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Satya Nadella's email to employees: Bold ambition and our core — Team, As we start FY15, I want to thank you for all of your contributions this past year. I'm proud of what we collectively achieved even as we drove significant changes in our business and organization.| New York Times: |
Chinese hackers accessed personal details of US federal employees, targeted applicants for top-secret security clearances — Chinese Hackers Pursue Key Data on U.S. Workers — WASHINGTON — Chinese hackers in March broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency …
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CNET, Gizmodo, Reuters, ABC News, Tech Times, NPR, Mashable, ZDNet, Guardian, Engadget and The Next Web
Tweets: @feardept, @realjameswoods, @nikcub and @csoghoian
| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
Google sets up European venture capital arm with initial $100 million fund and four general partners — The beans have been spilled, courtesy of the FT: Google is creating a $100 million fund to invest in European startups. — The Internet behemoth's newest VC arm will have five general partners …
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Tweets: @parislemon, @ediggs and @robinwauters
| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Aereo Lays Out New Survival Strategy in Letter to Judge — The company attempts to pay statutory license fees as a cable operator. The broadcasters respond that the new defense to copyright infringement is “astonishing.” — The Supreme Court has handed down its big decision on the legality of Aereo …
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See also Mediagazer| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
FreedomPop Brings Its Free Wireless Service To Europe, Sans Handsets — FreedomPop, the startup out of LA that has been going after U.S. carriers' wireless business with a “free” basic mobile offering, is now bringing a SIM-only version of its service to Europe and beyond.
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| 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 …
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USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Search Engine Land, TheDomains.com, eWeek, SlashGear and 9to5Google. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Forget “OK Glass,” MindRDR Is A Google Glass App You Control With Your Thoughts — Google Glass has made a name for itself (somewhat infamously) as head-mounted hardware that you can control with your voice and a sliding finger. Now, a team based out of interactive studio This Place in London …
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GitHub, BBC, 9to5Google, Telegraph, Engadget, Fox News, ITProPortal, Gearburn, Tnooz, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Android Central, Ubergizmo, GSMArena Blog and Wired.co.uk. Tweets: @sub8u. Thanks:@debrabenson
| Washington Post: |
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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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Ready for takeoff: Microsoft's iconic Flight Simulator revived, coming to Steam — Microsoft Flight Simulator is making a comeback — but Microsoft won't be doing any of the work to make it happen. Dovetail Games, makers of the Train Simulator franchise, has signed a global licensing deal …
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VentureBeat, WinBeta, GamePolitics blogs, Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Blue's News. Tweets: @geekwire. Thanks:@toddbishop
| 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 …
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Valleywag and Medium. Tweets: @karaswisher, @joshconstine, @samfbiddle, @rmward, @abrams and @ryanlawler. Thanks:@alex
| 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.| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
How The EU Censors Google & Search Engines Just Like China — When it comes to censorship, the European Union generally isn't one of the political entities that immediately comes to mind. But it should, especially since its new Right To Be Forgotten mandate has the political union acting …
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Bloomberg and Search Engine Land
| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Scytl snags another $20M to put secure elections on the Web — Scytl is trying to modernize elections by killing the ballot box and moving the voting process online. SAP Ventures, a European based firm, just handed the startup another $20 million to help the company expand.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Xperia Z1 Compact on sale in the US six months after announcement — Better late than never, but why aren't the carriers picking it up? — One of our favorite phones of this year, the Sony Xperia Z1 Compact, has finally gone on sale in the United States half a year after it was initially unveiled.
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TechCrunch, CNET, Xperia Blog, GadgeTell, SlashGear, Softpedia News, MobileBurn.com, Engadget, Neowin and Tech Times
| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Roku and Chromecast go head-to-head in streaming race, Apple TV falling behind — Roku and Chromecast were the two most successful streaming devices sold in the U.S. in 2013, according to new data from Parks Associates, which puts Apple TV on third place. — Google sold an estimated 3.8 …
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CNET, Broadband TV News, Electronista, MediaPost, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Streaming Media, Ubergizmo, iClarified, App Advice and Cult of Mac
| Myles Udland / Business Insider: |
Dubious “social networking” company with no revenue valued at $4B after 25,000% market rise — A ‘Social Networking’ Stock Has Exploded 25,000% In A Few Days, And It's Not Even Clear If The Company Exists — This is a chart showing trading in a company called CYNK Technology since June 17.
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Zero Hedge and New York Magazine
| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
PCs see surprising gain in US as global decline slows, but Apple slips — PCs are seeing surprising strength, especially in the US, according to IDC. Are some tablet models starting a slow fade? — HP EliteBook Folio 1040: HP gained, as business laptops are seeing strength. — Hewlett-Packard| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Google faces German Motorola phone patent ban — Motorola uses a laser-based technology to help minimise the size of its phones' antennas — Motorola faces the prospect of being forced to remove its handsets from sale in Germany and to recall phones already bought by business customers.
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LPKF Press Releases, Ubergizmo, Wireless Week, RTTNews, Geek.com, Reuters and TechnoBuffalo
| Matina Stevis / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Secures EU Trademark for Store Layouts — Court Ruling Extends Apple's Trademark beyond U.S. — BRUSSELS— Apple Inc. has a secured a court ruling allowing the company to register the layout of its retail stores in the European Union as a trade mark, an extension of its intellectual property …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Register, Engadget, iMore, Patently Apple, Cult of Mac, App Advice and Tech.eu
| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
UK fast-tracks communications data retention law in attempt to expand powers overseas — As reported a few days ago, the U.K. is set to introduce emergency legislation to respond to a recent ruling by Europe's top court, which struck down an EU-wide law forcing communications firms to hang …
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GOV.UK departments and policy, Guardian, iMore, The Next Web, ZDNet, The Register, TechCrunch, BBC, The Next Web, The Register, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Engadget and Guardian
Tweets: @sirajdatoo and @tomcheshiresky
| Patricia Laya / Bloomberg: |
Carlos Slim to break up telecom giant América Móvil in Mexico amid regulatory crackdown — Carlos Slim to Dismantle Mexican Empire — Billionaire Carlos Slim is bowing to imminent antitrust legislation by planning a breakup of America Movil SAB (AMXL)'s phone operations …
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Al Jazeera America, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, TheStreet.com, Gigaom and ValueWalk. Tweets: @counternotions
| 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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
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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InfoWorld, The Dropbox Blog, lotnet.com, Bloomberg, Techdirt, TechnoBuffalo, ITProPortal, The Register, ZDNet, Engadget, SlashGear, Ars Technica and 9to5Google
| 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 … | Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Judge denies Silk Road's demands to dismiss criminal prosecution — Silk Road suspect Ross Ulbricht, as seen in his Brooklyn prison, in a newly-released photo. — FreeRoss.org — In a scathing opinion and order on Wednesday, the federal judge presiding over the Silk Road case denied …
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