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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
How Mark Zuckerberg turned around Facebook by prioritizing mobile ad revenues — Profitable Learning Curve for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — In Taking Facebook Public, Reshaping It Around Mobile Phones, Chief Gained Focus on Bottom Line … MENLO PARK, Calif.— Mark Zuckerberg needed help.
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Internet2Go, Business Insider, Valleywag, Quartz and The Verge
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Sponsored Data: AT&T will now let companies buy out your data charges for specific videos and apps — Today at CES, AT&T announced a new service called Sponsored Data, offering a way for companies to pick up the tab for 4G data usage whenever particular products or services are being used.
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BGR, Gigaom, GeekWire, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo, NYT Bits, Re/code, MacRumors, Engadget, Reuters, Gotta Be Mobile and TechnoBuffalo
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| Bruce Schneier / Wired: |
The Internet of Things Is Wildly Insecure — And Often Unpatchable — We're at a crisis point now with regard to the security of embedded systems, where computing is embedded into the hardware itself — as with the Internet of Things. These embedded computers are riddled with vulnerabilities, and there's no good way to patch them.
Tweets: @kashhill
| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
Google Teams With GM, Honda, and Audi to Bring Android to Cars — That kid—the one in the back of the SUV with the iPad—is the automotive industry's worst enemy. He's also the reason some of the world's biggest automakers are working with Google to bring its Android software into vehicle infotainment systems.
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Official Android Blog, The Verge, Marketing Land, Open Automotive Alliance, Ars Technica, NVIDIA, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Forbes, VentureBeat, BetaNews, PC World, Gigaom, 9to5Google, CNET, AndroidHeadlines.com, MacDailyNews, Inquirer, Android Central, Gigaom, App Advice, Android Beat, Mobile Entertainment Feed, IntoMobile, Geeky Gadgets, The Next Web, Engadget, ZDNet, Gizmodo and Engadget
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
LG Lifeband touch and Heart Rate Monitor earphones aim to help you keep fit — Televisions aren't the only thing LG brought to CES this year — it's lugged along a couple of wearable fitness devices, too. In fact, we've already seen one of them. The company's FuelBand competitor showcased …
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| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
T-Mobile to buy unused Verizon spectrum in deal worth over $3 billion — T-Mobile has agreed to buy 700 MHz A-block spectrum from Verizon Wireless for $2.365 billion. The sale will also see T-Mobile transfer certain AWS and PCS spectrum licenses with a value of around $950 million to Verizon …
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Business Wire, The Switch, TechHive, Fortune, GeekWire, iMore, DSLreports, Re/code, IntoMobile, Engadget, ZDNet, Droid Life, Wall Street Journal and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @johnlegere
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Acquires Image Recognition And Visual Search Startup VisualGraph — Pinterest has just acquired two-man startup VisualGraph, which creates machine vision, image recognition, and visual search technologies. The company's founder Kevin Jing and his partner David Liu are joining the Pinterest engineering team today.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
The Pirate Bay plans own P2P network accessed via browser-like client to circumvent censorship — How The Pirate Bay Plans to Beat Censorship For Good — Over the past few years The Pirate Bay has had to deal with its fair share of censorship, mostly through court-ordered blockades.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
inMarket Rolls Out iBeacons To 200 Safeway, Giant Eagle Grocery Stores To Reach Shoppers When It Matters — Today inMarket is beginning a huge rollout of iBeacons to grocery stores including Safeway and Giant Eagle locations in Seattle, San Francisco and Cleveland.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Rebooting webOS: how LG rethought the smart TV — Four years after it was first introduced, webOS comes back to CES in a radically different form — Things never went very well for webOS. Between its blockbuster launch at CES in 2009 and its relaunch on LG's smart TVs today lies a history … | Kwame Opam / The Verge: |
Nvidia debuts 192-core Tegra K1 processor — Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, after nearly a year of promising outsized computing power for so-called future “superphones,” took the stage at CES today to unveil the company's latest mobile processor for Android. The 192 CUDA-core Tegra K1 …
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| Michael Brown / PC World: |
Lenovo announces new consumer desktop PCs at CES, including an Android all-in-one — Lenovo announces new consumer desktop PCs at CES, including an Android all-in-one — LAS VEGAS—Lenovo announced several new desktop PCs at CES. And in a move that's sure to give Microsoft heartburn … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
LG will launch its curved G Flex smartphone in the US this quarter on Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile — LG will launch its curved G Flex Android smartphone in the United States during the first quarter of 2014. During its press conference at CES, LG said the device would be available on Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile.
