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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
For one day, Google will let anyone in the US buy Glass — Google is about to make its biggest push yet to get Glass in the hands of as many people as possible. The Verge has obtained documents indicating that the company will open up its “Explorer Program” and make Glass available to anyone …
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| Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald: |
Man who introduced serious ‘Heartbleed’ security flaw denies he inserted it deliberately — Researchers have disclosed a serious vulnerability in standard web encryption software OpenSSL. — The German software developer who introduced a security flaw into an encryption protocol used …
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PandoDaily, Vocativ, InfoWorld, Computerworld, Cult of Mac, The Verge, Salon, Business Insider, The Mac Observer, Daily Dot and ANIMAL
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Adding Condoleezza Rice To Dropbox's Board Seems Incredibly Tone Deaf Following NSA Concerns — Dropbox is probably the most well-known of the cloud storage providers out there, and it's angling for an IPO. As such, it recently made some changes in its management, including a bit of news …
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Daring Fireball, The Register and SlashGear
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Petition Demanding Removal Of Condoleezza Rice From Dropbox Board Pops Up Online, On Twitter — Internet activists are at it again. Following yesterday's news regarding the appointment of Condoleezza Rice, former United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor …
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Drop Condoleezza Rice …, Valleywag, Fortune, Wired, SiliconBeat, Computerworld, The Wire, UPI, The Daily Caller, Vocativ, Electronista and Daily Dot. Tweets: @stevestreza
| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Acquires Digital Comic Book Store Comixology — Amazon has just announced that they will acquire comiXology, a service that offers digital versions of comics from Marvel, DC, and many others. — If you've never used it, it's probably easiest to think of comiXology as a sort of iTunes/Kindle Store for comic books.
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| iFixit: |
Samsung Galaxy S5 Teardown — Every so often, our Earth-bound teardown team gazes skyward. Today, we look to take the Samsung Galaxy S5 to pieces. Will this device be immortalized among the stars of repairability—or will it plummet to the ground like a blazing meteorite?
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PC Magazine, The Switch, I4U News, Geek.com, TechSpot, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, Engadget, Geeky Gadgets, TechnoBuffalo, Phandroid, SlashGear and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @ifixit
| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
FTC calls out Facebook, Whatsapp over privacy ahead of merger — Summary: Facebook might have its work cut out for it as it presses ahead with a multi-billion deal to buy the popular messaging service. — Never mind the implications and vociferous debate over the Comcast-Time Warner merger.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Zynga Names David Lee CFO, As Longtime Exec Mark Vranesh Departs The Firm — Today after the bell, Zynga announced that its CFO and CAO Mark Vranesh will depart the firm after six years, and that David Lee will assume both roles effective April 14. Vranesh will help out for a month to …
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VentureBeat, Re/code and Bloomberg
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Project Ara's Module Developers Kit released, provides guidelines for module manufacturers — Here are some of the crazy phones you can build with Google's Project Ara — Google is starting to show developers what they need to do to create swappable parts for its upcoming modular smartphones, currently called Project Ara.
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Google ATAP, ExtremeTech, BGR, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, Mashable, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot and Electronista
| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Survey: 40% of early adopters would buy a bigger iPhone — Interest in the so-called iPhone 6 sets a ChangeWave survey record. — FORTUNE — Smartphone sales in the increasingly saturated U.S. market may have slowed, but if the results of a new survey are any indication …
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changewaveresearch.com, AppleInsider, App Advice, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, Business Insider, Computerworld and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @guru_property
| John Chen / Inside BlackBerry: |
BlackBerry is Not Leaving the Handset Market: John Chen clarifies — John Chen clarifies a recent Reuters article and reiterates that BlackBerry is Not Leaving the Handset Market — Yesterday, Reuters published an article that said I would consider selling our Devices business.
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
EBay Settles Board Fight With Icahn — It began as the biggest hedge fund fight of the year, but is ending with a quiet truce. — EBay announced on Thursday that it had reached a settlement with the billionaire Carl C. Icahn, putting an end to an often bitter feud between the two sides.
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Re/code, ZDNet, Reuters, Forbes, CNBC, VentureBeat, Pulse 2.0, Wall Street Journal, The Verge and Bloomberg
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
KGI forecast: iWatch at multiple price points, two iPhone models, 12" high resolution MacBook Air, 12.9" iPad Pro, more — Apple's 2014 Product Roadmap: New iWatch, iPhones, iPads, Apple TV, and MacBooks Coming — Apple is set to release a slew of new products during the third quarter …
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| Fahmida Y. Rashid / SecurityWeek: |
Surveillance is the Business Model of the Internet: Bruce Schneier — BOSTON - SOURCE CONFERENCE - Data is a natural consequence of computing, and as search tools get better, it shifts the balance of power towards mass collection and surveillance, renowned security expert Bruce Schneier …
| Kevin Roose / New York Magazine: |
The story of a female employee who shared on Secret that she was left out when Google acquired her 5-person startup — The Secret Shame of an Unacquired Tech Worker — Last week, amid the overwrought start-up angst and sexual escapades that clutter the anonymous messaging app Secret …
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StrictlyVC and Business Insider. Tweets: @jaymon, @tomiogeron, @mp3michael and @brianbergstein
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Jeff Bezos' annual shareholder letter: testing 7th generation drones, up to $5K quitting bonus, Fresh expansion plans — Jeff Bezos' Shareholder Letter Is Out — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' annual shareholder letter is out. — He goes over various parts of the business in the letter.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Lending Startup Fundbox Raises $17.5M From Khosla To Help SMBs Improve Cash Flow — Fundbox, a startup that helps SMBs improve cash flow from clients, has raised $17.5 million in funding led by Khosla Ventures with SV Angel, Vikram Pandit, former CEO of Citigroup; Tom Glocer …
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VentureBeat, Forbes, Mashable, Pulse 2.0, PandoDaily, VatorNews, Wall Street Journal, GeekTime and Payments News. Thanks:@drs650
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Strengthens Android App Security With Continuous Post-Install Scans — Google is making a change to its Android security systems today that is meant to ensure that users who install apps from outside of the Google Play store are a bit safer from malicious apps.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Twitter rolls out real-time interactive notifications on the Web for replies, favorites, retweets, and DMs — Twitter today announced it is rolling out real-time interactive notifications on the Web. When someone engages with your tweets, you will now be notified if you're using Twitter.com.
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