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Apple's Latest iPhone Puts Focus Back on Fingerprint Security — SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Inc.'s latest product launch could breathe new life into a technology that failed to take hold the first time: fingerprint scanners. — Placing a finger on a computer or smartphone has long been proposed …
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| Kevin Weil / Twitter Blog: |
Driving mobile advertising forward: welcoming MoPub to the Flock — We're excited to announce that we've agreed to acquire MoPub, a mobile-focused advertising exchange. MoPub's technology lets mobile application publishers manage their inventory and optimize multiple sources of advertising …
| TechCrunch: |
Twitter Buys MoPub For $350M To Up The Ante In Mobile Advertising — MoPub, a startup that helps mobile publishers manage their ad inventory, has been acquired by Twitter, giving the social network another route into building its advertising business, specifically on moble platforms.
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| Nadia Damouni / Reuters: |
Some Microsoft investors want Ford's Mulally, CSC's Lawrie considered for CEO choice — Exclusive: Microsoft urged to put Mulally, Lawrie on CEO shortlist — (Reuters) - At least three of the top 20 investors in Microsoft Corp want a turnaround expert to succeed Steve Ballmer as chief executive …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
The Data Factory - How Your Free Labor Lets Tech Giants Grow The Wealth Gap — You're the product, but when you're sold, it's only a lucky few who get rich. Technology lets big companies distribute tools that turn us into volunteers who contribute our time and data while they profit.| Agam Shah / CITEworld: |
Intel ships Haswell, the low-powered chip that could save Windows tablets — After promising to bring power-efficient Haswell processors to tablets, Intel has now started shipping new low-power, fourth-generation Core i3 processors, including one that draws as little as 4.5 watts of power in specific usage scenarios.
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| Randall Lane / Forbes: |
John Sculley Just Gave His Most Detailed Account Ever Of How Steve Jobs Got Fired From Apple — After years of silence, former Apple CEO John Sculley has recently been moving more into retrospective mode. On Thursday, Sculley gave perhaps his fullest public account ever … | Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits: |
The Cloud Era Begins for Enterprise Tech — Let's say it: Last summer was the beginning of the end for the old guard in what is still the biggest part of technology - business spending on everything from servers to software. This fall begins a new competition for the hearts and minds of corporate customers.| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
Crypto prof asked to remove NSA-related blog post — Matthew Green is a well-known cryptography professor, currently teaching in the computer science department of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Last week, Green authored a long and interesting blog post about the recent revelations …
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Illustrated: Game console growth slows as mobile devices take over the living room — Game over — In the “Race to a Billion” there is a graph showing Android reported activations and iOS cumulative unit sales along cumulative console sales. The contrast between mobile phone platforms …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Vimeo On Demand gets rent and own pricing options, preorders, promo code generator, and more advanced stats — Vimeo today announced a big update to Vimeo On Demand (VOD), its direct distribution platform. The new features include rent and own pricing options, preorder availability via … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Outbrain Isn't Going Public Yet. But a CFO Hire Gives You a Hint About Where They're Headed. — Is Outbrain, the content-recommendation service, getting ready to go public? — The Israeli tech press says that's the plan, and offers varying valuations the New York-based company is supposedly seeking.
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Nokia and Mercedes self-driving car project taps HERE research — Nokia and Mercedes Benz will work together on self-driving cars, the companies have confirmed, with Nokia's HERE developing metadata-rich navigation and mapping data with extra information for robot drivers.| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
LinkedIn CEO: We're aiming for 3B profiles and a map of the world's economy — SAN FRANCISCO — Today, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner spoke about his company's future, and his vision is absolutely huge in the scope of its ambition. — “Our longer-term vision is ... to build the world's first economic graph …
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
BlackBerry said to ax dozens of jobs from US sales force — Embattled handset maker cut as much as half its sales force, according to published reports. — BlackBerry laid off dozens of people from it US sales force in another wave of layoffs at the embattled handset maker on Monday, according to published reports.| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
Look out Netflix and Google! An analyst thinks the court may allow ISPs to charge you — The FCC's open internet rules that prevent ISPs from blocking content or otherwise discriminating against the packets that are flowing across their broadband networks are on trial today.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google+ Launches Embeds, Starts To Highlight WordPress.com And TypePad Authors Who Sign In With Google+ In Search Results — Starting today, Google+ users will be able to embed their posts anywhere on the web. The new feature provides its users with the code needed to embed posts … | Cliff Edwards / Bloomberg: |
Netflix Added to Virgin Media U.K. TV in Industry First — Netflix Inc. (NFLX)'s subscription-video service will be offered on Virgin Media cable systems in the U.K., marking the first time the Web-delivered product is integrated by a major pay-TV provider.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft holding Surface 2 event on September 23rd in New York City — Microsoft is preparing to launch its next-generation tablets at an event in New York City on September 23rd. The software maker has emailed press invites to the media today, asking them to save the date for a Surface event.| Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows: |
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