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| Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror: |
App ecosystems reinvent everything hateful about the software industry before the web blew it up — App-pocalypse Now — I'm getting pretty sick of being nagged to install your damn apps. — XKCD helpfully translates: — Yeah, there are smart app banners, which are marginally less annoying …
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| Marc Andreessen / Andreessen Horowitz: |
The Future of the News Business: A Monumental Twitter Stream All in One Place — I am more bullish about the future of the news industry over the next 20 years than almost anyone I know. You are going to see it grow 10X to 100X from where it is today. That is my starting point for any discussion about the future of journalism.
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| Kazuhiko Tamaki / Reuters: |
Japan authorities looking into closure of Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange — (Reuters) - Japanese authorities are looking into the abrupt closure of Mt. Gox, the top government spokesman said on Wednesday in Tokyo's first official reaction to the turmoil at what was the world's biggest exchange for bitcoin virtual currency.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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 …
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| Associated Press: |
Apple files appeal in e-book antitrust case — Apple asks federal appeals court to overturn finding in antitrust case, or award new trial — NEW YORK (AP) — Apple filed papers on Tuesday telling a federal appeals court in New York that a judge's finding it violated antitrust laws …
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| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
MasterCard testing security feature that okays purchases based on phone location — Locking down those credit cards while globe trotting is always a chief concern. Today at Mobile World Congress, MasterCard and Syniverse announced a joint effort to ease the fears of travelers.| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Apple to Arizona: Anti-gay bill puts Mesa sapphire plant at risk — It's not clear if Apple could do business in a state that sanctions discrimination against gays. — FORTUNE — Apple (AAPL) confirmed Monday that it has urged Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to veto a bill that would allow business owners …
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
360 million newly stolen credentials on black market: cybersecurity firm — (Reuters) - A cybersecurity firm said on Tuesday that it uncovered stolen credentials from some 360 million accounts that are available for sale on cyber black markets, though it is unsure where they came from or what they can be used to access.| Bloomberg: |
Rolls-Royce Drone Ships Challenge $375 Billion Industry: Freight — In an age of aerial drones and driver-less cars, Rolls-Royce (RR/) Holdings Plc is designing unmanned cargo ships. — Rolls-Royce's Blue Ocean development team has set up a virtual-reality prototype at its office in Alesund …
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| Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill: |
Cell phone freedom bill passes House — Legislation aimed at letting people use their cell phones with any mobile carrier they wish was narrowly approved by the House today, after several Democrats opposed the bill due to a last minute change in the text. — House Republicans called …
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| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
With Box, Yelp And Palantir On Board, Piazza Lands $8M From Khosla To Bring Recruiting To Its Social Q&A Platform For Students — Hands On With Meta Pro, The Augmented Reality Glasses With 16X More Screen Than Google Glass — As free online social tools now play a central role in how we communicate … | Rohin Dhar / Priceonomics Blog: |
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.| 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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| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Happy ending: @N has been restored to its rightful owner — Many of you have been following with interest Naoki Hiroshima's tale of how he was extorted into giving up his valuable @N username on Twitter. The good news is that Hiroshima is back in control of the account:
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| Wall Street Journal: |
White House Weighs Four Options for Revamping NSA Phone Surveillance — Proposals Range From Running Program Through Phone Companies to Ditching It Altogether — WASHINGTON—Administration lawyers have presented the White House with four options for restructuring the National Security …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
OpenX launches its mobile-first native ad exchange — OpenX Technologies is launching a mobile-focused native ad exchange today that it says will help app and game developers and publishers make a lot more money. — In an event at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, mobile monetization firm OpenX is unveiling Native O|
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Netflix mocks Amazon Prime Air with hilarious ‘Drone 2 Home’ video — Netflix's not-Qwikster DVD-by-mail business doesn't get the same amount of attention as the company's streaming arm, but as this video (embedded after the break) shows, it still has some imagination.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Quietly Begins Pushing Its Photo Backup Software To Google+ Users — Microsoft Adds Full TypeScript Support To Visual Studio — Google has begun pushing its “Auto Backup” photo archival software to Mac and Windows users via the company's social networking platform, Google+.| Mathew Ingram / Gigaom: |
Reddit embraces its role as a journalistic entity with new live-reporting feature — Some critics may see Reddit as a more restrained version of the online community 4chan — a place for nerds to talk about Star Trek or whatever the latest meme is — but the site has also become a place …
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| Juan Carlos Torres / Android Community: |
Samsung unveils hexa-core and 2.1 GHz octa-core Exynos chips — Showing its full hand at MWC 2014, Samsung has announced two new members of its Exynos 5 family. The new Exynos 5 Octa 5422 and Hexa 5260 already powers two of Samsung's latest smartphones. — As the name indicates …
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| Mat Honan / Wired: |
Inside the High-Stakes Battle to Control How You Talk to Friends — Before the scrum — over who will control mobile messaging turned hot last week, with Facebook's $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp, things got very, very cold. In December, an ice storm was blowing into the Canadian city of Waterloo … Sponsor Posts
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