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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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An Introduction To Yahoo Tech! — 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. In fact, even if you can't stand a certain critic's advice—say …
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Sony announces PlayStation Now, its cloud gaming service for TVs, consoles, and phones — The PlayStation 4 may not be the most important part of Sony's gaming strategy anymore. Sony has just announced PlayStation Now, a service that will bring streaming PlayStation games not only to PS4 … | Allen Martin / CBS San Francisco: |
Google Launches Private SF Bay Ferry Service To Shuttle Workers — REDWOOD CITY (CBS SF) - Just as Bay Area high-tech firms such as Google have been using private shuttle buses to transport their workers to their jobs, Google is taking it to another level with its own ferry service on San Francisco Bay.| 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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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 … | Yahoo: |
Yahoo Advertising revamped to unify web, mobile, and video ad products — Introducing the new Yahoo Advertising — Today we are announcing a unified approach to digital advertising that only Yahoo can deliver - across premium and audience-focused display, native and search advertising.| 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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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 … | Mark Mazzetti / New York Times: |
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.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
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.| John McDermott / Digiday: |
The Shady Practice of Mobile App Install Ads — When former CBS Interactive exec Jason Kint tried to read this Associated Press story on his iPhone on Jan. 1, he wasn't just given an intrusive copy-blocking Candy Crush ad. He was automatically redirected to the download page for the popular mobile game in Apple's App Store.| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Wolfram's Connected Devices Project starts to catalog all electronics for the internet of things — Stephen Wolfram recently described his programming language — called, understandably, Wolfram Language — as his “most important project.” The easy-to-use language, Wolfram says in his blog …
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At least eight security experts cancel appearance at RSA Conference over NSA ties — At least eight security experts boycott prominent security conference over NSA ties — At least eight computer security researchers have withdrawn from a major security conference in a protest …
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| 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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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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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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Yahoo enables default HTTPS encryption for Yahoo Mail — As promised, Yahoo has is now automatically encrypting Yahoo Mail users' connections to the service. — The company announced Tuesday it has enabled automatic HTTPS as the default for all users on the network, coming …
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Apple continues China push by opening an official store on Alibaba's Tmall — Apple Opens Store on Alibaba's Tmall — In its latest attempt to boost China sales, Apple Inc. opened an official store on Tmall, a major online marketplace run by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
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