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Sony Threatens to Sue Twitter Unless It Removes Tweets Containing Hacked Emails — Sony's battle on people disseminating its hacked and leaked emails has extended from news outlets to random Twitter users to, now, Twitter itself. Sony's lawyer has threatened Twitter with legal action …
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The Verge, Business Insider, The Next Web, Techdirt and Reuters
Tweets: @kashhill, @sarahjeong, @motherboard, @max_fisher, @quinnnorton and @marciahofmann
See also Mediagazer| Max Fisher / Vox: |
North Korea's internet appears to be under mass cyber attack — Internet connectivity between North Korea and the outside world, though never robust to begin with, is currently suffering one of its worst outages in recent memory, suggesting that the country may be enduring a mass cyber attack …
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New York Times, North Korea Tech, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Engadget, The Verge, USA Today, Washington Post, CNET, Business Insider, ABC News, Mashable, ValueWalk, PC Magazine, Vocativ, UPROXX, Gawker, Computerworld, Bloomberg, The Atlantic Online and Lawfare
Tweets: @samuelaadams, @steven_strauss, @davenielsen, @justicar, @jeffersonobama and @smartypants60
| Fortune: |
I work at Sony Pictures. This is what it was like after we got hacked. — An employee* in the Los Angeles office of Sony Pictures Entertainment SNE opened up to Fortune about the personal ordeal they went through following revelations of North Korea's alleged cyber attack on the company.
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BGR, Business Insider, Wired.co.uk and Guardian
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google completes first fully-functional prototype self-driving car of the design it unveiled in May — Google announces its self-driving car is now fully functional — Google today announced it has completed the first build of its self-driving vehicle prototype.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple expands its social presence with new iTunes Tumblr blog — In an interesting move, Apple has today launched a Tumblr blog for iTunes. The ‘blog’ runs a highly customized theme that more closely reflects Apple's own website than a typical Tumblr page.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Adds Song Lyrics To Top Of Search Results, Points Searchers To Google Play — Google is now displaying music lyrics at the top of its search results pages when you search for “song name” plus “lyrics” on Google - a move that may reduce the number of visits to music lyrics sites … | Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
After Google suit, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood backs off Google investigation pushed by MPAA — Mississippi AG backs off Google investigation pushed by MPAA — It appears that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is making a strategic retreat in the wake of publicity about his investigation of Google.
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New York Times, TechCrunch, The Hill, The Verge and GamePolitics blogs
| Steven Sinofsky / Re/code: |
Steven Sinofsky predicts tablet resurgence, big enterprise challenges in 2015; sees 4K, beacons, payments, and more as technologies to watch — Forecast: Workplace Trends, Choices and Technologies for 2015 — What's in store for 2015 when it comes to technology advances in the workplace?
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Line's COO Becomes Its New CEO As The Messaging Company Targets Global Growth — Fresh from launching its payment service and buying MixRadio from Microsoft, Japan-based messaging app Line has announced a change at the top with current COO Takeshi Idezawa taking over from Akira Morikawa as CEO.| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Twitter closes up 3.6% after analyst on CNBC's Halftime Report says “there's a good chance” Dick Costolo will be out as CEO within a year — ANALYST: 'There's A Good Chance' Dick Costolo Is No Longer At Twitter In A Year — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo's seat is warming up.
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CNBC, Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Benzinga, StreetInsider.com, Seeking Alpha, Investor's Business Daily and USA Today
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @sdkstl, @ericjackson and @libbybrittain
| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Comcast-TWC merger delayed, FCC says 7,000 docs wrongly held back — Comcast's plans to swallow its largest rival Time Warner Cable has suffered another setback as the FCC announced Monday it would once again halt its “shot clock,” which is the 180-day time period during which the agency seeks …
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Re/code, The Register, DSLreports, Bloomberg, Hollywood Reporter and The Hill. See also Mediagazer
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Touchscreen HP Chromebook 14 G3 Goes on Sale in US for $440 — Santa's Chromebook workshop may have run out of cogs and wires for the high sought after Toshiba Chromebook 2, but it hasn't been idle: a new touchscreen version of the third-generation HP Chromebook 14 is now available to buy in the US.Sponsor Posts
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