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Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs — Apple has acquired the one-man photo technology startup SnappyLabs, maker of SnappyCam, sources tell me. The startup was founded and run solely by John Papandriopoulos, an electrical engineering PhD from the University Of Melbourne …
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Rap Genius begins to recover its Google search ranking, details SEO strategies, apologizes — Rap Genius is Back on Google — In this post we give more details about our misguided SEO strategies and how we got there. We also explain our process and the tools we used to fix the problem and return to Google.
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Thanks:@bkessler. See also Mediagazer| Ed Christman / Billboard: |
As streaming grows, digital music sales decreased in 2013, the first time since iTunes launch — Digital Music Sales Decrease For First Time in 2013 — For the first time since the iTunes store opened its doors, the U.S. music industry finished the year with a decrease in digital music sales.| Michael Crider / Android Police: |
Google Buys Timely Alarm Clock Developer Bitspin, Premium IAP Content Is Now Free — In an odd bit of M&A news, the developers at Bitspin announced that the small company will be joining forces with Google. Whether Google has purchased the company outright or merely hired …
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Evernote wants to help you “Remember Everything”, but is a bug-ridden elephant — Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant — To say this post pains me would be an understatement. More than any other technology, Evernote is part of me, having evolved from habit to instinct over several years and nearly seven thousand notes.
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Gotta Be Mobile and Business Insider. Tweets: @mathewi, @dangillmor, @samfbiddle, @jasonkincaid, @hunterwalk, @pkafka, @cameronspickert and @jeff
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Zynga Links Up With BitPay For A Bitcoin Payment Test In FarmVille 2, CityVille And Other Web Games — Gaming giant Zynga has started to accept the cryptocurrency as a payment option for those buying tokens for virtual goods on the web versions of FarmVille 2, CastleVille, ChefVille … | Daniel Stuckey / Motherboard: |
Barnaby Jack, Hacker of ATMs and Pacemakers, Died From an Overdose — The celebrated hacker Barnaby Jack, who spectacularly demonstrated his ability to cause ATMs to spit out cash and pacemakers to crash, died from a drug overdose, San Francisco police revealed, months after his death at his home at the age of 36.
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| Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal: |
Obama Administration may ease hiring rules for tech specialists after HealthCare.gov fiasco — U.S. Weighs Tech Fixes After Health-Site Woes — Administration Considers Looser Hiring Rules, New Federal Unit … The Obama administration, stung by the failures of the HealthCare.gov rollout …
Tweets: @bkessler, @hettinger_tech and @digiphile
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Candidates' concern about influence of Ballmer and Gates has prolonged Microsoft CEO search — Why Microsoft Hasn't Yet Chosen a New CEO — One Big Factor: Awkward Boardroom Dynamics — To appreciate why Microsoft Corp. is having trouble choosing a new chief executive … | Min-Jeong Lee / Korea Real Time: |
Samsung chairman in New Years address urges more R&D, less of a hardware focus — Samsung's New Year's Resolution: Get Rid of Old Habits … In his annual speech at the start of the new year, Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Kun-hee highlighted how tough the competition has been in 2013 … | Droplr: |
File-sharing service Droplr to discontinue free accounts — Changes coming to your Droplr account — Droplr began as an idea between two geeks who wanted an easy way to share files with each other. So we set aside some weekends and evenings and built an app that could do just that.
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Gigaom, VentureBeat, Engadget, Geeky Gadgets, The Next Web and App Advice
| Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post: |
FISA Court Reauthorizes NSA Phone Metadata Collection — Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Friday reauthorized the National Security Agency's phone surveillance program, the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement. The reauthorization order was not immediately available …
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