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Intel chips will replace Texas Instruments' in a new version of Google Glass coming next year — Google-Glass Deal Thrusts Intel Deeper Into Wearable Tech — Intel Corp. will supply the electronic brains for a new version of Google Inc. 's Glass device expected next year … | Variety: |
Sony's New Movies Leak Online Following Hack Attack — Brad Pitt's ‘Fury,’ ‘Annie’ among titles being downloaded — At least five new movies from Sony Pictures are being devoured on copyright-infringing file-sharing hubs online in the wake of the hack attack that hobbled the studio earlier in the week.
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See also Mediagazer| Marcus Wohlsen / Wired: |
Amazon Reveals the Robots at the Heart of Its Epic Cyber Monday Operation — Don't tell the kiddies, but Santa's workshop isn't at the North Pole. It's here in Tracy, California, next to a line of rusting, graffiti-covered freight cars, in a building so long that you can't see the whole …
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Vox Media raises $46.5M from NY investment firm General Atlantic at a $380M valuation — Yet Another Big Funding Round for a Big Web Publisher - This Time for Vox Media — Remember when investors didn't want to put money into content? — That was a long time ago!
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See also Mediagazer| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo is selling Flickr photos licensed for commercial use with Creative Commons but won't share profits with most creators — Fight Over Yahoo's Use of Flickr Photos — Yahoo Starts Selling Canvas Prints From Free Pictures Uploaded to the Internet Sharing Site
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Every Cyber Monday tech deal we've found — Skipping the Black Friday crowds doesn't mean you have to miss out on the best deals. Lots of hot tech products are going on sale on Cyber Monday. We're tracking them all here.
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| Chris Messina / Medium: |
Chris Messina, former UX designer for Google+: “Google+ is confused and adrift at sea” — Thoughts on Google+ — I f**ked up. So has Google. — It's been over a year since I left Google. Over 450 days, actually. During that time, I joined and left a startup; traveled to Paris (twice).
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| Noam Scheiber / The New Republic: |
Temp worker startup Wonolo brings the sharing economy and its ethics issues to big businesses — Wonolo, Temp Worker App, Shows Scary Future of Sharing Economy — The last few years have brought an explosion of startups, like Uber and TaskRabbit, that effectively act as middlemen.| Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung's top execs will stay in place for another year, leaving J.K. Shin in charge of mobile — Top Samsung Executives Remain in Roles Amid Management Changes — SEOUL—Samsung Group announced annual management changes at its business units on Monday but said top executives …
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BitTorrent to distribute its first original web series “Children of the Machine” next fall — BitTorrent Goes Legit With Its First Original Web Series — Peer-to-peer file sharing platform BitTorrent wants to change what the public thinks it does.
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ITProPortal, TweakTown News, RadioTimes and Guardian
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Guidelines Published By European Regulators — Europe's Article 29 Working Party, the body comprised of data protection representatives from individual Member States of the European Union, has now published guidelines on the implementation of the so-called 'right …
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