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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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| 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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| 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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TechCrunch, Philly.com, Silicon Valley Business … and Business Wire
| 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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| Andrea Peterson / Washington Post: |
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
| Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed: |
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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