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Biz Stone and Ben Finkel launch Jelly: “a new way to search with pictures and people from your social networks” — Introducing Jelly — Humanity is connected like never before. In fact, recent white papers have concluded that the proverbial “six degrees of separation” …
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Tweets: @samfbiddle, @troutgirl, @joshelman, @caseynewton, @mat, @finkel, @benedictevans, @biz, @jack, @fredericl, @mikeisaac and @danprimack
| Apple: |
App Store Sales Top $10 Billion in 2013 — Record-Breaking December with Over $1 Billion in Sales — CUPERTINO, CaliforniaJanuary 7, 2014Apple® today announced that customers spent over $10 billion on the App Store in 2013, including over $1 billion in December alone.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet — Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and the other tech titans have had to fight for their lives against their own government. An exclusive look inside their year from hell—and why the Internet will never be the same. — Washington Post reporters called …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Sony announces PlayStation Now, its cloud gaming service for TVs, consoles, and phones — The PlayStation 4 won't recognize discs from previous Sony game consoles, but that might not matter for long. Sony has just announced PlayStation Now, a service that will bring streaming PlayStation games to PS4 …
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| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Sony announces internet TV service, plans to start testing it later this year — Sony wants to launch its own online TV service with a cloud DVR and live TV feeds. The service will scheduled to go into testing in the U.S. later this year. — Not discouraged by Intel's failure to launch …
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| David Pogue / Yahoo: |
An Introduction To Yahoo Tech! — Okay, Seriously: What The Heck Is Bitcoin, And Why Do So Many People Prefer It To Dollars And Cents? — Online customer reviews are fantastic, but there's still something to be said for reading a critic you know. Over time, you get to know her opinions, preferences, and style.
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Yahoo Announces That It Has Acquired “Intelligent Homescreen” Startup Aviate — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just made her first announcement on-stage at her Consumer Electronics Show keynote — that the company has acquired Aviate, a startup that automatically organizes the apps on your homescreen.| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Vine Co-Founder Steps Down From Lead Role at Company — Dom Hofmann, co-founder of the social video-sharing service Vine, has stepped down from his lead general manager role at the company, according to three sources close to the situation. — Hofmann, who has led the company since … | Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Fab CEO Jason Goldberg's 3,500-Word Mea Culpa: “We Had Started to Dream in Billions” — A new year, a new Jason Goldberg? After watching himself and his e-commerce company Fab take a very public beating in the second half of 2013, Goldberg kicked off the new year today with a 3,500-word blog post …
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Anonymous burglars who exposed FBI's spying program in 1971 come forward for the first time — Burglars Who Took on F.B.I. Abandon Shadows — Stealing J. Edgar Hoover's Secrets: One night in 1971, files were stolen from an F.B.I. office near Philadelphia. They proved that the bureau was spying on thousands of Americans.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
T-Mobile CEO on Being Thrown Out of AT&T's Party: “I Just Wanted to Hear Macklemore” — T-Mobile CEO John Legere has been trying to crash AT&T's party metaphorically for a while now. — On Monday, he decided to do it literally, working his way into a party that the telecom giant was throwing for its developers at the Palms Hotel.
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| Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Sony announces Oculus Rift virtual reality headset competitor — Sony Entertainment president Mike Fasulo briefly shows off the company's new virtual reality headset. — CES 2014 … Movie watchers and gamers who just like to enjoy their content alone may like Sony's latest product: a virtual reality headset.
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| Danny Yadron / Digits: |
Kanye's Lawyer Moves to Block Coinye — Lawyers for Kanye West filed cease-and-desist papers against the seven anonymous coders behind Coinye West, a virtual currency that went from chatroom joke to Internet sensation last week. — The legal document, dated Jan. 6, includes an image of Coinye …
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| Nick D'Aloisio / Yahoo: |
Yahoo News Digest: Get In The Know In No Time — With the introduction of mobile devices, plenty of things have changed. The way we find, consume and share news has evolved. As things become more complex in nature, news consumption has become overwhelming.
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Tweets: @gannonburgett, @kimbhasin, @stevekovach, @nickdaloisio, @panzer and @antderosa
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Oracle buys Corente, pushes into networking more — Summary: Corente will add wide area networking virtualization technology to Oracle's red stack. — Oracle has acquired Corente, which provides software defined networking applications for networks. The move gives Oracle another piece of its networking puzzle.
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China suspends ban on sale of foreign video game consoles — (Reuters) - (Adds context, size of China's video game market, company comments) — China's State Council said it has temporarily lifted a ban on selling foreign video game consoles, paving the way for firms like Sony Corp … | Lauren Hockenson / Gigaom: |
John McAfee is “elated” that Intel will finally rebrand McAfee Security — Last night at Intel's CES 2014 opening keynote, CEO Brian Krzanich casually mentioned that the company is rebranding its McAfee Security team, henceforth to be known as Intel Security.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Cyanogen will partner with OnePlus on its debut phone, the ‘OnePlus One’ — Ex-Oppo exec Pete Lau has just announced that his new company OnePlus will partner with Cyanogen on its first smartphone, which will be called the “OnePlus One.” He and Cyanogen's Steve Kondik announced … | Tyler Gold / The Verge: |
Sprint launches new ‘Framily’ plans that let you and your friends team up to save money on your bill — Sprint will soon launch a competitive new way for you to save on your monthly phone bill. According to a source familiar with the service, the new option will be called a ‘Framily’ plan … | Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Intel's Edison: a 22nm dual-core PC the size of an SD card, runs Linux, has built-in WiFi and Bluetooth modules — Intel announces Edison: a 22nm dual-core PC the size of an SD card — Four months ago, Intel unveiled its Quark SoC at IDF. Today at CES 2014, company CEO Brian Krzanich wants …
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