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Media companies turn to communication apps and services instead of websites for distribution — The Next Internet Is TV — I was talking to someone who works on one of those half-dozen or so apps that we tend to associate with teenagers: the ones that were built around some novel concept …
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| Christopher Solomon / Popular Mechanics: |
Profile of Alex Holden, who tracked down the Russian hackers who stole over 1.2B credentials — Meet The Man Who Finds Your Stolen Passwords — Last summer a gang of Russian hackers was caught amassing the largest cache of stolen user names and passwords ever discovered—1.2 billion in all.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires Odysee, An App For Private Photo/Video Backup And Sharing, Team Joins Google+ — Google may be adding more offline and private sharing features to its Google+ Photos service soon. It has acquired Odysee, an iOS and Android app that let users automatically back up photos … | Daniela Velázquez / Fast Company: |
In Kansas City, Google Fiber penetrates wealthier neighborhoods, but digital divide remains — Lessons From Google's First Rollout Of Google Fiber — Three summers ago, it was everywhere: An old-fashioned ice cream truck with peppy, electronic music blaring from its speakers.| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
How Fab went bust: e-commerce firm once worth $900M to sell for as little as $15M this month — THE TECH ‘TITANIC’: How red-hot startup Fab raised $330 million and then went bust — On Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, Fab CEO Jason Goldberg gathered a dozen executives in the eighth-floor conference room …
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Inside Zulily, the flash sale e-commerce company for young mothers that's about to hit $1B in annual revenue — The Billion-Dollar E-commerce Company You Know Nothing About — Zulily has defied the conventional wisdom—marketing to moms, sticking with flash sales, evading Amazon.| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Interview with Amit Singh about Google for Work's progress and plans for the future — We talked to the head of Google's next multibillion-dollar business. Here's what he told us — Five years ago next month, Google got serious about creating a new revenue stream for itself beyond search ads … | Arielle Duhaime-Ross / The Verge: |
MIT researchers study successful startups to map entrepreneurial quality in the Bay Area — An analysis of San Francisco's startups shows where the ‘real’ Silicon Valley is — Mapping entrepreneurial quality in California — There's a new map of entrepreneurial hotspots in California …
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| Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
Drone maker DJI expands use of geofences as DHS warns that hobbyist drones can be used as weapons — Why the US Government Is Terrified of Hobbyist Drones — If you want to understand why the government freaked out when a $400 remote-controlled quadcopter landed on the White House grounds last week …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Verge, CoinTelegraph.Com News, Ink, Bits, & Pixels and Engadget
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
The first Tizen smartphone isn't an “Android killer”—it's a bad Android clone — Review: Samsung's Android alternative arrives, but it's no match for the real thing. — This is the Samsung Z1—the world's first Tizen phone. After one of the bumpiest pre-launch situations in recent memory …
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PhoneDog.com, Ars Technica, Fast Company, GSMArena.com, BGR, AndroidHeadlines.com, CNET, Android Authority, Wall Street Journal and SamMobile. Tweets: @lee_ars
| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
Microsoft now has over 100 active apps on iOS and Android, excluding Skype and Yammer apps, as it expands its presence on multiple platforms — Don't look now, but Microsoft has more than 100 iOS and Android apps — As Microsoft works on revamping its underperforming Windows Phone platform …
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| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
Patent reform hits Congress again with reintroduced Innovation Act — New act, same as old act, but this time will it make it through the Senate? — Today, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) introduced a new version of the patent-reforming Innovation Act to the House of Representatives.Sponsor Posts
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