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Schmidt: Google Glass is a long-term project put under Fadell to “make it ready for users” and is a big, fundamental platform for Google — Google Isn't Giving Up on Glass, Schmidt Says — Google is sticking with its controversial Glass Internet-connected eyewear … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Cyanogen Raises $80 Million With Backing From Twitter, Telefonica and Rupert Murdoch — After months of passing around the hat, open Android startup Cyanogen said Monday it has closed an $80 million funding round that includes backing from a number of strategic investors.
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How Cyanogen got started and its plans to disrupt Android, including upcoming first Cyanogen OS phone without Google apps from Blu — Meet Cyanogen, The Startup That Wants To Steal Android From Google — It's a little hard to take Kirt McMaster seriously at first.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Square Introduces Square Cash for Businesses, With a Low 1.5 Percent Processing Fee — Five years ago, Square introduced a sleek card reader to the small-business world that made it easy for everyone from taxi drivers to craft sellers to coffee shop owners to accept credit card payments for the first time.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Samsung is bundling Microsoft's Office apps on some Android tablets — Samsung is expanding on its recent partnership with Microsoft to preinstall Office on select Android tablets. The move follows a similar bundling on Samsung's Galaxy S6 handsets, with Microsoft's Skype, OneDrive …
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| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Cisco IP Phones Vulnerable to Eavesdropping — Some of the IP phones designed by Cisco for small businesses are plagued by a vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to eavesdrop on conversations and make phone calls from affected devices, the company revealed last week.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Livestreaming service YouNow has 100M+ monthly visitors, engaged community, a business model, and is paying its broadcasters via partnership program — The live-streaming app where amateurs get paid to chat, eat, and sleep on camera — Tayser Abuhamdeh doesn't have what most people would call an exciting job.| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Instagram reveals Layout, its own photo collage app — If you've ever seen a collage in your Instagram feed, it was likely created by one of several third-party apps — Diptic and Framatic are a couple that spring to mind — that let you arrange multiple photos in a variety of grids.
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Instagram Blog, The Verge, Fast Company, Re/code, TechCrunch and iDownloadBlog.com
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In 2014, large mutual fund managers made 29 deals worth $4.7B to buy into private tech companies, up from 6 deals in 2012 — Americans' Retirement Funds Increasingly Contain Tech Start-Up Stocks — The retirement accounts of millions of Americans have long contained shares of stalwart companies …
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With interviews from Cook, Ive, others, Becoming Steve Jobs is opposite of Isaacson's bio, providing rounded image of Jobs and contextualizing bad behavior — The War Over Who Steve Jobs Was — Walter Isaacson's official biography of Apple's genius leader is being challenged by a new book supported by Jobs's inner circle.
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New York Times, Computerworld, GeekWire, CNET, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, iMore, MacNN, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, Bloomberg View and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @stevenlevy
| Startup L. Jackson / Startups and S**t: |
Advice for raising seed in a feeding frenzy: anticipate your A round, raise what you need, and hire VCs like employees — An Open Letter to YC Founders on Demo Day Eve — It's YC fundraising season and the perennial discussion about valuations has begun. It's frankly kinda tired.
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Business Insider and Alex Iskold. Tweets: @levie, @percival, @stevesi, @jason, @mgsiegler, @cdixon, @cynthiaschames, @jess, @davemcclure, @trengriffin, @mdudas, @abrams and @semil
| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Online ‘Swatting’ Becomes a Hazard for Popular Video Gamers and Police Responders — Practical jokers have delighted for years at tormenting celebrities at home by calling in bogus reports of violence and provoking huge police responses. — Now they have found a way to turn their pranks …
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