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Fred Wilson On Bitcoin, Unbundling, Data Leakage And Health Care — During the 10th edition of the LeWeb conference in Paris today, New York-based investor Fred Wilson explained the “mega trends” that currently influence which companies he invests in. — Wilson stressed that he doesn't so much look …
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How Foursquare used its massive check-in database to make passive notifications work — The Brilliant Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From the Dead — Dennis Crowley thought his 13-year dream might never come true. — Crowley is the founder of Foursquare, the seminal social networking service … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
One standard to sync them all: AllSeen Alliance forms to accelerate Internet of Things adoption — Eighteen months ago, Qualcomm SVP Rob Chandok succinctly explained how the internet of things had failed. Instead of working together, manufacturers designed their smart televisions and appliances …
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| Kyle VanHemert / Wired: |
How Apple's Lightning-Plug Guru Reinvented Square's Card Reader — Square also developed a new custom read head—the piece that swipes data from the card itself. The two rectangles here draw from two different data bands hidden in the card's magnetic stripe. Photo: Josh Valcarcel/WIRED
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Google now lets you create your own Street View maps using Photo Sphere or your dSLR camera — Google has unveiled a new way to allow anyone to create their own personalized Street View map of their location. The company states in a blog post that a Street View experience can be created …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Pandora for iOS gets an alarm clock for waking up to your favorite station and new design for iOS 7 — Pandora today updated its iOS app with a new alarm clock feature and a design just for iOS 7. You can download the new version now directly from Apple's App Store.| Joe Eskenazi / The Snitch: |
Google Bus: Max Bell Alper Is the Boy Who Cried Gentrification — Max Bell Alper has befouled his own well. He's soiled his own bed. You can use Google to hunt down other apropos analogies. Busloads of employees roll out of San Francisco every day to make it so.
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EU warns Nokia not to become ‘patent troll’ … AMSTERDAM (AP) — Europe's top regulator has warned Nokia not to try to become a “patent troll” after the Finnish company sold most of its cellphone-making business to Microsoft Corp. this year but retained its patent portfolio.
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| Daniel Terdiman / CNET: |
Google barge on ‘hiatus’ amid scrutiny from two agencies — Whether it's a Google Glass store or a showroom for all things Google X, one thing is clear: No one will be visiting Google Barge anytime soon. — The once-mysterious barge, currently sitting idle alongside a pier at Treasure Island …
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| AppleInsider: |
Ousted Apple exec Scott Forstall reportedly advising startups, focusing on philanthropy — Not much has been heard of former iOS head Scott Forstall since he was fired from Apple in 2012, but a report published on Monday claims to shed some light on the ousted executive's activities over the past year.
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| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Netflix open sources its data traffic cop, Suro — Netflix is open sourcing a tool called Suro that the company uses to direct data from its source to its destination in real time. More than just serving a key role in the Netflix data pipeline, though, it's also a great example of the impressive …
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| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Step aside iBeacon, Qualcomm has low-cost Gimbal Proximity Beacons — Apple's iBeacon is already tracking where you are in Apple Stores in order to present a more personalized experience. It's not the only game in town though. Qualcomm's Gimbal Proxmity Beacons are now available for as low … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Qualcomm Introduces Its First 64-Bit Chip, Though This One Takes Aim at the Low End — Qualcomm is detailing on Monday a new entry-level mobile processor that packs a number of high-end features. — The Snapdragon 410 is designed for phones that sell for $150 or less but includes …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's “Threshold” could include three SKUs (modern, traditional, and enterprise) built on common Windows core — More on Microsoft's SKU-morphic Windows vision — Summary: Microsoft's plans for Windows SKUs is undergoing a transformation.| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Chinese hackers spied on Europeans before G20 meeting: researcher — (Reuters) - Chinese hackers eavesdropped on the computers of five European foreign ministries before last September's G20 Summit, which was dominated by the Syrian crisis, according to research by computer security firm FireEye Inc
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Stealth payment startup Clinkle lays off 25% of staff — Layoffs at stealth payment startup Clinkle — Clinkle still wants to kill Square. But first it needs to get its own house in order. — FORTUNE — Clinkle, a stealthy mobile payment startup that recently raised …
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| Bloomberg: |
AllThingsD Editors Are Said to Complete NBCUniversal Deal — AllThingsD editors Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, who are leaving News Corp. at the end of the year, completed a deal with NBCUniversal for a news and conference business that will bring their current staff to a newly named website …
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Marissa Mayer's Next Big Acquisition Could Be Imgur, The Photo-Sharing Site Reddit Loves — This fall, Yahoo began serious talks to buy photo-sharing site Imgur, a source with first-hand knowledge of those discussions tells us. — Since she joined Yahoo in July 2012, CEO Marissa Mayer has acquired dozens of startups.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Kindle FreeTime Becomes An Even Better Babysitter, With New Educational Feature That Tells Kids To “Learn First,” Play Later — Kindle FreeTime, Amazon's parental control software built into its line of Kindle Fire devices, is being upgraded ahead of the holidays …
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| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
The Biggest Social Network No One Is Talking About: Gamers — The NSA is spying on gamers for the same reason it wants to spy on your Facebook account. It's a clear map of your relationships. — The easy reaction to today's revelation in the Guardian that the National Security Agency spied …
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Guardian, Bright Side Of News*, Motherboard, Lastest ITProPortal news and Business Insider. Tweets: @jbasher
| Pradeep / WMPoweruser: |
Microsoft Research Releases Socl App For Windows Phone 8 Devices — If you are not aware of Microsoft's own social network called Socl, here is the description from Microsoft. Socl offers a set of simple, fun “create experiences” that make it even easier to express and share ideas with people worldwide …
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| Joab Jackson / Computerworld: |
DARPA makes games of finding software vulnerabilities — DARPA creates a set of games that covertly search for software vulnerabilities — The U.S. Department of Defense may have found a new way to scan millions of lines of software code for vulnerabilities, by turning the practice …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat Files For A Restraining Order, Accuses Ousted Founder Of Leaking Confidential Court Docs — Snapchat has filed for a temporary restraining order against Reggie Brown, the man who claims to have invented the idea for disappearing messages. According to court documents filed today …
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