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Google's robotics lead and Android founder Andy Rubin leaving the company to start an incubator for hardware startups, will be replaced by James Kuffner — Former Android Leader Andy Rubin Leaving Google — Rubin Is Starting an Incubator for Startups Interested in Building Technology-Hardware Products
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Slack raised $120M at $1.12B valuation in a round led by Kleiner and Google Ventures, all previous backers participated too — One-Year-Old Business Software Maker Slack Valued at $1.12 Billion — Workplace collaboration tool Slack didn't exist two years ago.
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| Elisabeth Hulette / Virginian-Pilot: |
Circuit court rules criminal defendant may be forced to unlock phone with his fingerprint, but not his passcode — Police can require cellphone fingerprint, not pass code — A Circuit Court judge has ruled that a criminal defendant can be compelled to give up his fingerprint …
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| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Samsung Galaxy A5 and A3: Sleek, slim, fully metal (hands-on) — Side by side on a table, the two nearly identical rectangular handsets look innocuous enough and extremely familiar. Yet two things quietly make the Samsung Galaxy A3 and A5 stand out: their all-aluminum material and their unibody construction.| ProPublica: |
Twitter's MoPub is using the UIDH “perma-cookies” inserted by Verizon into web pages — Somebody's Already Using Verizon's ID to Track Users — Twitter's mobile advertising arm enables its clients to use a hidden, undeletable tracking number created by Verizon to track user behavior on smartphones and tablets.| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
Amazon exec: We priced the Fire phone wrong — When it introduced the Fire smartphone in July, Amazon bet sales would be something worth bragging about. But three months in, it's obvious the Fire phone is more dud than runaway success. — Last week, Amazon CTO Tom Szkutak disclosed …
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Hungary internet tax cancelled after mass protests — Hungary has decided to shelve a proposed tax on internet data traffic after mass protests against the plan. — “This tax in its current form cannot be introduced,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.| Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web: |
Facebook is now available on Tor for more secure browsing — After enabling secure HTTPS browsing by default for all users in August last year, Facebook has taken another step to allow for secure browsing, and has made their social network available via the Tor network for users who want to maintain …
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| Dave McNary / Variety: |
Seth Rogen Set as Steve Wozniak in Steve Jobs Biopic — Seth Rogen has been set to star as Steve Wozniak opposite Christian Bale in Sony's Steve Jobs biopic. — Variety reported on Oct. 15 that Bale was in talks to star in “Jobs,” Sony's biopic about the late Apple co-founder.| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter demotes Daniel Graf, elevates Kevin Weil to lead consumer product group — Twitter Demotes Product Chief Daniel Graf — Kevin Weil Becomes Fifth Product Head in As Many Years — Twitter Inc. has demoted its new head of product, Daniel Graf, just six months after his much-touted hire away from Google Inc.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC nears reclassifying ISPs as common carriers on back-end, while still allowing fast lanes — FCC reportedly close to reclassifying ISPs as common carriers — FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler speaking to the cable industry in April 2014. — NCTA — The head of the Federal Communications Commission …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
IBM teams up with Tencent to offer business software cloud services to companies in China — IBM teams with Chinese ISP Tencent to advance cloud portfolio — Summary: The companies will work together to build Software-as-a-Service offerings that tap into mobile, cloud and big data for use in internal processes and operations.
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Sony reports strong Q3 PS4 sales of 3.3M units, cuts annual smartphone sales forecast to 41M, after lowering them to 43M from 50M in Q2 — Leaner Sony gains smartphone lift despite its own mobile malaise — (Reuters) - Sony Corp (6758.T) posted a smaller than expected second-quarter operating loss …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches redesigned Outlook for Mac, announces new Office for Mac coming next year — Microsoft today launched a new version of Outlook for Mac, available to Office 365 customers. At the same time, the company announced its plans to release a new Office for Mac version next year.
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Spain passes LPI law allowing publishers to charge aggregators that link to news stories; effective January 2015 — Spain Passes Much-Debated Intellectual Property Law — Critics complain of an unenforceable Google tax and missed opportunity for clear anti-piracy law| John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
Mobile Internet investment hits record $19.2B — up 232% in last 12 months — Mobile Internet companies raked in a total of $19.2 billion in new investment over the last year, more than double the previous period, according to investment advisory firm Digi-Capital. — The big winner?| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Thank you, Tim Cook — Why we're not “moving on” from the Apple CEO's big statement today — In a way, what Tim Cook said today felt inevitable. At least since 2008, when Owen Thomas asked the question in Gawker, a steady accretion of reporting has suggested Apple's chief executive is gay.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple No Longer Rejecting Calculator Widgets From The App Store — The maker of a popular iOS app and widget, PCalc, which took advantage of iOS 8's support for Notification Center Widgets, was recently told by Apple that his handy app would be pulled from the App Store due to the fact that …
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| Aldrin Calimlim / App Advice: |
Any.do adds premium plan with unlimited file attachments sizes for $5/month or $45/year — Popular to-do app Any.do goes 2.0 with new collaboration and note-taking features — Nearly two years and five months after its launch on iOS, the popular to-do app Any.do has just been updated to version 2.0.Sponsor Posts
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