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Apple Says iOS, OSX and “Key Web Services” Not Affected by Heartbleed Security Flaw — Apple said Thursday that its mobile, desktop and Web services weren't affected by a major flaw in a set of security software used by hundreds of thousands of websites. — The flaw, codenamed “Heartbleed” … | Ellen Messmer / Network World: |
Heartbleed Bug hits at heart of many Cisco, Juniper products — Cisco, Juniper say to expect security advisory updates related to Heartbleed — Network World - The Heartbleed Bug, a flaw in OpenSSL that would let attackers eavesdrop on Web, e-mail and some VPN communications …
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| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Google selling Glass to anyone in the US on April 15 for a limited time — Even if you don't have a Google Glass Explorer invitation, you can soon get your hands on Google's wearable computer. On Thursday, the company announced a limited promotion on April 15 that opens the doors to anyone …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Facebook cleans up the News Feed by reducing Like-baiting posts, repeated content, and spammy links — Facebook today announced plans to clean up the News Feed by reducing stories that users are reporting as spammy or simply that they don't want to see. This update targets three broad categories …
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Facebook, Digital Trends, AdExchanger, Computerworld, iMore, Electronista, Business Insider, WebProNews, Daily Dot, The Verge, Business 2 Community, VentureBreak, Inside Facebook, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, Mashable, Wall Street Journal, Gigaom, Yahoo Tech, VentureBeat, Gigaom, AllFacebook, ReadWrite, Marketing Pilgrim and BuzzFeed. Tweets: @mattrhodes
| 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.
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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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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Bitcoin Falls Below The $400 Mark, Down More Than 60% From Its All-Time High — Bitcoin reached another milestone today, with the cryptocurrency falling below the $400 per-coin mark. Bitcoin sold for over $1,100 inside of the last 52 weeks. — The price correction was driven by news from China, as it often has been.| 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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| 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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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft OS chief Myerson on the future of ‘One Windows’ — Summary: The head of Microsoft's unified operating system group, Terry Myerson, shares more details on Microsoft's one Windows vision in a Q&A with ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley. — Microsoft's Executive Vice President of operating systems, Terry Myerson, has a lot on his plate.| 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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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
The Hunt Raises $10M From Khosla For Crowdsourced Shopping — The Hunt, a website designed to help shoppers find specific items to buy online, has raised $10 million from Khosla Ventures and Javelin Ventures. This brings The Hunt's total funding to $15.5 million.| 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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| Michael D. Shear / New York Times: |
Health Secretary Resigns After Woes of HealthCare.gov — WASHINGTON — Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, is resigning, ending a stormy five-year tenure marred by the disastrous rollout of President Obama's signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act.
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| 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.| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
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| 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 … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
YouTube Hurts Music Album Sales, Research Finds — In recent years many academics have researched the link between Internet piracy and the revenues of the major music labels, with varying results. Some have concluded that there is no adverse impact of piracy on sales, others argue that there's a moderate negative relation.| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Ex-Gowalla Founders Raise $2.1 Million for Last, a Stealth Mobile Startup — Josh Williams has been involved in geolocation services for quite some time. He's one of the founders of Gowalla, a mobile-focused location sharing startup he sold to Facebook in 2011, and worked on more mobile products inside the social network.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Following Spotify, Deezer Goes Freemium On Mobile — Music streaming startup Deezer just revamped its free offering across the board in order to become more competitive with Spotify, Rdio and others. Mobile users will now be able to listen to smart radios for free.Sponsor Posts
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