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Biz Stone and Ben Finkel launch Jelly: “a new way to search with pictures and people from your social networks” — Introducing Jelly — Humanity is connected like never before. In fact, recent white papers have concluded that the proverbial “six degrees of separation” …
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App Store Sales Top $10 Billion in 2013 — Record-Breaking December with Over $1 Billion in Sales — CUPERTINO, CaliforniaJanuary 7, 2014Apple® today announced that customers spent over $10 billion on the App Store in 2013, including over $1 billion in December alone.
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An Introduction To Yahoo Tech! — Okay, Seriously: What The Heck Is Bitcoin, And Why Do So Many People Prefer It To Dollars And Cents? — Online customer reviews are fantastic, but there's still something to be said for reading a critic you know. Over time, you get to know her opinions, preferences, and style.
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How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet — Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and the other tech titans have had to fight for their lives against their own government. An exclusive look inside their year from hell—and why the Internet will never be the same. — Washington Post reporters called … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Sony announces PlayStation Now, its cloud gaming service for TVs, consoles, and phones — The PlayStation 4 won't recognize discs from previous Sony game consoles, but that might not matter for long. Sony has just announced PlayStation Now, a service that will bring streaming PlayStation games to PS4 …
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| Nick D'Aloisio / Yahoo: |
Yahoo News Digest: Get In The Know In No Time — With the introduction of mobile devices, plenty of things have changed. The way we find, consume and share news has evolved. As things become more complex in nature, news consumption has become overwhelming.
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Vine Co-Founder Steps Down From Lead Role at Company — Dom Hofmann, co-founder of the social video-sharing service Vine, has stepped down from his lead general manager role at the company, according to three sources close to the situation. — Hofmann, who has led the company since … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Announces That It Has Acquired “Intelligent Homescreen” Startup Aviate — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just made her first announcement on-stage at her Consumer Electronics Show keynote — that the company has acquired Aviate, a startup that automatically organizes the apps on your homescreen.| Mark Mazzetti / New York Times: |
Anonymous burglars who exposed FBI's spying program in 1971 come forward for the first time — Burglars Who Took on F.B.I. Abandon Shadows — Stealing J. Edgar Hoover's Secrets: One night in 1971, files were stolen from an F.B.I. office near Philadelphia. They proved that the bureau was spying on thousands of Americans.
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Freedom of the Press …, Mashable, Nextgov, Business Insider and Guardian. Tweets: @molleindustria
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
T-Mobile CEO on Being Thrown Out of AT&T's Party: “I Just Wanted to Hear Macklemore” — T-Mobile CEO John Legere has been trying to crash AT&T's party metaphorically for a while now. — On Monday, he decided to do it literally, working his way into a party that the telecom giant was throwing for its developers at the Palms Hotel.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Fab CEO Jason Goldberg's 3,500-Word Mea Culpa: “We Had Started to Dream in Billions” — A new year, a new Jason Goldberg? After watching himself and his e-commerce company Fab take a very public beating in the second half of 2013, Goldberg kicked off the new year today with a 3,500-word blog post …
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The Shady Practice of Mobile App Install Ads — When former CBS Interactive exec Jason Kint tried to read this Associated Press story on his iPhone on Jan. 1, he wasn't just given an intrusive copy-blocking Candy Crush ad. He was automatically redirected to the download page for the popular mobile game in Apple's App Store.| Andrea Peterson / The Switch: |
At least eight security experts cancel appearance at RSA Conference over NSA ties — At least eight security experts boycott prominent security conference over NSA ties — At least eight computer security researchers have withdrawn from a major security conference in a protest …
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Yahoo Advertising revamped to unify web, mobile, and video ad products — Introducing the new Yahoo Advertising — Today we are announcing a unified approach to digital advertising that only Yahoo can deliver - across premium and audience-focused display, native and search advertising.| Danny Yadron / Digits: |
Kanye's Lawyer Moves to Block Coinye — Lawyers for Kanye West filed cease-and-desist papers against the seven anonymous coders behind Coinye West, a virtual currency that went from chatroom joke to Internet sensation last week. — The legal document, dated Jan. 6, includes an image of Coinye …
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| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Razer's Nabu smart band is half fitness tracker and half smart watch (video) — Try as we might, it's hard to predict what a company like Razer might do. The firm has surprised us year after year with overpowered tablets, shockingly thin gaming laptops and OLED-adorned keyboard interfaces.
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Ford CEO Mulally makes it official: Not joining Microsoft — Ford CEO Alan Mulally said today that he will not leave the company to join Microsoft. — In an interview with the Associated Press on Tuesday, the highly-coveted executive said that he would stay with Ford at least through 2014.
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BGR, The Verge, ZDNet, NYT Bits, Computerworld, PC Magazine, Associated Press, GeekWire, LiveSide.net, Gotta Be Mobile, Automotive News Automaker and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @kfitchard
| Tyler Gold / The Verge: |
Sprint launches new ‘Framily’ plans that let you and your friends team up to save money on your bill — Sprint will soon launch a competitive new way for you to save on your monthly phone bill. According to a source familiar with the service, the new option will be called a ‘Framily’ plan …
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| Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Sony announces Oculus Rift virtual reality headset competitor — Sony Entertainment president Mike Fasulo briefly shows off the company's new virtual reality headset. — CES 2014 … Movie watchers and gamers who just like to enjoy their content alone may like Sony's latest product: a virtual reality headset.Sponsor Posts
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