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Uber investigating its New York general manager, Josh Mohrer, for tracking BuzzFeed journalist's location without her consent — “God View:” Uber Investigates Its Top New York Executive For Privacy Violations — In the wake of a BuzzFeed News story, the transit company is looking …
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Tweets: @aplusk, @dannysullivan, @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffjarvis and @mattdpearce
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Uber investor Ashton Kutcher defends digging into “shady” journalists' private lives — Ashton Kutcher Defends Uber Against ‘Shady Journalist’ — Ashton Kutcher Lenovo's newest ‘product engineer’ — One day after Uber's SVP of business suggested his company spend millions …
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Beats Music to Be Bundled Into iOS Early Next Year, Will Remain Paid Subscription Service — As part of Apple's revamp of its recently acquired Beats Music streaming service, the company plans to bundle Beats directly into iOS, reports Financial Times.
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9to5Mac, Engadget, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, The Verge, AppleInsider, Business Insider, BGR, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog and iMore
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Apple Watch will feature info-rich “Long Look” notifications if wearer keeps wrist raised, and static, non-interactive maps — 11 things we just learned about how the Apple Watch works — As of today, developers can now make apps for Apple Watch.| Tim Higgins / Bloomberg: |
Apple still committed to bringing jobs to Mesa, Arizona, plans to repurpose the sapphire plant — Apple Sticking With Arizona Plan After Supplier Falters — Apple Inc. (AAPL) has told officials in Mesa, Arizona, that it's committed to bringing jobs and manufacturing to the area …
| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Android Lollipop's Trusted Places removes need to unlock device in select geographical areas — Google Play Services Update Adds Trusted Places Feature To Lollipop's Smart Lock — Smart Lock in Lollipop encompasses both trusted face and trusted devices, but a new option is joining the party—trusted places.
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9to5Google, Gizmodo, APKMirror, BGR, PC World, The Verge, Droid Life, Electronista, Gizmodo, Computerworld, Liliputing and Android Beat
| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Kik Messenger Takes $38 Million in Funding, Buys GIF Startup Relay — Messaging app Kik has raised $38.3 million in new funding and acquired Relay, a messaging network focused on sending and receiving GIFs. — The round was led by Valiant Capital Partners, and included new investors Millennium Technology … | Dennis Fisher / Threatpost: |
Google Removes SSLv3 Fallback Support From Chrome — Google has released Chrome 39, fixing 42 security vulnerabilities and removing support for the fallback to SSLv3, the component that was the target of the POODLE attack revealed last month. — When the POODLE attack was disclosed … | Justin Fenton / Baltimore Sun: |
Prosecutors withdraw key evidence in robbery case to avoid revealing how police used phone tracking technology — Judge threatens detective with contempt for declining to reveal cellphone tracking methods — Baltimore prosecutors withdrew key evidence in a robbery case Monday rather …
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Ars Technica, PandoDaily and Blog of Rights
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Amazon's $39 Fire TV Stick starts shipping today, but new orders won't arrive before January 15 — As expected, Amazon today started shipping its $39 Fire TV Stick to fill preorders. Yet if you preordered the streaming device in the last few days or want to order it now, don't expect to see it before January 15, 2015.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's iPhone 6 Plus & iPad Air 2 lose out to Samsung & Surface in detailed color accuracy analysis — Following its detailed reports on displays used in the new iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3, today DisplayMate published a scientific analysis of color accuracy for the six best mobile displays it's tested this year.
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DisplayMate, Android Police, BetaNews, PC World, Wired, CNET, The Inquisitr News, O'Grady's PowerPage and Gizmodo
| Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg: |
Toronto Asks Court to Shut Down Uber's Operations — Toronto is asking a court to order the mobile car-booking service Uber Technologies Inc. to shut down in North America's fourth-largest city. — Uber has been operating in Toronto since 2012 without a proper license …
| Amy Gesenhues / Search Engine Land: |
Google News Displaying “Suggested For You” Stories Customized To Match Your Interests — Google News founder Krishna Bharat used his Google+ account to announce a new “Suggested for you” feature in Google News. — According to his post, Google News will now include a “Suggested for you” …
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| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
Big numbers for Prezi: 50 million users, 160 million presentations created and $57m in fresh funding — It's a big day for Prezi, the Hungarian-American company behind the nifty cloud-based presentation platform with the same name. — At the Slush conference in Helsinki, Finland …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Jolla Crowdfunds $380K+ To Build An iPad Alternative — Update: Well that was very fast indeed. Jolla's Indiegogo campaign to build an open source iPad alternative — taking its Sailfish OS onto the tablet form factor — has passed its initial funding target of $380,000 with around 2,450 backers putting in cash.
