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Meet Executive Order 12333: The Reagan rule that lets the NSA spy on Americans — In March I received a call from the White House counsel's office regarding a speech I had prepared for my boss at the State Department. The speech was about the impact that the disclosure …
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| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Businesses in History — Five billion dollars. — That's how much Amazon.com (AMZN) will rake in from its cloud computing business this year, according to a new estimate from Pacific Crest Securities. If true, it's an incredible figure.| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Google and Samsung's relationship continues to worsen, this time over wearables — According to a new report out of The Information, the already tense relationship between Samsung and Google has begun to worsen thanks to both of their own lines of wearables.| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Sites like Travelocity pass full plaintext credit card numbers and IP addresses to DHS, which retains them for years — Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card numbers — FOIA request turns up 9 years of records, including plaintext credit card numbers.
Tweets: @mikedoherty_ca, @mikedoherty_ca, @jwilkins and @ashk4n
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat Files Trademarks To Handle Payments — Snappay? Snapchat may try to monetize by processing peer-to-peer payments, money transfers, or online payments, according to two trademarks it filed earlier this week. Owned by Snapchat and filed on July 11th by an attorney at Cooley …
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How warped incentives for Comcast's “retention specialists” lead to a vexing cancellation call — Here's why your Comcast rep is yelling at you — Warped employee incentives and an absence of competition make bad customer service inevitable — In 2006, a man named Vincent …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
With 1M Sold In The Last Quarter, Google's Chromebooks Are A Hit With Schools — During its earnings call this week, Google announced that it — and its partners — sold a million Chromebooks to schools in the last quarter. Overall PC sales worldwide were about 76 million in the last quarter … | Evelyn Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
GitHub incident shows how rising startups often lack the HR support to deal with office imbroglios — Incident Shows How Rising Startups Are Often Ill-Equipped to Deal With Complex, Inter-Office Dynamics — One anonymous post turned the world of GitHub, a San Francisco-based software startup, inside out.
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Starbucks will let customers place pickup orders via mobile app in one test market this year — Starbucks Has Bigger Plans in Mobile Payments Than Most People Realize — A decade after the idea was first sketched on the proverbial drawing board, Starbucks is poised to finally let its customers order their coffees from their phones.| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Uber Is Being Audited By Rudy Giuliani's Team About Its Driver Background Check Process — On-demand car service and logistics company Uber has retained former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani to conduct an audit on its driver background check process. — Recently, some of Uber's drivers have stirred … | Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
How some universities have attracted more women to computer science: mentoring, high school programs, and revamped introductory courses — Women in Tech: Some Universities Crack Code in Drawing Women to Computer Science — One of the reasons so few women work in tech is that few choose to study computer science or engineering.
Tweets: @christinelu, @johnmaeda and @scott_kerr
| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Nearly 200 managers at Samsung's mobile division voluntarily return $3M in bonuses as firm profits decline — Samsung handset division managers return part of bonuses: source — (Reuters) - Nearly 200 managers at Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's mobile division have voluntarily returned …
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