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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
eBay Advises Users To Change Passwords Following Cyberattack, “Large Number” Of Users Affected — Following an odd blog post which appeared overnight and then was quickly taken down which alerted eBay users to reset their passwords, eBay has now published its official statement informing …
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| Loek Essers / Computerworld: |
Google plans international acquisitions worth up to $30B, it tells SEC — Google passed on a potential acquisition of a non-U.S. company worth up to $5 billion, it said — Google plans to spend $20 billion to $30 billion of its of its accumulated international profits to fund potential acquisitions …
| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
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Tweets: @rolfewinkler and @mike_orcutt
| Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
While working for the NSA, Snowden led a “Crypto Party” to teach 20 neighbors about encryption — Snowden's First Move Against the NSA Was a Party in Hawaii — It was December 11, 2012, and in a small art space behind a furniture store in Honolulu, NSA contractor Edward Snowden …
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Techdirt, Washington Post and Poynter
Tweets: @revmagdalen and @kashhill
Thanks:@emilydreyfuss| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Adds Shazam-Style Audio Recognition To Help You Automatically Tag Posts With TV Shows And Songs — Facebook has a new weapon in the battle against Twitter to host lucrative conversations about media. A Shazam-esque opt-in feature coming to the iOS and Android status composer …
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Tweets: @dannysullivan and @joshconstine
See also Mediagazer| Noorhan Barakat / Gulf News: |
Dubai police to use Google Glass to fine traffic violators and track wanted vehicles — Dubai Police to use Google Glass — Device can be used to fine motorists and track wanted vehicles, says senior official — Dubai: Dubai Police will soon use Google Glass to issue fines to errant motorists … | Joshua Brustein / Businessweek: |
Spotify reaches 10M paid subscribers, launches in Brazil next week, still isn't profitable — Streams of Tears: Why Spotify Can't Make Money — Daniel Ek has devoted most of his waking moments over the past few years to evangelizing about the glories of streaming music. He's well suited to the task.
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Tweets: @katyfinneran, @aweissman and @trengriffin
See also Mediagazer| Lauren Hockenson / Gigaom: |
Anonymous app Secret launches on Android and expands worldwide — International users will no longer have to wait to get their hands on buzzy anonymous confession app Secret, as the company announced Wednesday that the app is now available to download worldwide on both iOS and Android.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple confirms WWDC 2014 keynote to be held Monday, June 2nd at 10 AM PT; new hardware likely — This morning, Apple revealed the schedule for next month's Worldwide Developers Conference. To start things off, an Apple keynote will be held from 10AM to 12PM on Monday, June 2nd at Moscone West.
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MacRumors, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, The Register, Macworld, Business Insider, BGR, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET News, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks, TUAW and Electronista. Thanks:@apollozac
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
HBO shows are now streaming on Amazon Instant Video — ‘True Blood,’ ‘Six Feet Under,’ and more — As promised, a number of HBO shows are now available to stream through Amazon Prime Instant Video. Starting today, you'll be able to stream the complete run of older shows like The Sopranos …
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Wealth Management Startup FutureAdvisor Raises $15.5 Million — Looking to bring top-flight wealth management services to the middle class, FutureAdvisor has raised $15.5 million in fresh capital. — The round was led by new investor Canvas with participation from the company's previous investors including Sequoia Capital.
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| Lauren Johnson / Adweek: |
Google Beats Apple in List of World's Most Valuable Brands — Google, Apple, IBM and Microsoft are the companies that rank the highest in terms of brand value, according to a new study commissioned by WPP and conducted by Millward Brown. McDonald's is the only non-tech brand within the top five … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Pro-Privacy Blackphone Pulls $30M Into Silent Circle — Encrypted comms firm Silent Circle has just announced a new funding round which it says has been fueled by demand in the privacy-focused smartphone, Blackphone, the security hardened Android handset it's building with Spanish startup Geeksphone.
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| Major Nelson / Xbox Wire: |
External Storage, Real Names and More Coming with Xbox One System Update in June — With the next system update coming in June, we're thrilled to announce two of your most-requested features will be here soon: external storage support and real names for identifying your friends.
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| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
Govt officials say NSA routinely spies on other countries to advance US economic interests — Fine Line Seen in U.S. Spying on Companies — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has never said what it was seeking when it invaded the computers of Petrobras, Brazil's huge national oil company …
Tweets: @the_intercept, @nytimesworld and @onekade
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Marc Andreessen: Obama's meetings with tech execs over spying were for show, producing no progress — Marc Andreessen: Tech companies are still fuming over the NSA — Marc Andreessen at The Washington Post. (Cecilia Kang / The Washington Post) — Almost a year after he released … | Clive Thompson / Wired: |
How D-Wave began selling its quantum computer amid skepticism it was really a classical computer — The Age of Quantum Computing Has (Almost) Arrived — Google owns a — lot of computers—perhaps a million servers stitched together into the fastest, most powerful artificial intelligence on the planet.
Tweets: @arala
| Seth Rosenblatt / CNET News: |
New lawsuit accuses Google of AdSense fraud — The lawsuit seeks class action status and could expose more of the internal workings of how Google manages AdSense if allowed to proceed. — Google — A lawsuit filed Tuesday against Google accuses the tech titan of engaging in widespread fraud …
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hbsslaw.com, TechCrunch, Gigaom, WebProNews, Softpedia News and Electronista. See also Mediagazer
| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
U.S. utility's control system was hacked, says Homeland Security — (Reuters) - A sophisticated hacking group recently attacked a U.S. public utility and compromised its control system network, but there was no evidence that the utility's operations were affected, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Gizmodo, Telegraph, The Verge, The Hill, SiliconBeat, DailyTech, RT, V3.co.uk, Tech Times, NBC News and ITworld.com
| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
California approves rules for testing self-driving cars in California — On Tuesday, the California DMV officially approved rules to allow the testing of autonomous vehicles on public roads. The rules will take effect September 16, 2014. — The move had been a long time coming …
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Washington Post and The Verge
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Local Services Marketplace Thumbtack Raises $30 Million — Thumbtack, a marketplace that connects local professionals with clients, has raised a $30 million Series C round from Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global Management, TechCrunch has learned. — The startup has an original approach when it comes to local services.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ex-Beats, Spotify Execs Debut Soundtrack Your Brand To Stream Spotify In Public Venues — Spotify today dominates the market for music streaming services for consumers. Now a new startup, started by Spotify's ex-head of business development Andreas Liffgarden and co-founder of Beats Music Ola Sars … | Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Patent reform dies in Senate as Leahy pulls plug on key bill — A closely watched patent reform bill failed on Wednesday as Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced that he lacked the bipartisan support to push the bill forward.
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Patrick Leahy, Re/code, The Hill, Vox, Reuters and NationalJournal.com
| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Airbnb Agrees to Give New York Anonymized User Data — Airbnb, which has already taken down 2,000 accommodation listings in New York from “bad actors,” agreed to warn all new and old hosts in the state that they may be breaking hotel laws. — It was part of an agreement in which the office … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
With $38M In Funding, Mimosa Networks Comes Out Of Stealth To Make Wireless Broadband Affordable — There's a growing digital divide between consumers who live in highly dense areas where it's relatively cheap and easy to deploy fiber, versus more rural areas that lack the underlying infrastructure to support higher speeds.
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VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Gigaom and PE Hub Blog
| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
Internet performance and management company Dyn acquires Renesys — Dyn, the internet performance and management company Wednesday said it has bought Renesys, which provides networking information to internet service providers (ISPs). With the acquisition, Dyn plans to launch …
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PC World, Washington Post, TechCrunch, BetaBoston and Xconomy
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