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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp Is Down, Confirms Server Issues [Update: It's Back After A 210-Minute Outage] — Update: WhatsApp experienced an outage for around 210 minutes today from 11am to 2:30 pm PST. Users around the world reported that they were unable to send messages, and WhatsApp confirmed these problems …
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Juro Osawa / Digits: |
Q&A: Line Executive on WhatsApp and the Power of Messaging — All eyes are on smartphone messaging apps now that Facebook has announced a deal to pay $19 billion for WhatsApp. — While WhatsApp is a giant and one of the pioneers in smartphone messaging, Asia has been the hub for the evolution … | Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
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| Bloomberg: |
To counter competition, Microsoft will charge manufacturers $15 instead of $50 to install Windows on devices under $250 — Microsoft Said to Cut Windows Price 70% to Counter Rivals — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is cutting the price of Windows 8.1 by 70 percent for makers of low-cost computers …
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @mattrosoff, @mattrosoff, @parislemon, @tculpan, @dinabass and @tomkrazit
| Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
Behind iPhone's Critical Security Bug, a Single Bad ‘Goto’ — Like everything else on the iPhone, the critical crypto flaw announced in iOS 7 yesterday turns out to be a study in simplicity and elegant design: a single spurious “goto” in one part of Apple's authentication code that accidentally bypasses the rest of it.
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ImperialViolet, Daring Fireball, ZDNet, Daring Fireball, MacRumors, iMore, Security Watch, Threatpost, Securosis Highlights, Engadget, 9to5Mac and Nelson's Weblog
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| Chris Williams / The Register: |
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| Kevin Roose / San Francisco Magazine: |
How Silicon Valley emerged as the destination of choice for bankers after 2008 Wall St. crisis — Go West, Young Bank Bro — Wall Street has ceased to be the career destination of choice for a certain kind of status seeker. Guess where that person wants to work now.
Tweets: @kevinroose and @jonsteinberg31
| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
New Samsung Gear 2 / Neo Smartwatches (Gold is Best!) shown in leaks — We're expecting to see Samsung unveil an update to their Galaxy Gear Smartwatches in Barcelona next week and of course that means electronics leaker @evleaks has them for us this week. It seems that these won't be branded Galaxy and will be called Gear 2 and Neo.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Netflix packets being dropped every day because Verizon wants more money — Verizon wants to be paid by consumers and Cogent, but Cogent refuses to pay. — The battle over who should pay to carry Netflix traffic is heating up again, and one of the main players blames Verizon's greed …
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Tweets: @binarybits and @al3x
See also Mediagazer| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
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Tweets: @counternotions and @jbsay
| Bloomberg: |
Ford Said to Drop Microsoft for BlackBerry's QNX in Sync System — Ford Motor Co. (F), struggling with in-car technology glitches, will base the next-generation Sync system on BlackBerry Ltd. (BBRY)'s QNX and no longer use Microsoft (MSFT) Corp.'s Windows, according to people briefed on the matter.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Tests Mobile “Highlights”, A Cheat Sheet To Your Friends' Lives — Facebook said there were just big fixes in its 7.0 iOS update it released yesterday, but actually there's a big new feature it's testing called Highlights. Inside the People tab you'll see Highlights including friends' Life Events …
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Digital Trends, I4U News, Engadget, The Next Web and SlashGear
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple, Samsung confirm failure of settlement effort in early February but keep talking — In January, Apple and Samsung informed Judge Lucy Koh, the federal district judge presiding over two patent infringement cases between them in the Northern District of California, that they were going …
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Wall Street Journal, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, Re/code, Bloomberg and AppleInsider
| Loretta Chao / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter, Other Apps Disrupted in Venezuela Amid Protests — The Venezuelan government, besieged by nationwide protests, appears to have stepped up its censorship of Internet services used by demonstrators and sites that have criticized the government response to the unrest, technology firms and researchers said.| TechCrunch: |
Goldman Sachs gives early assessment of Bitcoin, noting opportunities and potential issues — Goldman Sachs Takes On Bitcoin — The eye of big finance is finally turning towards cryptocurrency. Responding to requests from clients, Goldman Sachs has put out an early assessment of Bitcoin … Sponsor Posts
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