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Alibaba to launch Netflix-like video streaming service called TBO or Tmall Box Office in about two months in China — Alibaba to launch Netflix-like video streaming service in two months — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) will launch an online video streaming service in China in about two months …
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
How Facebook's Open Compute Project became a major force in data center hardware, with hundreds of companies, including HP, Foxconn, and Goldman Sachs on board — How Facebook is eating the $140 billion hardware market — It started out as a controversial idea inside Facebook.Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Startups look to compete with incumbents like Uber by focusing on niches like car-pooling and mass transit — New Ride Services Forge Own Specialized Paths — When Trae Vassallo's children hop in the car to head to their after-school sports practice in the San Francisco Bay Area several times a week … | Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business: |
Oracle's sales of new licenses decline as more startups embrace open source database software — Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Souped-Up Free Software — Dan Wagner, the chief executive officer of U.K.-based mobile payments company Powa Technologies Ltd., poses a challenge for database giant Oracle Corp.| Fletcher Babb / VentureBeat: |
Spotify's unreleased ‘Rewind’ feature builds playlists of songs from past decades based on present-day preferences — Spotify's unreleased ‘Rewind’ feature builds playlists from the past — Spotify has soft-launched a new feature titled “Rewind.”| Danielle Wiener-Bronner / Fusion: |
Uber orders drivers to stay away from taxi protests in China, uses GPS to ensure they comply, threatens to cancel contracts if they don't — Uber is using GPS to punish drivers in China who get too close to protests — Uber is using their tracking devices to identify, and threaten …
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Chinese hackers have found a way to identify Tor and VPN users in the country by exploiting a vulnerability in server software used by popular Chinese portals — Chinese Hackers Circumvent Popular Web Privacy Tools — SAN FRANCISCO — Chinese hackers have found a way around widely used privacy technology …
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| Ava Kofman / The Atlantic: |
Augmented Reality may find more applications than Virtual Reality because of its real-world aspect, but must first surmount numerous technical challenges — Oculus Rift, Magic Leap, and the Future of Reality-Skewing Wearables — After coordinating scientific research …
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| Patricia Cohen / New York Times: |
After recent breaches, IRS promises to add additional security measures to protect against fraud and identity theft by early 2016 — I.R.S. Adds New Safeguards to Thwart Identity Theft and Fraud — Reeling from an online attack that allowed criminals to steal personal information …
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irs.gov, International Business Times, Network World, Washington Post, CFO, San Francisco Chronicle, The Hill, CNNMoney, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, NPR and Engadget. Tweets: @patcohennyt
| James Hookway / Wall Street Journal: |
Vietnam's Internet penetration, enabled by smartphones, increased to 44% from 12% a decade ago, enabling a rapid growth of digital businesses — Vietnam's Mobile Revolution Catapults Millions Into the Digital Age — Smartphone use has dramatically increased Internet penetration and growth in online services| Klint Finley / Wired: |
High and hard to predict costs make success unlikely for both SpaceX and OneWeb satellite Internet projects — Internet by Satellite Is a Space Race With No Winners — Another space race is on. — On one side: Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX (and Tesla Motors), backed by Google.| Facebook: |
Facebook now takes into account how long you've viewed specific stories in News Feed in determining which posts to surface — News Feed FYI: Taking Into Account Time Spent on Stories — The goal of News Feed is to show you the content that matters to you.
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Tech Times, SlashGear, The Register, The Verge, Forbes, Social Media Today, Digital Trends, Mashable, Fone Arena, Quartz, TechCrunch, Engadget, TechRadar.com, Search Engine Journal, The Daily Dot, PCWorld, GSMArena Blog, Macworld, Marketing Land, SocialTimes, WebProNews, VentureBeat, The Next Web and BetaNews. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Connie Yu / The Intercept: |
Government and Anthem data breaches pose indefinite threat of future harm as birthdate, full name, and SSN remain integral to identity in many systems — Data Theft Today Poses Indefinite Threat of “Future Harm” — Benjamin Nuss was one of the nearly 80 million people whose social security number …
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