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Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn From Local App Stores — WASHINGTON — Smartphone users in Russia can no longer download the LinkedIn app on iPhone or Android devices, following a similar move in China to block The New York Times app on iPhones.
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Facebook hires Campbell Brown, ex-NBC News reporter and CNN prime-time host, to lead News Partnerships team, says she won't be involved in content decisions — Facebook is turning to a former television news journalist to help smooth over its strained ties to the news media …
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Apple missed internal revenue and profit goals in 2016, company's SEC filing says, the first miss since Tim Cook became CEO — Executives miss out on part of cash incentives as annual sales, operating profit fall short of goals — Apple Inc. said Chief Executive Tim Cook …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Intel's 94.5x55x5mm Compute Card with laptop level CPU can be inserted into all-in-one PCs, smart TVs, other devices; more details will be announced in June — Compute Card is intended as a more versatile replacement for the Compute Stick. — Intel mostly missed the boat on smartphones …
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| Mehedi Hassan / MSPoweruser: |
Leaked screenshots show Project Neon, an upcoming incremental upgrade to Windows 10's design that will focus heavily on animations — Late last year we reported on Project NEON - the upcoming UI upgrade for Windows 10. Recently we managed a closer look at Microsoft's internal plans …
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| Michael Cooney / Network World: |
FTC sues D-Link over lax security in its routers and IP cameras, says D-Link used hard-coded logins, left private software sign-in key code online for 6 months — FTC: D-Link failed to take reasonable steps to secure its routers and Internet Protocol (IP) cameras, potentially compromising sensitive consumer information
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia and Mercedes-Benz announce partnership for AI car technology, with first product expected to roll out within 12 months — Nvidia already announced a partnership at CES to bring a AI self-driving car to production, and now Mercedes-Benz is also teaming up with the GPU-maker on a vehicle with AI on board.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Google stops supporting Google+ Hangouts API; no new apps can be built as of today, and existing apps will stop working after April 25 — Draw with your face? Conference call ping pong? Not any more. Google today quietly revealed that it will shut down the Hangouts API …
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Trump's Twitter account could be targeted by hackers seeking geopolitical instability or financial gain, has no known special security protocols or protections — The most powerful publication in the world today is Donald Trump's personal Twitter account. In the past six weeks … | Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Fitbit CEO says the company plans to launch a wearable app store “as soon as possible” — Another giant sign that a smartwatch is in the works — Fitbit wants to launch its own wearable app store “as soon as possible,” the company's co-founder and CEO James Park said in an interview at CES earlier today.
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Kanvas releases SDK to allow third parties to integrate its photo and video effects; the app now has 5M users, up from 1M when acquired by AOL in 2015 — The rise of apps like Instagram and Snapchat has put photo effects front and center in the world of picture messaging … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Tod Nielsen named CEO of FinancialForce, a Salesforce Platform-based ERP firm that raised $193M to date; Nielsen is the former CEO of Heroku, EVP at Salesforce — FinancialForce, a cloud ERP solution built on the Salesforce platform, announced today that Tod Nielsen, an experienced executive … Sponsor Posts
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