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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Sources: Comcast will partner with publishers like Vox, Buzzfeed, others to launch Watchable, a major online video platform to rival Facebook and YouTube — Comcast is about to launch a major video platform called Watchable to rival Facebook and Google — Comcast is preparing to launch …
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Fortune, Marketing Land, The Verge, Bloomberg Business, Engadget, VentureBeat, Multichannel News, Tubefilter, The Next Web, Consumerist and Talking New Media. Tweets: @mathewi. Thanks:@jamesliamcook. See also Mediagazer
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Sources: Watchable to be available on the web for Comcast subscribers and and non-subscribers, in addition to set-top-boxes, Android, and iOS — Comcast Gets Ready to Launch Online Video Service on Its Set-Tops and the Web — Comcast is inching closer toward the launch of its own online video service … | Mark Harris / Guardian: |
Documents show Apple has talked with GoMentum Station, a high-security road testing facility for autonomous and connected vehicles — Documents confirm Apple is building self-driving car — Exclusive: Correspondence obtained by the Guardian shows Project Titan is further along …
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9to5Mac, CNET, The Verge, Mercury News, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, Macworld, Gizmodo, BetaNews, Quartz, BGR, USA Today, The Next Web, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Business Insider, TIME, iMore, Financial Times, Apple World Today, Tech Insider, MobileSyrup.com, Automotive News Automaker, San Francisco Chronicle, Yahoo Tech, iLounge, Mashable, Seeking Alpha, Robotics Trends, Daring Fireball, Apfelpage, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, InvestorPlace and MACé" blog
Tweets: @zpower, @stevekovach, @dsilverman, @dmoren, @pkafka, @djbentley, @charlesarthur and @fmanjoo
| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg Business: |
VW suppressed research for two years about a security flaw letting hackers steal some VW, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Fiat vehicles; fix requires new hardware — VW Has Spent Two Years Trying to Hide a Big Security Flaw — Got a VW, Fiat, Audi, Ferrari, Porsche or Maserati?| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Slack now allows Standard and Plus plan users to integrate email into channels — Slack Decides Not To Kill Email For A Little While Longer, Integrates It Instead — Slack! The email killer! It's going to kill email! — Welp, not today. — The team clearly listens to its users … | Wall Street Journal: |
Jessica Alba's subscription e-commerce startup, The Honest Company, raises $100M at a $1.7B valuation — Jessica Alba's Startup, Honest, Valued at $1.7 Billion — Honest, the baby-products retailer co-founded by movie star Jessica Alba, has raised $100 million in a new round of funding, valuing it at about $1.7 billion.| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Ex-employees say Kaspersky tricked rivals' antivirus programs to mark false-positives, deleting or disabling important files — Exclusive: Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals - Ex-employees — Beginning more than a decade ago, one of the largest security companies in the world …
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The Daily Dot, Digital Trends, CSO, The Register, VentureBeat, Geek.com, Neowin, SC Magazine, Quartz, Nota Bene, SiliconBeat, Ars Technica, International Business Times, The Next Web, The Tech Report and WinBuzzer
Tweets: @e_kaspersky and @davewiner
| Fred O'Connor / PCWorld: |
Puerto Rico is out as Project Ara's first test market, but Google isn't nixing the program — Google has scrapped plans to use Puerto Rico as the initial test market for its Project Ara modular-smartphone initiative, but interested developers and DIYers need not despair.
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Gizmodo, Android Authority, CNET, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo and Android Central
Tweets: @projectara and @projectara
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
New iCloud.com feature lets users restore recently deleted files, contacts and calendars — Apple has quietly added a new data restore feature to iCloud.com today, enabling users to rollback accidentally deleted documents, calendar changes and contacts. The new ‘Restore Files’ … | Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Groupon lays off 39 at Ideel, a flash-sale site it bought last January for $43M — More Layoffs at Groupon, This Time at Flash Sale Site Ideel — In the same week that Groupon cut at least 20 percent of the staff in its restaurant software unit, it also announced cuts inside Ideel …
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Crain's New York Business and Seeking Alpha
| Shan Wang / Nieman Lab: |
The New York Times builds Blossom, a Slack bot that suggests which stories to post to social media; suggested posts typically get 380% more clicks — The New York Times built a Slack bot to help decide which stories to post to social media — The New York Times publishes more than 300 stories each day.
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ECPM BLOG and Search Engine Journal. Tweets: @journerdism, @j2bryson, @stelian, @kamal_hothi, @leebryant and @startupljackson
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Adapted OwnStar MITM Wi-Fi attack can grab the virtual keys of BMW, Mercedes, Chrysler cars through a vulnerability in RemoteLink mobile app — OwnStar Wi-Fi attack now grabs BMW, Mercedes, and Chrysler cars' virtual keys — Using SSL proxy, attack decrypts user data, allowing remote access to vehicle.
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Wired, Engadget, Threatpost, RCR Wireless News, Mirror.co.uk, Komando.com, Fox News and International Business Times. Tweets: @karlbode
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