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Source: Uber to invest $500M into its own global mapping project — Uber is preparing to pour $500m into an ambitious global mapping project as it seeks to wean itself off dependence on Google Maps and pave the way for driverless cars. — The San Francisco-based transportation company …
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Clinton campaign: DNC's data analytics program we used was breached; no evidence hackers accessed internal systems — Hillary for America Spokesman Nick Merrill released the following statement on news reports regarding cyber hacks targeted at the campaign: “An analytics data program maintained by the DNC …
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Tweets: @chrismegerian, @rainbowrowell, @aaronemyers, @richardhaass and @heidiprzybyla
| Yancey Strickler / The Kickstarter Blog: |
Study: Kickstarter has created 8.8K companies, 29.6K full-time jobs, and $5.3B for project owners and their communities — A new study by the University of Pennsylvania provides the first comprehensive look at how the Kickstarter community impacts the creative economy. The study finds that Kickstarter projects have:
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| Bruce Schneier / Motherboard: |
How the rise of the Internet of Things threatens to make it much easier for cyberattacks to cause damage in the real world — Disaster stories involving the Internet of Things are all the rage. They feature cars (both driven and driverless), the power grid, dams, and tunnel ventilation systems.| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Blockchain technology and crypto-tokens enable new business models for creating open protocols, financed by the tokens protocol creators retain at launch — Protocols are a geeky topic. It's way more interesting to talk about applications. People will go on and on about why they like gmail or some other email application.
Tweets: @arnaudcapdupuy, @romainrouphael, @gautamseshadri, @braxton and @louishatzis
| Jeffrey Rodman / Backchannel: |
Polycom's co-founder Jeffrey Rodman recounts the early days of his $2B company — Polycom's co-founder on the best investment he ever made, and why thinking small is a big idea … was March of 1991 and Polycom co-founder Brian Hinman and I were on yet another urgent trip to buy components.
Tweets: @backchnnl and @stevenlevy
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Chinese consortium led by Giant to buy Playtika, a virtual goods social casino game company, for $4.4B — Niantic Labs' John Hanke will be delivering a fireside chat for AR/VR day (augmented reality/virtual reality) at GamesBeat 2016. Get a ticket here! — A consortium of Chinese companies led … | Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek: |
Google has issued patches for 115 Android Stagefright-related flaws since vulnerability was made public a year ago — On July 27, 2015, news broke about Stagefright, a vulnerability in Android. A year later, it's clear that Stagefright has had a major impact on the mobile security world …
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| Paul Ziobro / Wall Street Journal: |
Walgreens to shutter Drugstore.com and Beauty.com, which were a part of a $429M acquisition in 2011, to focus on its own website — Retailer also to shutter Beauty.com as part of a broader plan to cut costs — Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. on Thursday said it is shutting down two websites …
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| David Gelles / New York Times: |
Verizon's goal with Yahoo and AOL: compete with Google and Facebook in digital advertising by sharing data on its wireless customers with advertisers — Verizon Communications' $4.83 billion acquisition of Yahoo has the technology cognoscenti scratching their heads.
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512tech. Tweets: @pt, @learmonth, @nytimes, @adamsingolda and @nytimesbits. See also Mediagazer
| Kim Zetter / The Intercept: |
Sarah and Peiter “Mudge” Zatko create Cyber Independent Testing Lab to test and score the security of software — At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in 2014, industry luminary Dan Geer, fed up with the prevalence of vulnerabilities in digital code, made a modest proposal … | Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
Cisco cybersecurity report: 9.5K ransomware victims pay ransoms each month, the average ransom is about $300, generating up to $34M a year for hackers — Companies are still using outdated technology leaving them prone to cyber attacks, security researchers are losing their confidence …
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