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Sources: Production of 4.7" iPhone 6 screen to begin in May, 5.5" starting months later — New iPhone 6 screens to enter production as early as May: sources — (Reuters) - Apple Inc suppliers will begin mass producing displays as early as May for the next iPhone, expected to be launched this autumn …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg's Base Salary Falls to $1 — Mark Zuckerberg has decided he's a $1-a-year man. — Zuckerberg, who is Facebook Inc. (FB)'s chief executive officer and also the 22nd richest person in the world as ranked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, was paid $1 in salary for 2013 … | Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Airbnb to collect hotel taxes for San Francisco rentals — Airbnb, the fast-growing website that lets people rent out their homes or rooms to travelers, took a giant step toward legalizing itself in San Francisco with an announcement Monday evening that it will begin paying the city's 14 percent hotel tax by this summer.
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Microsoft's Bing expands Snapshot feature to surface doctors, dentists, lawyers, and real estate listings — Microsoft today updated its Bing search engine to show more information via the Snapshot feature, which pulls together connections between people, places, and the “things you care about” …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo in talks to acquire online video service News Distribution Network for close to $300M — Yahoo in Talks to Buy Online-Video Service NDN — Sources — Deal Would Help Yahoo Compete With Google's YouTube — Yahoo Inc. is in preliminary talks to acquire online-video service News …
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How ‘Game Jam,’ an indie game dev reality show, collapsed on its first day of filming — Game_Jam, a TV-style reality show focused on the efforts of indie game developers, has collapsed in the most publicly acrimoniously way imaginable, participants say. — Touted by its makers as a contest … | Lisa Fleisher / Wall Street Journal: |
Balderton Raises $305m for European Series A Tech Investments — Venture-capital firm Balderton Capital has opened a $305 million start-up fund, hoping to spread out lots of small investments and have a bigger chance of hitting it big. The company, one of the top venture funds in Europe …
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Pebble asks users not to install v2.1 update, citing critical issue that breaks app — Pebble is asking its users not to install the version 2.1 update for the iPhone that was released March 31st, citing a critical issue that prevents the app from working. — The company does … | Nitesh Dhanjani: |
Tesla's website allows weak passwords and brute-force attacks, easing remote unlocking and location tracking for attackers — Cursory Evaluation of the Tesla Model S: We Can't Protect Our Cars Like We Protect Our Workstations — The innovation behind Tesla's electric vehicles has set us …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Yahoo Mulling Plans to Ax Its Shine Women's Site, Opting for More Online Lifestyle “Magazines” — Yahoo's Marissa Mayer is poised to take an ax to its longtime and massive women-focused content site Shine, closing it down by the second quarter, according to numerous sources close to the situation.| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Surprise, surprise: my online metadata actually reveals where I've been — Here are some of the places that Ars tracked Cyrus Farivar to in February 2014. — In January 2014, documents provided by Edward Snowden showed that a Canadian spy agency used a unique identifier to follow thousands …
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Jawbone acquires personalized music service Playground.fm, deal said to be “over 8 figures” — Jawbone Snaps Up Playground.fm — Looks like instead of being acquired, wrist and speaker hardware company Jawbone is doing some acquiring, scooping up social and personalized music …
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HP agrees to pay $57 million to settle shareholder lawsuit — (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co agreed to pay $57 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the personal computer maker's former management of defrauding shareholders by abandoning a business model it had long touted.| Ken Dilanian / Los Angeles Times: |
NSA chief's legacy is shaped by big data, for better and worse — Gen. Keith Alexander, who just retired as NSA director, achieved ‘absolutely invaluable’ results with digital spying but failed to anticipate how the public would feel about privacy. — “We need to recognize that those who are working …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
OKCupid shows Firefox users a full-page interstitial suggesting alternate browsers in protest of Mozilla's CEO — OKCupid asks users to boycott Firefox because of CEO's gay rights stance — Anyone accessing the popular dating site OKCupid with Firefox today is in for a surprise.
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| Michael Calia / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenText Seeks $268 Million in Patent Claims From Box — Firm Seeks to Block Online Storage Company From Selling Infringing Products — OpenText Corp. on Monday said it is seeking $268 million in damages from online storage company Box Inc. over 200 claims of alleged patent infringement.
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