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GCHQ, aided by NSA, intercepted and stored webcam images of millions of global Yahoo users — UK spy agency intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users — • Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk — • 1.8m users targeted by GCHQ in six-month period alone
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Amazon Talks to Music Labels About a Streaming Service — Amazon gives away movies and TV shows to people who join its Amazon Prime subscription service. When will it start giving away music, too? — Maybe this year. People have been predicting that Amazon would offer a Spotify …
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Yellen on Bitcoin: Fed Doesn't Have Authority to Regulate It in Any Way … Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen said the central bank doesn't have the authority to regulate bitcoin. — “The Federal Reserve simply does not have authority to supervise or regulate bitcoin in any way,” … | Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Fred Wilson to Senator Manchin: “Benefits of Bitcoin will be as important, impactful, and beneficial as that of the Internet” — A Letter To Senator Manchin — Senator Joe Manchin wrote a public letter to financial regulators asking them to “take appropriate action to limit …
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eBay chairman Omidyar defends board members, CEO against Icahn attack, says PayPal should remain part of the company — Statement by Pierre Omidyar, eBay Inc. Chairman of the Board — I am eBay Inc.'s founder, board chairman and largest shareholder. — A new eBay shareholder, Carl Icahn …
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| Daniel Terdiman / CNET: |
It's official: Google Barge moving to Stockton — The guessing game about Google Barge's future destination after leaving its current construction site on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay is over. — CNET has confirmed that Google Barge will be heading to Stockton, Calif. (a move we first reported was imminent).
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Google donates $6.8 million to fund free transit rides for San Francisco youth — Amid widespread protests over tech companies' use of public transit infrastructure, Google said today it would fund two years of free transit rides for San Francisco youth. The $6.8 million grant …
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| Steven Brill / TIME: |
How an ad-hoc team of outside coders and troubleshooters revived HealthCare.gov — Obama's Trauma Team — How an unlikely group of high-tech wizards revived Obama's troubled HealthCare.gov website — more than two weeks after the launch of HealthCare.gov—White House chief …
Tweets: @jonfoxux, @ferlatte and @benlabolt
| Luke Baker / Reuters: |
Europe invites Apple, Google to discuss ‘in-app’ purchases — (Reuters) - The European Commission announced plans on Thursday to tackle one of the scourges of the modern age - games on tablets and mobile phones that allow adults and children to rack up vast credit card bills by making “in-app” purchases.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
ABC will live-stream Oscars on web and mobile only to pay-TV subscribers in select markets — ABC Will Live-Stream Oscars to Web, Mobile Apps for First Time — But There's a Catch — Alphabet net to offer kudocast through Watch ABC apps and website, accessible only through certain pay-TV partners
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Pew's “The Web at 25”: 87% of Americans use the Internet, social media ranked easy to quit — Survey: Of Major Technologies, Social Media Is The Easiest To Give Up — Based on a new survey of just over 1,000 US adults, the Pew Research Center has released findings commemorating the 25th anniversary of the web.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Facebook Messenger for Windows will shut down on March 3 — Facebook today began prompting Facebook Messenger for Windows users with a message saying the app is shutting down next week. Without much of an explanation, the company plans to kill off Windows support for Facebook Messenger on March 3.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Moov is a fitness tracker that tells you how to improve your workouts — Meet Moov, the fitness tracker that turns Siri into your new personal trainer — Nikola Hu is running wrong. He's loping along, leaning back as he goes. Suddenly a voice emerges from his phone: “Your cadence is low.
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Tinder: Now Doing 750 Million Swipes & 10 Million Matches Per Day … Hot dating app Tinder is doing 750 million “swipes” per day that lead to 10 million introductions, up from 5 million matches in December. — The latest stats came from Tinder founder and CEO Sean Rad, speaking at Upfront Summit …
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
T-Mobile has turned every accepted practice in the mobile phone business on its head — T-Mobile Turns an Industry on Its Ear — A rash of consumer-friendliness has broken out across the mobile data industry. Over the last year, the four major carriers — AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Maps Gallery To Make Public Data Maps More Discoverable — Google today launched the Google Maps Gallery, an extension of the Google Maps Public Data Program it announced last October. The new gallery is meant to showcase maps from the organizations Google is working with … | Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
A Long Tail of Whales: Half of Mobile Games Money Comes From 0.15 Percent of Players — Oh, you've spent a couple dollars on Candy Crush? How cute. — In a mobile monetization report released today, app testing firm Swrve found that in January, half of free-to-play games' in-app purchases came from 0.15 percent of players.
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| Nancy Gohring / CITEworld: |
With $50 million, ClearSlide will beef up analytics for salespeople — ClearSlide [1], the provider of services designed to help sales people better communicate with customers, just raised a whopping $50 million. It plans to use the funding to scale up and continue developing more analytics capabilities.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Salesforce Q4 Beats Street, as CFO Smith Plans Exit — Cloud software company Salesforce.com just announced quarterly earnings results that were slightly better than what analysts had estimated, and the company announced that CFO Graham Smith will retire next year.
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