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The Verge, eWeek, The Next Web, Engadget, Reuters, Electronista, Technology Personalized, BetaNews, ZDNet, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, CNET and Ubergizmo. Thanks:@riptari
| Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
Microsoft Intros Docker Command Line Interface for Windows — Microsoft launched a command line interface for Docker that runs on Windows. Until now, users could only manage Docker containers using a Linux machine or a virtualized Docker environment on a Windows machine.| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Samsung launches video aggregation app Milk Video, only works on Galaxy devices — Samsung's new Milk Video app is all about taking on YouTube — Samsung took the next step in its quest to revamp its media services Wednesday with the launch of Milk Video11, a mobile video aggregation app … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
RelativeWave acquired by Google, makes its mobile app prototyping software free for Mac — RelativeWave, the company behind the mobile app prototyping software Form, today announced it's joining Google. The company made an announcement on its website noting that it will continue working …
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RelativeWave, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac and The Next Web
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Viber messaging app launches Public Chats to let you follow live conversations of celebrities — Messaging App Viber Takes A Step Into Social Networking With New Public Chats Feature — A lot of messaging apps have been highlighting how their services are a great way for people …
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The Drum, NDTV Gadgets, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, New York Times, Wired and Mashable
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Senate effectively kills USA Freedom Act, a bill that proposed an end to NSA phone metadata collection — NSA spying bill stalls in Senate vote — WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday failed to get the 60 votes needed to advance a bill that would stop the National Security Agency …
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Ars Technica, New York Times, Guardian, The Hill, The Intercept, GeekWire, Bloomberg and Reuters. Tweets: @ronwyden
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's New Bookmarking Interface, Formerly Called “Stars,” Goes Live In Chrome Beta — Last month, Google quietly launched its new bookmarking service previously called Stars on the Chrome Web store as a free download. Today, the company says it's integrating the feature into the Google Chrome browser.
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The Next Web, VentureBeat, Google Chrome Blog and 9to5Google
| Joab Jackson / PC World: |
Facebook's Flow could help JavaScript programmers spot elusive bugs — Easing what has traditionally been a difficult programming task, Facebook has released as open source a debugging tool for JavaScript, called Flow, designed to highlight problems caused by the misuse of data types.
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Facebook Code, InfoQ and AllFacebook
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
BitTorrent plans mobile app for sending large files, unveils Sync 2.0 with $40/year pro tier — BitTorrent unveils Sync 2.0 and three new paid products coming in 2015, including Pro version for $39.99/year — BitTorrent today outlined the company's plans for its file synchronization tool Sync.
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The Official BitTorrent Blog, TechCrunch, PC World, CNET, Gigaom and The Next Web
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Restaurant Discovery Service Zomato Raises Further $60M — Zomato, the restaurant search and discovery service, has closed a further $60 million in funding, giving the company a post-money valuation of $660 million. Investment comes from India's Vy Capital, and existing backers Info Edge, and Sequoia Capital.
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MediaNama, The Economic Times, Quartz, The Indian Express, VCCircle, The Hindu, Firstbiz and Trakin' the india …. Tweets: @jonrussell. Thanks:@sohear
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Bigcommerce Gets $50 Million to Set Up Online Shops for Small Businesses Worldwide — Bigcommerce, a software service that helps small and mid-sized businesses set up online shops, has taken on a new $50 million investment, led by SoftBank Capital, as it pursues its goal of becoming the dominant …
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Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, VentureBeat and PE Hub Blog
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Apple told to pay $23.6M for infringing pager technology patents from the 1990s — Apple Told to Pay $23.6 Million Over Pager Technology — Apple Inc. (AAPL) was told to pay a Texas company $23.6 million after a jury found its iPhone and other devices used pager technology from the 1990s without permission.
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