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Facebook launches Instant Articles on iPhone, with interactive features like videos and maps, names NYT, BuzzFeed, Guardian, and six other partners — Introducing Instant Articles — As more people get their news on mobile devices, we want to make the experience faster and richer on Facebook.
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See also Mediagazer| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Facebook's Instant Articles can provide 100% of the ad revenue and analytics data to publishers, add up to a good deal, at least for now — Facebook Starts Publishing the New York Times, BuzzFeed and More With Its ‘Instant Articles’ Program — Hey Web publishers! Facebook is coming in peace.
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See also Mediagazer| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Instant Articles build on insights from its Paper app, load 10x faster than mobile web articles — Facebook Starts Hosting Publishers' “Instant Articles” — After months of rumors, Facebook today unveiled “Instant Articles”, a program that natively hosts publishers' content … | Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Facebook Instant Articles: A Slippery Slope For Google To Do The Same, Hurting The Web? — Today, Facebook announced Instant Articles, a way for publishers to post stories directly on Facebook. We've known this would be coming, and there's been some debate over whether it's good or bad.| Tony Prophet / Blogging Windows: |
Microsoft introduces Windows 10 Editions: Home, Mobile, Pro, Enterprise, Education, Mobile Enterprise, and IoT Core — Introducing Windows 10 Editions — Windows 10 is coming this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages. Today, we are excited to share more details on the Windows 10 Editions.
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| Rachael King / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's BeyondCorp initiative moves from trusting the corporate network to device-level security for its own internal corporate apps — Google Moves Its Corporate Applications to the Internet — Google Inc., taking a new approach to enterprise security, is moving its corporate applications to the Internet.| Curt Woodward / BetaBoston: |
Apple, A123 settling their lawsuit over poached battery engineers — Apple and advanced battery maker A123 Systems say they have nearly settled a federal lawsuit accusing Apple of poaching A123's scientists and engineers to build a competing battery business.
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9to5Mac, PCWorld, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, MacNN, iPhone in Canada Blog, Xconomy, Patently Apple and iLounge. Thanks:@curtwoodward
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
“Venom” vulnerability in Xen, KVM, and QEMU virtual machine platforms lets attackers break out of VM environment, affects cloud providers everywhere — Extremely serious virtual machine bug threatens cloud providers everywhere — “Venom” allows attackers to break out of guest OS, escape into host.| Crispin Cowan / Microsoft Edge Dev Blog: |
Microsoft Edge will not support VML, VB Script, Toolbars, BHOs, or ActiveX to improve security — Microsoft Edge: Building a safer browser — With Microsoft Edge, we want to fundamentally improve security over existing browsers and enable users to confidently experience the web from Windows.
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| Peg Brickley / Wall Street Journal: |
Hedge fund Standard General wins auction of RadioShack brand and customer data with $26.2M bid — Standard General Wins Auction of RadioShack Brand — In addition to the trademark, the hedge fund picked up rights to RadioShack's customer data — Standard General LP … | Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
Verizon fixes flaw allowing a hacker forging a customer's IP addresses to obtain user info which can be used to take over the customer's account — Verizon Security Flaw Left Millions Of Home Internet Users Vulnerable To Attack — A simple browser plug-in was all you needed to gain access to the internet giant's customer accounts.| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Warrantless airport seizure of laptop “cannot be justified,” judge rules — Feds said a laptop is simply a “container” that can be searched without warrant. — The US government's prosecution of a South Korean businessman accused of illegally selling technology used in aircraft and missiles … | Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook announces improved benefits for US contractors and vendors, including $15 minimum wage, 15 paid days off, child benefits — Facebook Presses for More Pay for Janitors, Cooks — Tech giant pushes its vendors to improve pay, benefits for their workers
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Google's policy and communications head Rachel Whetstone takes that role at Uber; David Plouffe, who held that position at Uber, joins board in advisory role — Google Comms and Policy Head Whetstone Takes Over That Job at Uber — Rachel Whetstone, the longtime head of Google's public policy …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Instart Logic Raises A $43M Expansion Round For Its Cloud Application Delivery Platform — Instart Logic, a service that helps businesses speed up the delivery of their cloud applications, today announced that it has raised a $43 million funding round led by new investors Four Rivers Group and Hermes Growth Partners.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Tim Armstrong says AOL to remain in content business, denies spin-off of Huffington Post, says TechCrunch won't be sold and will retain editorial independence — CEO Tim Armstrong Says AOL Is Staying In The Content Business (And He's Not Selling TechCrunch) — It was an interesting day at AOL.
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See also Mediagazer| Zach Miners / PCWorld: |
Greenpeace report highlights Apple's investment in renewables, finds streaming video from Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu is driving energy usage higher — Greenpeace fingers YouTube, Netflix as threat to greener Internet — The next time you watch “House of Cards” on Netflix …
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