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Target could have stopped theft of 40M credit card numbers after security alarms, but didn't — Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It — The biggest retail hack in U.S. history wasn't particularly inventive, nor did it appear destined for success.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple developing Preview and TextEdit apps for iOS to view files stored in iCloud by OS X versions — iOS 8: Apple works to further push iCloud as the future of the file system — When Apple introduced both iOS and iCloud, its goal was to eliminate the classic file system found in Mac OS X …
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MacRumors, The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, iMore, BGR, Softpedia News, iLounge, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, AppleTell, SlashGear, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com, MacNN, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, ReadWrite, Gigaom, Pocketnow, everythingiCafe and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @benjaminzamayo. Thanks:@llsethj
| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Just a Month After Google Capital Funding, Renaissance Learning Sells for $1.1B — Google Capital valued Renaissance Learning at $1 billion when it put $40 million into the educational assessment company in mid-February. Just a month later, Renaissance Learning is worth $1.1 billion …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Event ticketing platform Eventbrite has raised around $50M in new funding at a valuation of over $1B — Exclusive: Eventbrite joins $1 billion club — Popular event ticketing company raises around $50 million in new round of funding at a big valuation. — FORTUNE — Event ticketing … | Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom: |
Amazon is raising the price of Prime to $99/year, adds same-day Prime Fresh delivery for $299/year — Amazon Prime customers, who have been paying $79 per year for unlimited two-day shipping and other perks, will pay $99 per year when their membership renews. Here's the text I saw on my Prime page this morning (h/t @sarahw):
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| Javed Anwer / Times of India: |
Sources: Microsoft makes Windows Phone OS free for two Indian phone makers — MS offers Windows Phone OS free to Indian players — NEW DELHI: Desperate times call for desperate measures. With Windows Phone failing to make a significant dent in the market share of Google's Android …
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| Mark Milian / Bloomberg: |
Masayoshi Son on how Softbank scored the deal to become iPhone's exclusive carrier in Japan — How Steve Jobs Got the iPhone Into Japan — The iPhone, it's safe to say, is big in Japan. Toward the end of last year, three out of every four smartphones sold in Japan were iPhones …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Amazon Eyed Overseas Markets in Smartphone Talks — As Amazon prepares to launch its long-awaited smartphone, opportunities in non-U.S. markets loom large. — Amazon executives last spring held talks with possible hardware partners that included detailed discussions on strategies for China … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Banjo Raises $16M To Grow Its Experiential Real-Time News And Events Platform — Startup Banjo has raised a new $16 million Series B round of funding, bringing its total raised to date to $21 million. The round was led by Balderton Capital, and included participation from BlueRun Ventures and Vegas Tech Fund, among others.
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| Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
United Airlines introducing iOS-exclusive in-flight movie service in April — United Airline to Intro In-Flight Movie Service Starting in April Exclusively for Apple iDevices — Starting this April, United Airlines will roll out a new personal device entertainment system onboard select aircraft … | Bloomberg: |
Starbucks Plans to Test Mobile Ordering This Year — Starbucks Corp. (SBUX), the world's largest coffee-shop operator, will test a smartphone service this year that lets customers order items ahead of time at some U.S. cafes, part of a push to promote its mobile application.
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| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
T-Mobile plans to upgrade its 2G EDGE footprint to 4G LTE by mid-2015 — You should be able to bid a final goodbye to that dreaded “E” icon on your T-Mobile handset within the next 15 months. — Celebrating the one-year anniversary of it's LTE network launch on Thursday …
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| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
IPO-bound MuleSoft raises $50M and doubles its valuation to $800M as SaaS adoption explodes — Want a recipe for startup success? Identify a category defining trend early - like mobile or the cloud - and then anticipate and solve one of the new problems that trend will create.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
ER doctors use Google Glass and QR codes to identify patients — Dr. Steve Horng at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. — John Halamka — A tech-savvy hospital in Boston developed a custom information-retrieval system for Google Glass, which lets ER doctors scan a QR code …
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SiliconANGLE, Life as a Healthcare CIO, Mashable, CNET, VentureBeat, Gigaom, Digital Trends and 9to5Google. Tweets: @mikeloukides
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google removes underlined links, says goodbye to 1996 — Google started life as a research project in 1996 to crawl the internet and create a search engine. 18 years later, Google is now removing the last of the design left over from that era. Starting today, the '90s-style underlined links … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft's Office 365 Personal is limited to two devices, coming this spring for $69.99/year or $6.99/month — Microsoft today announced Office 365 Personal, a new subscription offering of the company's productivity suite in the cloud. Designed for the individual, it is limited to just one PC or Mac …
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| Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: |
Bright House cable network to build ultrafast gigabit residential broadband in Tampa, Florida — Bright House to Build Ultrafast Broadband Network — Bright House Networks, part of the Newhouse family's media empire, said it will build an ultrafast gigabit broadband network in Tampa …
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Real-Time Economic Data Tracking Platform Premise Raises $11M From Social+Capital Partnership — Exclusive: Premise, a data technology company that is tracking macroeconomic and human development trends in real-time, is announcing an $11 million Series B round led by Social+Capital Partnership …
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| Husain Sumra / MacRumors: |
Apple TV Update 6.1 Allows AirPlay Discoverability Over Bluetooth — When the Apple TV was updated to version 6.1 earlier this week, it was initially thought that there were minimal changes outside of the ability to hide icons in the main menu. However, a new report from AFP548 …
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