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TestFlight Owner Burstly Acquired By Apple — Burstly, the makers of an in-app ad management platform called SkyRocket and the parent company of popular mobile app testing platform TestFlight, has been acquired, we're hearing. Though we're working to get more information on this now …
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Re/code, AppleInsider, PC Magazine, Los Angeles Times, ReadWrite, The Next Web, Digits, Computerworld, Gigaom, Business Insider, InfoQ, The Verge, iMore, MacRumors, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac, PadGadget, AppleTell, MacStories, VentureBeat, www.pocketgamer.biz, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com …, SlashGear, Breaking Apple News …, Android Central, App Advice, Mashable, Electronista and Gamasutra
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Sources say Amazon readying an Android-based Web TV box competing with Apple TV and Roku, for March rollout — Amazon Gets Its TV Box Ready, Again — Amazon is gearing up to take on Apple and Roku, again. — Industry sources say Amazon is getting ready to launch a Web TV box …
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9to5Mac, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Computerworld, VentureBeat, CNET, Softpedia News, GamePolitics blogs, Polygon, DSLreports, ReadWrite, MacRumors, TechSpot, WebProNews, PC Pro, Forbes, AndroidGuys, VatorNews, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, Geeky Gadgets, Phandroid, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com …, Mashable, AppleInsider, GamesIndustry International, SlashGear, PadGadget, The Register, GeekWire, Android Community, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, everythingiCafe, The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, USA Today, App Advice, destructoid, Business Insider and VG247. See also Mediagazer
| Paul Graham / Y Combinator Posthaven: |
Sam Altman for President — I'm delighted to announce that Sam Altman has agreed to become president of Y Combinator starting next batch. I'll continue to do office hours with startups, but Sam is going to lead YC. — Why the change? Because YC needs to grow, and I'm not the best person to grow it.
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Sam Altman Taking Over As President Of Y Combinator, Replacing Paul Graham At The Helm — After nine years at the helm of Y Combinator, Paul Graham is stepping away from his leadership role at the famed Silicon Valley startup incubator. Taking over as Y Combinator's president is Sam Altman …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Crypto weaknesses in WhatsApp “the kind of stuff the NSA would love” — Poor implementation of SSL encryption could be a boon to eavesdroppers. — WhatsApp, the mobile messaging app developer that Facebook is acquiring for $19 billion, may be an attractive addition to the social network …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn Finally Lets You Block Other Members — LinkedIn has at last added a long-requested feature with the introduction of member blocking. This adds a new privacy control to the service, which lets you restrict access to your profile, direct interactions, and network activity …
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| Bloomberg: |
Verizon completes $130B buyout of Vodafone's stake in Verizon Wireless — Verizon Sale Cuts Vodafone Value by Half to $100 Billion — Vodafone Group Plc (VOD) completes the biggest sale of the past decade today, leaving the wireless carrier about half the size it was …
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| Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica: |
Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to produce dumb cryptocurrency — Love of money can cause people to do unwise things—like stealing time on your university's resident supercomputer to mine crypto-coins. The Harvard Crimson is carrying the story of someone who did exactly that …
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| Bloomberg: |
Roku Said to Be Weighing Initial Public Offering in U.S. in 2014 — Roku Inc., the maker of set-top boxes that connect TVs to the Internet, is weighing an initial public offering in the U.S. this year, according to people with knowledge of the matter. — A decision to move ahead hasn't been made …
| Laura Northrup / Consumerist: |
Fitbit Voluntarily Recalls Rash-Inducing Force Wristbands — Since the first reports of contact dermatitis caused by Fitbit Force movement trackers surfaced on the company's forums (and gained publicity when Consumerist broke the story last month) customers have asked that the company recall the trackers.
