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| Terry Myerson / Blogging Windows: |
Microsoft announces Windows 10 will launch this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages, partners with Xiaomi to test the OS on Mi 4 devices — Windows 10 Launching This Summer in 190 Countries and 111 Languages — Today at the renewed Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) …
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| Reuters: |
Microsoft will offer free upgrades to Windows 10 even for PCs with non-genuine copies of Windows, to tackle piracy — Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windows 10 — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is making its biggest push into the heavily pirated Chinese consumer computing market …
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| Fast Company: |
Tim Cook on Apple's Future: Everything Can Change Except Values — Tim Cook: Steve felt that most people live in a small box. They think they can't influence or change things a lot. I think he would probably call that a limited life. And more than anybody I've ever met, Steve never accepted that.
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Sony's PlayStation Vue streaming TV service launches today in NYC, Chicago, and Philadelphia, starts at $50/month with about 50 channels including CBS, Fox, NBC — Sony's PlayStation Vue streaming TV service launches today in New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Dark Web's top drug market, Evolution, vanishes overnight, in what appears to be a $12M scam — Dark Web's ‘Evolution Market’ Vanishes — The Evolution Market, an online black market that sells everything contraband — from marijuana, heroin and ecstasy to stolen identities … | Astro Teller / Backchannel: |
Google X head Astro Teller on origin of Google X, Project Loon, Glass, self-driving cars, Project Wing, and failure — How to Make Moonshots — Astro Teller says that at Google[x], failure is indeed an option. So is changing the world. … Closing keynote of South by Southwest
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
HTTPS-crippling FREAK exploit affects thousands of Android and iOS apps — Attackers can use FREAK to steal passwords for finance, shopping, or medical apps. — While almost all the attention paid to the HTTPS-crippling FREAK vulnerability has focused on browsers, consider this …
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| Darren Pauli / The Register: |
Cisco shipping products to vacant properties to hide customers' identities, foiling NSA interdiction — Cisco posts kit to empty houses to dodge NSA chop shops — Kit sent to SmallCo of Nowheresville to avoid NSA interception profiles — Cisco will ship boxes to vacant addresses …
Tweets: @counternotions, @counternotions, @cyberwar, @csoghoian and @clipperchip
| Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
Salesforce and Microsoft invest in InsideSales.com's $60M round at a $1.5B valuation — Salesforce and Microsoft Invest in InsideSales.com at $1.5B Valuation … InsideSales.com Inc., a member of The Wall Street Journal Billion Dollar Startup Club, pulled itself up the list a few notches …
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| Reuters: |
German court issues nationwide ban on UberPOP, violations risk €250K fine; UberBLACK and uberTAXI unaffected — German court bans Uber's unlicensed taxi services — (Reuters) - A German court on Wednesday banned Uber from running services using unlicensed cab drivers and set stiff fines …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Darktrace, The Cyber Security Startup Backed By Mike Lynch, Raises Further $18M — Cyber security startup Darktrace, which is already backed by Autonomy founder Mike Lynch's Invoke Capital, has picked up $18 million in new funding, at a valuation of $80 million.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
HTC will replace your One M9 in the US if it breaks or you want to switch carriers — ‘Because bad things happen to good smartphones.’ — Every smartphone maker claims to support its devices after they've been bought, but today HTC asserts itself as the company that does it more comprehensively than anyone else.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Shuddle Raises $9.6M For Its Uber-Style Service For Kids And Seniors — As Uber continues to extend is well-funded tentacles into ever-more categories of transportation, a startup focusing on children and elderly people has raised some money of its own to compete.
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