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GCHQ and NSA Targeted Private German Companies — Documents show that Britain's GCHQ intelligence service infiltrated German Internet firms and America's NSA obtained a court order to spy on Germany and collected information about the chancellor in a special database.
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BlackBerry wins preliminary injunction against Typo, banning sale of iPhone keyboard case — BlackBerry wins court order against TV host Ryan Seacrest's Typo — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd won a preliminary injunction on Friday to ban Ryan Seacrest's Typo Products LLC from selling … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
BBM Now At 85M Monthly Active Users, 113M Registered Users, 500,000 Channels — The BlackBerry that's in the process of reinventing itself is an increasingly cross-platform creature — retrenching to serving its enterprise core by seeking to help them manage the bring-your-own-device wave that decimated its previous business.
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Yahoo tries to lure YouTube stars with better ad rates for new video service — Ready for Marissa's Closeup? Yahoo Is Considering Creating Its Own YouTube (and Poaching YouTube Stars) — Google-owned YouTube hasn't had a serious competitor for years. But Yahoo would like to try … | George Anders / Forbes: |
Sequoia Capital profiled as a feisty, decisive, luxury-eschewing band of outsiders — Inside Sequoia Capital: Silicon Valley's Innovation Factory — When Doug Leone arrived in Mount Vernon, N.Y. in 1968, the 11-year-old Italian immigrant didn't have a clue.
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| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
Cable's Next Big Threat: Loss of Ad Dollars To YouTube, AOL — It turns out that cord-cutting isn't the only threat facing cable channels. — Several of the big ad-supported online video outlets, including Google's YouTube, AOL and others, plan this upfront season to target some of the ad dollars …
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| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Drones vs. balloons: Zuckerberg explains why wings are better for the internet than helium — When Facebook and Internet.org revealed their intentions on Thursday to connect the developing world through aerial drones and satellites, the plans drew the inevitable comparisons to Google's Project Loon …
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CIO.com, Internet.org, TechCrunch and AllFacebook
| Jeremy Wagstaff / Reuters: |
Google researchers: 21 of world's top 25 news orgs targeted by hackers, likely state-sponsored — Journalists, media under attack from hackers: Google researchers — (Reuters) - Twenty-one of the world's top-25 news organizations have been the target of likely state-sponsored hacking attacks …
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| Jonathan Feist / Android Authority: |
Google Play Developer Program Policies get updated, user experience and security take focus — Google is pushing out an update to the Play Developer Program Policies in an effort to protect users and help shape the user experience. The update contains some new policies and some updated wording …
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Roku's Streaming Stick is now shipping from Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and others in the US — Google recently launched its Chromecast streaming dongle in almost a dozen new markets, but now Roku is offering an alternative. The company's new Streaming Stick, which plugs into the back of your TV through …
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BeHere app uses iBeacons to automatically take attendance as students enter the classroom — A new app called BeHere aimed at teachers uses Apple's new Bluetooth LE iBeacon technology to recognize students and automatically take attendance as they enter a classroom.| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Gary Kovacs, John Lilly, Ellen Siminoff resign from Mozilla board after appointment of new CEO — Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO — Mozilla named a new chief executive this week to lead the non-profit Web organization as it tries to keep its Firefox browser relevant in the mobile age.Sponsor Posts
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