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Sources: Yelp is exploring a sale; shares soar 12% after news — Yelp Is Exploring a Sale — Company has $2.9 billion market value — Business-reviews website Yelp Inc. is exploring a sale, according to people familiar with the matter. — The San Francisco-based company is working …
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Flickr redesigns on web and mobile, launches auto-upload feature and unified search with image recognition — Flickr redesigns web and mobile apps to create a powerhouse in online photo storage — When Marissa Mayer became Yahoo's CEO in 2012, she was greeted with a viral internet campaign …
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Spotify in talks with companies that make content for YouTube and traditional media firms for new web video service — Spotify Laying Plans to Enter Web Video Business — Closely-held streaming service has been reaching out to companies that make content for YouTube
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Zero-Fee Stock Trading App Robinhood Nabs $50M From NEA To Go Global — In case you thought paying $7 to $10 to trade a stock in the US was bad, it costs $65 in Australia. So now that its zero-fee stock trading app is thriving stateside with hundreds of thousands of users … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Actively exploited WordPress bug puts millions of sites at risk — XSS vulnerability allows attackers to take full control of unpatched sites. — Millions of websites running WordPress are at risk of hijacking attacks thanks to a vulnerability that is actively being exploited in the wild …
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Alibaba's COO Daniel Zhang replaces Jonathan Lu as CEO as revenue increases 45% year-over-year — Alibaba Names New Chief Executive and Reports Revenue Rise — HONG KONG — The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said Thursday that its revenue grew 45 percent compared with last year … | Wall Street Journal: |
US federal appeals court rules NSA's bulk collection of telephone metadata is not authorized by Patriot Act — Appeals Court Rules NSA Phone Program Not Authorized by Patriot Act — ACLU lawsuit argued the data collection should be stopped because it violates Americans' privacy rights
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Apple hasn't fixed or even acknowledged widely-reported networking issues on OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 related to discoveryd — discoveryd Clusterf**k — I usually keep things fairly clean on this site. I have a simple metric: would I be embarrassed if my Mom read this post?
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Cody Wilson, inventor of the 3D printable gun, files countersuit against US State Department claiming the blueprints are protected free speech — 3-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts the War Between Arms Control and Free Speech — This week marks the two-year anniversary since Cody Wilson …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Cisco buys Tropo, eyes collaboration platform as a service — Cisco acquires Tropo, which provides a platform for integrating SMS and voice calls into applications. — Cisco on Thursday said it will acquire Tropo, a company that provides a cloud application programming interface platform.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
LG G4 review: features a powerful camera, all-day battery, and a great display, but plastic back feels cheap and software is poorly designed — LG G4 review — In the world of smartphones, Samsung and Apple cast big shadows. Perhaps no company is more familiar with those shadows than LG …
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Kantar: phablets made up 21% of US smartphone sales in Q1, up from 6% a year ago, driven by iPhone 6 Plus sales — US phablet market soars — Phablets claimed 21% of all US smartphone sales in Q1 2015 - nearly quadrupling their 6% share from the first quarter of 2014 …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T customers with unlimited data using LTE now throttled only when network is congested, instead of when they go over 5GB/mo — AT&T finally ramps down throttling of unlimited LTE customers — Facing lawsuit, AT&T now throttles 4G customers only when network is congested.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Nintendo posts first annual operating profit since 2011 of $207M, sales down 3.8% YoY — Nintendo turns its first annual profit since 2011 — Nintendo has turned its first annual profit following three years of consecutive losses. The Kyoto video games company made a slim operating profit … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google posts I/O 2015 schedule: Android M, voice access, ATAP wearables, multi-screen Chromecast games, more — Digging into the Google I/O 2015 schedule: Android M, voice access, and more — Google just released the I/O 2015 schedule, and there is a lot of info inside.
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