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| Reed Hastings / Netflix US & Canada Blog: |
Internet Tolls And The Case For Strong Net Neutrality — The Internet is improving lives everywhere - democratizing access to ideas, services and goods. To ensure the Internet remains humanity's most important platform for progress, net neutrality must be defended and strengthened.
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Tweets: @jayadelson, @notpatrick, @richbtig, @benfritz, @haroldfeld, @mhelft, @samgustin, @oti and @scxzor
See also Mediagazer| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Netflix Says It Really Didn't Want to Cut That Traffic Deal With Comcast — Remember last month, when Netflix and Comcast signed a deal to guarantee fast delivery of the video service's streams to the cable company's customers? — That's exactly the kind of deal Netflix shouldn't have to sign, says Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.| Andrea Peterson / The Switch: |
Microsoft scanned blogger's Hotmail account to find source of Windows 8 leak, cites TOS — Court docs: Microsoft searched through blogger's e-mail to track down alleged leaker — Earlier this week, an ex-Microsoft employee was charged with the theft of trade secrets in the U.S. District Court …
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Microsoft Says It Will Tighten Policies for Searching Hotmail, Outlook.com — Microsoft said late Thursday that it will “evolve” its policies for searching through non-employee Hotmail and Outlook.com mail accounts in the wake of concern over its practices.| Daily Dot: |
Hacked emails show what Microsoft charges the FBI for user data — Microsoft often charges the FBI's most secretive division hundreds of thousands of dollars a month to legally view customer information, according to documents allegedly hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army.
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| The Intercept: |
Inside the NSA's Secret Efforts to Hunt and Hack System Administrators — A secret document reveals how the NSA tracks down system administrators for surveillance. Illustration: Josh Begley. — Across the world, people who work as system administrators keep computer networks in order … | Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
China Mobile Added About 1 Million New iPhone Users in February — HONG KONG— China Mobile Ltd added about one million new iPhone users last month after it started offering the popular smartphone in mid-January, Chief Executive Li Yue said Thursday. — The comment came hours …
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Reuters, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, MacRumors, Tech Trader Daily, AppleTell, App Advice, Examiner, Gigaom, AppleInsider, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, TheStreet.com, BGR, PC World, Tech in Asia, iMore, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com and SeekingAlpha.com. Tweets: @scottthurm
| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Twitter's new video hosting platform lets mobile users play clips with a single tap — Twitter Rolls Out Easier, Faster Video Playback — Over the past year, Twitter has worked closely with television networks and other professional video creators to upload and promote thousands …
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Marketing Land, ReadWrite, Engadget, The Next Web, Marketing Pilgrim and ReelSEO Video Marketing
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See also Mediagazer| Wall Street Journal: |
Airbnb In Advanced Talks to Raise Funding at a $10 Billion Valuation — Private-Equity Firm TPG Likely to Lead Funding Round for the Online Home-Rental Marketplace — Airbnb Inc. is in advanced talks to raise funds that would value the online home-rental marketplace at more than $10 billion …
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Tweets: @evelynrusli and @wsj
| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Pinterest Seeks 7-Figure Spend Commitments from Advertisers — Company Has Raised $564M And Has No Revenue Yet — Example of a test promoted pin on Pinterest — How Advertising Performs in a Social Media World — Pinterest hasn't brought its ads to market yet, but it's swinging … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Gmail now always uses an HTTPS connection and encrypts all messages moving internally on Google's servers — Google today announced it has made security improvements to Gmail to further protect users' emails from snooping. Gmail now always uses an encrypted HTTPS connection when you check or send email … | JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
Pebble sold 400,000 smartwatches last year, on track to double revenues in 2014 — CEO Eric Migicovsky walks Fortune through the smartwatch maker's successful first year. — FORTUNE - If Pebble is the smartwatch category's David, surely Google is its Goliath.
