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Twitter Testing Major Profile Redesign That Looks a Lot Like Facebook — Twitter is testing a major profile redesign that's very reminiscent of Facebook and Google+. Mashable assistant features editor Matt Petronzio spotted on Tuesday a huge update to his Twitter profile page …
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Social customer service company Lithium Technologies to acquire Klout for at least $100M — Exclusive: Lithium Technologies to Acquire Klout — Klout, the online popularity contest startup, is poised to be sold to social customer service company Lithium Technologies.
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Thanks:@forrestkoba| Om Malik / Gigaom: |
Sources: mobile app store GetJar acquired by Sungy Mobile for over $50M — Exclusive: GetJar, an early app store maker, has been acquired — GetJar, a San Mateo, Calif.-based company that once was viewed as the king of mobile app distribution, is in the process of being acquired by Sungy Mobile Limited.
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| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Mac Pro ship date slips to April as profiteers mark up computer 50% or more — Supply-demand mismatch gets worse, not better, for Apple's dark tower — Apple continued to have problems meeting demand for its radically redesigned Mac Pro desktop computer, with ship dates today extending into April.
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| Ben Thompson / stratechery: |
Microsoft's Mobile Muddle — Saying “Microsoft missed mobile” is a bit unfair; Windows Mobile came out way back in 2000, and the whole reason Google bought Android was fear that Microsoft would dominate mobile the way they dominated the PC era. It turned out, though, that mobile devices …
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| Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: |
Open-source video platform Kaltura scores $47M — Kaltura, an open-source video platform, raised an additional $47 million in funding today. — The company's platform is based on open-source software that enables its clients to host, publish, manage, monetize, and analyze video content.| Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge: |
Mozilla To Sell Ads In Firefox Web Browser — Mozilla Will Serve Ads Within Tiles Of Its New Tab Pages — Mozilla will soon sell ads within its Firefox browser, the company announced Tuesday. — Wait, what? Mozilla made itself the villian of the online ad business early last year …
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Google Deal Machine Ramps Up to Pass Intel in Top Spot — Google Inc., the company that leads Internet search, has gained a new superlative: top dealmaker. — From buying a digital-thermostat developer to selling a mobile-phone business, Google has executed more deals than any company … | Christina Warren / Mashable: |
28 Days of Fame: The Strange, True Story of ‘Flappy Bird’ — In just a few weeks, the mobile app Flappy Bird became a global phenomenon. It was a simple game, but frustrating and endless. Sharing many similarities with the famous Helicopter Game — only with Super Nintendo-style graphics … | Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Alibaba Backs New E-Commerce Site 11 Main, Big U.S. Splash Still to Come — Alibaba Group confirmed on Tuesday that two of its subsidiaries are creating a new U.S. e-commerce site called 11 Main, which will be a marketplace for local merchants to sell their goods online.| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Hacked X-Rays Could Slip Guns Past Airport Security — PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Could a threat-simulation feature found in airport x-ray machines around the country be subverted to mask weapons or other contraband hidden in a traveler's carry-on? — The answer is yes …
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Apple Promotes Young Smith to Run Human Resources — Apple Inc. (AAPL) promoted Denise Young Smith to lead human resources, selecting an insider with experience in the retail-store division as the iPhone maker seeks to attract and retain top talent. — Smith is replacing Joel Podolny …
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9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, MACé" blog and MacNN. Tweets: @nytimesbits
| Emily Spaven / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin Exchanges Under ‘Massive and Concerted Attack’ — A “massive and concerted attack” has been launched by a bot system on numerous bitcoin exchanges, Andreas Antonopoulos has revealed. — This has lead to popular exchange Bitstamp putting a temporary halt on all bitcoin withdrawals …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft staffs up its evolving Internet of Things team — Summary: Microsoft's Windows Embedded team seemingly has a new name, and may be expanding to have a broader charter. — Microsoft is staffing up its Internet of Things (IoT) team that is part of its unified Windows division and may be expanding its charter, as well.
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| Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: |
Google Showing Restaurant Menus In Card-Style Search Result — Google has started showing complete restaurant menus in its search results when a query specifically looks for menu information. — We think Allie Brown was the first to spot this when she shared the results of a search for “jones brunch menu” on Twitter.| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Acquires Social Diary Company Wander For A Price Over $10M — Yahoo has acquired New York-based startup Wander. — The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but based on rumors I heard last night at the Crunchies, it appears that the price was north of $10 million.
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The Days Blog, Softpedia News, StartupBook, VatorNews, PC World, App Advice, The Next Web, VentureBeat and Re/code. Tweets: @richminer
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Netflix Says Verizon Isn't Slowing Down Its Streams — A federal court may have given the pipe guys clearance to start slowing down Web services like Netflix. — But so far, that's not happening, Netflix says. — That update comes to us via a note from J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth …
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| Mathew J. Schwartz / InformationWeek: |
DDoS Attack Hits 400 Gbit/s, Breaks Record — A distributed denial-of-service NTP reflection attack was reportedly 33% bigger than last year's attack against Spamhaus. — A record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack Monday peaked at 400 Gbit/s, which is about 100 Gbit/s …
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
ARM Cortex A17: An Evolved Cortex A12 for the Mainstream in 2015 — ARM has been doing a good job figuring out its PR strategy as of late. In the span of a couple of years we went from very little outward communication to semi-deep-dives on architecture and a regular cadence of IP disclosures.
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