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GCHQ spied on WikiLeaks visitors; NSA discussed targeting WikiLeaks, Pirate Bay, and Anonymous — Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters — Top-secret documents from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart reveal …
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Here Comes the Candy Crush IPO! After a $1.9 Billion Year, King Gets Ready to Go Public — Candy Crush isn't just a crazily addictive time-waster: It's also a really, really big business. Now the company behind it wants to go public. King Digital Entertainment, the Irish publisher behind Candy Crush …
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| FaryaabS / SamMobile: |
Explained: Samsung's implementation of the fingerprint sensor on the upcoming Galaxy S5 — Yes, you heard it right folks! Today, we are finally confirming that Samsung's upcoming flagship device, the Galaxy S5, will be equipped with a fingerprint sensor, and not only that but we will also …
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| 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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| Phil Wahba / Reuters: |
First U.S. bitcoin ATMs to open soon in Seattle, Austin — (Reuters) - Robocoin said on Tuesday that later this month it will install the first automated teller machines in the United States that let users buy and sell bitcoin, the latest step into the mainstream for the digital currency.
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| Bloomberg: |
Talks for including Netflix on Time Warner set-top boxes are on hold after Comcast deal announcement — Netflix Talks for Time Warner Cable Carriage Said to Slow — Netflix Inc. (NFLX)'s effort to secure a place for its video-subscription service on Time Warner Cable Inc. set-top boxes …
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A profile of Deborah Liu, the woman behind Facebook's fast-growing mobile app install ads — Meet The Woman Behind One Of Facebook's Fastest-Growing And Most Lucrative New Businesses — Deborah Liu has nurtured the social network's Mobile App Install Ad product from concept to hundreds … | Lucian Constantin / PC World: |
Exploit released for vulnerability targeted by Linksys router worm — Technical details about a vulnerability in Linksys routers that's being exploited by a new worm have been released Sunday along with a proof-of-concept exploit and a larger than earlier expected list of potentially vulnerable device models.| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
Facebook engineering director Jocelyn Goldfein talks mobile strategy, unbundling of products, plans for Home — Facebook Home isn't dead yet & more surprises from engineering director Jocelyn Goldfein — Caption: Facebook engineering director Jocelyn Goldfein at the company's NYC office| Chris Kanaracus / PC World: |
Rimini Street found to violate copyrights of Oracle's PeopleSoft, but wins other points — Oracle, Rimini Street both claim victory after judge's ruling on copyright — A federal judge has ruled that Rimini Street infringed copyrights on Oracle's PeopleSoft ERP (enterprise resource planning) …
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| 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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| Jon Southurst / CoinDesk: |
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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| 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.
Tweets: @caseynewton and @hamburger
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