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Google's Project Fi is no longer invite-only, and Google is selling Project Fi-activated Nexus 5X phones for $199 over the next few months — You can now sign up for Google's Project Fi cell service without an invite — You can now sign up for Project Fi, Google's first foray into offering …
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| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business: |
Apple loses Supreme Court appeal in ebook price-fixing case, must pay $450M — Apple Rejected by U.S. Supreme Court in $450 Million E-Book Case — Apple Inc. must pay $450 million to end an antitrust suit after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to question a finding that the company orchestrated …
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| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
Chris Poole, founder of 4chan, is joining Google, to work under Bradley Horowitz, VP of Google's Photos and Streams products — The founder of 4chan is going to Google — Chris Poole, the founder of the controversial online forum 4chan, is joining Google.
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| Craig Federighi / Washington Post: |
Apple SVP Craig Federighi: FBI wants to roll back safeguards that serve as a “critical line of defense against criminals” — Apple VP: The FBI wants to roll back safeguards that keep us a step ahead of criminals — Craig Federighi is senior vice president of software engineering at Apple.
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| Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab: |
Facebook announces a WordPress plugin that lets publishers easily create Instant Articles — As Facebook prepares to roll out Instant Articles to all publishers next month, the company said Monday that it's partnering with WordPress.com's parent Automattic to release an Instant Article WordPress plugin.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Medium plans publisher monetization within a month, considers paywalls and premium content — Popular long-form blogging platform Medium has given the biggest hint yet as to how and when it will let publishers monetize their content. — Medium founder Evan Williams — who also cofounded Twitter … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
You can now use Skype from OneDrive and Office Online — Skype announced today further integrations into Microsoft's suite of online tools, with news that access to the communications app is now available while working in Office Online and OneDrive. This is an expansion of the earlier announcementfrom …
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| Jason Fried / Signal v. Noise: |
Basecamp CEO rails against the “distraction, anxiety, stress” of communicating primarily via group chat amid ongoing enthusiam for Slack by users and investors — Is group chat making you sweat? — Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda.
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Facebook pulls plans to build a demand-side platform into its ad serving and measurement platform Atlas because of too many bots and bad quality ads in testing — Facebook has pulled a big ad-tech project because there were too many bots and bad-quality ads| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Verizon Wireless will pay $1.35M fine to settle US privacy probe for not disclosing its use of “supercookies” to users between 2012 and 2014 — Verizon Wireless will pay $1.35 million fine to settle U.S. privacy probe — Verizon Communications Inc will pay a $1.35 million fine …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Arbor Networks: ‘Booter’ services, built to test the resilience of corporate networks, can be used to conduct 270Gbps DDoS attacks on-demand for just $60/day — Dirt-cheap DDoS: The rock-bottom cost of mounting crippling 400Gbps attacks — DDoS attackers seem to prefer …
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Facebook Messenger now lets you hail a Lyft car, after adding an Uber option in December — Facebook Messenger now lets you hail a Lyft car — Lyft, locked in intense competition with its larger, better financed ride-hail rival Uber, announced Monday that Facebook Messenger users … Sponsor Posts
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