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How Milo founder Jack Abraham and a small team designed eBay's new feed in two weeks — You Can Explain eBay's $50 Billion Turnaround With Just This One Crazy Story — Back in the middle of the last decade, eBay, the massive auction site, was in trouble.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Google posts large privacy violation notice on French homepage (UPDATE) — A French court on Friday refused Google's last-minute plea to suspend an order imposed by a privacy watchdog, meaning the search giant has to post a notice on its homepage for a period of 48 hours informing users …
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Digits: |
Apple's Tim Cook Discusses Emerging Markets and Plans for Cash — Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company's best days are still ahead. It's not a particularly unusual message coming from a CEO. But Apple is facing pointed questions that the iPhone's growth will slow and that the company's innovative run is coming to an end.
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
T-Mobile wins preliminary injunction against AT&T's Aio Wireless over magenta color — A federal court has granted T-Mobile a preliminary injunction against AT&T subsidiary Aio Wireless on grounds that the low-cost carrier's color scheme infringes on T-Mobile's iconic magenta.| Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire: |
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
From fashion to fitness: the experts behind Apple's wearable future — Apple has been developing a sensor-laden, fitness- and medical-focused wearable computer as indicated by several notable recent hires and information we have received from sources. — New Apple hires on both the senior executive … | Kyle Wilhoit / Trend Micro Simply Security: |
Behind the NBC report that Olympic visitors can expect to be hacked: all attacks required user interaction, could happen anywhere — Details Behind the NBC Honeypots: Part 2 — Recently, I was asked by NBC to participate in an experiment to deploy honeypots in Moscow, Russia, to see how fast they would be compromised.
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More security and granular control with the new API keys — API keys can now be customized in a number of ways. — Users can now have multiple API keys, the keys have a secret to sign requests and you can set granular permissions and whitelist IPs for each and every key separately. — Multiple API keys| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
| Owen Good / Kotaku: |
Creator of #1 free app Flappy Bird says he's pulling the game tomorrow — Flappy Bird's Creator Says He's Taking the Game Down — The creator of Flappy Bird, the difficult, barebones mobile game whose mere existence roiled video games discussion over the past two weeks …
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| Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal: |
Programmatic ad tech plaform PubMatic planning IPO, aiming for a valuation of over $1B — Ad Platform PubMatic Working on IPO — PubMatic Inc., which automates the buying and selling of digital advertising space, has tapped bankers for a potential initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said.
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Mozilla launches Accounts, an improved Sync feature, and a customizable UI to Firefox Aurora — Mozilla has announced several new features today designed to continue the Firefox browsing experience to any device you use. The company has announced that Accounts will be coming to the browser … | Business Insider: |
Meet Shingy, AOL's Self-Proclaimed ‘Digital Prophet’ Who Has The Internet Buzzing — The Internet went bananas earlier this evening, as people began spreading a picture from an interview that was on MSNBC featuring a man with quirky-looking hair. … The man is David Shing, and here's everything you need to know about him:| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Cisco to pay “patent troll” Innovatio only 3.2 cents per router in settlement — Wi-Fi “patent troll” will only get 3.2 cents per router from Cisco — Innovatio IP Ventures has become arguably the most infamous sender of patent demand letters in recent memory …
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