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Facebook acquires link-sharing service Branch for around $15 million — Link-sharing service Branch and subsidiary Potluck have agreed to be acquired by Facebook for around $15 million, sources familiar with the deal told The Verge. Branch CEO Josh Miller broke the news in a Facebook post this morning, but didn't disclose a price.
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| Matt Mullenweg: |
In role swap, Matt Mullenweg becomes Automattic's CEO, Toni Schneider to focus on new products — Toni Schneider & Automattic CEO — Eight years and one day ago I blogged about Toni Schneider joining Automattic as CEO, as I said then: … Fast-forward roughly two thousand, nine hundred …
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Taxi protest in Paris turns to guerrilla warfare as Uber car attacked on freeway — The right to protest has always been powerfully upheld in France - whether it's protesting an immigrant's right to healthcare, the closing of a factory, or even Taxis, who have perfected the art of making their voice heard …
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Sprint's ‘One Up’ early upgrade plan axed after just four months — Sprint's One Up early upgrade plan is no more. With the announcement of the plan last September, Sprint joined T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon in offering a way for customers to upgrade their handset mid-contract.| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Nokia's Android phone appears in prototype form — Images of Nokia's Android phone — code-named Normandy — were published in November, showing what purported to be a low-cost smartphone that would run with a custom implementation of Android. Now another picture of the phone has appeared on Twitter …
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| Brendan Eich: |
Firefox, which is 100% open source, has a critical security advantage over all other browsers — Trust but Verify — Background — It is becoming increasingly difficult to trust the privacy properties of software and services we rely on to use the Internet.
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Dropbox messed up OS upgrade, caused two days of downtime — Dropbox went down Friday night after some normally routine upgrades went awry. While the company restored most functionality within three hours, problems for some users persisted until Sunday. — The outage was followed …
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Groupon Moves Into Flash Fashion, Buys Ideeli For $43M In Cash — More acquisitions for Groupon to widen the net of consumers using its platform for more than daily deals. Today it is announcing the acquisition of ideeli, a flash fashion retailer, for $43 million in cash.
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Internet of Things: The “Basket of Remotes” Problem — We count on WiFi and Bluetooth in our homes, but we don't have appliances that provide self-description or reliable two-way communication. As a result, the Internet of Things for consumers is, in practice, a Basket of Remotes.
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple now shipping the Mac Pro to Europe once again, after EU ban of old model — Since March, the old Mac Pro has not been available to buy in Europe as changes in regulations meant that the old Mac Pro no longer complied with EU law. In particular, the large exposed fans of the Mac Pro …
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Snapchat apologizes for spam increase, denies connection to username leak — In a blog post today, Snapchat apologized for an increase in “Snap Spam” many users have recently been experiencing. The company claims that the spam increase has nothing to do with the company's recent scandal …
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Snapchat, TechCrunch, CNET, Gigaom, Re/code, The Next Web and Business Insider. Tweets: @evanspiegel
| Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek: |
Target Confirms Point-of-Sale Malware Was Used in Attack — According to Target Chairman and CEO Gregg Steinhafel, point-of-sale (POS) malware was used in the recent attack that compromised millions of credit and debit card account numbers of customers across the country.
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