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Apple and IBM launch first wave of ten IBM MobileFirst iOS apps for enterprises — Apple and IBM Deliver First Wave of IBM MobileFirst for iOS Apps — Big Data Analytics and Security Capabilities Arrive on iPhone & iPad — Apple® and IBM today deliver the first wave of IBM MobileFirst …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram surpasses Twitter with 300M monthly users, plans to launch verified badges soon — Instagram Hits 300 Million Monthly Users To Surpass Twitter, Keeps It Real With Verified Badges — It's no fad. Just nine months after hitting 200 million users, Instagram now says 300 million people use …
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| Facebook: |
Facebook bringing Trending Topics to mobile, organizes topic stories in sections for news coverage, posts from people nearby, and more — Updates to Trending — People gather on Facebook to talk about what's happening in the world. In January, we introduced Trending to help people discover timely … | Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
HBO launching web-only service in April 2015, will outsource streaming tech to MLB Advanced Media — Exclusive: HBO to outsource streaming technology in blow to ‘backstabbing’ CTO — In a major strategic shift, HBO will license the technology underpinning the standalone streaming service it plans to offer in 2015.| Jere Suikkila / HERE Three Sixty: |
Nokia's HERE maps app now available for free on Google Play; iOS version coming in early 2015 — HERE for Android now available for free on Google Play — More than a million of you have already taken HERE for Android beta for a spin, with the most active downloaders coming from Germany and the USA.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Hangouts For Android Gets Smarter, Adds Video Filters And More — Google's Hangouts app for Android is getting a major update today, as the company's VP of Product for Google+ Bradley Horowitz announced at the LeWeb conference in Paris this morning. Some of these new features … | Cade Metz / Wired: |
Inside Facebook's one-year-old Artificial Intelligence Research lab, led by Yann LeCun — Facebook Envisions A.I. That Keeps You From Uploading Embarrassing Pics — Let's say you're out drinking with your buddies, things get out of hand, you pull out your smartphone …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Uber's Background Checks for Drivers Come Under Scrutiny — Uber champions its “industry-leading standards” for vetting its drivers. On its website, it describes its background checks as “often more rigorous” than those in the traditional taxi industry. — But in statehouses across the country … | Jeremy C. Owens / SiliconValley News: |
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Europe's right to be forgotten rule is dangerous for history and free speech — Web founder: Europe's ‘right to be forgotten’ rule is dangerous — Tim Berners-Lee believes thinks scrubbing false information off the Web is fine, but the truth should be preserved for reasons of free speech and history.
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| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
LastPass follows Dashlane in letting you change loads of your passwords at once — Just a few hours after Dashlane incorporated automatic password changing, popular password manager LastPass can now do the same. — Now when you use the password manager, you'll see an option to change … | Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
A privacy policy for cars: What automakers know about you (and what they're doing with it) — The General Motors OnStar command center is shown in Detroit in this 2006 file photo. (Photo/Carlos Osorio, file) — If you use a road service like OnStar, you know that your car can track …
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Yammer Founder David Sacks Joins Cloud HR Startup Zenefits As COO — David Sacks is back up in the startup game. The founder of Yammer, who sold his company to Microsoft for $1.2 billion about two-and-a-half years ago, has decided he's had enough time off and is joining fast-growing cloud HR startup Zenefits as its new COO.
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| Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
Blackphone launching world's first privacy-focused app store — Firm says new software store will allow users to increase Blackphone's functionality while protecting data and communications — Privacy-first smartphone company Blackphone is launching its own app store for users concerned about privacy and security.| Mathew Ingram / Gigaom: |
The New York Times open-sources its Hive crowdsourcing platform — A couple of months ago, the New York Times rolled out an interesting project called Madison, in which the newspaper asked readers to help the paper identify old print ads by going to a website and answering questions …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Glassdoor: Google dethrones Twitter as the best tech company to work for in the U.S., also tops new U.K. list — Career website Glassdoor today released its seventh annual Employees' Choice Awards, a list of the 50 best companies to work for in the coming year.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google introduces support for Watch Faces on Android Wear with developer APIs and a new Play Store section offering dozens of designs at launch — Android Wear Gets Official Third-Party Watchface Support — Google is making good on a promise it made previously to the Android Wear community today … | Adam Pasick / Quartz: |
Alibaba's Alipay payments affiliate to let users authenticate accounts with iPhone Touch ID — Alibaba inches closer to an Apple Pay deal, one fingerprint at a time — Alibaba and Apple, whose bosses expressed an interest in marrying their respective mobile e-payments platforms last month, have moved from flirting to dating.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Unencrypted Data Lets Thieves ‘Charge Anywhere’ — Charge Anywhere LLC, a mobile payments provider, today disclosed that malicious software planted on its networks may have jeopardized credit card data from transactions the company handled between November 2009 and September 2014.
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| Jason Pontin / MIT Technology Review: |
Interview with Shanley Kane, whose Model View Culture publication offers a feminist critique of Silicon Valley — Shanley Kane of Model View Culture Challenges a “Corrupt” Silicon Valley — Shanley Kane challenges the assumptions and practices of the tech industry.
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BREITBART.COM and Re/code. Tweets: @jason_pontin, @ljenkins314, @roidrage, @davemcclure, @glennf, @anildash, @pmarca, @lauralockesf, @andrewthesmart, @caseyjohnston, @arkmashton, @glennf, @techreview, @grimmelm, @jason_pontin, @ginatrapani and @nero
| Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo: |
Shazam Now Has a Built-In Music Player Powered by Spotify and Rdio — Today the Shazam apps for iOS and Android are getting a big update that could completely change how you use the sound ID service. Don't worry, you'll still be able to Shazam songs on the fly as before, but now … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Amazon now lets developers publish HTML5 web apps for its Fire TV and Fire TV Stick — Amazon today added full support for publishing HTML5 web apps to its Fire TV and Fire TV Stick devices. The feature is available as part of the company's existing HTML5 web app publishing toolset …
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TechCrunch, Amazon Developer Services, GitHub and The Next Web
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Confirmed: Bose speakers returning to Apple Stores after removal earlier this year — It looks like Apple will indeed be cashing in on Bose speakers and headphones sales in time for the remainder of the holiday shopping season. Yesterday rumors surfaced that Apple was readying its retail stores … | Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek: |
‘Destover’ Malware Signed by Stolen Sony Certificate — A figital certificate stolen from Sony Pictures under the recent high-profile cyber attack has been used to sign malware, according to a report from Kaspersky Lab. — Ironically, the malware sample found digitally signed … Sponsor Posts
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