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Hackers Hit Mt. Gox Exchange's CEO, Claim To Publish Evidence Of Fraud — The Bitcoin community has been angrily pressing for details on what the Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has described as a massive hacker attack that stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of its users' bitcoins and left the company bankrupt.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Popcorn Time: an open source, cross platform app for simply streaming movie torrents — Popcorn Time: Open Source Torrent Streaming Netflix For Pirates — Over the years BitTorrent has become fairly mainstream, with hundreds of millions of people using torrent clients to download the latest entertainment.
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How Aaron Levie and his childhood friends built Box into a $2 billion business, without stabbing each other in the back — “Water,” says Aaron Levie. It's 11:00 AM on a bright October morning in Silicon Valley. Levie, the bright-eyed young chief executive with patches of grey hair … | Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Google to launch Android developer SDK for wearable tech in 2 weeks — At SXSW today, Sundar Pichai, Google's SVP of Android, Apps and Chrome, announced that the company will soon release an Android developer SDK specifically designed for use with wearable devices.| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Google struggles to index content as apps replace links, looks to deep links as a solution — Google Searches for an App Role — As Smartphones Undercut Traditional Web Browsing, New Tack Is Needed for Ads — Its name has become a verb meaning “to search,” but as users shift to mobile devices … | Steven Bertoni / Forbes: |
Shutterstock CEO unperturbed by Getty's free images, says 99.9% of business is commercial use — Free Getty Images No Threat To Photo Market Says Shutterstock CEO — Getty Images is giving away 35 million photos for free. Some are saying the move, aimed to combat pic piracy, will upend the entire stock photo market.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Neil Young's high-fidelity iPod competitor will cost $399 — The age of the iPod might be over, but music artist Neil Young doesn't believe portable media players are dead. On March 15th, he'll offer pre-orders on Kickstarter for the PonoPlayer, a $399 triangular digital music player designed to sound worlds better.
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Young stars of Vine turn comedy into a business with sponsored videos and trips — Meet The Stars Of Vine: These Kids Have Millions Of Followers And Make Eye-Popping Amounts Of Money — For 16 year-old Lauren Giraldo, $2,000 isn't hard to come by. — All she has to do is press … | Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
Tencent takes a 15% stake in Chinese online retailer JD.com to take on Alibaba — Chinese Internet giant Tencent, which is best known for its wildly popular messaging service WeChat (known as Weixin in China), has officially combined its e-commerce operations with online retailer JD.com, after rumors last month hinted at such a move.
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| Iain Marlow / Globe and Mail: |
Wireless service readily available across much of Africa, brings need for drones into question — Why flying ‘Internet drones’ over Africa is a dumb, libertarian fantasy — When I arrived in a West African newsroom last year to help with a journalism training initiative, one of the first things to come up was my BlackBerry Bold.
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| Steven Millward / Tech in Asia: |
WeChat opens payments to businesses and retailers in China — WeChat, the popular messaging app made by Tencent, is pushing even further into mobile commerce territory. Today Tencent (HKG:0700) added support for any brands to allow customers to purchase items or services inside the app.| Alissa Walker / Gizmodo: |
A look at UCLA's 3420 Boelter Hall, where the first ARPANET node was installed — This Is The Room Where The Internet Was Born — For something as ubiquitous as the internet today, it certainly isn't easy to find where it all started. I don't mean historically, I mean logistically …
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