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Basis Science, developer of health-tracking watch, said to be in acquisition talks with Apple, Google — Basis In Acquisition Talks With Everyone — Looks like Google might be ticking off a box on its wearables shopping list, or someone else might be. Basis Science, the company behind … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple & Google Begin Rejecting Games With “Flappy” In The Title — The Flappy Bird phenomenon shows no signs of slowing down, despite the fact that the original title was yanked out of the App Store by creator Dong Nguyen, whose newfound fame apparently became too overwhelming.
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Apple exploring cars, medical devices to reignite growth — Adrian Perica is a very busy man. Over the past 18 months, the mergers and acquisitions chief at Apple has been scouring the globe looking for deals, snatching up everything from search engines and data analytics to mapping software and motion tracking chips.
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Profile of Brian Krebs, who was first to uncover security breaches at Adobe and Target — Reporting From the Web's Underbelly — SAN FRANCISCO — In the last year, Eastern European cybercriminals have stolen Brian Krebs's identity a half dozen times, brought down his website …
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
People don't always read the articles they share — You're not going to read this — But you'll probably share it anyway — Earlier this month, there was yet another lengthy public debate about Upworthy, the two-year-old publisher that has become one of the most popular sites … | New York Times: |
Punching Above Its Weight, Upstart Netflix Pokes at HBO — On the night of the Golden Globes ceremony last month, Netflix and HBO held dueling parties at the Beverly Hilton hotel. Bono and Julia Roberts mingled underneath a bejeweled tent as Netflix, the upstart streaming service … | Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Pando raises Series A of $1.2M+, about half its seed raise, led by “unconventional” Tennessee-based investors — The new Pando: “Speaking truth to the new power” — Two years and one month ago, I officially founded PandoDaily. I had $2.5 million of investor money …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
As Mt.Gox Implodes, Rival Bitcoin Exchanges Remain Surprisingly Stable — Watching the gyrations in the price of Bitcoin has been spectator sport the past several days. However, unlike with prior busts and races, the price of Bitcoin has diverged heavily across its several exchanges.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Secret revealed: inside the most scandalous social network — Will anonymity make Secret essential reading — or become its undoing? — Late on a Saturday evening in San Francisco, at a party filled with tech workers, people keep retreating to odd corners to stare at their phones.
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World's largest solar thermal project, in part owned by Google, is now operational — Google makes huge investment in clean energy — When you conduct a search on Google, your query goes across the Internet, hits a server, gets processed and is sent back to you in microseconds.| Pankaj Mishra / TechCrunch: |
Siemens Launches $100M Fund To Back Startups Aiming To Disrupt Manufacturing — Siemens Venture Capital, the corporate financing arm of Europe's biggest engineering company, is launching a new, $100 million fund to back early-stage startups working in the areas of industrial automation …
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Apple opens its first store in Brazil, a key market — Apple threw open the doors Saturday to its first store in Brazil, one of the world's fastest-growing smartphone markets and a region that is crucially important to the company. — Chief Executive Tim Cook announced the opening in a tweet …
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