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LG's SmartThinQ smart home hub connects to your appliances and gadgets, needs smartphone to control them and play music, looks like Amazon Echo with LCD display — LG's smart home hub looks like an Amazon Echo with a screen — Amazon's Echo was one of the stars of the retail giant's … | Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
LG Display, Samsung Display to supply OLED screens for iPhones - report — South Korea's LG Display Co Ltd and the panel-making unit of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will supply organic light emitting diode (OLED) screens for Apple Inc's iPhones, the Electronic Times reported on Wednesday citing unnamed sources.| The Local: |
Apple agrees to pay €318M in taxes to close the investigation into €1B of undeclared profits by its Italian subsidiary, tax office confirms — Apple to pay €318m in tax owed to Italy — US tech giant Apple has agreed to pay €318 million in tax owed to Italy's inland revenue … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google confirms next Android version won't implement Oracle's proprietary Java APIs — Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle's Java Development Kit (JDK).
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Samsung's new Tizen-based TVs will have GAIA security with pin lock for credit card and other personal info, data encryption, built-in anti-malware system, more — Samsung says its new Tizen TVs will be harder to hack — Samsung has announced that its next generation of Tizen smart TVs will be a lot harder to crack than before.
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Sources: NSA continued to spy on some allies after Snowden leaks, also capturing communications with US lawmakers and Jewish groups — U.S. Spy Net on Israel Snares Congress — National Security Agency's targeting of Israeli leaders also swept up the content of private conversations with U.S. lawmakers
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Egypt shuts down Facebook's Free Basics internet service on telco provider Etisalat, reasons unclear — Free Internet service for over 3 million Egyptians shut down — BEIRUT (AP) — Social media site Facebook says a program that had been giving free basic Internet services to over three million Egyptians has been shut down.
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Chain issues first private investor shares using Nasdaq Linq blockchain platform — Chain Issues Investor Shares on Nasdaq Blockchain Platform — Blockchain startup Chain has issued shares to a private investor using Nasdaq's recently launched private markets blockchain solution, Linq.
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Sidecar, once an Uber and Lyft competitor, is shutting down on December 31 — Sidecar has announced it's shutting down at the end of the year. Company chief executive Sunil Paul explained in a Medium post (not the company's official blog, strangely) that the move was intended to help pave …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Instacart increases minimum grocery delivery fee from $3.99 to $5.99, ups Instacart Express subscription cost from $99 to $149 — Instacart increases its minimum grocery delivery fee by 50% — Instacart, a startup that delivers grocery orders placed through its web and mobile apps …
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Flawed Chrome extension forcibly installed by AVG antivirus software could have exposed browsing history and other personal data of 9M+ users — AVG's Chrome extension exposes personal data of 9 million users — Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy discovered a vulnerability … | Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Spotify sued over mechanical rights that cover songwriters' royalties for reproduction of a musical work — David Lowery Sues Spotify for Copyright Infringement — Spotify has been sued for copyright infringement in a case that accuses it of failing to properly license songwriting rights in the United States.
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