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Facebook to show AMBER alerts in News Feed to users in targeted search areas to help find missing children — Introducing AMBER Alerts on Facebook — Today, we are announcing a partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to send AMBER Alerts to the Facebook community to help find missing children.
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Uber offers cities anonymized trip data for smarter city planning, easing traffic congestion, starting with Boston — Uber Offers Trip Data to Cities, Starting With Boston — For the first time, Uber is giving government officials a look inside its rich trove of transportation data.
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British Prime Minister wants to ban encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp and iMessage if security agencies can't access them — British Prime Minister Suggests Banning Some Online Messaging Apps — LONDON — Popular messaging services like Snapchat and WhatsApp are in the cross hairs in Britain.
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App Annie Raises $55 Million Series D, Launches New Product For Tracking App Usage — App Annie, a company whose data on app downloads, rankings, app store trends and more has made it a go-to resource for anyone invested in today's app economy, today announced a new $55 million round of Series D funding.
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8chan domain “seized” over allegations of “child abuse” content — Happened shortly after users doxxed those who'd filed complaints to 8chan's host. — Last week, the imageboard site 8chan.co was brought offline for a sustained period of over five days due to a prolonged DDoS attack.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Maintains Mac Sales Momentum in Holiday Quarter — Apple saw an increase in its U.S. PC shipments during the recent holiday quarter, according to PC shipping estimates from Gartner. Apple shipped over 2.1 million Macs in 4Q14, up from 1.9 million Macs in 4Q13, marking an 11.5 percent increase.
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NoSQL Pioneer Basho Scores $25M To Attempt A Comeback — Basho was once a rising star in the NoSQL space, but over time other vendors began to move in, and it lost a step or two — then came a big turnover of key personnel last year. With the company ready to start anew …
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Neil Young's PonoPlayer promises high-res audio, but with no discernible sound improvement and massive file sizes, it's not worth the $400 price tag — Don't Buy What Neil Young Is Selling — Neil Young's “high resolution” PonoPlayer goes on sale for $400 today. You shouldn't buy it.| Heather Somerville / Mercury News: |
Venture funds raised $29.8B in 2014, a 69% increase over 2013 and highest amount since 2007 — Venture funds raise $29.8 billion as tech draws eager investors — Venture capital firms are the wealthiest they've been in seven years, as investors from all ends of the globe are eagerly writing …
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Huawei Revenue Increases 20% on Sales of Higher-End Smartphones — Huawei Technologies Co.'s revenue gained about 20 percent last year, aided by rising sales of higher-end smartphones. — Revenue increased to at least 287 billion yuan ($46.3 billion) from 239 billion yuan in 2013 …
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Teradata Buys App Marketing Platform Appoxee For $20-25M, Sets Up Israeli R&D Center — Teradata, the publicly-traded analytics company, has made another acquisition to beef up its operations in mobile: the company has acquired Appoxee, an Israeli push-messaging startup aimed at publishers …
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Majority of shuttle drivers for Apple, eBay, Yahoo, and Zynga want to join Teamsters union — More tech shuttle drivers want union — The move to unionize Silicon Valley shuttle bus drivers is spreading. — The Teamsters have contacted the CEOs of six Silicon Valley-area companies …
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Top AI experts sign open letter calling for research that maximizes its societal benefit — Artificial intelligence experts sign open letter to protect mankind from machines — The Future of Life Institute wants humanity to tread lightly while on the road to human-level artificial intelligence.
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