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Apple is preparing to launch a voicemail service that will use Siri to transcribe your messages — Apple employees are testing a voicemail service that uses Siri to answer your calls and transcribe voicemail messages. Apple's iCloud service will then send you the text of the transcribed voicemail … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Nokia sells HERE mapping business to Audi, BMW, and Mercedes for $3.07B — Nokia Sells HERE Mapping Business To Group Of European Car Makers For $3.07B — Nokia has announced that it has sold its HERE mapping business to a consortium of automobile makers for $3.07 billion, ending months of speculation about the future of the unit.
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| Seth Fiegerman / Mashable: |
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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| 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 …
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Microsoft Edge review: Windows finally has a good browser — For two decades, the default web browsing experience in Windows has been Internet Explorer. Over the years, Microsoft's home-built browser became bloated, insecure, confusing to use, and just plain hated by many users.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Symantec: Anthem was a secondary target for hacking group Black Vine, which primarily targeted aerospace, energy, military, and technology industries — Group that hacked Anthem shared weaponized 0-days with rival attackers — History's biggest healthcare breach was just another hack for Black Vine gang.
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Easily accessible dark web marketplaces list stolen identities from $1, to $450 for a premium identity with a high credit score — Here's what your stolen identity goes for on the internet's black market — The going rate for a stolen identity is about twenty bucks.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft acquires FantasySalesTeam, a gamification platform to incentivize sales teams — Microsoft has acquired Incent Games, the company behind FantasySalesTeam, a gamification platform designed to help incentivize sales teams. — The computing giant says that it will soon offer …
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| John Fontana / ZDNet: |
Federal courts start to recognize the possibility of ongoing harm to data breach victims, fueling class-action lawsuits — Federal Court's data breach decision shows new tilt toward victims, class-action lawsuits — Federal courts beginning to recognize possibility of on-going harm …
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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 … | 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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