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51% of new devices activated during Christmas week were Apple, 18% were Samsung, 6% Nokia — Apple and Apps Dominated Christmas 2014 — Millions of people woke up and unwrapped a shiny new device under the Christmas tree. As we have done in years past, Flurry examined these new device activations …
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Grocery delivery startup Instacart scores $220M investment at a valuation of around $2B — Grocery Delivery Startup Instacart Scores $220 Million Investment — Instacart, the grocery delivery startup, disclosed in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it had closed a monster $210 million investment …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Sources: Microsoft is building a new, lightweight browser codenamed Spartan for Windows 10 — Microsoft is building a new browser as part of its Windows 10 push — Summary:Microsoft is planning to roll out a new browser when it debuts Windows 10, according to sources. But IE isn't going completely away.
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Samsung launches Milk VR to deliver virtual reality videos to Gear VR — Milk VR will provide the videos for free as Samsung hopes to goose interest in virtual reality. — Samsung wants to jump-start the virtual-reality movement. — The Korean electronics conglomerate on Tuesday launched Milk VR … | Bloomberg: |
FBI investigating whether US financial institutions enlisted hackers to disable Iranian servers used to attack bank websites — FBI Investigating Whether Companies Are Engaged in Revenge Hacking — The hacked are itching to hack back. — So say a dozen security specialists …
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| Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune: |
How Disney CEO Bob Iger uses technology to keep every division of his company relevant — Disney CEO Bob Iger's empire of tech — Even in a dress-down gray sweater, Bob Iger looks a bit mechanical. His mouth is almost geometrically straight, his face constructed of some cool alloy.| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Promoted Twitter accounts appear in some users' Following lists, making it seem like the users actually follow those accounts — Twitter Ads Make It Seem Like People Follow Brands, Even If They Don't — Visa follows MasterCard? So it seemed. Twitter's expansion of ads into “Following” …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Chaos Computer Club claims it can reproduce fingerprints from people's public photos — Chaos Computer Club, Europe's largest association of hackers, claims it can reproduce your fingerprints from a couple of photos that show your fingers. At the 31st annual Chaos Computer Club convention in Hamburg …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
As Microsoft scales back original vision of the Xbox One as a general-purpose living room platform, key team members keep leaving the company — Almost every single Xbox executive we profiled in this video last year has left the company — Boyd Multerer — the genius Microsoft engineer …
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Used Car Site Beepi Lands $12 Million From Yuri Milner and AngelList's Largest Ever Investment — Online used car marketplace Beepi has landed a $12.7 million investment from two notable angel investors and more than 80 investors on the crowd-funding platform AngelList …
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Washington Post hopes to generate more revenue by licensing its content management system to other news organizations — Here's A New, Inventive Way Jeff Bezos Plans To Make Money From The Washington Post — When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Access To Gmail Partially Restored In China — Gmail access is partially restored in China, according to some reports as well as Google's own real-time traffic charts. The bump in traffic follows a multi-day outage that began just after Christmas, which saw Gmail users blocked from using … Sponsor Posts
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