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Apple reaches record breaking $700 billion market cap as stock surge continues — Shares of Apple reached another major financial milestone on Tuesday, crossing the $700 billion market capitalization threshold just after trading began on Wall Street. — With shares of AAPL trading at an all-time high … | Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Uber removed blog post from data science team that examined link between prostitution and rides — Earlier today, Gina Neff, an associate professor of communication at the University of Washington and the School of Public Policy at Central European University in Budapest, noticed something missing from Uber's Data Blog.| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Yahoo and Microsoft fighting to boot Google search from iPhone when deal is up in 2015 — All Eyes on Apple as Google Search Deal Expires Next Year — Mozilla's decision last week to replace Google with Yahoo as the default search engine for the Firefox browser in the U.S. was a nice little score for Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.
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| Leon Spencer / ZDNet: |
Global online population hits 3 billion: ITU — Summary: There are now more than 3 billion people online globally, with two-thirds of all people with internet access now living in the developing world, according to new research by the United Nations agency charged with improving the world's access to IT infrastructure.
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EU digital chief Andrus Ansip urges Europe not to weaken net neutrality rules — Digital tsar urges Europe not to weaken net neutrality rules — (Reuters) - The European Union's new digital tsar voiced alarm on Monday at the efforts of some EU governments to water down equal Internet access … | Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter: |
Universal Picks Up Steve Jobs Movie — Danny Boyle is set to direct the feature, written by Aaron Sorkin — Less than a week after Sony Pictures put the high-profile Steve Jobs movie into turnaround, Universal Pictures has stepped up and adopted the project.
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| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Regin Cyberespionage Platform Also Spies on GSM Networks — Researchers have uncovered a complex espionage platform reminiscent of Duqu that has been used since at least 2008 not only to spy on and extract email and documents from government agencies, research institutions and banks … | The Intercept: |
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| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Amazon adds 10,500 Post Office parcel pick-up points across the UK — It's probably no surprise that this move comes just ahead of Christmas, but Amazon has today announced an extension of its local ‘PickUp’ locations to thousands of Post Office branches dotted around the UK.
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Microsoft sues IRS to get attorney agreement information on tax probe — Software company turns to court over unfulfilled Freedom of Information Act request — Microsoft filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Monday seeking information relating to the agency's probe into the software giant's tax records.
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BBC and GreatFire.org partner to deliver uncensored information into China — We are delighted to announce that GreatFire.org is now delivering uncensored, Chinese-language information from the BBC to Chinese netizens behind the great firewall. — The BBC's Chinese language news website was blocked in China shortly after its launch.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
T-Mobile forced to stop hiding slow speeds from throttled customers — When T-Mobile US customers exceed their monthly data caps, they aren't cut off from the Internet entirely. Instead, T-Mobile throttles their connections to 128Kbps or 64Kbps, depending on which plan they have, for the rest of the month.
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| Matthew Lynley / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, in apparent “DM fail”, expresses support for buying unnamed company — A Top Twitter Executive Just Had A Massive Direct Message Fail — It looks like Twitter's finance chief Anthony Noto thought he was messaging another Twitter executive about buying a company.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Former WSJ publisher L. Gordon Crovitz is either misinformed or is deliberately misleading in recent pro-surveillance essay — Ridiculously Misinformed Opinion Piece In WSJ Asks Apple And Google To Make Everyone Less Safe — Former Wall Street Journal publisher L. Gordon Crovitz still gets to publish opinion pieces in the WSJ.
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