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| Janet Reitman / Rolling Stone: |
Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets — How two alienated, angry geeks broke the story of the year — Early one morning last December, Glenn Greenwald opened his laptop, scanned through his e-mail, and made a decision that almost cost him the story of his life.
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| Tim Worstall / Forbes: |
German Patent Ruling Threatens Microsoft's Windows Phone Earnings From Android — In yet another round of the patent fights going on over smart phones we find that Microsoft has just been dealt a blow over the revenues it gains from Android hand sets. Yes, read that again …
| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
The Sad Story Behind Yahoo's Latest Startup Acquisition: Ptch — On Wednesday we reported that Yahoo acquired a mobile app called Ptch and will shut it down in a month. — Business Insider has since learned from multiple sources that Yahoo paid $6.5 million for Ptch.| USA Today: |
Local police get metadata dumps from cellular providers, spoof towers using Stingray devices — Cellphone data spying: It's not just the NSA — Police maintain that cellphone data can help solve crimes, track fugitives or abducted children — or even foil a terror attack.
Tweets: @mattblaze and @csoghoian
| Businessweek: |
The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry: An Oral History — In 1984, Mike Lazaridis, an engineering student at the University of Waterloo, and Douglas Fregin, an engineering student at the University of Windsor, founded an electronics and computer science consulting company called Research In Motion, or RIM.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Verizon Is Acquiring Content Delivery Network EdgeCast For More Than $350 Million — Verizon is looking to get deeper into the content delivery business with the acquisition of Los Angeles-based CDN provider EdgeCast Networks, TechCrunch has heard. Owning EdgeCast, and combining … | Washington Post: |
FBI's search for ‘Mo,’ suspect in bomb threats, highlights use of malware for surveillance — The man who called himself “Mo” had dark hair, a foreign accent and — if the pictures he e-mailed to federal investigators could be believed — an Iranian military uniform.
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| Daniel Cawrey / CoinDesk: |
Baidu and China Telecom Stop Accepting Bitcoin, Price Slumps Again — The bitcoin price has continued to drop overnight on major bitcoin exchanges. The price on exchanges included in the Bitcoin Price Index all currently sit below $700, with the BPI overall having dropped almost 20% … | Christopher S. Stewart / Wall Street Journal: |
Inside the Effort to Kill a Web Fraud ‘Botnet’ — Working With Law Enforcement, Team Cuts Off Servers for Zombie Computers — For months, investigators at Microsoft Corp. hunkered down in front of their computer monitors, patiently stalking the shadowy figures behind what the company says is a major Web ad-fraud machine.| Kevin Roose / New York Magazine: |
Mirroring Amazon, Uber could evolve into a platform for transportation and logistical services — Uber Might Be More Valuable Than Facebook Someday. Here's Why — One of the odd things about traveling between the Bay Area and New York a lot is the asynchronicity of mass culture between coasts …
Tweets: @mattrosoff
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Why is Microsoft scared of Chromebooks? — Something has Redmond spooked — “It's pretty much a brick,” says Pawn Stars' Rick Harrison as he rejects a Samsung Chromebook brought in by an actor playing a customer. Microsoft really doesn't want you buying this thing. — But why?
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Electronista, Maximum PC, Forbes, CNET, Inquirer, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, GeekWire, BGR, TechCrunch and 9to5Google. Tweets: @hunterwalk
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Hundreds of thousands of already deployed iOS devices can be configured as iBeacon transmitters by retailers — The Open Secret Of iBeacon: Apple Could Have 250M Potential Units In The Wild By 2014 — Yesterday, Apple began a small press push on its new iBeacon technology …
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Forbes, Business Insider, Yahoo! News, AppleTell, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Macworld, Gigaom and eWeek. Tweets: @stilenius
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