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Sources: Google is interested in buying mobile payments company Softcard, price could be less than $100M — Google Is In Talks With Softcard, The Mobile Payments Company — Apple has Apple Pay, and now it looks like Google may be fattening up its own wallet.
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Ars Technica, 9to5Google, SlashGear, WMPoweruser, Android and Me, Android Central and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @mdudas
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UK cybercrime unit and FBI arrest 18-year-old man in UK for “swatting” offenses and DDoS attacks on Playstation Network and Xbox Live — Man arrested for ‘swatting’ and denial of service offences — SEROCU, has worked closely with the FBI on the operation which focused …
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Krebs on Security, The Next Web, Sky News, Engadget, Reuters, ABC News, VentureBeat, BBC, Polygon, BetaNews, Naked Security, Threatpost, Bloomberg, Gigaom, Electronista, ABC News, gameinformer.com, VG247, Business Insider, SecurityWeek, New York Times, TechSpot, TechnoBuffalo, Gawker, MCV: Home Stream, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, USA Today, Inquirer, VentureBreak and GamesIndustry.biz
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Republicans introduce net neutrality legislation which would strip rule-making power from the FCC, avoid a major reclassification of broadband service — Republicans want a net neutrality law, but only if it stops the FCC from handling it — A month before the FCC votes on a new net neutrality proposal … | Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
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Techdirt, PC World, TechCrunch, Consumerist, Electronista, BGR, DSLreports, Ars Technica, Nextgov and Gizmodo. Tweets: @karlbode. Thanks:@rogerwcheng
| Faryaab S. / SamMobile: |
Samsung to use Touch ID-like fingerprint sensor in Galaxy S6 instead of swipe-based sensor — Exclusive: Samsung opts for a touch-based fingerprint sensor for the Galaxy S6 — A smartphone is one of the most personal devices a human being can own, and it's one of those devices where compromising on security is not an option.| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo combines ad products into one unit, to be led by Prashant Fuloria, former executive at Google, Flurry, and Facebook — Yahoo Reorganizes Ad Product Team, Says Memo to Staff — Marissa Mayer is reorganizing management at Yahoo as part of her effort to jumpstart the company's stagnant advertising business.| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google joins PricewaterhouseCoopers in $2B bid to update US DoD's electronic-health-records system — Google Is Bidding for a Pentagon Contract Worth More Than $2 Billion — Google is using a new partnership with consulting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers and some of its $60 billion in cash …
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Computerworld, Politico, EHRintelligence.com, cloudpro.co.uk and Federal Computer Week. Tweets: @alistairmbarr
| Matthew Goldstein / New York Times: |
Hacker's List matches professional hackers with those needing their service for $100 - $5,000 — Need Some Espionage Done? Hackers Are for Hire Online — A man in Sweden says he will pay up to $2,000 to anyone who can break into his landlord's website.
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Slate, Business Insider, TechSpot, Network World, BGR, ZDNet, Gizmodo and The Loop
Tweets: @propublica and @mikeisaac
| Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
Sprint's Virgin Mobile launches new prepaid shared data plans at Walmart, with option for unlimited data in select apps for $5/month — Sprint dumps Virgin Mobile Custom brand, but keeps ItsOn technology and Walmart partnership — Sprint launches new shared data plans under Virgin Mobile banner
| Douglas Soltys / BetaKit: |
Founding partners of Teehan+Lax, the design firm behind Medium, join Facebook — Teehan+Lax shutting down as partners join Facebook — A new era begins for the Toronto design community as the founding partners of Teehan+Lax announced this morning they are shutting down the company to join Facebook.
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teehan+lax, Facebook Design, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Verge and MobileSyrup.com
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| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Facebook open sources deep learning tools; head of AI research pledges to “start building things in the open” — Facebook open sources tools for bigger, faster deep learning models — Facebook on Friday open sourced a handful of software libraries that it claims will help users build bigger … | BBC: |
UK and US to stage “cyber attack war games” involving commercial banks to test critical national infrastructure — ‘Cyber war games’ to be staged by UK and US — The UK and US are to carry out “war game” cyber attacks on each other as part of a new joint defence against online criminals.
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BBC, Slashdot, TechCrunch, PC World, BetaNews, Business Insider, Naked Security, Mashable, Guardian and The Next Web
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
As Xbox One leads December console sales in US, Microsoft drops price to $349 again — The Xbox One costs $349 again — Leading up to the holidays, Microsoft “temporarily” dropped the price of the Xbox One by $50 to $349 — a moved that proved successful, after the console managed to outsell the PS4 in November.| Will Brunelle / Capital New York: |
NY Gov. Cuomo proposes broadband expansion program offering up to $500M in public funds to ISPs willing to match the state's investment — Cuomo re-announces $500 million broadband initiative — ALBANY—Governor Andrew Cuomo formally announced his proposed $500 million broadband expansion plan Friday … Sponsor Posts
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