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Reddit's chief engineer Bethanye Blount quits after less than two months on the job; claims loss of confidence in the direction of the company — Reddit Chief Engineer Bethanye Blount Quits After Less Than Two Months on the Job — Reddit's chief engineer Bethanye Blount quit just days …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google launches Eddystone, an open source, cross-platform Bluetooth LE beacon format — Meet Google's “Eddystone”—a flexible, open source iBeacon fighter — Google's cross-platform standard combines the best of iBeacon and The Physical Web. — Move over iBeacon—today Google is launching …
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| Nokia: |
Nokia may bring back mobile phones, but only through brand-licensing model, and not earlier than Q4 2016 because of Microsoft agreement — Nokia comments on media speculation about mobile devices — The following has been posted by Robert Morlino, spokesman for Nokia Technologies
| Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note: |
News sites are getting slower: the New York Times takes 4 mins and 2MB of data download to view one story — News Sites Are Fatter and Slower Than Ever — An analysis of download times highlights how poorly designed news sites are. That's more evidence of poor implementation of ads... and a strong case for ad blockers.| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Facebook testing Moneypenny, a personal assistant inside Messenger that consults real people for help researching and ordering products, among other tasks — Facebook is working on a digital assistant named Moneypenny to help you find and buy products — Facebook Messenger is getting …
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| Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Mozilla deactivates all versions of Adobe Flash in Firefox by default, until Adobe patches security issues — Mozilla blocks all versions of Adobe Flash in Firefox — Mozilla has added all versions of Adobe Flash up to the most recent version 18.0.0.203 to the Firefox blocklist.
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Google About To Reopen Map Maker, Largely Outsourcing Moderation — After the recent rash of map vandalism and other map mischief that caused Google to shut down Map Maker, the company is getting ready to reopen it. Simultaneously Google is instituting a new moderation procedure that will rely …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Match Group Buys PlentyOfFish For $575M To Bag More Singles — A spot of consolidation in the online dating space today, with Match Group, the subsidiary of Tinder and OkCupid owner IAC, announcing it has agreed to acquire PlentyOfFish (POF) for $575 million in cash.| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
FanDuel raises $275M round led by KKR, source says at a valuation well over $1B — FanDuel Raises $275 Million, Births Unicorn — FanDuel, one of the two major players in the budding daily fantasy sports industry, has raised $275 million in new venture funding.| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Apple Pay lands in the UK, some major banks missing — Apple's mobile payments service, available in the US since October, has expanded across the pond — but some of the announced partners aren't on board.
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| Bloomberg Business: |
China's campaign to build a database on Americans began with hacking travel records in 2013; recent OPM breach was part of the same campaign — Hacked in the U.S.A.: China's Not-So-Hidden Infiltration Op — The vast cyber-attack in Washington began with, of all things, travel reservations.
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| Lucian Constantin / PCWorld: |
Hacking Team's malware uses UEFI rootkit to survive OS reinstalls — Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Workday launches venture fund to invest in data science startups — Workday is betting that the next 10 years will be about data science for the enterprise and is playing the venture capital game accordingly. — Workday on Tuesday said it will launch a venture fund focused on data science and machine learning for enterprise use.
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