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Google, Canon, Dropbox and Others Pool Patents to Ward Off Trolls — A coalition of technology companies large and small has created a sort of arms-control treaty to prevent future abuses of their intellectual property. — Among Google, Canon, SAP, Newegg, Dropbox and Asana, there are nearly 300,000 patent assets on the line.
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Apple noted to the FTC in January that Google Play also allowed kids to make unauthorized in-app purchases — Apps and kids: Google may be next in FTC crosshairs — Apple leaped into action after the Federal Trade Commission cracked down on iPhone and iPad apps that let kids spend their parents' money without permission.
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Gigaom, Ars Technica, Ubergizmo, CNET, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Daily Caller, MobileBurn.com, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, InvestorPlace, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, SiliconBeat and Electronista. Tweets: @tonyromm. Thanks:@ericengleman
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Leaked Documents Show How Yelp Thinks It's Getting Screwed By Google — Documents leaked to TechCrunch from inside Yelp allege that Google is manipulating its search results to favor Google+ content over Yelp content. The materials accuse Google of blatantly highlighting its own products … | James Kanter / New York Times: |
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Insiders offer a contrasting account to details in Whitney Wolfe's complaint against Tinder — The Story Of Whitney Wolfe Vs. Tinder — It's hard to write a story without a protagonist, but here goes. In the past week, Tinder's former VP of Marketing Whitney Wolfe filed a complaint … | Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times: |
Dish tells FCC to block Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal — Satellite broadcaster Dish Network wants the government to block Comcast Corp.'s proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable. In meetings with top Federal Communications Commission officials earlier this week, Dish said a combination …
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Passenger claims he was “kidnapped” by an Uber driver and taken on a “high-speed” chase — Man visiting D.C. says Uber driver took him on wild ride … Well, the tweet pretty much says it all. — On Tuesday, Ryan Simonetti, CEO of New York-based Convene, had an Uber ride he won't soon forget.
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| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
10Gbps over a copper telephone line: A new world record set by Bell Labs — The telecommunications masters at Bell Labs have managed to deliver a world record connection speed of 10Gbps (10,000Mbps) over copper wires. Dubbed XG.fast, the new technology could be used to massively extend … | David Shamah / The Times of Israel: |
“Red Alert: Israel” app now using Yo to deliver rocket attack alerts — Red Alert app offers a Yo! update on missile attacks — A mobile platform developed by two Israeli volunteers spreads the word on Israeli communities in danger- in real time
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google Adds Android Smartphone And Tablet Screen Mirroring To Chromecast — Google has released a feature for Chromecast announced at Google I/O this year - Android device screen mirroring. The update today brings the much-desired feature to all Chromecast-capable devices and makes Google Cast …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
PayPal Makes Good On Its Braintree Acquisition With Launch Of New Developer Tools, The Braintree v.zero SDK — Payments gateway Braintree is making its first significant product announcement since its acquisition by PayPal last year, with the launch of a jointly developed Braintree SDK (software development kit) for developers.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
White House pulls plug on controversial Patent Office nominee after tech sector backlash — The Obama Administration has changed its mind over a plan to name pharmaceutical executive Phil Johnson as head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, according to multiple sources.
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| Sam Colt / Business Insider: |
NYC's Taxi Commission says Lyft unauthorized in New York City, drivers may be fined — The NYC Taxi Commission Just Blew A Hole In $700 Million Car-Sharing Startup Lyft — Lyft's run in New York City may be startlingly short-lived. — The ride-sharing company known …
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New York Times, Forbes, myfoxny.com and Gothamist
| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Cloud now offering 2TB of free storage for a year to compete with Amazon and Microsoft — With Google Offer, Cloud Storage Gets Closer to Free — Google Wednesday fired another shot in the price wars for cloud-computing services, offering businesses more free storage in an effort …
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EU Begins Questioning Facebook Rivals Over WhatsApp Deal — Formal Review Could Be Test Case For Competition Law Application in Social Media — European Union antitrust officials have started questioning rival firms about Facebook Inc. 's proposed $19 billion acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp … | Guardian: |
DARPA finances research on social media platforms like Twitter, Pinterest, Kickstarter, others to understand how ideas spread and how to influence them — US military studied how to influence Twitter users in Darpa-funded research — The activities of users of Twitter and other social media services …
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| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Samsung is only firm buying subsidiary's mobile-display tech — Samsung Display's AMOLED technology is often found in parent company Samsung's products, but according to the CEO, Samsung's rivals aren't interested. — Samsung's Galaxy S5 — Andrew Hoyle/CNET| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google Glass creator: Glass not only answer to life after smartphones — Babak Parviz, a Google X director who led development of the product, talks about the beginnings of Glass, and where he hopes it will go. — SAN FRANCISCO — It seems like everyone's got an opinion on Google Glass …
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NSA and FBI covertly monitored emails of several Muslim-Americans, including a political candidate and civil rights activists — Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On — The National Security Agency and FBI have covertly monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-Americans …
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IC ON THE RECORD, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wired, RT, Computerworld, The Register, SiliconBeat, TechPresident, Techdirt, The Verge, Schneier on Security, The Verge, Tech Times, Engadget, The Daily Caller, CIO.com, Gawker, Salon, Washington Post, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Wired.co.uk, SecurityWeek, Free Press Blog, Gigaom, abc7.com, Daily Dot, Gizmodo UK, Mashable, Techvibes Global News, The Hill, The Intercept and Guardian
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Texas lawyer sues Tor for providing tools used by revenge porn site — Encryption service Tor has been caught up in a Texas revenge porn lawsuit. Yesterday, attorney Jason Lee Van Dyke linked to a lawsuit filing against Pink Meth, a nude photos site accessible only to users of the encryption software.
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The Register, Engadget, Techdirt, PandoDaily and Daily Dot
| Tricia Duryee / GeekWire: |
The honeymoon is over: Expedia and Groupon no longer co-branding travel deals — Groupon and Expedia are scaling back a 3-year-old partnership that focused on selling heavily discounted travel deals together. A Groupon spokesman confirmed today that the daily deals company and the online travel agency … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft readies three new Office 365 plans for small and mid-size businesses — Summary: Microsoft is introducing three new Office 365 plans for small and midsize business users this October. Here's what's coming. — One of the primary markets where Microsoft goes head-to-head with Google …
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| Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
Senator Asks FTC to Look Into Facebook Mood Experiment — Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to look into whether Facebook's experiment on the ability to manipulate emotions on Facebook using the data of 700,000 unwitting users may have violated … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
4.7-Inch iPhone 6 Rear Shell Shown in High-Quality Photos and Video — Over the past six weeks, we've seen a few photos and even a video of what has been claimed to be the actual rear shell of the 4.7-inch iPhone 6, showing a nearly all-metal design with separate bands presumably to accommodate the antennas at the top and bottom.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft brings video editing to Windows Phone 8.1 with Video Tuner — Windows Phone has always been missing good video editing tools, and Microsoft thinks it now has the answer. Available today, Video Tuner is the latest in a series of additional apps developed by the Nokia part of Microsoft.
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