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Spotify apologizes for confusion over privacy policy, clarifies that no information will be collected without explicit permission — Sorry! — We are in the middle of rolling out new terms and conditions and privacy policy and they've caused a lot of confusion about what kind of information we access and what we do with it.
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Leaked Uber presentation: global bookings to reach $10.8B in 2015, revenue would be roughly $2B, IPO within 18-24 months — Uber seen reaching $10.8 billion in bookings in 2015: fundraising presentation — Uber Technologies Inc's [UBER.UL] global bookings are projected to rise nearly threefold …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
New data uncovers the surprising predictability of Android lock patterns — Like “p@$$w0rd” and “1234567” many Android patterns are easy to guess. — Marte Løge — The abundance of password leaks over the past decade has revealed some of the most commonly used …
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| Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central: |
Google no longer requires new Android devices to ship with Google+, Google Newsstand, Google Play Games and Books apps pre-installed — Your new phone will have less Google bloatware, and that's awesome — You might have heard that the new Samsung Galaxy Note 5 comes without Google+ preinstalled.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple TV outsold by Amazon's Fire TV in 2014, now the fourth most popular streaming device — According to recent data released by Parks Associates, Apple TV currently is the fourth most popular streaming media device based on 2014 sales, down from third place in 2013.| Kev Needham / Mozilla Add-ons Blog: |
Mozilla to introduce new API for Firefox to make it easier to port extensions from other browsers, to deprecate certain classes of add-ons 12-18 months from now — The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons — Today we are announcing some major upcoming changes to Firefox add-ons.
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| Carmel DeAmicis / Re/code: |
Bill Gurley marks recent tech sell-off with another warning about unprofitable unicorns, says cycle “where growth is valued more than profitability” may end — Bill Gurley to Unicorns: Winter Is Coming. You Ready? — Tech stocks have been taking a beating lately … | Nigel Manuel / CNET: |
Samsung offers iPhone users a free 30-day trial with new Galaxy phones on any carrier — Samsung to give iPhone users a trial run with new Galaxy smartphones — Just weeks before the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+ launches, Samsung is attempting to sway iPhone users.
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
SmartThings Support Is Coming To Amazon Echo — It would appear that Amazon has plans to team up with SmartThings to power various home automation features with the Amazon Echo, the voice-powered personal assistant device. — According to a Google web cache of the SmartThings blog …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to allow businesses to post GIFs as ads and Page posts, begins testing with Wendy's and Coca-Cola's Brazilian brand Kuat — After Years Of Restraint, Facebook Tries Allowing GIFs In Ads And Page Posts — Facebook refused to fill its site with flashy animated banner ads for a decade.
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| Lizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal: |
Virtual-Reality Headset Maker Glyph Grabs $24 Million in Funding — The maker of Glyph, a media headset that supports 3-D and virtual reality content, has secured $24 million to increase manufacturing and begin shipping the headsets by the end of 2015, Venture Capital Dispatch has learned.
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| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
Microsoft files federal antitrust lawsuit against Interdigital for “abusive licensing practices” — Microsoft files antitrust suit against InterDigital in patent feud — InterDigital Inc has violated U.S. antitrust law by failing to keep its promise to fairly license …
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