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Nokia pulls Here Maps from the App Store, blames iOS 7 — In the wake of Maps-gate, Nokia was one of several outfits that rushed to Apple's aid with a navigation app of its very own. A year later, however, and that same offering has been yanked from the App Store before it could send a note to its neighbors.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Target confirms encrypted debit PIN data was stolen during hack — Target has confirmed that encrypted debit card PIN data was stolen as part of the massive hack carried out against the retailer between late November and early December. The company previously admitted that card numbers …
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| Jemima Kiss / Guardian: |
Facebook ‘dead and buried to teens’, research finds — Comprehensive European research has found that teens are leaving the service in droves - and the biggest deterrent is their parents — Teens are being put off Facebook by friend requests from their parents Getty
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| Om Malik / Gigaom: |
Dear Quartz, maybe it's you that needs new glasses and a map. 2013 was not a lost year for tech — If anything, in 2013 it became even more fashionable for some of our fellow scribes and righteous founders to lament the lack of innovation in Silicon Valley.| Christopher Mims / Quartz: |
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google Play is giving away ‘Yeezus’ and top singles from 2013 — Google's making it easy to catch up on some of the best music of the year. As part of what it's calling Play Picks 2013, it's offering Kanye West's Yeezus and Chvrches' The Bones of What You Believe free for a limited time …
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| Guardian: |
NSA mass collection of phone data is legal, federal judge rules — Judge William Pauley noted the dragnet program was ‘controversial but lawful’ and dismissed lawsuit brought by ACLU — A federal judge has ruled that the National Security Agency's mass collection of telephone data is legal …
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Tweets: @declanm, @aclu, @adammc123, @declanm, @drance, @attackerman, @pbump, @adamserwer, @prism_nsa, @eff, @charlie_savage, @brettlogiurato and @thedextriarchy
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Rdio closes Vdio: 'We weren't able to deliver the differentiated customer experience we had hoped for' — Rdio has shuttered Vdio, its on-demand service for buying and renting movies and TV shows. — “We have decided to discontinue the Vdio beta service,” the company said in an email.
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| Lauren Hockenson / Gigaom: |
Nintendo to close eShop temporarily due to high traffic, merger woes — Nintendo is experiencing some serious hiccups in its newly unified eShop platform, and the system is scheduled to go offline for 12 hours starting at 4pm EST/1pm PT, according to The Next Web.
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Nintendo, The Next Web, Engadget, VentureBeat, destructoid, DSLreports, Ars Technica, Kotaku, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, Joystiq, Siliconera, WebProNews, Softpedia News, Kotaku, Polygon and Polygon
| Wall Street Journal: |
Behind UPS's Christmas Eve Snafu — Unexpected Surge in Online Orders Overwhelmed Louisville, Ky., Hub. In the earliest hours of Dec. 24, packages poured into United Parcel Service Inc. 's main air hub in Louisville, Ky. And they were piling up. Employees responsible for sorting packages …
Tweets: @sbanjo and @mikemosswtop
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
| Maureen Farrell / MoneyBeat: |
After unexplained 5% rise on Thursday, Twitter's stock dropped 13% today — Twitter's Selloff Accelerates: Market Cap Falls By $4 Billion … The drop in shares of Twitter Inc. accelerated near the close of trading Friday, with its stock dropping more than 10%.
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple renews bid for U.S. ban on Samsung products — Apple on Thursday filed a motion to renew its ongoing bid to stop sales of Samsung products found to be infringing on three key utility patents, including the contentious '915 property for pinch-to-zoom functionality. — A slide from the Apple v. Samsung trial
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FOSS Patents, The Register, Gigaom, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors and SlashGear
| Aries Poon / Wall Street Journal: |
Former HTC Executive Is Charged With Leaking Company Secrets — Taiwan Prosecutors Indict Five Others for Taking Kickbacks and Falsifying Expenses — TAIPEI—Taiwan prosecutors indicted a former HTC Corp. executive for allegedly leaking company secrets, as well as five other employees …
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