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Netflix wants to introduce three pricing tiers for new members — Netflix is getting ready for a new pricing structure, according to the company's Q4 letter to shareholders (PDF) released Wednesday. In it, CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells write:| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Netflix's momentum continues with 2.33 million new US customers in Q4 — Netflix revealed its fourth quarter earnings today, capping off a banner year that saw the streaming service surpass HBO in subscriber count and earn critical acclaim for its original programming.| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
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EBay dismisses Icahn proposal to spin off Paypal — (Reuters) - Carl Icahn has taken a stake in eBay Inc and is proposing a spin-off of the its fast-growing PayPal division, but the e-commerce giant rebuffed the overture, setting the stage for a potential battle with the activist investor.
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
eBay Inc reveals activist investor Carl Icahn submitted proposal to spinoff PayPal from company — eBay Inc. has released its earnings result for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2013. Among the most interesting news, activist investor Carl Icahn has submitted notice that he has nominated …
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Apple Promises to Fix iOS 7 ‘White Screen of Death’ — Since Apple released iOS 7, its completely revamped operating system for the iPhone, reviews have been mixed but mostly positive. However, a glitch that has quietly plagued iPhone users — the “white/black screen of death,” …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Protesters show up at the doorstep of Google self-driving car engineer — This image was distributed by the group Counterforce, protesting Google engineer Anthony Levandowski. — Indymedia — Protests against tech giants and their impact on the San Francisco Bay Area economy just got personal.
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Stripe raises $80 million from Khosla, Sequoia and Founders Fund, now valued at $1.75 billion — Payments Startup Stripe Joins the Billion Dollar Club — New $80 Million Funding Round Will Help Company Battle PayPal — In the crowded field of online payments, venture capitalists …
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| Roberto Baldwin / Wired: |
Tivo Makes Its Hardware Exit Official, Lays Off Most of Design Team — Tivo has been bullish lately about releasing new products beyond its core DVR boxes. Today, we found out why. The company laid off nearly all the industrial designers of those products.| Steven Hickson / Steves Computer Vision Blog: |
Hacking Snapchat's people verification in less than 100 lines — I woke up this morning and saw this article detailing Snapchat's new people verification system. You may have seen it but if not I will summarize it for you. They basically have you choose each image with the Snapchat ghost to prove you are a person.
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Apparently It's OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID And Password — Apple's currently featuring the Sunrise app in the App Store. — Upon first launch, Sunrise invites you to create an account, then asks you to add a calendar. The first option, “iCloud Calendar” …
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| Sriram Krishnan / Facebook Developers: |
Facebook announces it's testing its own ad network for third-party mobile apps — Testing a new way for developers to monetize mobile apps — Monetization is a difficult problem for mobile app developers, particularly as people move toward downloading more free apps and advertising dollars lag behind time spent on mobile.
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Early stakeholders in Scout Analytics claim venture capitalists engaged in ‘self dealing, corporate waste’ prior to $32M acquisition — Not everyone is happy about today's $32 million acquisition of Scout Analytics by ServiceSource. A group of series A preferred stockholders filed suit … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
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Massive Internet mishap sparks Great Firewall scrutiny in China — (Reuters) - Human error likely caused a glitch in China's Great Firewall that saw millions of Internet users ironically rerouted to the homepage of a U.S.-based company which helps people evade Beijing's web censorship, sources told Reuters.
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Chrome Bugs Allow Sites to Listen to Your Private Conversations — By exploiting bugs in Google Chrome, malicious sites can activate your microphone, and listen in on anything said around your computer, even after you've left those sites. Even while not using your computer - conversations …
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| David de Jong / Bloomberg: |
Sheryl Sandberg Becomes One of Youngest U.S. Billionaires — Sheryl Sandberg's fortune surpassed $1 billion today after Facebook Inc. (FB) closed at a record high. — The chief operating officer of the world's most popular social-networking service owns about 12.3 million shares of the Menlo Park …
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WebProNews, Business Insider, Mashable, Valleywag, SiliconBeat and AllFacebook. Thanks:@sarahfrier
| Loek Essers / PC World: |
SimpleAir seeks $125M from Google after jury finds Android notifications infringe patent — Google faces $125 million damages claim after losing Android patent lawsuit — SimpleAir is seeking $125M in damages from Google after a jury found that push notification services in Android infringe …
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Business Wire, ZDNet, The Verge, The Register, SlashGear, Electronista, Phandroid, GSMArena Blog, AndroidHeadlines.com and Guardian. Tweets: @pkedrosky
| Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post: |
Guccifer, the hacker who leaked George W. Bush paintings, reportedly arrested in Romania — The infamous hacker Guccifer has reportedly been arrested in Romania, a bit of early-morning gossip that startled fans of George W. Bush's pet portraits and left everyone else wondering who, exactly, this Guccifer guy is.Sponsor Posts
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