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Microsoft Finally Offers To Pay Hackers For Security Bugs With $100,000 Bounty
— For years, Microsoft has refused to offer financial rewards to researchers who tell the company about security flaws in its software, even as Google and Facebook have ratcheted up their so-called “bug bounty” programs.
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You Know What's Cool? 1 Million Advertisers At Facebook
— Facebook just hit 1 million advertisers, a milestone that signals that it has become a mainstream advertising channel for small and medium-sized businesses. — OK, so maybe cool isn't the right word, but it's hard to resist a good line from The Social Network movie.
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NSA Implementing ‘Two-Person’ Rule To Stop The Next Edward Snowden
— The next Edward Snowden may need a partner on the inside. — On Tuesday, National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander told a congressional hearing of the Intelligence Committee that the agency is implementing a …
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What Waze Adds To Google: A View From Waze's CEO
— When Google confirmed earlier this week that it had bought Waze for what we understand to be more than $1 billion, a senior exec in Google's geo-location division talked about Waze's community of users several times. He described it as the service's “DNA.”
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AngelList Raising New Funding From VCs—And Angels On Its Site
— AngelList, the website that helps startups raise angel funding, is now using its platform to raise money for itself. — The startup is raising financing from venture capitalists in addition to a portion of the round …
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Researchers Say They Can Hack Your iPhone With A Malicious Charger
— Careful what you put between your iPhone and a power outlet: That helpful stranger's charger may be injecting your device with more than mere electrons. — At the upcoming Black Hat security conference in late July …
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Not So Anonymous: Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Tightens Identity Requirement
— Since the crypto-currency Bitcoin hit the limelight, many libertarians and privacy advocates have heralded it as anonymous, digital cash. But the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange-and the U.S. regulators breathing down its neck-see things differently.
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Skyhigh Networks Raises $20M Series B To Find, Manage Cloud Services
— Cloud services are increasingly how people get work done in businesses, small and large. — One startup banking on this trend is Skyhigh Networks, which has raised $20 million in Series B financing led by Sequoia Capital …
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Longtime Tech Industry Analyst Michael Gartenberg Joins Apple
— Michael Gartenberg, a longtime industry analyst known for covering digital media technologies and companies including Microsoft and Apple , has left his post as an analyst at Gartner Inc. to take a job with Apple.
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IBM's Watson Now A Customer Service Agent, Coming To Smartphones Soon
— IBM's question-answering Watson supercomputer is building quite the résumé. First it won a much-publicized showdown against the two greatest Jeopardy! champions of all time, then it went to medical school and emerged as a budding oncologist.
Featured Startup on Windows 8 - Ademptio — Face it. You love coding. Or, you hate coding. — For those who really do love it, and for those who find that some of their best ideas happen when they are doing other things …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.