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PR Newswire, The Verge, Gizmodo, Gigaom, LAPTOP Magazine, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, AnandTech, Android Beat, The Droid Guy and Android Central. Tweets: @markmilian
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Roku Moves Beyond The Box, Partnering With Hisense And TCL To Introduce Roku TVs — Who would have thought that streaming set-top box manufacturer Roku would actually introduce a TV before Apple? Well, it looks likely that's going to happen, thanks to partnerships with Hisense and TCL …
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The Official Roku Blog, Re/code, ReadWrite, Engadget, iMore, Ars Technica, CNET, BetaNews, Digits, /Film, Tubefilter, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, App Advice, Cult of Mac, WebProNews, TechHive, PalmAddict, BGR, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, USA Today, blog.chron.com, CNET, Variety, Fast Company, The Verge and Gigaom
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See also Mediagazer| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Asus rides the 2nd Wave of 802.11ac atop its new Wi-Fi router — Asus unveiled a new 802.11ac router at CES in Las Vegas on Sunday. I know, big whoop right? The newest and fastest Wi-Fi technology has been on the market for over a year — 802.11ac has already taken off in the enterprise …
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PC World, Computerworld, TUAW and Softpedia News
| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
BlackBerry hires former HTC exec to run its devices unit — BlackBerry has made another key hire in its battle to turn itself around. — Announced by BlackBerry on Monday, former HTC executive Ron Louks will join the company as the president of the Devices and Emerging Solutions unit.
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BlackBerry Press Room, Reuters, ZDNet and The Verge
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
SteelSeries announces the first MFi Bluetooth game controller for iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch — Today we get a look at the first Apple authorized Bluetooth game controller for iOS devices with the Stratus Wireless Controller announced today by SteelSeries. — We've already reviewed … | Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Toshiba Chromebook is the company's first Chrome OS device; arrives next month for $279 (hands-on) — We already knew Toshiba was coming out with a Chrome OS device, but in the four months since Intel teased it at IDF, we haven't seen anything in the way of specs, much less product shots.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, PC World, Gigaom, The Next Web, Ars Technica, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo, Business Insider and Electronista
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
ZTE's 5.5-inch Grand S II lets your friends unlock the phone with their voice — After a brief tease last week, ZTE has at last revealed the Grand S II. The Android 4.3 smartphone has all the necessary ingredients of an early 2014 flagship, including a 5.5-inch 1080p screen … | Sean Cooper / Engadget: |
Chevrolet and OnStar announce in-car 4G LTE connectivity and curated AppShop — Chevrolet, AT&T and OnStar banded together yesterday at CES 2014 to offer us a glimpse of the heart of the Connected by OnStar 4G LTE infotainment offering: AppShop. The new service will feature a curated collection …
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Ars Technica, WebProNews, TechHive, LAPTOP Magazine, Gigaom, SlashGear and The Verge
| Fred Ehrsam / Re/code: |
Bitcoin will hold value if it remains the most efficient mechanism for transferring ownership — Bitcoin Is Good — We read with interest Paul Krugman's recent article in the New York Times, humorously titled “Bitcoin Is Evil.” Perhaps the most important part of the article is where Dr. Krugman remarks:| Bloomberg: |
Apple Facing Criticism About Diversity Changes Bylaws — Apple Inc., facing behind-the-scenes pressure from some shareholders to add more female directors and executives, has taken a step to address the criticism and diversify its board. — The world's most valuable company recently added language …
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