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Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL, on a scale of 1 to 10, it is an 11 — Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL: … Basically, an attacker can grab 64K of memory from a server. The attack leaves no trace, and can be done multiple times to grab a different random 64K of memory.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Sources: Apple not interested in acquiring Square, Jack Dorsey not keen on selling it to Google — A Sale or IPO or More Funding? Here's What Might Be Next for Square. — Of all the many high-profile Internet companies, perhaps none has attracted more speculation than Square. It makes sense.
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Quora Raises $80M Led by Tiger Global, Now Valued at $900M — Q&A startup Quora, while not quite the buzzy Silicon Valley startup it was when it first started, has nonetheless joined the club of extremely richly valued startups raising money from big East Coast investment funds.
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Dropbox announces Mailbox for Android and Desktop — Dropbox is proclaiming that it's ready to launch “a new chapter,” but what exactly does that mean for the cloud storage king? In addition to its ability to combine business and personal storage accounts, Dropbox also announced Mailbox for Android …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Hits 275M Users And Launches Business Product To All — This morning in San Francisco, Dropbox announced that its enterprise-facing Dropbox for Business product is now available for all. Dropbox for Business joins a cadre of competing services like OneDrive for Business, and Box's product set.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
T-Mobile Launches New $40 “Simple Starter” Plan With Unlimited Talk and Text and Half a Gig of Data — T-Mobile on Wednesday introduced a new entry-level $40-per-month plan that includes unlimited talk and text along with 500 megabytes of high-speed data. — Unlike other T-Mobile plans … | Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Intel closes Costa Rica operation, cuts 1,500 jobs — (Reuters) - Chipmaker Intel, struggling with a shrinking personal computer market, is shutting its assembly and test operation in Costa Rica and eliminating 1,500 jobs, a spokesman said on Tuesday. — The closure of the site …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Kabbage Gets $270M More To Lend To Small Online Merchants — Kabbage, a platform for online merchants to borrow working capital, is picking up some cabbage of its own: the startup has closed a $270 million credit facility from Guggenheim Securities, the investment banking and capital markets division of Guggenheim Partners.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Intel, SGI team up on proof-of-concept supercomputer using 3M's dielectric Novec coolant — Intel, 3M, SGI eye new data center coolant — Summary: 3M's Novec fluid combined with two-phase immersion cooling could shrink data center footprints and consume a lot less energy.| Troy Wolverton / Mercury News: |
Startup Prodea offers operating system for the ‘smart’ home — Imagine a system that unlocks the doors and turns on the lights when your adolescent son arrives home and doesn't allow him to watch anything on the TV until after he watches an educational video and notifies you at your office when he's completed it.
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Samsung Gear 2 Teardown — Ring ring! Ring ring! Your cell phone rings. You know you should answer it, but it's all the way in your pocket, and the thought of reaching down, pulling it out, tapping a button, reaching up to your ear, and talking just sounds plain exhausting. But never fear!
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| Edward Wyatt / New York Times: |
Senate Committee Begins Its Review of Comcast Deal — WASHINGTON — Comcast took its case for acquiring Time Warner Cable to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, arguing at a Senate hearing that its proposed $45 billion takeover would benefit consumers by generating greater investment … | Pankaj Mishra / TechCrunch: |
India's Flipkart Nears $330M Myntra Deal, As Common Investors Push To Fight Amazon, eBay — India's biggest e-commerce company, Flipkart, is in the final stages of completing a merger deal with the country's fast growing online fashion retailer Myntra, in what could potentially create … | Qwilt: |
Report: Amazon tops Hulu and Apple to become third largest video streaming service after Netflix and YouTube — Amazon Rising - Amazon's Streaming Video Surpasses Hulu and Apple — “Amazon.com rivals Wal-Mart as a store, Apple as a device maker, and IBM as a data services provider.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Crittercism Raises $30M More, Inks Mobile App Performance Deal With New Backer Accenture — Some big news today from Crittercism, a startup that operates a platform for companies to monitor their mobile app performance with customers including the likes of Netflix, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Pinterest …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat: |
Smart-home veteran iControl buys security device Piper to let you play Big Brother — While “smart home” companies such as Nest and SmartThings have been making all the headlines lately, industry veteran iControl Networks is scooping up a company to add to its Big Brother-like arsenal of connected home offerings.
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