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December 31, 2014, 10:25 AM
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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 …
Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
Grocery delivery startup Instacart closing $220M round at a valuation of about $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 …
William Turton / The Daily Dot:
Hacker group Lizard Squad launches DDoS service with prices ranging from $6 to $500, says recent PSN and Xbox Live attacks were marketing scheme  —  Lizard Squad's Xbox Live, PSN attacks were a ‘marketing scheme’ for new DDoS service … A DDoS attack sends a huge amount of traffic to a server …
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” …
Anupam Saxena / Times of India:
India orders ISPs to block Github, Dailymotion, Pastebin, Vimeo, and 30 other websites  —  Pastebin, Dailymotion, Github blocked after DoT order: Report  —  NEW DELHI: A number of Indian users are reporting they're not able to access websites such as Pastebin, DailyMotion and Github …
Gerry Shih / Reuters:
Huawei's 2014 smarphone sales rise to $11.8B with 75M units, compared to 18.7M in 2013  —  China's Huawei 2014 smartphone sales rise by a third  —  (Reuters) - Huawei Technology Co Ltd's [HWT.UL] smartphone sales rose by almost a third to $11.8 billion in 2014, according to an internal memo seen …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Over 80 Percent of Dark-Web Visits Relate to Pedophilia, Study Finds  —  The mysterious corner of the Internet known as the Dark Web is designed to defy all attempts to identify its inhabitants.  But one group of researchers has attempted to shed new light on what those users are doing under the cover of anonymity.
Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
Competition among mobile phone carriers leads to constantly shifting plans, confused consumers  —  A Flurry of Varying Cellphone Offers Sows Confusion Among Consumers  —  SAN FRANCISCO — One wireless phone plan allows customers to upgrade to a new phone in less than two years.

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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
CNN and CBS are set to resume pool duties today; a note to TV pool subscribers stressed the networks could modify their plans

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The FT Group's unaudited global results show 2025 revenue up 5% YoY and operating profit up 23% to £51.8M; UK filings report 1.47M digital subscribers, up 9%

CNBC:
The White House readmitted journalists from MS NOW, CNN, and Politico on Thursday after a judge ordered the WH to explain why it didn't restore access

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Pew Internet:
Pew study: Email outranks social media in terms of importance for employed, online adults; 46% say the Internet makes them feel more productive
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Access To Gmail Partially Restored In China
Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune:
How Disney CEO Bob Iger uses technology to keep every division of his company relevant

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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
Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Washington Post hopes to generate more revenue by licensing its content management system to other news organizations
Jarah Euston / Flurry Insights:
51% of new devices activated during Christmas week were Apple, 18% were Samsung, 6% Nokia
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