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| Marc Rogers / The Official Lookout Blog: |
The Bearer of BadNews — Overview — Lookout has discovered BadNews, a new malware family, in 32 apps across four different developer accounts in Google Play. According to Google Play statistics, the combined affected applications have been downloaded between 2,000,000 - 9,000,000 times.
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Ars Technica, PC Magazine, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, TECH.BLORGE.com, PhoneArena, BBC, GamePolitics blogs, Help Net Security, AndroidGuys, SlashGear and Inquirer. Tweets: @marcwrogers
| Norimitsu Onishi / New York Times: |
Ron Conway, Tech Investor, Turns Focus to Hometown — SAN FRANCISCO — The evening did not unfold as planned for Ron Conway, one of the tech industry's most influential investors. — He stayed longer than expected at a political fund-raiser with President Obama at a hedge-fund billionaire's home …
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| Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM Takes a Beating — Shares Plunge 8% as Revenue Drop Rattles Investors — All winning streaks come to an end. For International Business Machines Corp., the moment came this week. — After reporting profits that at least met Wall Street's expectations for 31 straight quarters dating …
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| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Several CBS Twitter accounts hijacked by Syrian conflict propagandists (update) — CBS has confirmed on Twitter that several of its accounts were compromised earlier today, including those for 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, and a local Denver affiliate. While the perpetrator of the hijack is unknown …
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TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Hollywood Reporter, Boston Globe, CNET, The Slanted, Social Zoo, TheCelebrityCafe.com, The Inquisitr, Reuters, Gizmodo and Deadline.com. Tweets: @knowledgeisdeep. See also Mediagazer
| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
The Death of Upcoming.org — So, Yahoo's finally decided to close Upcoming.org, the events community I started nearly ten years ago. And, in Yahoo's typical f**k-off-and-die style, they're doing it with 11 days notice, no on-site announcement, and no way to back up past events.
| Jay Rossite / The Yahoo! Yodel: |
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Tweets: @kevinrose and @waxpancake
| Andrew Huang / bunnie's blog: |
The $12 Gongkai Phone — How cheap can you make a phone? — Recently, I paid $12 at Mingtong Digital Mall for a complete phone, featuring quad-band GSM, Bluetooth, MP3 playback, and an OLED display plus keypad for the UI. Simple, but functional; nothing compared to a smartphone … | Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge: |
Report: Facebook is Iowa's Mystery Data Center Prospect — Will a huge data center like this one rise in Altoona, Iowa? Local sources say Facebook is the company behind Altoona's Project Catapult. This is a look at the Facebook data center in Forest City, North Carolina. (Photo: Rich Miller)
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| TechCrunch: |
Another Win For Flat Design As Facebook Gives Its F Logo & Other Icons A Flatter, Cleaner Look — Facebook has given its main “f” logo icon a makeover, flattening the design by removing the pale blue bar along the bottom, which gave the icon a reflective sheen/slight 3D effect …
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Inside Facebook, Tom Waddington and Gizmodo
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Apple's Stock Not As Doomed As You Think — Wall Street has basically given up on Apple. — The stock has tanked more than 40% from a peak of $702 last September to a new low of about ~$406 this morning. — The stock is also now trading at a price/earnings ratio of 9X.
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TechCrunch, Insider Monkey, TheStreet.com and Motley Fool
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
AMD nabs Apple graphics chip designer — The PC and server chipmaker will soon announce Raja Koduri is joining AMD's team to work on graphics chip design, CNET has exclusively learned. — Advanced Micro Devices will soon announce it has hired a former Apple graphics chip designer to bolster …
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AnandTech, Bloomberg, Digits, Engadget, SlashGear, Electronista, AllThingsD, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, TechEye and iClarified
Tweets: @patrickmoorhead and @anandshimpi
| Dave Tach / Polygon: |
Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles introducing a video game design patch — The Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles have teamed up with Women in Games International to create a new patch that scouts can earn for designing video games, according to a report in Girl Gamer.
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Ars Technica, VentureBeat, CNET, Computerworld, Business Insider, Geek News Central, IntoMobile and Kotaku. Tweets: @lbraun2000
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Y Combinator's Paul Graham Takes His First Ever Board Seat With Healthcare Crowdfunding Non-Profit Watsi — Y Combinator founder Paul Graham is a father figure to countless startups he's helped accelerate, but had never taken a board of directors seat until now.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Twitter sets a May 7th kill date for TweetDeck Android, iPhone, AIR and Facebook integration — Back in March, Twitter announced that TweetDeck AIR, TweetDeck for Android and TweetDeck for iPhone would be killed off. At the time they gave a general ‘early May’ estimate …
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