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Fitbit® Official Site, Engadget, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Gizmodo, NYT Bits, Associated Press, Washington Post, Ars Technica, Re/code, MacRumors, The Verge, AppleInsider, Gigaom, USA Today, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, Geek.com, Droid Life, Wearable World News, iLounge, iDownloadBlog.com …, Wall Street Journal, iPhone in Canada Blog and App Advice
| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Sprint launches Wi-Fi calling, turning the Galaxy Mega, S4 Mini into IP phones — In the next few weeks, Sprint customers with a Samsung Galaxy Mega or a Galaxy S4 Mini will get an over-the-air software update that will turn their devices into IP phones - at least when they're connected to Wi-Fi networks.
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The Verge, Engadget and IntoMobile
| Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom: |
Amazon increases price of Prime in U.K. and Germany as it rolls in Lovefilm streaming video — Amazon is rolling together its Prime and Lovefilm Instant services in the U.K. and Germany. Starting February 26, U.K. and German Prime members will be able to stream movies and TV shows as part … | Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
| Chris Williams / The Register: |
Apple releases iOS 7.0.6 and 6.1.6 updates with SSL/TLS security fix — Update your iThings: Apple splats scary SSL snooping bug in iOS 6, 7 — Encrypted connections vulnerable to tampering — Apple has released updates for its mobile operating system iOS to patch a bug that blew apart …
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Apple, The Next Web, ZDNet, AppleInsider, CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @matthew_d_green
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Secret Adds Subscribe/Unsubscribe Options, Post Flagging, Unlinking And More — Hot anonymous social network Secret has just pushed an update for its app that addresses a number of issues and improves performance. The new version allows users to subscribe or unsubscribe to any Secret post by swiping left … | Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple's iPhone led 2013 US consumer smartphone sales with 45% share - NPD — With more than 120 million smartphones sold in the U.S. in 2013, Apple's iPhone accounted for nearly half of those, taking a 45 percent share in its home market last year, new data released by the NPD Group on Thursday reveals.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Airbnb hosts must install smoke and carbon monoxide detectors by end of 2014 — Hosts can request free detectors, first-aid kits, and safety information cards — As Airbnb's housing rental service continues to grow in popularity, the company wants to ensure that all guests have a safe stay.
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The Airbnb Blog, TechCrunch, Gigaom, The Technology Chronicles and CNET
| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Invasion of the Taxi Snatchers: Uber Leads an Industry's Disruption — Ray Markovich started driving a taxi in Chicago three years ago after shuttering his struggling wireless phone store. Driving a cab wasn't particularly gratifying or lucrative—he had to pay $400 a week just to lease his 2011 white Ford Escape.
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StrictlyVC, The Switch and SiliconBeat
Tweets: @erickecage, @jamesappell, @valleyhack, @bw and @nytimesbits
| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
Direct connection between Comcast and Netflix networks suggests peering agreement reached — Breaking: Netflix and Comcast have reached a peering agreement — Consumers' troubles with online video may be subsiding — at least for Comcast customers. Comcast and Netflix appear to have resolved …
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gist.github.com, BGR, DSLreports, Ars Technica, The Verge and SlashGear
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Not using BBM? BlackBerry hopes that stickers will make you start — Meet CosCat and Bubble Bot — The best feature that an instant messaging app can have is all of your friends using its service. The second best, arguably, is stickers. Taking advantage of the surprising popularity … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires Spider.io To Help Spot And Stop Online Ad Fraud — London-based Spider.io has been acquired by Google, the company's DoubleClick advertising blog announced today (via Re/Code). Spider.io is a startup that specialized in weeding out fraudulent clicks around online ads.
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DoubleClick Advertiser Blog, Re/code, CNET, Digits, AdExchanger, Financial Times, InfoWorld, Business Insider, Marketing Land, Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable, ITworld.com, The Next Web, VatorNews, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Quartz, 9to5Google, WebProNews, Gigaom, Softpedia News, The Technology Chronicles and silicontap.com
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
BufferBox Ending Standalone Service, Closing Down Pick-Up Locations And Rolling Into Google — Waterloo-based BufferBox, which was acquired by Google in November 2012, is shutting down its standalone service. The company sent an email to members today alerting them to the news …
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BufferBox blog, The Verge and 9to5Google
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