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Twitter says it has suspended 125K accounts for promoting or threatening terrorist acts since mid-2015 — Twitter Steps Up Efforts to Thwart Terrorists' Tweets — For years, Twitter has positioned itself as a “global town square” that is open to discourse from all.
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Tweets: @policy, @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac
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Amazon's Alexa voice recognition service on Echo speaker and Fire TV gets Uber ordering, Spotify streaming, and Domino's pizza delivery — Amazon Alexa Can Now Order An Uber From Your Echo Speaker Or Fire TV — It's been a big week for Amazon's connected speaker Echo.| Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC: |
LinkedIn plunges over 43%, erasing over $10B in market cap, after announcing weaker-than-expected forward guidance — LinkedIn plunges 40% in early trading, erases $10B in market cap — LinkedIn shares plummet 20% on lower guidance — CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports a disappointing cut in guidance at LinkedIn.
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Tweets: @hblodget, @mims, @themoneygame, @bbgbillionaires, @mikeisaac, @cnbcnow, @jcummins, @kawaljit and @markets
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
BlackBerry says it's laying off about 200 in Waterloo and Florida, contradicting earlier reports — BlackBerry confirms it's laying off 200 workers — Update: BlackBerry has apparently thought better of its original strategy to try to pass off the layoffs as a “small number” and amended its original statement.
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Sun-Sentinel, The Register, CrackBerry.com, New York Times, Re/code, MobileSyrup.com, International Business Times, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, PhoneDog.com, Fortune, Engadget, and Pocketnow. Tweets: @mobilesyrup
| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Verizon updates go90 video app to exempt it from data caps for customers not on prepaid plan — Verizon just blatantly betrayed net neutrality by excluding its video app from data caps — The FCC's net neutrality rules, passed last year, explicitly ban internet providers from a number …
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Tweets: @digiphile and @reckless
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Talks between the UK and US underway to amend laws to allow UK to serve wiretap orders directly to US firms — The British want to come to America — with wiretap orders and search warrants — If U.S. and British negotiators have their way, MI5, the British domestic security service … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
PayPal stops taking payments for UnoTelly VPN and SmartDNS service, saying service can be used to bypass copyright law — PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services — PayPal is widely known for their aggressive stance towards BitTorrent sites, Usenet providers and file-hosting services …
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UnoTelly, Ars Technica, Stevivor, iPhone in Canada Blog, MyBroadband, SlashGear, Motherboard, KitGuru and Wired.co.uk. Tweets: @dangillmor
| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Jessica Alba's e-commerce startup Honest Co. is working with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley on an IPO — Jessica Alba's Honest Co. Is Working With Banks on an IPO — Honest Co. would test rocky market for technology IPOs — Previous funding round valued e-commerce firm at $1.7 billion
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GoPro and Microsoft sign patent licensing agreement for “certain file storage and other system technologies” — GoPro and Microsoft sign licensing agreement — On Friday, Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC announced a new collaborative patent licensing agreement with GoPro Inc …
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GeekWire, Windows Central, TechCrunch, Bloomberg Business, MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha and WinBeta. Tweets: @inafried
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Zirx says it's shutting down its on-demand parking service February 29 to focus on its enterprise business — ZIRX Drops Its Consumer Valet Service To Focus On The Enterprise — ZIRX, an on-demand valet startup, is shutting down its consumer service at the end of the month …
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Zirx Blog, VatorNews, Wall Street Journal, Re/code and VentureBeat
Tweets: @rolfewinkler and @merket
| Miles Brignall / Guardian: |
“Error 53” fury mounts: iPhone 6 users claim iOS 9 installation bricks phones with Touch ID sensors repaired by third parties — ‘Error 53’ fury mounts as Apple software update threatens to kill your iPhone 6 — housands of iPhone 6 users claim they have been left holding …
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Tweets: @reneritchie, @dangillmor and @beechv35pilot
| Lucian Constantin / PCWorld: |
Vulnerabilities in Netgear's ProSafe network management system could lead to remote code execution with system privileges, arbitrary file download — Serious flaws found in Netgear's NMS300 network management system — The flaws could lead to remote code execution with system privileges and arbitrary file download
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SC Magazine, Tech2, US-CERT, Full Disclosure, Threatpost and SecurityWeek
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