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Apple and Samsung ink separate agreements with China's UnionPay to introduce their competing mobile payments systems in the country, expect early 2016 launch — Apple, Samsung Agree With UnionPay for China Payments From 2016 — Agreements in China subject to certification from regulators
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| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Facebook, Researcher Spar Over Instagram Vulnerabilities — A security researcher is in a bit of a scrum with Facebook over vulnerability disclosures that not only tested the boundaries of the social network's bug bounty program, but also prompted threats of legal and criminal action.
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| Nandita Bose / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Target in initial development of its own mobile wallet - sources — Target Corp is in early stages of developing its own mobile wallet, three people familiar with the matter said, signaling a potential threat to new entrants like Apple Pay a week after Wal-Mart Stores Inc announced its own plans.
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| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Juniper discovers backdoor in its NetScreen enterprise firewalls that allows decrypting VPN traffic, admin access, recommends patching immediately — Juniper Patches ScreenOS Backdoor — Juniper Networks today has released an emergency patch that removes what it's calling “unauthorized code” …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Windows Phone 8.1 users won't get Windows 10 Mobile update until 2016 — Microsoft is planning to make Windows 10 Mobile available to existing Windows Phone 8 and 8.1 users starting in early 2016, rather than this month, officials are now saying. — Even though Microsoft officials …
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| Jean-Baptiste Kempf / Yet another blog for JBKempf: |
VLC for Chrome OS, built using Android Runtime for Chrome, is now available to download — Announcing VLC for Chrome OS — VLC on ChromeOS — ChromeOS is one of the last Operating Systems where you could not run VLC and play all your media as you wished.
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
FCC wants to meet with T-Mobile, Comcast, AT&T by January 15 to discuss their zero-rating programs — Regulators want to talk to AT&T, Comcast and T-Mobile about sponsored data — Federal regulators have asked AT&T, Comcast and T-Mobile to meet with them to discuss a growing …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Netflix announces rebuilt Universal Windows 10 app for PCs and tablets, coming to smartphones early next year — Netflix's new Windows 10 app embraces Microsoft's universal dream — Netflix is making the most of Windows 10 today. Netflix is updating its Windows Store app …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Analysis: Williams is the obvious successor to Cook, Schiller to relieve Cue of some responsibilities, Tor Myhren succeeds soon-to-retire Hiroki Asai — Opinion: Today's Apple promotions cover executive losses, hint at Apple's future — Earlier today, Apple announced some of the most wide-ranging changes …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Vine introduces personalized Twitter Moment's-like curated channel, For You — Vine will now curate a channel of posts it thinks you'll want to see — It can be a pain for new users to find stuff on Twitter, so the company spent a big part of its year trying to show users things from people they don't already follow.
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| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
ID theft monitoring company LifeLock to pay $100M fine for violating 2010 FTC settlement that required LifeLock protect customer data — LifeLock to pay $100 million to settle U.S. contempt charges: FTC — LifeLock Inc, which sells identity theft monitoring and fraud detection services …
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest launches a tool that notifies users when a product they've pinned drops in price — Pinterest Launches A New Way To Track Price Drops On Buyable Pins — Pinterest has a new way to entice users to come back and buy things: keeping tabs on the price.
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