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Sources: Amazon building its own overnight US airfreight operation, negotiating with Boeing for twenty 767 widebody freighters — [EXCLUSIVE] Amazon building its own overnight airfreight operation, sources say — Amazon.com Inc. is creating a logistics operation that will include overnight air operations …
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FBI investigating breach at Juniper; US officials say attack likely to be state-sponsored; DHS assessing scope of compromised communications — First on CNN: Newly discovered hack has U.S. fearing foreign infiltration — Washington (CNN)A major breach at computer network company Juniper Networks … | Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
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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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| 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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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Evernote is killing Skitch for Android, iOS, and Windows on January 22, but not Mac — Note-taking app company Evernote today delivered some sad news for users of the image annotation app Skitch. The iOS, Android, and Windows versions of Skitch will be going away on January 22.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft acquires Metanautix, an analytics startup that helps big companies navigate their data — Microsoft has acquired a young Palo Alto startup called Metanautix, a firm specializing in helping large enterprises filter through their hordes of in-house data. Terms of the deal haven't been disclosed| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, attached to ombibus budget bill, is passed by Congress and is expected to be signed into law later today — Congress passes controversial cybersecurity bill attached to omnibus budget — This morning, Congress passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act …
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Facebook offers employees $10K to buy or rent a home within 10 miles of its Menlo Park headquarters — Facebook puts a price on suburban living for employees — Facebook Inc is offering employees at its Silicon Valley headquarters at least $10,000 to move closer to the office …
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San Francisco-based Lily announces $15M in funding, delays its drone from February until summer 2016 — Drone Maker Lily Announces a Product Delay and New Funding — People who order innovative new drones from start-ups without track records have good reason to be nervous.| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Facebook and security researcher clash over disclosure best practices and compensation over Instagram bug and researcher's further systems probing — Facebook, Researcher Spar Over Instagram Vulnerabilities — A security researcher is in a bit of a scrum with Facebook over vulnerability disclosures …
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| Jason Cipriani / Fortune: |
BlackBerry beats expectations with Q3 loss of $89M and revenue up 12% from last quarter to $548M, optimistic Priv will break even in Q4; stock up over 11% — Here's Why BlackBerry Saw Its First Revenue Gain In 9 Quarters — BlackBerry CEO John Chen's determination to move the company away …
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google's Scattershot Robotics Division, Titan Drones Are Moving Into Google X — Google X's lab is welcoming two new moonshots into the fold: The company's assemblage of futuristic robotics projects and its unit for high-altitude satellite drones. — The decision to incubate …
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