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Exclusive: Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware — The sportswear company has decided that only software has a future in the company's technology vision. That means cutting the FuelBand, and those who helped make it.
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Certificate Revocation Lists increase sharply in size in the wake of Heartbleed, hogging bandwidth — Heartbleed Bug Sends Bandwidth Costs Skyrocketing — The exposure of the Heartbleed vulnerability last week had a number of repercussions, one of which was to set off a mad scramble … | Daniel Cid / Sucuri Blog: |
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Beats Bites the Bullet, and Starts Selling Subscriptions From Apple's App — Apple has a crazily powerful digital store, used by hundreds of millions of customers. But if you want to sell something there it will cost you: In almost every case, Apple keeps 30 percent of the purchase price on whatever its users buy.| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Apple reaching out to developers who didn't win WWDC lottery, offering chance to buy unclaimed tickets — If you didn't get a chance to buy a WWDC ticket in the lottery last week, you might just get another chance soon. Developers who won were given until April 14 to buy a slot at the conference …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb closes TPG-led $450M-500M funding round valuing company at $10B — Airbnb Has Closed Its $500M Round Of Funding At A $10B Valuation, Led By TPG — TechCrunch has learned that Airbnb, the fast-growing site that lets people become hoteliers by renting out sofas, rooms or entire private homes …
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YC's new president suggests several solutions to key issues in employee stock compensation — Employee Equity — Startup employees often do not get treated very well when it comes to stock compensation. New ideas float around occasionally, but lawyers are usually averse to trying new things …
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| Carla Marinucci / SFGate: |
Sam Altman and Marissa Mayer co-hosting Obama fundraiser for DNC at Y Combinator HQ on May 8 — New! Obama to hit Y Combinator headquarters in Mt. View on May 8 — President Obama will hit the Mt. View headquarters of Y Combinator, the hot Silicon Valley start-up funder and incubator …
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with Ubuntu Touch 14.04: Coming along, but miles to go — We install it so you don't have to. Seriously, you probably shouldn't. — The last time we installed Ubuntu Touch on anything was about a year ago, shortly after the release of Ubuntu 13.04.| Rod Boshart / Quad City Times: |
Microsoft brings $1.13 billion data center to Iowa — DES MOINES — Central Iowa is emerging as an economic magnet for high-tech data centers, state and local leaders declared Friday after plans were unveiled for global computer giant Microsoft to phase in a $1.13 billion regional data center over the next four to five years.
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| Les Shu / Digital Trends: |
Toshiba's U3 MicroSD cards are fast enough to handle 4K video, still tiny and easy to lose — MicroSD cards have become so ubiquitous that even some digital cameras are now using it. That's fine and dandy if speed isn't a concern, but if you're snapping lots of photos and you need your camera to keep up …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
How carriers' greed for additional revenue streams almost sabotaged the smartphone kill switch — How Greed Almost Sabotaged the Smartphone Kill Switch — About one third of robberies in major cities across the country involve the theft of a mobile phone, according to the Federal Communications Commission.| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
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