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Sources: Samsung to drop Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 and use its own chip in next Galaxy smartphone — Samsung Said to Drop Qualcomm Chip From Next Galaxy Smartphone — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) will use its own microprocessors in the next version of the Galaxy S smartphone …
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Apple acquires UK startup Semetric, which runs music analytics service Musicmetric — Apple buys the British startup behind music analytics service Musicmetric — Company helps record labels track digital sales, streams and social stats, and could become part of Beats Music relaunch
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Dropbox acquires Israel-based CloudOn, a developer of mobile productivity tools — Dropbox Dips Into Israel With CloudOn Buy — Acquisitive tech startup Dropbox just gobbled up another young app maker to bolster its European expansion. — The cloud-storage provider on Tuesday closed … | Cooper Quintin / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites — The Associated Press reports that healthcare.gov-the flagship site of the Affordable Care Act, where millions of Americans have signed up to receive health care-is quietly sending personal health information to a number of third party websites.
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FreedomPop launches unlimited WiFi with 10M hotspots across US for $5/month — FreedomPop Turns On Unlimited Wi-Fi Across The US For $5/Month — FreedomPop, the startup that is trying to steal users away from mobile carriers by offering free, basic cellular voice and data plans … | Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Users of 3rd-party WhatsApp clients reportedly being banned from the service for 24 hours — WhatsApp is one of the most-used messaging apps in existence, and today countless users of the service have taken to Google+ and Twitter to report that they're being banned from the service for 24 hours.| Bloomberg: |
Apple Steps Up Lobbying in Washington to Counter Government Scrutiny — Tim Cook recently traveled to an unfamiliar destination for an Apple Inc. (AAPL) chief executive officer: The U.S. Capitol. — During the trip last month, Cook posed for a photo with Senator Orrin Hatch … | Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Every Khan Academy course is now available on the iPad for the first time — Over 150,000 training exercises have been added — Two technology trends are inescapable: people want to do everything online, and they want to do those things on a mobile device.
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| Alan Yuhas / Guardian: |
White House breaks own State of the Union embargo for online audience — Obama administration posts full text of president's speech before its own media embargo in unprecedented decision targeting internet-savvy readers — The White House posted the entire text of President Obama's 2015 State … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Plex Arrives On PS4 And PS3 In The U.S And Canada Today — Plex is coming to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 today. The personal media hub software originally came to Sony's consoles back in mid-December of 2014, with a U.S. launch promised for a later date.
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Shazam raises $30M at a valuation of over $1B, has over 100M monthly active mobile users — Shazam Music App Valued at More Than $1 Billion in New Funding — Shazam Entertainment Ltd. raised $30 million in a new financing that values the music-finding application at more than $1 billion.
| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Startup L. Jackson Speaks Out About Diversity, Cool Products, And All The People He's Not — Anonymous Twitter persona Startup L. Jackson has captured a large following in the tech community due to his biting commentary on Silicon Valley culture and regular startup advice.
Tweets: @jonrussell, @ryanlawler, @4strngz, @davemcclure and @semil
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Vessel Signs More YouTube Stars to Subscription Service, Launches Limited Beta Test — Vessel, the digital subscription-video startup founded by ex-Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, has signed more than a dozen YouTube stars and other partners to its service as it opens up the service in an invitation-only beta test.| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
Google, Apple, Microsoft, Khan Academy, and others sign pledge to protect K-12 student privacy — Google, Khan Academy join in student privacy pledge — Google has signed on to a pledge promising not to sell ads on its products designed for schools. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Alleged “right hand man” to Silk Road 2.0 leader arrested in Seattle — On Tuesday a Washington state man was arrested by federal authorities in Seattle's Bellevue suburb for allegedly helping to run Silk Road 2., the anonymous online marketplace for illicit goods that sprang …
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Netflix Q4 earnings beat estimates with $1.48B in revenue and $0.75 EPS; now has 39.11M US subscribers and 18.28M more globally — Netflix Says Its Subscribers Love the Shows It Makes — So It's Going to Make a Lot More — A quick look at Netflix's Q4 numbers: $1.48 billion and earnings … Sponsor Posts
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