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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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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 powerful public policy … | Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Wal-Mart Preps Rival to Amazon Prime — Wal-Mart Stores is preparing to launch a subscription fast-shipping service similar to Amazon Prime to boost its online business and take on Amazon.com, according to people involved with or briefed about the product. — Codenamed “Tahoe,” …
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“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.
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| 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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| 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.| 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.| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
House passes USA Freedom Act to limit NSA mass collection of Americans' phone metadata, bill now goes to Senate — In Landslide Vote, House Overwhelmingly Passes USA Freedom Act without Amendments — Is this the year Congress passes a bill to limit NSA spying? The House of Representatives certainly hopes so.
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| 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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Slashdot, Redmond, Windows Central, CNET, Securelist, BetaNews, Pocketnow, WinBeta, Digital Trends, Mashable, HEXUS.net Latest Content, SecurityWeek, Neowin, Tom's Hardware Guide and Threatpost. Tweets: @artem_i_baranov
| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Cisco slightly beats Q3 estimates with non-GAAP earnings of $0.54/share on $12.1B in revenue — Cisco tops Q3 earnings, revenue expectations — Summary:Cisco's CFO attributed the better-than-expected results to a “good balance again across our portfolio,” highlighting earnings per share grew faster than revenue.
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Sources: Samsung paid around $250M for mobile payments technology company LoopPay — Samsung Paid Around $250 Million for LoopPay, Its Apple Pay Competitor — What's the price of competing with Apple, Google and PayPal in mobile payments? For Samsung, about $250 million.| Bloomberg Business: |
Facebook Hires Former FCC Chairman Martin for Access Policy — Facebook Inc. has hired Kevin Martin, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, to manage policy for the company's mobile and global access efforts as it seeks to get more people online.
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