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Inside the failure of Google+, a very expensive attempt to unseat Facebook — Create a social network or risk everything. — That was the original pitch for Google's Facebook rival, Google+, a refrain hammered over and over by the social network's chief architect, Vic Gundotra, in meetings with the company's top brass.
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| Rachel Thomas / Medium: |
Why women are leaving tech, and what tech companies can do to increase hiring and retention of women — If you think women in tech is just a pipeline problem, you haven't been paying attention — According to the Harvard Business Review, 41% of women working in tech eventually end up leaving the field …
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Former DNI Mike McConnell, DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, and Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn back strong encryption in op-ed — Why the fear over ubiquitous data encryption is overblown — Clarification: Due to a production error, a version of this column was temporarily posted prematurely …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
IDC: Tablet sales fell 7% YoY to 44.7M units in Q2, but Lenovo, LG, and Huawei grew, pushing Samsung's and Apple's market share down to 41% from 45% last year — Tablet shipments drop again amid shrinking market demand: IDC — Global tablet shipments totaled 44.7 million units in Q2 compared … | William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Zenefits, growing rapidly, promises to manage employee benefits but leaves some uninsured due to software glitches and human errors — Zenefits Is An HR “Rocket Ship” — But Some Customers Get Left Behind — Mike Hawkins' four-month health insurance nightmare began in November …
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| Aaron Tilley / Forbes: |
Light Raises $25 Million To Put DSLR-Quality Camera In Your Next Smartphone — Our phones have turned everyone into a photographer and laid waste to a huge portion of the camera market. But even though we use our phones these days to take all of our pictures, the cameras in our phones still …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Developer preview of Amazon's Alexa Voice Service now available, allowing manufacturers and hobbyists to integrate Alexa tech into their own devices — Amazon lets anyone put Alexa voice control in their devices — Amazon released the Alexa Appkit last month in hopes that developers … | Paul Carsten / Reuters: |
People's Bank of China publishes draft regulation, says Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, others can't lock users into their payment services, exclude rivals — China mulls forcing Tencent, Alibaba to offer rivals' online payment services — China proposed new regulations on Friday …
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
India's Snapdeal, an Amazon Competitor, Raises $500 Million From Alibaba, Foxconn and SoftBank — Alibaba finally has its ally in India, perhaps the world's hottest e-commerce market. — The Chinese e-commerce giant has invested in Snapdeal, an India-based e-commerce startup … | Gensthaler O. / SamMobile: |
Galaxy Note 5 specs leak: 5.66" Quad HD Super AMOLED display, octa-core Exynos 7420, 4GB of RAM; press renders of Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ also leak — Galaxy Note 5 (SM-N920) tech specs and S6 edge + leaked — We have a new leak on the upcoming Galaxy Note 5 from @evleaks.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
New attack on Tor can deanonymize hidden services with surprising accuracy — Deanonymization requires luck but nonetheless shows limits of Tor privacy. — Computer scientists have devised an attack on the Tor privacy network that in certain cases allows them to deanonymize hidden service websites with 88 percent accuracy.
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Microsoft's HoloLens will ship to developers ‘within the next year’ — Microsoft will release “V1” of its HoloLens virtual reality headset sooner rather than later. CEO Satya Nadella said that the first developer version of the hologram-projecting device will come out “within the next year” …
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