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Square sets IPO price range at $11-13 per share, at a valuation up to $4.19B, well below its last private round — Square sets IPO price range, would be valued below last private round — Payments company Square this morning filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
PageFair anti-ad-blocking service was hacked a week ago, temporarily pushing malware to visitors of over 500 sites including the Economist — A prominent ad-blocker-blocker served malware to Economist readers — One of the web's most prominent ad-blocking tools has been serving malware to Economist readers.
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
With a good physical keyboard and enhanced security, the Android-powered Priv is the first recommendable BlackBerry in years — BlackBerry Priv Review: BlackBerry May Win You Back With Android — It finally happened: a modern-looking BlackBerry with a modern operating system
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| Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press: |
Toyota to set up new artificial intelligence research and development company in Silicon Valley, will invest $1B over 5 years — Toyota invests $1 billion in artificial intelligence in US — TOKYO (AP) — Toyota is investing $1 billion in a research company it's setting up in Silicon Valley …
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New York Times, Reuters, Toyota Global Newsroom, The Hill, ABC News, New York Times, Engadget, Fortune, International Business Times, PCWorld, Re/code, Bloomberg Business, BGR, Dice Insights, Tech Insider, Gizmodo, Wired.co.uk and Guardian. Tweets: @cnbcnow
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: Google seeking partners to co-develop chips to bring more uniformity and new features to Android phones, and better compete with Apple — With Apple in Mind, Google Seeks Android Chip Partners — Google recently talked with some microchip makers about developing chips based …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Full text of Trans-Pacific Partnership released, gets criticized by Internet privacy and consumer groups for threatening digital rights — TPP Trade Agreement Slammed For Eroding Online Rights — Measures agreed to in an international trade treaty between Pacific Rim countries threaten …
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keionline.org, Wired, Techdirt, Michael Geist, Guardian, Wired, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Washington Post, CNET, Plagiarism Today, Boing Boing, Wired, Guardian, ABC, Evening Report, The Hill, Reuters, Globe and Mail, Motherboard, Toronto Star, International Business Times, The Independent and Ars Technica. Tweets: @eff. See also Mediagazer
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Survey finds significant portion of popular apps send user personal information like email and location to Apple, Google, and other third parties — User data plundering by Android and iOS apps is as rampant as you suspected — Most commonly shared data for Android is e-mail addresses; for iOS, it's GPS data.
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Digital Trends, BBC, Yahoo Tech, TechSpot and The Register
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sweden's Anoto Buys Digital Pen Maker Livescribe For $15M — The writing is on the wall for more consolidation in the world of startups... both literally and figuratively. Today Anoto, a digital writing company based out of Sweden, announced that it would acquire longtime partner Livescribe …
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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US task force to recommend simple, free registration of recreational drones weighing over 250gm — U.S. Task Force to Recommend Drone Registration, Sources Say — Proposal envisions simple, free registration of recreational drones weighing more than nine ounces| Marty Swant / Adweek: |
Facebook debuts two new ad tools for businesses to better understand and target nearby consumers — Facebook's New Tools Let Merchants Tailor Ads for Nearby Consumers — While Facebook yesterday revealed that its advertising sales increased 45 percent year over year to $4.3 billion in the third quarter …
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Twitter SVP Alex Roetter pledges faster progress on diversity after ex-employee Leslie Miley publicly criticized company's efforts to improve diversity — Twitter engineering chief pledges ‘faster progress’ on diversity — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter's senior vice president of engineering Alex Roetter …
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NPR, SiliconBeat, fuzzy notepad, Medium, BBC, International Business Times and Re/code
| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
ProtonMail pays hackers ransom of $6K in Bitcoin to end DDoS attack — ProtonMail Pays Crooks $6,000 In Bitcoin To Cease DDoS Bombardment — ProtonMail is getting its first taste of life as an entity known to criminals looking for a quick, easy payday. — Throughout most of yesterday …
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ProtonMail, BBC, BetaNews, Ars Technica, International Business Times, Inquirer, The Next Web, Naked Security, ZDNet, Help Net Security, NEWSBTC, Security Affairs, CSO, SecurityWeek, We Live Security and theWHIR.com. Tweets: @protonmail
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