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WhatsApp Ditches $1 Annual Fee, Tests Business Accounts But No Ads, Says CEO — Today at the DLD conference in Munich, Germany, the CEO of Facebook-owned WhatsApp made a couple of big announcements about how the messaging app plans to evolve to its next phase as it approaches 1 billion users …
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Airbus CEO says it will provide helicopters to Uber's chopper service in a trial project launching in a few weeks — Airbus to Join Forces With Uber for On-Demand Helicopter Service, CEO Says — European aerospace company looking to expand its audience for helicopters
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| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
AOL considering changes to its brand, including a name change, to better reflect properties like Huffington Post, TechCrunch, ad platforms, CMO Allie Kline says — AOL's identity crisis: The company may ditch the ‘AOL’ brand — Verizon-owned AOL has an image problem.
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Profile of ComplaintsBureau.com owner Scott Breitenstein, who decided to ban revenge porn on his site after interviews for this piece — At Home with a Revenge Porn Mogul — Scott Breitenstein has been called an “internet terrorist,” “the worst man on the internet,” and worse.
Tweets: @ryanlcooper, @emmaroller, @thisisfusion, @caseynewton, @panzer and @kashhill
| Karl Bode / Techdirt: |
Netflix Pretends It Will Crackdown On VPNs Just Days After Admitting It's Futile To Do So — For a few years now, broadcasters have whined endlessly about the use of VPNs to access Netflix in markets where the streaming service had yet to launch. You'll recall that Australian broadcasters …
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From impersonation and spammers to Gamergate: how Twitter's rules evolved from the tension between its free-speech ethos and business reality — The History of Twitter's Rules — “Because of these principles, we do not actively monitor and will not censor user content, except in limited circumstances described below.”
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LastPass web design elements can enable a hard-to-detect phishing attack; company says it has released an update that mitigates most of the risks — ShmooCon: LastPass design elements create perfect Phishing opportunity — “There's a cool hacker technique called right click, inspect element...”
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Tweets: @xystusp, @sean_a_cassidy and @netik
| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal: |
Truly wireless $300 earbuds from Bragi and Earin are available now, but suffer from bluetooth connectivity issues and poor sound quality — Review: Truly Wireless Headphones Arrive, But With a Few Strings Attached — Bragi Dash and Earin earbuds may usher in an era of ‘hearable’ computers, but they're also works in progress
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BT takeover of EE gets final Competition and Markets Authority clearance — BT Group's takeover of mobile phone network EE has been given final clearance by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). — The £12.5bn deal brings together the UK's largest fixed-line business and the largest mobile telecoms business.| Inside BlackBerry: |
BlackBerry dismisses claim that Netherlands Forensic Institute cracked its device encryption, suggesting user error or third-party apps may be involved — BlackBerry Devices: Secure As They Have Always Been — There have been recent media reports that police-affiliated groups in the Netherlands …
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Qualcomm, Guizhou province to establish $280M server chip development company in China; Qualcomm will also license server chip technology, provide R&D processes — Qualcomm, Chinese Province Set Up Server-Chip Venture — China has taken steps to build a bigger domestic semiconductor industry| Kevin Tofel / ZDNet: |
Alexa can now read Kindle books aloud from an Amazon Echo for free — You won't get the tone of a professional voice actor, but Alexa can read your Kindle books aloud: Best of all, there's no charge. — With so much recent focus on using an Amazon Echo to control smart home devices …
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PYMNTS.com, Mashable, Tech Times, SlashGear, Digital Trends, TrustedReviews, Engadget and The Verge
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