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Google will build Android Auto software directly into cars with Android M, no smartphone needed — Exclusive: Google aiming to go straight into car with next Android - sources — (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOGL.O) is laying the groundwork for a version of Android that would be built directly into cars …
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| Kent Walker / Google Public Policy Blog: |
Google concerned by reports that MPAA is secretly working with studios to resurrect SOPA — The MPAA's Attempt to Revive SOPA Through A State Attorney General — We are deeply concerned about recent reports that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) led a secret … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Samsung to shut down its ChatOn messaging service Feb. 1, 2015 in all markets except U.S. — Samsung's ChatOn service will shut down next year (update) — After denying reports that its ChatOn service was close to being disbanded on a region-by-region basis, Samsung has announced in Korea that it's going away.| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Amazon's smartphone strategy could threaten its retail dominance as local delivery services, retail startups bring innovation to consumers — Amazon Not as Unstoppable as It Might Appear — Thanks to its ugly spat with book publishers, Amazon has lately been cast as the abominable boogeyman of American commerce.| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber Strikes Deal With Portland to Suspend Service for Three Months — Uber reached an agreement with Portland to suspend operations in the city for three months while regulators work to revise rules around taxis that currently prohibit ridesharing apps. — The city agreed to let Uber …
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| Junio C Hamano / Gmane: |
Vulnerability in Git, Mercurial allows for arbitrary code execution on OSX, Windows; affects Visual Studio, Github client app, among others — Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.2.1 (and updates to older maintenance tracks) — Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel, gmane.comp.version-control.git
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Bots Now Outnumber Humans on the Web — Diogo Mónica once wrote a short computer script that gave him a secret weapon in the war for San Francisco dinner reservations. — This was early 2013. The script would periodically scan the popular online reservation service, OpenTable … | Richard Bilton / BBC: |
BBC investigation finds Apple repeatedly not meeting its supply chain standards on workers' hours, ID cards, dormitories, work meetings and juvenile workers — Apple ‘failing to protect Chinese factory workers’ — The undercover reporter filmed workers falling asleep on 12-hour shifts
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Few Winners In Anonymous Social Networking, And Secret's Not One Of Them — Is anonymous social networking a flash-in-the-pan trend? A winner-take-all category? Which of the anonymous social networking apps around today are still thriving, and which are practically dead?
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Longtime Internet Explorer leader Dean Hachamovitch is leaving Microsoft — Dean Hachamovitch is leaving Microsoft. And yes, of course, there is an IE shirt associated with this milestone, too. The longtime Internet Explorer leader, who led the efforts to modernize and revitalize Microsoft's web browser … | Marc Rogers / Marc's Security Ramblings: |
Why the Sony hack is unlikely to be the work of North Korea. — Everyone seems to be eager to pin the blame for the Sony hack on North Korea. However, I think it's unlikely. Here's why:1. The broken English looks deliberately bad and doesn't exhibit any of the classic comprehension mistakes …
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| Bloomberg: |
China is Planning to Purge Foreign Technology and Replace With Homegrown Suppliers — China is aiming to purge most foreign technology from banks, the military, state-owned enterprises and key government agencies by 2020, stepping up efforts to shift to Chinese suppliers, according to people familiar with the effort.
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| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Instagram purges spambots; popular accounts lose millions of followers, with the company losing the most at 18.9M — Millions of Fake Instagram Users Disappear in Purge — Social media services like Facebook and Twitter are always battling against spam or fake accounts that hijack hashtags …
| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Critical vulnerabilities in SS7 telephony protocol found; tested techniques can decrypt cell phone calls and texts — German researchers discover a flaw that could let anyone listen to your cell calls. — German researchers have discovered security flaws that could let hackers … | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
GameAnalytics Scores $5.5M Series A, Hires Ex-Aol European MD As CEO — GameAnalytics, a free analytics platform for games developers, has leveled-up its funding. The Copenhagen-headquartered startup, which also has a sales office in London and a development hub in Berlin, has closed a $5.5 million Series A round.
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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Google launching open source Cloud Dataflow SDK for Java — Summary:Cloud Dataflow fills a major puzzle piece in Google's rapidly evolving and growing cloud stack as the Internet giant continues to challenge Amazon Web Services. — Google is looking to woo cloud developers once again …
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| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google Launches “Store Visits” Metric In AdWords, To Help Prove Online-To-Offline Impact — It's been well known that Google has been working on a solution to tie clicks on search ads back to in-store traffic and sales as part of Estimated Total Conversions in AdWords.
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Inside AdWords, ScreenwerkScreenwerk, Search Engine Watch, Marketing Land and WebProNews
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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