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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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Review panel will reportedly recommend sweeping changes to NSA's electronic surveillance operations but allow some controversial programs to continue — Slobberknockered: The Tough Hit the NSA Didn't See Coming — How a toothless bureaucratic commission went all Snowden on the NSA.| Guardian: |
Tech firms push back against White House efforts to divert NSA meeting — Dominic Rushe in New York and Paul Lewis in Washington — The top leaders from the world's biggest technology companies pressed their case for reform of the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance operations … | Seung Min Kim / Politico: |
White House chooses former Microsoft Office VP Kurt DelBene to lead HealthCare.gov overhaul — White House to tap Microsoft exec to fix Obamacare site — The White House is tapping the private sector for its next point man to fix the troubled Obamacare website.
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| Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog: |
2013 in Search: Heroes, tragedies and the Harlem Shake — Every day, around the world, we search. We want to find out more about our heroes, explore far-away destinations, or settle a dinner table dispute between friends. And sometimes we just search to find out how many calories are in an avocado.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Acquires PeerCDN As It Builds Out Its Content Strategy — Content delivery network provider PeerCDN has been acquired by Yahoo, the company has informed TechCrunch, in a deal the terms of which were not disclosed. The startup revealed its project earlier this year … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Microsoft Director Says CEO Choice Will Not Be Made Until Early 2014 — Microsoft director John Thompson, who leads CEO search — John Thompson, the Microsoft director who is leading the search for a CEO to replace outgoing leader Steve Ballmer, said today in a blog post that the board will not make its choice until early next year.
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| Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times: |
Uber upholds capitalism, (possibly) learns downside of price gouging — Travis Kalanick, chief executive of Uber Technologies: Let the people walk! (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg / December 16, 2013) — The ride-sharing firm Uber takes great pride in hewing rigorously to libertarian, let-the-market-decide business principles.
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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 … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
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.
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
PayPal acquires mobile platform provider StackMob so developers can build more payment-friendly apps — PayPal is showing that it's serious about supporting developers. Today, the company announced that it has acquired mobile platform StackMob in a move that will bolster its efforts …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Chromebook 11 charger recalled after nine overheat and melt — Google and HP are recalling power chargers for the Chromebook 11 after receiving nine reports of them overheating and melting. One minor burn and one minor incident of property damage resulted from the heating issues …
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Roku 3 finally snags an official YouTube app, support for additional models is on the way — The lack of a YouTube app has been a massive hole in the content lineup of Roku's otherwise well-rounded media streamers, but no more. YouTube just announced that Roku 3 players in the US, Canada … | 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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| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Samsung taps ex-Apple retail designer for possible Galaxy stores — Samsung may have something new in store for its battle with Apple: A new take on the retail store itself. Former Apple Store designer Tim Gudgel is a new Samsung employee according to The Information (subscription required) …
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The Information, TechnoBuffalo, AndroidHeadlines.com, Electronista, Android Community, Pocket-lint, pocketnow.com and SlashGear. Tweets: @lessien
| 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.| Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac: |
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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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Cisco acquires Collaborate.com, eyes mobile — Summary: The networking giant said the acquisition will help it better navigate mobile collaboration and cloud computing. — Cisco on Tuesday said it has acquired Collaborate.com, a company that develops mobile tools for document sharing, task management and team communication.
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Cisco Blog, Network World, VentureBeat and Xconomy
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Samsung wants a retrial of the November retrial in its first U.S. patent litigation with Apple — Last month a federal jury in the Northern District of California awarded Apple $290 million in damages for Samsung's infringement of 13 of the 28 products accused in this first litigation between these parties …
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BGR, PhoneArena, Cult of Mac, App Advice and iDownloadBlog.com
| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Amazon May Get Its First Labor Union in the U.S. — Amazon.com's labor problems have mostly been confined to the online retailer's warehouses in countries such as Germany - until now. For the first time, employees in a U.S. Amazon facility have successfully petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to hold union elections.
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AllThingsD and Gawker
| 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.| Landon Robinson / BestTechie: |
We Didn't Get One of Valve's Steam Machines, So We Built One Ourselves — Late last week, computer game company Valve released its much anticipated game-centric, Linux-based operating system, SteamOS. Alongside it, they sent out their own custom-built Steam Machines to 300 lucky beta testers across America … Thanks:@jeffweisbein
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