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Responding to government legal demands for customer data — General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft — Today we have asked the Attorney General of the United States to personally take action to permit Microsoft and other companies to share publicly …
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
Spygate Lawsuit Accuses NSA of Unconstitutional ‘Dragnet Electronic Surveillance’ — A broad coalition of groups supporting everything from religion, drugs, digital rights to guns and the environment sued the National Security Agency today, demanding a federal judge immediately halt what they are calling an …
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Gesture In The Picture, As Intel Reportedly Picks Up Omek But PrimeSense Dismisses Apple Acquisition Rumors — Yet more exits for Israeli startups, with the latest two developments a throwback to the hardware and engineering muscle that raised the tech profile of the region in the first place … | Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Play Store redesign points to Google Glass support — Google's updated Play Store includes mention of Glass, implying that the company's headset will be managed through the store soon. Users who have linked Glass with their Google account have been seeing the device in the site's “compatible devices” list when viewing apps.| Jerome Segura / Malwarebytes Unpacked: |
FBI Ransomware Now Targeting Apple's Mac OS X Users — For years, Windows users have been plagued by ransomware demanding several hundred dollars to unlock their computers. — The bad guys know there is a growing market of Apple consumers who, for the most part, feel pretty safe about browsing …
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AT&T counters T-Mo's Jump with Next, its own phone upgrade program. Is it a better deal? — Not to be outdone by T-Mobile's new smartphone upgrade program Jump, AT&T is launching its own plans next week that will let customers trade up to new handsets before their contracts are up.
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Google Pitches Online TV Service to Media Companies — Streaming of Traditional TV Programming Is Also Planned by Others — Google Inc. has approached media companies about licensing their content for an Internet TV service that would stream traditional TV programming, people familiar with the matter say.
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Instagram Lead Designer Tim Van Damme Headed to Dropbox — Dropbox is bulking up on its design talent. — As I wrote on Monday, Tim Van Damme, Instagram's lead designer, will be leaving the company a year and half after joining the photo-sharing startup.| John McDermott / AdAge: |
Captain Morgan Starts Targeting Ads At Foursquare Check-Ins — At a Bar? Captain Morgan Suggests a Captain and Ginger — Foursquare has started rolling out post check-in ads — ads served to users immediately after they check in at certain locations — and Captain Morgan is one of the first brands on board.
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After Acquisitions Aplenty, Yahoo Q2 Beats With EPS At 35 Cents, But Revenue Flat Again At $1.07B — The day for purple exclamation points (or lack thereof) has arrived. Yahoo just released its earnings report for the second quarter of 2013, with better-than-expected (non-GAAP) net earnings of $386 million, or 35 cents per share.
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| Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
Machine learning startup Ayasdi raises $30.6M to map your data — Ayasdi, the machine learning startup that creates maps out of complex datasets, has raised a $30.6 million series B round of venture capital. New investor IVP led the round, with Citi Ventures and GE Ventures chipping in …
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Airbnb Slows Hiring Overseas, Shifts Strategy — Airbnb Inc. is trying not to become another cautionary tale in international expansion. — One of technology's hottest startups, with a valuation of $2.5 billion, the online-accommodation rental service has recently slowed down hiring …
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Do Not Track standards group shoots down advertiser proposal — A W3C working group will proceed with its existing draft standard for governing how browsers tell advertisers that people don't want their online behavior tracked. — A standards group rejected a proposed standard …
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Bill Gates on the future of education, programming and just about everything else — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has thoughts on a lot of things, from the demise of lecture halls to the awesomeness of the patent system. He took the stage at the company's annual Faculty Summit …
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Apple Launches Logic Pro X with Virtual Drummer and Flex Pitch — Apple today announced the launch of Logic Pro X, the next-generation version of its professional audio software. The release brings a completely revamped Logic Pro application including a new virtual drummer and integrated pitch editing …
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| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
A bird's eye view of the AT&T-Leap Wireless merger — I've already taken one crack at explaining why AT&T would want to buy regional carrier Leap Wireless. This deal is clearly about spectrum. AT&T wasn't able to get it by purchasing T-Mobile so it's hoping to pick up airwaves … Sponsor Posts
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