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Testing a New Way to Watch Promoted Videos in News Feed — Since September, we've been testing a way to make videos more engaging on Facebook, and as a result we've seen views, likes, shares and comments increase more than 10 percent. — We're beginning to test a similar video viewing format for advertisers.
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Amazon Reportedly Buys Mobile Payments Startup Gopago, Working On An ‘Ambitious’ New Project — Looks like Amazon may have quietly made another acquisition, and another move to expand its role in the world of mobile: Italian newspapers are reporting that the e-commerce giant has acquired Gopago …
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| Matthew M. Aid / Politico: |
Slobberknockered: The Tough Hit the NSA Didn't See Coming — How a toothless bureaucratic commission went all Snowden on the NSA. — Edward J. Snowden must be pleased with what he started. A group appointed by President Barack Obama in August to review the National Security Agency's … | Josh Gerstein / Politico: |
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Apple airs touching holiday commercial featuring the iPhone 5s and AirPlay — As is tradition, Apple is airing a new holiday commercial this evening, this time highlighting the iPhone 5s, its movie making capabilities, and AirPlay with the Apple TV. The ad is set to the tune of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”.
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| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
Oculus Primed: Meet the Geniuses Who Finally Mastered Virtual Reality — In May 2012, a programmer named John Carmack—who, as a cofounder of id Software and the man behind games like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, is widely seen as the father of 3D gaming—tweeted a picture of what looked like steampunk bifocals made out of a black shoebox.
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Google, Facebook Push to Control Web's Pipes … Technology giants like Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. are expanding efforts to control more of the world's Internet backbone, raising tensions with telecom companies over who runs the Web. — In the past year, these companies that supply …
Tweets: @krmarko, @nytimesbits, @lisafleisher and @samschech
| Joseph Ax / Reuters: |
Oregon politician gets six years for Facebook IPO fraud — (Reuters) - A former candidate for governor of Oregon was sentenced to six years in prison on Monday for fraudulently convincing investors he had access to shares of Facebook Inc before its highly anticipated initial public offering in 2012.
| Chris Smith / BGR: |
Video: Steam Machine beta unboxing, gameplay, teardown and specs — Valve on Friday shipped Steam Machine beta units to 300 lucky developers, with some of them already posting details - including image galleries and hands-on videos - about the new console in town.
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Samsung launches a gamepad for Android that's optimized for its Galaxy phones — Apple began allowing third-party gamepads on the iPhone with iOS 7, and Samsung is also upping its presence in the space after announcing its own gamepad (the not-so-creatively named 'Smartphone GamePad') for Android 4.1 phones.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Mac Pro Build-to-Order Upgrade Pricing Revealed — Late last week, we noted that Apple's business sales staff have been offering customers price quotes for build-to-order configurations of the new Mac Pro, providing the first glimpse at what these machines will cost beyond the $2999/$3999 base configurations shown on Apple's site.
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| Dan Lyons / Inbound Hub: |
Qualcomm Insider: Apple 64-Bit Chip ‘Hit Us in the Gut’ — In public, Apple's rivals in the smartphone market have tried to downplay the technological advances Apple introduced in the iPhone 5s. But it turns out that one breakthrough — Apple's speedy, 64-bit A7 microprocessor — has set off a panic inside its competitors.
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Tweets: @jcroft and @maxrudberg
| Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
Facebook No. 1 Mobile App Of 2013 But Google Has 5 Of Top 10 — Nielsen published a range of year-end data today. Among other things the measurement firm said that 65 percent of American cell phone users now own smartphones. By comparison comScore says the figure is 62 percent.
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| Zeke J Miller / TIME: |
Obama To Meet Tech Execs Over NSA Spying, Obamacare Website — President Barack Obama will meet with many of Silicon Valley's best-known executives Tuesday at the White House to discuss the troubled Healthcare.gov website and controversial surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency, the administration announced.
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
NSA surveillance critic Bruce Schneier to leave post at BT — Bruce Schneier, at an Open Technology Institute presentation on Capitol Hill last Friday, said the NSA had created vulnerabilities in the Internet that criminals could exploit within the next two to three years. — Sean Gallagher
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| Jeremy Kirk / PC World: |
Android botnet stole SMSes from South Korea, emailed them to China — An Android botnet found in South Korea that steals text messages may be one of the largest and most advanced mobile malware operations discovered, according to security vendor FireEye. — The botnet, which FireEye called …
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Apple pushes iTunes Radio ad sales, builds real-time bidding exchange for in-app ads — Apple Is Building an RTB Platform to Sell In-App Ads — Apple leadership has given the iAds team a new mission: always be selling iTunes Radio. And while the sales team is busy pushing Apple radio inventory …
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| Brittany Hillen / SlashGear: |
iTunes and App Store Best of 2013 — With the end of 2013 closing in, Apple's annual App Store and iTunes numbers are in, and among them we find an eclectic mix of apps, albums, movies, books, and other varied content categories. Not surprisingly, “Candy Crush” topped the free iPhone apps chart …
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Federal Circuit affirms Microsoft's import ban against Motorola Mobility's Android-based devices — The Unitd States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today ruled against Google's (Motorola Mobility's) appeal of an import ban Microsoft won from the United States International Trade Commission …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
AT&T adds 4G roaming to UK with EE — Summary: AT&T's US customers should be able to access EE's LTE network, but pricing and speeds remain vague for now. — Liam Tung — AT&T's US customers visiting the UK should benefit from a new 4G roaming arrangement with the EE.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
CloudFlare Reveals $50 Million “Secret” Funding — From One Year Ago — CloudFlare co-founders, left to right, Michelle Zatlyn, Lee Holloway and Matthew Prince — CloudFlare, the Web security and performance company, said yesterday that it had raised $50 million in a Series C round …
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Microsoft: Skype runs on Windows Azure; SkyDrive up next — Summary: Microsoft is continuing to move more of its cloud services onto Windows Azure. The latest in the queue: Skype and SkyDrive. — Microsoft is continuing to move more of its biggest cloud services onto its Windows Azure public cloud.
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