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LG Display unveils curved handset display for November launch — (Reuters) - LG Electronics Inc's (066570.KS) display unit said on Monday it will start mass production of curved smartphone displays as the South Korean phone maker plans to launch a smartphone with the new screens next month …
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FBI can't find Ulbricht's personal 600k Bitcoins, plans to sell 26k seized from Silk Road users — The FBI's Plan For The Millions Worth Of Bitcoins Seized From Silk Road — When the FBI arrested Silk Road boss Ross William Ulbricht and took his site down, they seized the site's assets … | Violet Blue / ZDNet: |
| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Purported Service Manual Gives A Look At The Next Nexus Phone, Reveals 32GB Storage, 8MP OIS Camera, Photos, And More — Courtesy of an anonymous tipster, we've got a nice weekend treat for those caught up in Nexus season rumor hysteria. A document, purported to be an internal Service Manual …
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Urban Compass, A 5-Month-Old Startup Worth $150 Million, Will Help New Yorkers Buy — As Well As Rent — Homes — Ori Allon's young startup, Urban Compass, has found early traction helping New Yorkers rent apartments. Soon, Urban Compass will help them buy apartments too.| Danny Hakim / New York Times: |
European Union considering tougher cloud privacy rules after surveillance disclosures — Europe Aims to Regulate the Cloud — LONDON — The words “cloud computing” never appeared in a 119-page digital privacy regulation introduced in Europe last year. — They do now.| Shaun Walker / Guardian: |
Russia to monitor ‘all communications’ at Winter Olympics in Sochi — Exclusive: Investigation uncovers FSB surveillance system - branded ‘Prism on steroids’ - to listen to all athletes and visitors — Athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February will face …
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Nielsen Twitter TV Rating arrives Monday, shows gap between Twitter and mass-market popularity — Tweets Provide New Way to Gauge TV Audiences — Data Show Differences Between Social-Media Service's Users, Mass-Market Viewers — CBS Corp.'s “The Big Bang Theory” and “NCIS” …
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Software, Design Defects Cripple Health-Care Website — Government Acknowledges It Needs to Fix Design and Software Problems — Six days into the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the new health-care law, the federal government acknowledged for the first time Sunday it needed … | David Segal / New York Times: |
Mugshot sites that charge for removal strike some as extortion; Google penalized several on Thursday — Mugged by a Mug Shot Online — IN March last year, a college freshman named Maxwell Birnbaum was riding in a van filled with friends from Austin, Tex., to a spring-break rental house in Gulf Shores …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
As Twitter seeks a female board member, Costolo's sharp response to criticism on the issue attracts more criticism — Carrot Flop: Twitter CEO Costolo Finds Lack of Woman on Board Is No Joking Matter — Two weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the lack of women on the board of Twitter …
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| David Carr / New York Times: |
Using Twitter, Carl Icahn can move markets — Using Twitter to Move the Markets — Last week, while everyone was wondering what Twitter is worth after the unveiling of its I.P.O., I spent some time on a little different math. How much could a single post on Twitter be worth? — How about $1 billion?| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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