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Mt.Gox says fix in place for transaction vulnerability, Bitcoin withdrawals to resume “soon” — Mt. Gox: Bitcoin Withdrawals Will Resume Soon — Mt. Gox has issued an official statement saying it has found a workaround for its bitcoin transaction malleability problems, which will see bitcoin withdrawals resume “soon”.
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Punching Above Its Weight, Upstart Netflix Pokes at HBO — On the night of the Golden Globes ceremony last month, Netflix and HBO held dueling parties at the Beverly Hilton hotel. Bono and Julia Roberts mingled underneath a bejeweled tent as Netflix, the upstart streaming service …
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PandoDaily and SlashGear. Tweets: @pkafka, @laughingstoic, @mdudas and @rafat. See also Mediagazer
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Bound by 10-year Microsoft search deal, Yahoo's Mayer focusing on mobile and contextual search over web and keyword search — More on Mayer's Search Plans for Yahoo: The “Three S's” and Slipping Through a Microsoft Loophole — Since Re/code revealed in weeks ago that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Secret revealed: inside the most scandalous social network — Will anonymity make Secret essential reading — or become its undoing? — Late on a Saturday evening in San Francisco, at a party filled with tech workers, people keep retreating to odd corners to stare at their phones.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
iTunes Connect update brings modernized look, sales breakdowns by category, region and more — Sales data redacted. — Apple today updated the Sales and Trends section of iTunes Connect, giving developers more detailed information about the origin of their apps' sales as well as a modernized visual style.
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Profile of Brian Krebs, who was first to uncover security breaches at Adobe and Target — Reporting From the Web's Underbelly — SAN FRANCISCO — In the last year, Eastern European cybercriminals have stolen Brian Krebs's identity a half dozen times, brought down his website …
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Krebs on Security. Tweets: @theiacp, @gerryfsmith, @farristimimi, @sullduggery, @carr2n, @virusbtn and @raju. Thanks:@srikardr. See also Mediagazer
| TechCrunch: |
Basis Science, developer of health-tracking watch, said to be in acquisition talks with Apple, Google — Basis In Acquisition Talks With Everyone — Looks like Google might be ticking off a box on its wearables shopping list, or someone else might be. Basis Science, the company behind … | Karyne Levy / Business Insider: |
Google To Take Over San Francisco Space For Engineers Who Don't Want To Commute To Silicon Valley — You know what's worse than a Google bus in the middle of San Francisco's Mission District? — A Google-owned building in the middle of San Francisco's Mission District.| Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Pando raises Series A of $1.2M+, about half its seed raise, led by “unconventional” Tennessee-based investors — The new Pando: “Speaking truth to the new power” — Two years and one month ago, I officially founded PandoDaily. I had $2.5 million of investor money …
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SouthernAlpha. Tweets: @samfbiddle, @jasonschreier, @joshsternberg, @alex and @mcarney. See also Mediagazer
| Reuters: |
Spotify seeks to hire U.S. filings expert as bankers eye IPO — (Reuters) - Online music streaming service Spotify is recruiting a U.S. financial reporting specialist, adding to speculation that the Swedish start-up is preparing for a share listing, which one banker said could value the firm at $8 billion.
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
People don't always read the articles they share — You're not going to read this — But you'll probably share it anyway — Earlier this month, there was yet another lengthy public debate about Upworthy, the two-year-old publisher that has become one of the most popular sites … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Philips takes on Apple's iBeacon with lights that send deals to your smartphone — Philips is already one of the biggest names in smart light bulbs, and now it's beginning to test a new unit that could be even smarter. At a retailer in Düsseldorf, Philips is piloting a lighting unit … Sponsor Posts
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SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
Zoho:
3 smarter updates for your staffing pipeline — Staffing recruiters manage multiple client requirements, large candidate databases, and tight submission deadlines. Finding suitable candidates is only the first step.
3 smarter updates for your staffing pipeline — Staffing recruiters manage multiple client requirements, large candidate databases, and tight submission deadlines. Finding suitable candidates is only the first step.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
WebBrain:
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.
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The Upstarts Podcast:
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Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
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