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Jeb Bush releases 4GB of emails from his 8 year tenure as Florida governor to demonstrate “transparency”, unwittingly exposing constituents' personal data — Jeb Bush dumps emails, home addresses, and social security numbers of Florida residents online| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Tim Cook talks about Apple Watch, international growth, commitment to privacy, and more in a wide-ranging Goldman Sachs interview — Apple CEO Tim Cook Speaking Live at 2015 Goldman Sachs Technology Conference — Apple CEO Tim Cook is speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology … | Shara Tibken / CNET: |
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Google adds fact-checked and reviewed health information to Knowledge Graph in search — A remedy for your health-related questions: health info in the Knowledge Graph — Think of the last time you searched on Google for health information. Maybe you heard a news story about gluten-free diets … | Mark Prigg / Daily Mail: |
Google-owned Boston Dynamics shows off Spot, its newest, electrically powered robo-dog — Here, Spot! Google reveals smaller version of its robo-dog that can walk, trot and climb up steps - even when KICKED — Google has already shown off several robo-dogs, including one which has even taken part in military trials.
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Search Whiz Udi Manber Leaves Google — Google veteran Udi Manber, a computer scientist best known for his work on search, has left the company to join the National Institutes of Health. — “I had a wonderful nine years at Google and YouTube, but I could not resist the amazing opportunities at NIH …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Security researcher publishes 10M unredacted usernames with passwords despite risk of FBI raid — Fearing an FBI raid, researcher publishes 10 million passwords/usernames — Move could advance password research—and test prosecutors' tolerance for leaks.
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Apple threatens to ban iPhone, iPad accessory makers that design based on leaks — Apple is working to step up the secrecy surrounding future iPhone and iPad models by targeting a frequent source of leaks: third-party accessory makers. 9to5Mac has learned that in fall 2014 … | Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
US forming Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center to collate intelligence against cyberattacks — New agency to sniff out threats in cyberspace — The Obama administration is establishing a new agency to combat the deepening threat from cyberattacks, and its mission … | Mathew Ingram / Gigaom: |
Flipboard launches on web, signs ad revenue sharing deals with publishers including National Geographic and Fast Company — Flipboard swims against the tide by launching a website — If there's one word that sums up where most media entities are focused for the future, it's “mobile” … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yelp Buys Delivery Network Eat24 For $134M To Ramp Up In Food Operations — Another acquisition for Yelp that will take the local listings company even deeper into commerce and food-related services. It's gobbling up Eat24, a U.S. food delivery business that competes with GrubHub …
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| Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese hackers reprogrammed Forbes “Thought of the Day” widget to attack readers' computers using zero day exploits in Flash and Internet Explorer — Forbes Website Used to Hack Readers — Users of Microsoft 's flagship Internet browser who visited Forbes.com … | Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Google I/O 2015 to be held May 28-29 at Moscone Center West in San Francisco, registration begins March 17 — Mark your calendars: Google I/O 2015 is happening May 28-29, 2015 at Moscone Center West — Google has today announced the dates for this year's Google I/O developers' conference … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Microsoft giving away 100GB of OneDrive storage if you join Bing Rewards — “Free” cloud storage offers can be gimmicky and require you to jump through a few too many hoops sometimes, but Microsoft's offering a pretty solid deal that doesn't call for much effort.| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Google confirms it put $900M into SpaceX's $1B round — Google's SpaceX deal cost it $900 million. — It's been three weeks since SpaceX confirmed its $1 billion funding round led by Google and Fidelity. At the time, SpaceX said, “Google and Fidelity will collectively own just under 10% of the company.”
Tweets: @jasonlk
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Newest Tool Lets Anyone Host Giveaways Online — Amazon announced a new self-service tool this morning that allows customers to host giveaways on its website. Anyone is eligible to run these sorts of promotions on the platform, though in Amazon's case, the feature will likely attract authors … | Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business: |
Hitachi acquires Pentaho for between $500M and $600M to bolster data-analysis software tools — Hitachi to Buy Pentaho to Bolster Data-Analysis Software Tools — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Hitachi Ltd.'s enterprise-technology unit plans to acquire data-management company Pentaho Corp …
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Dish's Sling TV to add AMC, which carries “Mad Men” and “The Walking Dead”, to $20 basic package — Don Draper and Zombies Come to Web TV: In a Surprising Move, Dish's Sling TV Adds AMC — Dish's Sling TV, the low-cost cable-TV-on-the-Web experiment …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Box's new Enterprise Key Management gives encryption keys to customers, thwarting third party requests for data — Box hands cloud encryption keys over to its customers — Key management system keeps data safer from intrusion—and government demands. — Box has been talking …
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Sony announces mid-range 5-inch Xperia E4 with quad-core 1.3 Ghz MediaTek CPU, 2 day battery life, expected later this year for around $150 — Sony's Xperia E4 is a Mid-Ranger with Two-Day Battery Life — Sony's first device launch of 2015 is here and no, it's no Xperia Z4.| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Jive Software Names Elisa Steele Permanent CEO — Elisa Steele, the former chief marketing officer of Skype, has been named CEO of Jive Software after holding the position on an interim basis for about three months, the company said today. — The move, which is not entirely a surprise …
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Apple closes with $711B market cap, becoming the first U.S. company to pass $700B at market close — Apple's $710 billion market cap sets new record — At the close of trading on Tuesday, shares of Apple rested at $122.02 a share. Not only did the closing price represent an all-time stock high … Sponsor Posts
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