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Staples investigating credit card breach at its retail stores after multiple banks report fraud — Banks: Credit Card Breach at Staples Stores — Multiple banks say they have identified a pattern of credit and debit card fraud suggesting that several Staples Inc. office supply locations …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Lumia to replace Nokia brand, starting in France, global rollout in the coming weeks — Microsoft Lumia will replace the Nokia brand — Microsoft started dropping hints about its plans to kill off the Nokia and Windows Phone brands last month, and now the company is ready to make it official.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Beats In Q3 With Revenue Of $1.09B, EPS Of $0.52 — With all eyes on what Yahoo will do with its $5 billion+ in Alibaba cash, Yahoo today reported its Q3 earnings after the close of trading, with sales of $1.09 billion excluding traffic acquisition costs and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.52.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires Firebase To Help Developers Build Better Real-Time Apps — Google today announced that it has acquired Firebase, a backend service that helps developers build realtime apps for iOS, Android and the web that can store and sync data instantly.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with a Notification Center — Microsoft released its first Windows 10 Technical Preview just three weeks ago and the software maker is now ready to issue a fresh update. If you're already testing Windows 10 then a new preview build (9860) … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google beefs up 2-step verification with physical USB Security Key option in Chrome — Google today announced it is beefing up its two-step verification feature with Security Key, a physical USB second factor that only works after verifying the login site is truly a Google website.| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Former Microsoft exec Bob Muglia raises $26M for Snowflake, a data warehousing startup — Bob Muglia is floating in the clouds, or should we say on some snowflakes. The longtime Microsoft veteran — who left the company in 2011 after 23 years, including a stint as the president …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Banks racing to become your first card in Apple Pay as most users will use the default card — New Gold Rush: why banks are racing to be the first card in your Apple Pay — Beyond the home screen, beyond the lock screen, the battle for the pre-screen — Over the weekend I was hit …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
HP to announce Sprout, a computing device combining a large display, touch surface, 3D scanner, and overhead projector — HP Will Unveil New Computing Product Called Sprout Next Week — When Hewlett-Packard announced it would split in two — one company devoted to PCs and printing …
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Sexist French Uber Promotion Pairs Riders With “Hot Chick” Drivers — “Who said women don't know how to drive?” the Uber blog post asks. The post was deleted after an inquiry from BuzzFeed News. — Yesterday, Uber's Lyon office unveiled a new promotion with an app called “Avions de Chasse.”
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
New Social Network Tsu — Which Pays Users Who Post — Raises $7 Million — New social network Tsu believes it can get you excited about seeing advertisements. (Seriously!) — That's because Tsu, which launched on Tuesday with a $7 million investment led by Sancus Capital …
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| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Apple clarifies Spotlight Search data and location sharing, says information shared is minimal — Yosemite, iOS 8, Spotlight, and Privacy: What you need to know — A story made the rounds earlier today calling into question the new Spotlight Suggestions feature in OS X Yosemite and iOS 8.| Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft Values CEO Satya Nadella's Pay at $84 Million — Call Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the $84 million man. — Microsoft said it awarded the new CEO compensation valued at more than $84 million for the fiscal year ended June 30. — The majority of the money, $59.2 million … | John Ribeiro / PC World: |
NSA approves Samsung Knox devices for government use — Samsung Electronics' Galaxy devices have been approved by the U.S. National Security Agency under a program of the agency to quickly deploy commercially available technologies. — The Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google Play Music adds Songza's contextual playlists for All Access subscribers, Material Design UI — Google brings Songza's best feature to Play Music — But only All Access subscribers get to use it — After purchasing Songza for an undisclosed sum earlier this year … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Magic Leap Secures $542M Led By Google For “Lightweight Wearable” Tech That Merges Physical And Digital Worlds — It's rare that a company can stay relatively secretive while raising a huge amount of funding, but Florida's Magic Leap has managed that. The startup, led by CEO Rony Abovitz …
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Wall Street Journal, PR Newswire, Re/code, The Register, The Verge, SEO by the Sea, Forbes, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, ABC News, Gigaom, New York Magazine, WebProNews, GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, tech.co, bizjournals, TIME and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @collision
| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Scammers hack business phone networks to rack up billions in fraudulent charges, vexing carriers and lawmakers — Phone Hackers Dial and Redial to Steal Billions — SAN FRANCISCO — Bob Foreman's architecture firm ran up a $166,000 phone bill in a single weekend last March.
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| Marcus Wohlsen / Wired: |
Nielsen partners with Adobe to rate all online content, from videos and podcasts to articles — Nielsen Will Soon Rate Everything on the Web, From Videos to Articles — The Nielsen ratings have long held huge sway over the business of television, but television isn't like it used to be.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Aware of iCloud Login Harvesting in China, Launches Browser Security Guide — Earlier this week, web censorship blog Great Fire suggested that hackers aligned with Chinese authorities were using man-in-the-middle attacks in order to harvest Apple ID information from Chinese users that visited Apple's iCloud.com website.| iFixit: |
Mac Mini 2014 teardown: CPU and RAM soldered to logic board, impeding user repairs or upgrades — Mac Mini Late 2014 Teardown — This guide has been found to be exceptionally cool by the iFixit staff. — It's been two years since the Mac Mini's last appearance on iFixit's teardown table … Sponsor Posts
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