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FBI warns US businesses of possible cyberattacks in wake of Sony Pictures breach — Exclusive: FBI warns of ‘destructive’ malware in wake of Sony attack — (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned U.S. businesses that hackers have used malicious software …
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A look at North Korea's cyberwar army, as more reports point to it as culprit in Sony hack — Here's What We Know About North Korea's Cyberwar Army — It is still not definitively known if the hacking attack that brought the computer network belonging to Sony Pictures to its knees was carried out on behalf of North Korea or not.
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Microsoft Buys Mobile Email Startup Acompli For More than $200 Million — Microsoft is expected to announce later Monday morning that it is indeed buying e-mail start-up Acompli. — There may not be much surprise in this one thanks to an errant blog post, but Microsoft's purchase …
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Airbnb acquires Pencil Labs, creators of scheduling app Wyth — Airbnb picks up Pencil, Cambridge startup that built scheduling app — Airbnb has quietly acquired a small Cambridge startup, Pencil Labs. Pencil Labs had built a scheduling app called Wyth that was intended to eliminate …
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AOL Adds More Video Help by Buying Content Syndicator Vidible for Around $50 Million — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has spent a lot of time building out his video business. Now he is buying Vidible, a startup that's supposed to make it easier for publishers to get their video on other people's websites.
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Dropbox For Business Is About To Launch An Enterprise Tools API To Fight Box — Dropbox's frilly consumer brand and lack of hardcore enterprise security features has kept its “For Business” software from scoring more corporate clients. But an internal-only Dropbox launch plan attained … | Trevor Cole / Globe and Mail: |
Profile of Tobi Lütke, CEO of software maker Shopify, which powers over 120K online stores — Meet our CEO of the Year — Tobi Lütke wears his pink hard hat with pride. “I like it,” he says. “I'm the only person with a pink hard hat in the entire house.” — By “house” he means “building.”| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Uber hires Goldman Sachs to raise money from bank's high-net-worth clients in a convertible debt offering separate from the reported $1B raise — Exclusive: Uber hires Goldman Sachs to raise money from bank clients — On-demand ride company Uber has hired Goldman Sachs GS to raise money … | David Carnoy / CNET: |
Amazon Echo speaker review: uneven sound quality, voice control a mere novelty, no iOS integration — Amazon Echo talks the talk, but still needs a little work on walking the walk — The Good The Amazon Echo is an attractively designed speaker and its voice-control system … | Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News: |
Cypress Semiconductor buys Spansion in $4B Silicon Valley chip deal — Cypress Semiconductors and Spansion, two of the largest chip companies in Silicon Valley, announced Monday that they will merge in a $4 billion deal. The newly formed company will retain the Cypress name and San Jose headquarters … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Obama announces $75M funding for up to 50K police body cameras — Obama announces funding for 50,000 police body cameras — In an announcement today, the White House has pledged $263 million in new federal funding for police training and body cameras, enough to purchase as many as 50,000 cameras …
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Apple going to trial this week for decade old iTunes DRM lawsuit, faces potential $350M in damages — Star Witness in Apple Suit Is Steve Jobs — SAN FRANCISCO — Three years after his death, Steve Jobs is very much a presence in courtrooms across the country. — And that's not necessarily good news for Apple.| Ted Livingston / Medium: |
Kik founder: young consumers who haven't settled on banking, shopping and gaming services are key to building a WeChat-like platform in developed markets — The Race to Become the WeChat of the West — I remember pitching Kik to investors in 2009. It was the most frustrating experience.| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Google sold more Chromebooks to US schools than Apple did iPads in Q3 — According to the latest data from IDC, Google, for the first time ever, has overtaken Apple in United States schools. The research firm claims that Google shipped 715,000 Chromebooks to schools in the third quarter, while Apple shipped 702,000 iPads to schools.
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Mozilla rolls out Firefox 34 with default Yahoo search for North America, disables support for SSL 3.0 standard — Firefox's latest update makes Yahoo the default search option — That was fast. It was just two weeks ago that Mozilla announced a deal making Yahoo the default search engine in Firefox … | Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
Hortonworks IPO: 6M shares at $12-$14, valued at approx $600M, less than $1B reported earlier, hopes to raise $96.6M; will debut on Nasdaq under symbol HDP — Hortonworks lowers IPO target a bit, hopes to raise up to $96.6M — Big Data software provider Hortonworks on Monday set price targets … Sponsor Posts
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