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India bans zero-rated internet services, including Facebook's Free Basics, for infringing on the principles of net neutrality — India's Telecom Authorities Have Ruled Against Facebook's Controversial Free Internet Plan — “Who could possibly be against this?” Zuckerberg asked.
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Tweets: @mollywood and @amir
| Steve Ragan / CSO: |
Hackers leak names and contact details of over 9K DHS staff, claim DOJ is next — Hackers leak DHS staff directory, claim DOJ is next — Staff directory contains details on over 9,000 employees — On Sunday, an account on Twitter posted a Department of Homeland Security staff directory with 9,355 names.
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Motherboard, Engadget, InfoWorld, Computerworld, Ubergizmo, Office of Inadequate Security, FedScoop, TechWorm and International Business Times. Tweets: @onekade
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Sources: Google to release Gear VR-like headset this year compatible with a broad range of smartphones, embed VR technology into Android OS — Google pushes further into world of virtual reality — Google is developing a new virtual-reality headset for smartphones, and adding extra support …
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The Verge, Gizmodo, PCWorld, Silicon Valley Business …, Phandroid, Fortune, PhonesReviews UK, Engadget, SlashGear, CNET, Android Central, Computerworld, The Next Web, Fone Arena, Slashdot, International Business Times, Business Insider, Road to VR, SiliconANGLE, Tech Times, GamesIndustry.biz, Daily Mail, Silicon Republic, 9to5Google, Pocket-lint, Pocketnow, TechSpot, Digital Trends, Neowin, ValueWalk, Android Beat, BGR, VRFocus, VentureBeat, Mashable and ZDNet. Tweets: @abatalion
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
The Pirate Bay, other torrent sites add support for Torrents Time plugin allowing you to stream movies and TV shows from your browser — The Pirate Bay now uses Torrents Time to let you stream all its movies and TV shows — On Tuesday, a new simple solution for streaming torrents directly in your browser showed up on the Web.
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Hashtags included in 45% of Super Bowl ads; Facebook or Twitter mentioned in only 5% of ads — Hashtags In Super Bowl Ads Dropped Slightly To 45% In 2016 — As with last year, social networks were rarely mentioned, with Twitter and Facebook tied in our count.
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MacRumors, 9to5Google, AppleInsider, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, SiliconANGLE, BGR, NBC Bay Area, The Verge, Silicon Valley Business … and CNET. Tweets: @chrismessina. Thanks:@dannysullivan. See also Mediagazer
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
StubHub takes on Ticketmaster with new platform for both primary and secondary tickets — StubHub has announced big plans to infiltrate the primary ticketing market, as the eBay-owned company takes on the might of Ticketmaster in the lucrative live events realm.
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| Rex Crum / Mercury News: |
Hong Kong's VTech to acquire LeapFrog, maker of electronic educational toys, for $72M — LeapFrog jumps to be acquired by VTech for $72 million — EMERYVILLE — LeapFrog Enterprises, the maker of well-known electronic educational toys for children, said Friday it has agreed to be acquired … | Bill Gurley / Above the Crowd: |
Behance founder, early-stage investor and advisor Scott Belsky is now a general partner at Benchmark — Benchmark's New General Partner: Scott Belsky — The partners at Benchmark are delighted to announce that Scott Belsky has joined the firm as our newest general partner.
| Akin Oyedele / Business Insider: |
Yelp earnings released early, show Q4 EPS of $0.11 on revenues of $153.7M, CFO to leave — Yelp just released its earnings way ahead of schedule — Yelp just released its fourth-quarter earnings results way ahead of schedule. — The business reviews and ratings website had been scheduled …
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Amazon nearly doubled its lobbying expenditures in 2015, focused on issues like sales tax, drones, and cloud services — Why Amazon is doubling down on lobbying — Amazon nearly doubled its lobbying expenditures in 2015 versus the previous year, spending $9.4 million dollars trying to sway Congress and executive agencies.| Justin Lynch / Motherboard: |
The tragedy of Ethiopia's internet: an instrument of surveillance, and only 3.7% have access — The Tragedy of Ethiopia's Internet — Nafkot Nega thinks journalists are terrorists. When I visited him and his mother, Serkalem Fassil, at their tiny apartment in the outskirts of Washington …
Tweets: @lpolgreen, @smith_jeffreyt, @sallyhayd, @thebanderson, @ilana_u and @pschwartzstein
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Inside the “anti-Uber alliance” and how Grab (formerly GrabTaxi) is fighting for dominance in Southeast Asia's ride-hailing market — Grab, Uber, And The Battle For Southeast Asia — Grab (formerly GrabTaxi) is battling Uber in a little-talked-about but densely populated market and winning — for the moment, anyway.Sponsor Posts
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