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| Prem Ramaswami / The Official Google Blog: |
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 …
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| 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 …
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| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
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
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| 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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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
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 …
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| Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
JetBlue to accept Apple Pay on select flights to buy food, drinks, amenities, and upgrades — Apple Pay takes to the skies via JetBlue — NEW YORK — Apple Pay is poised to take off — quite literally. — Starting next week, passengers on select JetBlue Airways flights can use Apple Pay …
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| 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 … | Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Apple partners with First Solar to build a $850M 130 megawatt solar farm in CA, to produce enough power for new headquarters and all retail stores in the state — Apple will partner with First Solar on $850M California solar farm — Apple CEO Tim Cook says the solar farm will produce enough power …
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| Maya Kosoff / Business Insider: |
Twitter CFO Anthony Noto's account compromised, company deletes all spam tweets — Twitter CFO's account has been hacked — The Twitter account of Twitter CFO Anthony Noto has been hacked. — Noto's account appears to be tweeting spammy links at other users.
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| 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 … | 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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Xato, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Geek.com, Forbes, CIO.com, SecurityWeek and Yahoo Tech
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
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 …
| 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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The Box Blog, ZDNet, PandoDaily, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat and The Verge
| 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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Hitachi Data Systems Community, The Register, bizjournals, bizjournals, Forbes, Forbes and Marketwire. Thanks:@knieriemen
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
File hosting service RapidShare to shut down after March 31st — File-Sharing Icon RapidShare Shuts Down — Founded in 2002, Swiss-based RapidShare was one of the first and most popular one-click file-hosting services on the Internet. — Like most sites of this nature …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Takes Internet.org And Its Free Mobile Data Services To India — Facebook's Internet.org project to provide basic mobile internet services for free just took its biggest step to date after it launched in India. — The service, which is run by non-profit organization Internet.org … | 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” … | 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.”| 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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| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
RootMetrics: Verizon, T-Mobile lead in consistently fast 4G — Independent mobile network tester RootMetrics has completed its latest round of nationwide speed and reliability tests, and while the best overall performance award goes to Verizon, the speed prize that most tech geeks really care about was a bit of toss-up.
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PC World, CNET, MacRumors, Wall Street Journal, Mobile News Online, PC Magazine, TmoNews, The Register, BGR and GeekWire
| 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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| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Canon offers $2.8 billion for network video camera maker Axis — Canon, which has watched its financial performance slip in recent quarters, sees possibilities for growth in the corporate world, which Axis caters to. — Digital-camera maker Canon has offered 23.6 billion Swedish krona … Sponsor Posts
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