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Mt. Gox's Demise Marks The End of Bitcoin's First Wave Of Entrepreneurs — When I started looking into the Bitcoin startup ecosystem in early 2013, there was something that was just off about half of the founders I met. — “I consider myself psychologically unemployable,” … | Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
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The internet is f**ked (but we can fix it) — Here's a simple truth: the internet has radically changed the world. Over the course of the past 20 years, the idea of networking all the world's computers has gone from a research science pipe dream to a necessary condition of economic and social development … | Doug Thompson / BEEKn: |
Apple Releases iBeacon Specification — Apple has quietly rolled out its iBeacon specification as it starts to certify devices that carry the Bluetooth LE standard. — Under their MFI program, manufacturers can now request that Apple permit them to attach the iBeacon name to their devices so long as they meet certain criteria.| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
For Google Glass, Google lobbying against distracted driving regulation in 3 US states — Exclusive: Google sets roadblocks to stop distracted driver legislation — (Reuters) - Google is lobbying officials in at least three U.S. states to stop proposed restrictions on driving with headsets … | Kiran Moodley / CNBC: |
I would take $19 billion for BBM: BlackBerry CEO — John Chen, CEO of BlackBerry, says if someone offered him $19 billion for BlackBerry's messaging service, he would take it. — The CEO of BlackBerry has told CNBC in an exclusive interview that if the smartphone maker was offered $19 billion … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
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Square is Testing a New App for Ordering Food: Square Pickup — Square, the mobile payments startup, is testing a new app called “Square Pickup.” It's a simple app that lets you order food from a Square merchant ahead of time. The app is currently in testing with several San Francisco restaurants.| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Exclusive: Sean Parker's Airtime has quietly relaunched as OkHello (and it's actually working) — Airtime has hidden its ties to OkHello. — FORTUNE — We all remember Airtime, the biggest, flashiest startup launch of 2012. Napster co-founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning had reunited … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Motorola plans to launch a smartwatch later this year — Motorola is planning to jump back into the wearables market later this year, according to senior vice president Rick Osterloh. The company will launch a smartwatch that Osterloh claims will address “consumer issues like style and battery life.”| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 with SSL fix, FaceTime Audio, contact blocking, Mail fixes — Following an extensive developer beta process, Apple has just released OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 to end users. The update brings a few new features and enhancements, including:| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
It's official: TiVo's co-founders start selling $49 QPlay TV streamer — TiVo co-founders Michael Ramsay and Jim Barton are back with a new venture dubbed QPlay that hopes to do for online video what TiVo did for television. The duo unveiled their new QPlay device and service Tuesday … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
BlackBerry Introduces The Z3, It's First Foxconn Phone, And The Q20 QWERTY Handset — BlackBerry has a couple of new smartphones in the offing, including the first sourced from new strategic partner Foxconn. The first Foxconn BlackBerry is the Z3, a Nokia-like touchscreen smartphone with rounded sides … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
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Inside one of Microsoft's biggest and most mysterious teams, the Applications and Services Group — Summary: Since Microsoft reorganized last July, there has been little information about what its new Applications & Services team is doing or how it's organized. Now we know a bit more.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
King files to abandon controversial “Candy” trademark in US — Company holding on to acquired “Candy Crusher” trademark for protection. — It seems Candy Crush Saga maker King may have realized it reached too far in trying to claim a trademark on the common dictionary word “candy.”| Joe Vazquez / CBS San Francisco: |
Woman Wearing Google Glass Says She Was Attacked In San Francisco Bar — SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) - A Bay Area woman said she was attacked for wearing the Google Glass wearable computer at a bar in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury. — Tech writer Sarah Slocum wrote on her Facebook page … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Disney Movies Anywhere debuts with tight integration with Apple's iTunes — Walt Disney Studios is launching a new movie app called Disney Movies Anywhere that will be tightly integrated with Apple's iTunes store. — You can get the app for free on iOS devices and then use … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Coming Soon: Tweets, Vines Set to Play on U.S. Movie Screens This Summer — Entertainment-related tweets and six-second Vine videos are set to splash onto movie screens across the country starting this summer, through a deal between Twitter and in-theater advertising company National CineMedia.| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Telegram Saw 8M Downloads After WhatsApp Got Acquired — The App Store is a strange and whimsical bedfellow. It is a kingmaker, but with that comes the tears of the anointed, the displaced and the never-rans. — As an example of the store's fickle nature, Flappy Bird held … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
New iOS flaw makes devices susceptible to covert keylogging, researchers say — Proof-of-concept app in Apple's App Store sent keystrokes to remote server. — Researchers said they have identified a flaw in Apple's iOS that makes it possible for attackers to surreptitiously log every touch a user makes …
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