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Android Community, Android Central, The Verge, MacRumors and App Advice
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Thanks:@jpmanga| Hayden Dingman / PC World: |
Microsoft's DirectX 12 to boost gaming on PCs, mobile devices — San Francisco—Meet the next generation of gaming graphics. DirectX 12 is faster, lighter-weight, and more predictable said Anuj Gosalia, Development Manager for Graphics at Microsoft, at the Game Developers Conference on Thursday … | Cade Metz / Wired: |
Facebook migrates to, open-sources Hack, a language resembling PHP with gradual typing — Facebook Introduces ‘Hack,’ the Programming Language Of the Future — Facebook engineers Bryan O'Sullivan, Julien Verlaguet, and Alok Menghrajani spent the last few years building a programming language unlike any other.
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| James Niccolai / PC World: |
HP plans 3D printer announcement for June — Hewlett-Packard claims to have solved the two biggest problems with today's 3D printers and will make its first big technology announcement in that area in June, CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday. — There's a lot of “buzz and hype” around 3D printing …
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| Julio Ojeda-Zapata / TwinCities.com: |
Minneapolis' FirstTech, Apple retailing pioneer, is closing — When Apple first began selling its pioneering personal computers in the late 1970s, its first batch of machines went to Team Electronics in the Twin Cities. — Team Electronics eventually morphed into FirstTech …
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9to5Mac, CNET, Engadget, InvestorPlace, TUAW, Cult of Mac, Apple Gazette, MacNN and SlashGear
| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Layar now wants to augment your reality with its Google Glass app — Augmented reality and wearable technology go hand-in-hand, so it's with not too much surprise that we've just learnt that Layar's augmented reality app is now available to download for Google Glass.
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Layar, Computerworld, I4U News, Gigaom, 9to5Google, Wired, SlashGear, Engadget and Glass Almanac
| Chris Taylor / Mashable: |
Twitter Blocked in Turkey as Prime Minister Pledges to ‘Eradicate’ it — There's electioneering, and then there's what Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan said Thursday on the campaign trail. “We will eradicate Twitter,” Erdoan told a rally in Bursa in the west of the country.
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RT, VentureBeat, CNET, TechCrunch, Webrazzi, Today's Zaman … and Business Insider Australia
Tweets: @policy, @redhackeditor, @zeynep and @timcast
See also Mediagazer| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Seagate CEO Luczo departs from the Microsoft board — Summary: Musical chairs among Microsoft's board members continues, with Seagate's CEO departing the board. — The Microsoft board musical chairs are continuing, with Seagate Chairman and CEO Stephen Luczo announcing on March 20 …
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PR Newswire, Bloomberg, Re/code, PC World, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and GeekWire
| Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk: |
Mt. Gox May Still Hold $118 Million (200,000 BTC) in Funds, Report Suggests — A new report suggests that Mt. Gox, the now-bankrupt Japan-based exchange said to have lost 850,000 BTC in customer funds may actually still be in possession of 200,000 BTC ($118m at press time).| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
FireChat For iOS Is A Hyperlocal Anonymous Chat Network That Doesn't Need An Internet Connection — We all know that chat apps are pretty hot right now and there are plenty of companies hoping for a WhatsApp-like exit. For the most part, all of those apps are pretty similar, but FireChat …
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Gigaom, BGR, TechSpot, TUAW, The Verge, MacNN, Mobile Marketing Watch, Softpedia News and iPhone. Tweets: @niallharbison
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Starbucks iPhone App With Digital Tipping And Shake-To-Pay Now Available — The Starbucks mobile app with digital tipping options, previewed last week, has arrived in the App Store. iPhone users can grab it now, and get the new digital tipping option if they're based in the U.S. …
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Fortune, Bloomberg, AppleTell, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Zacks Investment Research, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, Talking New Media, 9to5Mac, MobileSyrup.com, GeekWire, TheStreet.com and iMore
Tweets: @kristy, @wilreynolds and @lissijean
| Katherine Rosman / Wall Street Journal: |
Fitbit Now Faces a Class-Action Suit in Rash Fallout — A month after Fitbit issued a recall of its fitness-tracking bracelet following complaints of blisters and rashes, the startup now faces its first lawsuit. — The suit, filed on Monday in the Superior Court of California in the County of San Diego …
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TechCrunch, Wearable World News, Electronista, TechnoBuffalo, VentureBreak, Computerworld, Business Insider, Gigaom, Re/code, App Advice, Consumerist, Ubergizmo and Digital Trends. Tweets: @chetansharma
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