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Apple enables two-step authentication for iMessages and FaceTime — Additional login step brings extra layer of protection against hackers for Apple's messaging and video chat, but more can be can be done say experts — Apple is finally enabling two-step authentication to help protect users …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Pinterest and Apple launch App Pins to let you discover and download apps without leaving Pinterest; Apple launches curated App Store board — Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterest — There are more than 1.4 million mobile applications in Apple's App Store.
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Thanks:@jamiefavazza| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Pinterest Is Working on a Plan to Introduce a ‘Buy’ Button as Soon as This Year — Move over, Pinning. Here comes buying. — Pinterest, the digital scrapbooking service, is laying the groundwork for an e-commerce offering with a “Buy” button that could launch in as little as three to six months, according to multiple sources.
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook lets users set a legacy contact, who will be able to manage their accounts in a limited way when they pass away — Facebook Heir? Time to Choose Who Manages Your Account When You Die — The social network now lets you designate a ‘legacy contact’ for your digital afterlife
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| Chris Strohm / Bloomberg Business: |
Zuckerberg, Page, and Mayer decline invitations to attend Obama's cybersecurity summit at Stanford, a possible sign of ongoing tensions over NSA — Three of Tech's Top CEOs to Skip Obama Cybersecurity Summit — (Bloomberg) — The top executives of Google Inc., Yahoo! … | Dennis Schaal / Skift: |
Expedia buying Orbitz for $1.6B at $12 per share, will acquire all of Orbitz's brands — Expedia Buying Orbitz for $1.6 Billion — It is a two-horse race now in the online travel booking world: Expedia is buying Orbitz for about $1.6 billion in cash. This comes after Expedia announced … | Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Xiaomi's Mi.com marketplace to launch in US this year, will sell accessories like its headphones and fitness band, but not phones or tablets — China's Xiaomi to open shop in the US this year, but not for phones — Xiaomi is holding a press conference in San Francisco today as a way to tell …
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Phorm iPad mini case, which adds tactile keyboard buttons that rise out of screen as needed, available for pre-order at $99 — Phorm iPad mini case has physical ‘key guides’ that appear and disappear when you need them — A unique idea that isn't quite ready for prime time
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 10 for phones preview now available to download for select Lumia devices — Windows 10 for phones preview now available to download — We've seen Windows 10 on PC and tablets, and now it's time to preview Microsoft's latest operating system on phones.
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Blogging Windows, MSDN Blogs, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, The Register, BetaNews, Windows Central, GeekWire, Gigaom, PC World, Ars Technica, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Windows Central, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow and WMPoweruser. Tweets: @msicc
| Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed: |
Slack has over 500K daily active users after one year, quadrupling in last six months; hits $12M in annual recurring revenue — On Its First Birthday, Slack Declares Itself The “Fastest Growing Business App” Ever — And its daily users have doubled twice in six months. — kris krüg / Via flic.kr| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Zynga misses Q4 expectations with $182M in sales, but 60% of sales came from mobile in 2014, up from 27% in mid-2013 — Most of Zynga's Money Is Now Coming From Mobile — Words With Friends and FarmVille creator Zynga said today that its mobile reinvention is making progress …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Groupon Q4 Beats Street On Sales Of $925.4M, EPS Of $0.06, But Posts Weaker Outlook For Q1 — Groupon, the daily deals platform that has been making an effort to widen its business into local commerce and more mobile services, appears to be turning is ship around.
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| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
ESPN consolidates SportsCenter iPhone app and ScoreCenter iPad app into single ESPN iOS app as part of brand-wide makeover — ESPN is getting a brand-wide makeover, starting with its iOS app — Up until now, ESPN has had two separate apps on iOS for news and scores, one designed for iPhone …
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| Mark Stockley / Naked Security: |
Facebook fixes vulnerability reported by security researcher that could have allowed hackers to delete photos in all albums they have permission to view — How one man could have deleted any photo album he could see on Facebook — Facebook is probably the biggest database of photographs ever compiled.
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| Karen Kaplan / Los Angeles Times: |
Researchers create $34 smartphone dongle that can detect HIV and syphilis within 15 minutes — ‘Dongle’ turns smartphone into mobile lab to diagnose HIV, syphilis — Engineers have taken an ordinary smartphone and made it a whole lot smarter. — They created a compact …
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Tweets: @latkarenkaplan and @latimeshealth
| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Obama expected to announce executive order directing government and companies to share more cybersecurity threat information — Exclusive: Obama set to announce executive order on cybersecurity threat data — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is expected to announce an executive order directing …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
LinkedIn revamps its developer program to focus on partnerships, will limit its APIs on May 12, 2015 — LinkedIn today announced it is revamping its developer program, moving away from an open API model to a partnership one. The company plans to limit its open APIs beginning on May 12, 2015.
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Tweets: @cdixon and @mikeisaac
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