected to near $9.6 billion in 2013 and account for a whopping 22.5% of all digital ad investments …
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Tweets: @bizo, @emarketer and @anamarketers
| 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 … | 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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Target Pressroom, Target Corporate, Wired, NBCNews, The Register, BBC, NYT Bits, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, eWeek, Mashable, Examiner, Wall Street Journal, Geek.com, We Live Security, Ars Technica, Washington Post, New York Times, Daily Dot, internetretailer.com, Business Insider, Betabeat, Geeky Gadgets, Softpedia News, MacDailyNews, Yahoo! News, Graham Cluley, Gawker, SecurityWeek, PC Magazine, Reuters, Reuters, CNET, Computerworld, AllThingsD and Krebs on Security. Tweets: @asymco
| Mathew Ingram / Gigaom: |
Prismatic wants to build a social network around all of your interests, which is actually a lot harder than it sounds — There are social networks all around us these days, from Facebook and Twitter to more targeted networks like Instagram and Path — and new ones seem to be launching every week.
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TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, iMore, The Next Web, CNET and Thomas Hawk Digital Connection. Tweets: @mathewi. Thanks:@mathewi. See also Mediagazer
| 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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CyanogenMod, Gigaom, Engadget, Peter Levine, VentureBeat, GeekWire, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, 9to5Google, Business Insider, SlashGear and Android Community. Tweets: @caseynewton
| 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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Forbes, Inquirer, DSLreports, Electronista, Yahoo! News, Motherboard and Gigaom
Tweets: @refugecharity, @jackschofield and @hvklav
See also Mediagazer| U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: |
SEC Charges Microsoft Senior Manager and Friend With Insider Trading in Advance of Company News — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a senior portfolio manager at Microsoft Corporation and his friend and business partner with insider trading ahead of company announcements.
| 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, @hunterwalk, @fdestin, @konklone and @buzz
| 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.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Verizon's Motorola Droid Ultra, Maxx, and Mini to get Android 4.4 starting today — Verizon Wireless has announced that the Android 4.4 KitKat update for the Motorola Droid Ultra, Maxx, and Mini smartphones will begin rolling out to users today. The update follows the launch of KitKat …
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Gigaom, Engadget, 9to5Google, Android Beat, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo and AndroidGuys
| Andrew Zajac / Bloomberg: |
Secret Spy Court Won't Reconsider Phone Data Collection — The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court rejected a request by a civil liberties watchdog group to re-examine an order authorizing the U.S. to collect call data from phone companies. — The Center for National Security Studies …
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