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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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| 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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| 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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| 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.
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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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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
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 … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple introduces 14-day no questions asked refunds for App Store & iTunes in EU countries — Apple has recently introduced a new 14-day no questions asked return policy for iTunes, App Store and iBooks purchases in Europe including the UK, Germany, Italy, France, and many other EU countries.
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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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Neowin, Polygon, VentureBeat, Joystiq, gameinformer.com, Business Insider, SlashGear, Windows Phone Central and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @boydmulterer, @monkbent, @fmanjoo and @ckindel
| 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 …
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| Christopher Williams / Telegraph: |
UK banks in talks to launch Apple Pay in 2015, execs concerned about data collection by Apple — UK banks in talks over Apple ‘wave and pay’ — Negotiations between the tech giant and at least one bank have proved tricky because of wrangling over the terms, including what data Apple will be able to access
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MacRumors, The Register, Mobile Marketing Watch, SiliconANGLE, Associated Press, TechSpot, AppleInsider, iMore, TUAW, AppleTell, 9to5Mac, BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, InvestorPlace, Neowin, App Advice, TechnoBuffalo, Pocket-lint, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, ReadWrite, Patently Apple, Electronista, iPhone Hacks, O'Grady's PowerPage and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @dgwbirch and @liarpoliticians
| Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
Scaled Inference raises $13.6M at a valuation of about $60M from Khosla Ventures and others, to offer machine learning software as a cloud service — Scaled Inference Raises $13.6 Million to Build Out Machine Learning — Artificial intelligence and machine learning are back in vogue.
Tweets: @felicisventures
| Re/code: |
New King of Tech Startups: Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Raises $1.1 Billion at $45 Billion Valuation — Xiaomi has said it has closed a massive $1.1 billion round of funding that values the fast-growing Chinese phone maker at a jaw-dropping $45 billion, pre-money.
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Tweets: @ajs and @jonrussell
| Julia Angwin / Backchannel: |
Book excerpt from Dragnet Nation: a quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance — Who Is Watching You? — Companies and institutions track us almost indiscriminately. Is this the world we want to live in? … But today the anxious question …
Tweets: @youranonnews
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