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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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| 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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| 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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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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, PC World, Engadget and IntoMobile
| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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 … | 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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Tweets: @erickecage, @jamesappell, @valleyhack, @bw and @nytimesbits
| 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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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Users blast LinkedIn for falsely implying that friends and colleagues have accounts — Nowadays, plenty of companies will — with permission — scan your contacts to find people you know already using their app or service. But LinkedIn may be taking things a step too far …
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| 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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| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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