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Comcast to bring two-gigabit Internet service to Bay Area, boost existing tiers — Comcast said Friday that it will bring its 2-gigabit symmetrical Gigabit Pro service to San Francisco Bay Area consumers in May, sidestepping Google and its own fiber plans. The company also said it will boost … | Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
WhatsApp hits 800M monthly active users, stays on pace to reach 1B users by year's end — WhatsApp Hits 800 Million Users — 1 Billion by Year-End? — “What I'd say around messaging is we're pretty early in that cycle,” Zuckerberg said during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call.
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Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fone Arena, CNET, bgr.in, VentureBeat, and GSMArena Blog. Tweets: @caseynewton
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
French Senate Backs Bid To Force Google To Disclose Search Algorithm Workings — It's been a bad week for Google in Europe, with the Competition Commission on Wednesday adopting a Statement of Objections regard its shopping comparison service — marking an escalation of a five-year long antitrust investigation.
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Bloomberg Business, Bidness Etc, ValueWalk, Business Insider, Tech Times and The Register. Tweets: @pmarca
| Mandi Woodruff / Yahoo! Finance: |
Funds left in Google Wallet Balance will now be FDIC insured — YAHOO FINANCE EXCLUSIVE: Google Wallet just got a lot safer — Google (GOOGL) is making a big change to its mobile payment service, Google Wallet, Yahoo Finance has learned. Funds that are left in Google Wallet will now be FDIC-insured … | Robert Bartley / FierceMobileIT News: |
Google makes Android for Work available for any device running Android 4.0 or higher — Google makes Android for Work available on nearly all Android devices — Google pushed Android for Work to its Play Store on Thursday, making the container technology it announced in February available …
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ACLU: at least 28 inspector general websites for whistleblower reports and the State Department terrorist tip site do not use HTTPS — Why confidential tips to the government may not be confidential after all — Got a hot tip about federal waste, fraud or corruption?
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American Civil Liberties Union, Ars Technica, PCMag UK and Engadget
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
After years of testing, Google has replaced the URL with the site name and breadcrumb trail in the mobile search snippets — Google Replaces A Site's URL In Search Results & Uses Its Site Name & Breadcrumb Path — Google announced they've begun replacing the URL within the search result snippet area … | Joshua Ho / AnandTech: |
Galaxy S6, S6 edge review: Exynos is SoC to beat in Android space for the next 6 months, battery life effectively the same as S5, camera comparable to iPhone — The Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 edge Review — As recently as the Galaxy S5, Samsung had a fundamentally different strategy from companies like HTC and Apple.| Danny Hakim / New York Times: |
Microsoft supports many groups lobbying for regulatory action against Google in Europe and US — Microsoft, Once an Antitrust Target, Is Now Google's Regulatory Scold — BRUSSELS — Not long ago, Microsoft was the scourge of European antitrust regulators. — It was fined not once, not twice, not thrice but four times.
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Economist, Tech Times and Slashdot
| Aaron Butcher / Blogging Windows: |
Microsoft's new Maps app comes to phones with latest Windows 10 Technical Preview build, with guided navigation features from HERE maps, traffic data from Bing — Navigate the World with Windows 10 Maps for Phone — Hello! I'm Aaron Butcher and I'm the Group Program Manager for the Maps Team …
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VentureBeat, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, Computerworld, WinBeta, Windows Central, SlashGear and The Next Web
| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Major Update to Office Sway Adds Focus Points, Interactive Charts and More — Office Sway received a major update today that adds image Focus Points, Accent highlighting, interactive charts, and easier document embeds to Microsoft's cloud-based app for dynamic, interactive web apps.
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Office Blogs, VentureBeat and Windows Central
| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Recently patched Windows flaw seen exploited in the wild for DDoS attacks; web servers of 70M sites at risk — Recently Patched Windows Flaw Exploited in the Wild for DoS Attacks — SANS Institute researchers advise system administrators to update their Windows operating systems as soon …
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Netcraft, GSMArena Blog, darkREADING, FierceCIO News and Help Net Security
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