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NSA spying relies on AT&T's “extreme willingness to help” tap Internet communications, say newly-disclosed Snowden documents — NSA Spying Relies on AT&T's ‘Extreme Willingness to Help’
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Amazon tests how far to push white-collar workers to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions, creating a bruising, data-driven workplace — Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace — SEATTLE — On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult …
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Nextbit, led by Android and HTC vets, will launch its Android smartphone on September 1 priced at $300-$400 — Google, HTC vets prep ‘friggin’ awesome' smartphone for Sept. 1 launch — Nextbit makes the bold claim that its smartphone will actually get better over time thanks to software tweaks.
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Alleged sexual assault by Airbnb host highlights need for the company to improve safety policies — Airbnb Horror Story Points to Need for Precautions — Early in the evening of July 4, Micaela Giles's mobile phone started sounding alerts, and a series of messages straight out of a horror movie began scrolling down her screen.| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Google bans 8chan-hosted domains from search, displaying warning about child abuse content — 8chan-hosted content disappears from Google searches — Domain-specific searches contain warning about “suspected child abuse content.” — Google appears to have taken an unprecedented step …
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Inside Pinterest's ambitious e-commerce platform: buyable pins, recommendations, and easier mobile shopping — The Inside Story Of How (And Why) Commerce Came To Pinterest — Inside the power move that could give today's biggest online businesses a run for their money. — Pinterest's Buyable Pins team.Thanks:@kantrowitz
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce Adds E-Commerce To Its Community Cloud — Customers of Salesforce's Community Cloud will soon be able to add their own buy buttons. — The Community Cloud allows businesses to build sites where customers can interact with the company and with each other.
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Twitter says it has received 1,391 copyright takedown requests for Periscope through June 30 and complied with 71% of them — Periscope complies to 71 percent of copyright takedown requests — Periscope's live streaming capability is increasingly becoming a bigger magnet for copyright takedown requests.
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FAA says there has been 650 pilot reported encounters of drones through August 9 up from 238 for all of 2014 — Drone-Plane Safety Incidents Seen Quadrupling, U.S. FAA Says — Pilot encounters with drones are on pace to at least quadruple to more than 1,000 this year …
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Wildcard relaunches app to focus on presenting news from thousands of sources in card format — Wildcard Debuts A News-Reading App Designed For The Mobile Age — Besides messaging, snapping photos, and checking the weather, news reading has become one of the top activities done on mobile phones.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla tests private browsing mode with tracking protection in pre-beta versions of Firefox — Mozilla Makes Private Browsing More Private In Firefox, Adds Tracking Protection — Mozilla is testing a new private browsing mode in Firefox that doesn't just keep no trace of your browsing habits … | 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 … | Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
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