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Retina iMacs with OS X Yosemite in late testing within Apple, could launch soon — A new line of iMacs with ultra high-resolution Retina Displays is in late testing stages within Apple, according to our sources who have used the future desktop computer. While the machine will sport … | Matthew Prince / CloudFlare: |
CloudFlare launches Universal SSL for free, doubling the number of encrypted websites to 4M — Introducing Universal SSL — The team at CloudFlare is excited to announce the release of Universal SSL™. Beginning today, we will support SSL connections to every CloudFlare customer …
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Apple developing iOS 8.1, 8.2, & 8.3 in shift for 2015 launches — Starting with iOS 5 in 2011, Apple has released a major new iOS version each fall and a notable follow-up update early in the following year. For example, iOS 6 launched in September 2012 and was updated to iOS 6.1 in January …
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Gray market for iPhones in China dries up, driving iPhone 6 price down from $1960 to $1060 — Glum Sign for Apple in China: Smuggled iPhones Go Begging — HONG KONG — When Apple's latest iPhones went on sale this month in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York, among the hip urbanites … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Facebook Will Use Facebook Data to Sell Ads on Sites That Aren't Facebook — Investors and analysts spent years clamoring for Facebook to start up an ad network, and earlier this year it obliged them. — And now Facebook is rolling out another one. — Caveat — this isn't an ad network in a formal sense.
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European Commission seeking retroactive tax windfall from Apple Inc subsidiary in Ireland — The European Commission is expected to release a report this week alleging that Ireland provided illegal “state aid” to Apple when it set tax rates for the company in 1991 and 2007 …
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| Keiko Morris / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft to open flagship store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan sometime in 2015 — Microsoft to Open Fifth Avenue Store — Flagship Store to Take Over Fendi Space — Microsoft Corp.'s first Manhattan flagship store is coming to Fifth Avenue. — The software company confirmed … | FireEye Blog: |
FireEye observes significant amount of malicious traffic leveraging Shellshock bug in Bash, suspects this is a dry run before a potentially larger-scale attack — Shellshock in the Wild — Michael Lin, James Bennett and David Bianco — The exploitation of the BASH bug, now widely referred to as “Shellshock”, is in full swing.
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| Lora Kolodny / Wall Street Journal: |
San Francisco-based personal finance service Credit Karma raises $75M at a valuation over $1B — Credit Karma Tops $1 Billion Valuation For Personal-Finance Tools — Hoping to do for personal finance what Expedia and other sites did for travel, Credit Karma Inc. has raised $75 million …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Jawbone's trackerless Up app syncs with Apple Health, other fitness services — As it promised mere weeks ago, Jawbone has launched a new version of Up for iOS that syncs data from numerous health services and doesn't require its own tracker. Confusingly, the Jawbone app which does require …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
In Threshold, Microsoft will introduce new methods for building, testing, and updating Windows — Why Microsoft's engineering changes will be the real Windows 9 (Threshold) story — Summary: Microsoft is building, testing and updating Windows in a very different way, starting with Windows Threshold.| Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
Shyp Launches In New York City, And Miami Is Next — On-demand shipping startup Shyp is now officially expanding beyond San Francisco, launching its service in New York City after just a few weeks in private beta. In addition, the company is today announcing that its service will land in Miami … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Adobe's Creative Cloud apps coming to Chromebooks, starting with an in-browser, beta version of Photoshop for US-based educational customers — Adobe brings Creative Cloud to Chromebooks starting w/ ‘Project Photoshop Streaming’ beta — Google announced a new partnership with Adobe today … | Laura Lorenzetti / Fortune: |
Instagram founder Kevin Systrom joins Wal-Mart's board — Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom will join Wal-Mart's board of directors as its 15th member, effective Monday. — He won't be the lone tech executive either: Systrom joins Yahoo YHOO CEO Marissa Mayer as a board member of the world's largest retailer.
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Tango's new Labs initiative launches Tango Music Pix, its first stand-alone app that lets you create photo and song slideshows — Tango Music Pix Returns To The App Store For Its Official Launch — Earlier this year, we noticed that Tango had released a new app to the App Store called “Tango Music Pix.”
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| Josh Horwitz / Tech in Asia: |
Mobile messaging app FireChat flares up in Hong Kong amid Occupy Central protests — Last night marked a historic moment in Hong Kong as peaceful demonstrators fell subject to police aggression. Under the banner of Occupy Central, tens of thousands of locals (organizers say 60,000 …
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| Sonja Cheung / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Capital Makes First China Investment, Backs InnoLight … Google Capital, a growth-stage vehicle backed by U.S. Internet giant Google Inc., has made its first investment in China. — The firm, along with Chinese venture firm Lightspeed China Partners, co-led a Series C round totaling $38 million …
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| Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
HP Starts Shipping 64-bit ARM Servers — Nearly three years after HP first introduced project Moonshot and showed a prototype Redstone platform, a server based on an ARM Server-on-Chip by now-bankrupt Calxeda, the company announced on Monday general availability of two models of ARM servers in its Moonshot line.Sponsor Posts
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