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Kickstarter hacked, with data stolen for an unknown number of customers — Hackers breached Kickstarter's defenses and stole the information of an unspecified number of customers, the company disclosed today. The company learned of the breach on Wednesday from law enforcement officials …
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| Philip Bump / The Wire: |
Followers, members of the media misconceive @BarackObama account as tweeting on behalf of the president, who last tweeted months ago — Basically, @BarackObama Is a Parody Twitter Account — You know those terrible parody Twitter accounts for Bill Murray or Will Smith that tweet dumb jokes … | Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Here's How Google's New Search Results Will Look Under European Antitrust Settlement — Google's long battle with European antitrust regulators over what the European Commission deemed to be anti-competitive search practices appears to be reaching a conclusion.| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Pandora Suit May Upend Century-Old Royalty Plan — As the music industry races toward a future of digital streams and smartphone apps, its latest crisis centers on a regulatory plan that has been in place since “Chattanooga Choo Choo” was a hit. — Since 1941, Ascap and BMI … | Ben Cohen / Digits: |
Matchmaking App Tinder Sees Huge Spike in Sochi During Games … You're young, you're a world-class physical specimen, you're living in a fenced-in village full of similar people from all over the world who are dying to meet you, and it's Valentine's Day. — Clearly, you need a matchmaking app.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon 802 smart TV chip it announced 5 weeks ago — Well, that must be some kind of record. Back at CES in early January, Qualcomm announced a smart TV-oriented chip called the Snapdragon 802. Yesterday in a small, quiet press release, the company announced that the Snapdragon 802 has been canceled.
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| Yaniv Feldman / GeekTime: |
SlickLogin, developer of an identification mechanism using sounds, acquired by Google — Google acquires Israeli security startup SlickLogin — SlickLogin, an Israeli startup and developer of smart identification technology through user smartphones has been acquired by Google for several million … | Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Square Cuts More Custom Pricing Deals For Merchants And Ramps Up Sales Hiring — This past week brought the news of a fairly significant development for Square — the rollout of Square Stands in bars, Whole Foods restaurants, and other venues. This comes a year-and-a-half after the huge deal … | Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile: are early upgrade plans a good deal? — These plans aren't a rip-off anymore — Editor's Note: Since we first compared each of the early upgrade plans, carriers have significantly changed how they work. Verizon recently overhauled its Edge program with its new …
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| Michael J. Casey / Wall Street Journal: |
Bitstamp, world's biggest bitcoin exchange, restores automated customer withdrawals — Bitstamp, the Slovenia-based manager of the world's largest bitcoin exchange, said Saturday it has restored automated customer withdrawals after they were halted for four days after a hacking attack …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Office reportedly coming to iPad in first half of this year, ahead of touch-friendly Windows 8 version — Microsoft Office on iPad: It's alive and coming sooner than most think — Summary: Microsoft's Office for iPad, codenamed Miramar, isn't dead.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Syrian Electronic Army Attacks Forbes Website, Steals User Info — The Syrian Electronic Army has broken into the website of business magazine Forbes and claims to have made off with a million user account names and passwords, according to statements and screenshots posted on the group's Twitter feed.Sponsor Posts
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