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Target could have stopped theft of 40M credit card numbers after security alarms, but didn't — Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It — The biggest retail hack in U.S. history wasn't particularly inventive, nor did it appear destined for success.| Ashley Feinberg / Gizmodo: |
Target turned off function to automatically delete malware, reacted only after DOJ notificaton — Target Knew About Its Massive Hack—It Just Didn't Do Anything to Stop It — Throughout the total absurdity that's been the aftermath of Target's massive data breach, one question has continued … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple developing Preview and TextEdit apps for iOS to view files stored in iCloud by OS X versions — iOS 8: Apple works to further push iCloud as the future of the file system — When Apple introduced both iOS and iCloud, its goal was to eliminate the classic file system found in Mac OS X … | eMarketer and Newsroom Posts: |
Desktop Search to Decline $1.4 Billion as Google Users Shift to Mobile — Overall desktop ad spending set to decline in 2014 while mobile grows 83.0% — Desktop search in the US is poised for a significant decline this year as paid clicks on Google shift toward mobile devices, according to new figures from eMarketer.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft and Nook redo their agreement; no Microsoft e-reader in the works — Summary: It looks like the Nook Windows 8 app may be superseded by a Microsoft reading app. But the planned Nook Windows Phone app is seemingly tabled. — On March 10, Microsoft and Nook Media updated … | Craig Grannell / Guardian: |
How Apple's iOS 7.1 finally quelled users' motion sickness — Animations introduced in Apple's new look for its iPhone and iPad interface in September made some feel physically sick. Now, it's fixed them — Apple recently updated its iPhone and iPad software to version 7.1, adding and improving a number of features.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Clinkle's Still a Hot Mess as Its Big Shot COO Departs (Updated) — Barry McCarthy was supposed to bring stability to the tumultuous environment at Clinkle, the stealth payments startup he joined in the fall as its first chief operating officer. Instead, the former longtime Netflix CFO … | Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Plex opens up Chromecast to everyone, adds automatic camera upload — Media center app maker Plex followed through on a promise Thursday to remove restrictions around its Chromecast implementations, opening up the feature to all of its users including non-subscribers.| Luke Johnson / Trusted Reviews: |
Huawei to release dual OS Android-Windows Phone handset in the US in Q2 — Huawei: We are still committed to Windows Phone but dual OS is better — More Huawei Windows Phone handsets are incoming — With the Windows Phone platform continuing to increase its market share … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 7.1 Includes Warning Message About 15-Minute In-App Purchase Window — Along with several visual tweaks, CarPlay support, and Touch ID enhancements, iOS 7.1 also brought some changes to the way in-app purchases work. When making an in-app purchase for the first time after updating … | Robert Fenner / Bloomberg: |
Satellite Crowdsourcing Adds 2 Million Searchers for Missing Jet — Tomnod.com, a crowdsourcing website run by DigitalGlobe Inc. (DGI), has tapped more than 2 million people to scan through satellite images searching for clues about missing Malaysian Airline Systems Bhd. (MAS) Flight 370.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
FCC approves AT&T's purchase of Leap Wireless, says it's ‘in the public interest’ — The Federal Communications Commission has approved AT&T's acquisition of Leap Wireless, the company that operates the popular Cricket brand of prepaid wireless service. Acknowledging that an unchecked deal … | Eric Blattberg / VentureBeat: |
PayPal mends fences with crowdfunders with revised policies — Image Credit: Illustration by Eric Blattberg / VentureBeat — PayPal and the crowdfunding community have had a rocky relationship — but the eBay-owned payments company has rebuilt that bridge with revamped crowdfunding policies … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amid Bullying & Threats Of Violence, Anonymous Social App Yik Yak Shuts Off Access To U.S. Middle & High School Students — Anonymous communication platforms and the pre-teen-to-teenage brain are two things that don't mix all that well. Just look at Ask.fm, for example … | Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint: |
Virgin Media gives customers 5GB of free cloud storage, launches packages for additional space — Virgin Media has launched Virgin Media Cloud, its own cloud storage solution for its broadband customers. The company has teamed with F-Secure, a third-party firm that specialises in digital security … | Bloomberg: |
Facebook unveils 15-second video ads selling for $1M-$2.5M a day, targets TV marketing budgets — Facebook Unveils Video Ads to Court TV's Market — Facebook Inc. (FB) is releasing its long-awaited video-advertising product today, as the world's largest social network moves to diversify … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google removes underlined links, says goodbye to 1996 — Google started life as a research project in 1996 to crawl the internet and create a search engine. 18 years later, Google is now removing the last of the design left over from that era. Starting today, the '90s-style underlined links … | Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Event ticketing platform Eventbrite has raised around $50M in new funding at a valuation of over $1B — Exclusive: Eventbrite joins $1 billion club — Popular event ticketing company raises around $50 million in new round of funding at a big valuation. — FORTUNE — Event ticketing … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Google drops price of all monthly Google Drive plans to $2/100GB, $10/1TB, $100/10TB — Google announced today on its blog that it's lowering the monthly pricing plans it offers for users buying extra storage on Google Drive. Google attributes the changes to “recent infrastructure improvements” … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Lookout Hands CEO Reins to Jim Dolce; Founder John Hering Shifts to Executive Chairman — Having just turned 30, John Hering is hardly ripe for retirement. — But the founder of mobile security firm Lookout does think the time is right for his company to bring in a more experienced hand to lead the business.| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
It's a mobile data world: In 2013 voice stopped being U.S. carriers' main revenue driver — Just like that, in the fourth quarter of 2013 mobile data usage ticked up to reach a crossover point, making data a bigger revenue source for carriers than voice services.| Evan Weese / Columbus Business First: |
Fundable bolsters crowdfunding platform with acquisition of LaunchRock — Fundable bolsters crowdfunding platform with acquisition of LaunchRock — In an “awesome” bit of irony, Fundable LLC has acquired LaunchRock, the online platform that helped launch the crowdfunding site 18 months ago.| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Unity Acquires Applifier To Bring Shareable Instant Replays To More Games — Your friend takes out his phone. “Duuude — You've gotta see this game,” he says, before showing you a particularly crazy scene. — Is there really any more effective ad for a game? — Unity doesn't think so.| Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News: |
Think Twice: 5 tips to protect yourself from email spam — In part one of the Think Twice series, we discussed in detail about spam and its types. We will continue its second part with the story of James.
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How Sleep Can Help with Weight Loss — How sleep deprivation can throw a wrench into any diet and disrupt your progress.
11th Gen Intel Core desktop processors - codenamed “Rocket Lake” - are coming — Gaming is in our DNA. Get the latest on Intel's continued journey to make the PC the best place to play.This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:40 PM ET, March 13, 2014.
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