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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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The Verge, Medium, PandoDaily, iMore and Washington Post
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Uber risks turning off investors, employees, and the public with its aggressive culture — Uber, a Start-Up Going So Fast It Could Miss a Turn — In just four years of operation, Uber has ignited a new global ride-sharing industry with the promise of transforming urban transportation … | Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag: |
Ten good questions Travis Kalanick failed to address in his tweetstorm apology — Uber CEO Posts 13-Tweet Apology Without Answering a Single Question — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick just responded to privacy and ethics concerns about Emil Michael, after the top executive publicly suggested paying $1 million …
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Guardian, The Awl, USA Today, PandoDaily, USA Today, Quartz, Computerworld, VatorNews, Engadget, ITworld.com, TechCrunch, Adweek, The Verge, The Hill and The Verge
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| Ross Miller / The Verge: |
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.
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The Next Web, Business Wire, OS X Daily, Ars Technica, Mashable, Tech Times, Business Insider, TUAW, TIME, The Mac Observer, Ubergizmo, iLounge, Cult of Mac, iMore, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacStories, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac and The Next Web. Tweets: @ohnorosco
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Seeds iOS 8.2 With WatchKit SDK for Apple Watch Apps to Developers — Apple today announced that its set of WatchKit development tools are now available for developers, allowing them to begin creating apps and software for the company's upcoming Apple Watch.
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Mercury News, ReadWrite, InvestorPlace, Daring Fireball, The Register, CNET, Macworld, MacNN, TUAW, AppleInsider, Re/code, ZDNet, SlashGear, Gdgt Arena, 9to5Mac and iMore. Tweets: @pschiller
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple WatchKit third-party apps require a connected iPhone to function, ‘fully native’ apps coming later in 2015 — Apple has just released a flood of information about how apps on Apple Watch work, through the WatchKit framework. There are three types of integrations currently possible …
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Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow, The Next Web, O'Grady's PowerPage and MacDailyNews
| Shirley Sun / Facebook: |
Facebook launches standalone Groups app for iOS and Android — Introducing the Facebook Groups App — People use Facebook Groups every day to stay in touch with family, collaborate on projects, plan trips and offer support to friends. — Today, we're introducing a new Facebook Groups app …
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Facebook Media, Wall Street Journal, TechOne3, VatorNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechnoBuffalo, AllFacebook, Computerworld, CNN, 9to5Mac, Pocketnow, SlashGear, MobileSyrup.com, Mark Zuckerberg, Tech Times, Fortune, Droid Life, Ubergizmo, TheStreet.com, ABC News, MacRumors, Re/code, VentureBeat, Electronista, WebProNews, Laughing Squid and Pocket-lint
| Yi Zhuang / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter search finally indexes all public tweets since 2006 — Building a complete Tweet index — Today, we are pleased to announce that Twitter now indexes every public Tweet since 2006. — Since that first simple Tweet over eight years ago, hundreds of billions of Tweets … | 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. Tweets: @nacdl, @mikescarcella, @hannifakhoury, @patrickctoomey, @dangillmor and @justin_fenton
| Bloomberg: |
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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SiliconBeat, The Register, BGR, Re/code, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, iClarified, TechnoBuffalo, iLounge, The Mac Observer and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @sudecker1
| 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 …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Gruber says next year's iPhone may include a two-lens, DSLR quality back camera — Apple May Introduce ‘Biggest Camera Jump Ever’ in Next-Generation iPhone — Apple may introduce its “biggest camera jump ever” in the next-generation iPhone, according to Daring Fireball's John Gruber (via The Tech Block).| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Indian phone manufacturer Micromax to put Cyanogen software on its upcoming low-cost devices — Cyanogen's next stop is India — The Android mod-maker inks a deal to come preinstalled on new Micromax phones — Cyanogen, the company that makes the popular Cyanogenmod Android Firmware …
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| Erin Kelly / USA Today: |
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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New York Times, Ars Technica, The Verge, GeekWire, The Hill, Reuters, Guardian, Bloomberg, Senator Wyden's Press Feed, NBC News, The Huffington Post and ZDNet
Tweets: @ronwyden, @govgaryjohnson and @levie
| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
PayPal unveils Pebble app for notifications, watch-only payments at stores accepting PayPal — PayPal challenges Apple Pay with an app for the Pebble smartwatch — PayPal's mobile payments app is now available for the Pebble smartwatch, the company announced in a blog post today.| Cliff Edwards / Netflix: |
Netflix to launch in Australia and New Zealand in March 2015 — World's Leading Internet Television Network to Offer Original Series, Movies, Documentaries, Stand-Up Comedy Specials and TV Shows for Low Monthly Price — Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX), the leading Internet movie and TV subscription service …
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TechCrunch, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, The Register, Lifehacker Australia, TechSpot, Gizmodo and Engadget. Tweets: @netflix
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google's mobile search results get ‘mobile-friendly’ label to show you which sites work best on your phone — Google today announced the debut of a new “mobile-friendly” label on its mobile search results page. The company says the change will be rolling out globally over the next few weeks, so don't fret if you don't see it yet.| Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek: |
Microsoft Fixes Critical Kerberos Flaw Under Attack With Out-of-Band Patch — Last week, Microsoft released 14 security bulletins as part of Patch Tuesday for November 2014. The updates contained four rated as critical, including a vulnerability that affects the Windows Secure Channel (SChannel) security package.
| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
Nokia N1 will be made and sold by Foxconn, will include Google Play in markets where Play is available — Non-Microsoft Nokia launches Android N1 tablet with Foxconn — Here's a shocker — Nokia, not to be confused with its former handset business that is now owned by Microsoft, has unveiled an Android tablet.
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Nokia, TechCrunch, BBC, The Verge, Reuters, PhoneRadar, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE and CNET
| James Trew / Engadget: |
Create your own smart home with littleBits' house-friendly kit — Ever since littleBits' snap-together circuits got the ability to speak to the internet, they were crying out to be used for home-automation. Today, littleBits itself is making that a dead cert, by launching a “Smart Home Kit.”
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