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| Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald: |
Heartbleed disclosure timeline: who knew what and when — Ever since Heartbleed was made public there have been questions about who knew what and when.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Vicious Heartbleed bug bites millions of Android phones, other devices — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library via Wikipedia — The catastrophic Heartbleed security bug that has already bitten Yahoo Mail, the Canada Revenue Agency … | Kwame Opam / The Verge: |
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Tails: the privacy-focused Linux version Snowden, Greenwald, and Poitras used to communicate — Out in the Open: Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA — When NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden first emailed Glenn Greenwald, he insisted on using email encryption software called PGP for all communications.| Wall Street Journal: |
Google buys Titan Aerospace, the maker of high-altitude drones Facebook was considering — Google Buys Drone Maker Courted by Facebook — Internet Giant to Acquire Titan Aerospace — Google Inc. said Monday it agreed to buy Titan Aerospace, a startup maker of high-altitude drones …
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| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Windows Phone 8.1 natively supports Apple Passbook data, an unannounced feature Apple may want to stop — Apple's Passbook passes are being used by Windows Phone 8.1 and Microsoft Wallet — When Apple introduced Passbook in iOS 6 they billed it as a way to store all your tickets, coupons …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
| Mitchell Baker / The Mozilla Blog: |
Greylock's Chris Beard joins Mozilla's Board of Directors, becomes interim CEO — Mozilla Moving Forward — Mozilla finds itself in the midst of an unexpected leadership transition. Along with my fellow board members Reid Hoffman and Katharina Borchert, I am pleased to announce …
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| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Google's updated terms of service clarifies how emails are analyzed for targeting ads — Google unveils email scanning practices in new terms of service — (Reuters) - Google Inc updated its terms of service on Monday, informing users that their incoming and outgoing emails …
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF's Housing Crisis Explained) — A hearse rolls up to a Yahoo bus at the BART MacArthur Station in Oakland. A protester who had climbed on top of the bus later vomited on the vehicle. (From Indybay) — The Santa Clara Valley …
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| Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter: |
David Fincher pulls out of talks to direct Sony Pictures' Steve Jobs film — David Fincher Out of Steve Jobs Movie in $10 Million Fee Fight (Exclusive) — The director was negotiating with Sony to reteam with “The Social Network” writer Aaron Sorkin and producer Scott Rudin.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Amid Reports Facebook Is Eyeing Up Financial Services, TransferWise Hits £1 Billion In Transfers — A million pounds isn't cool, you know what's cool? — In the midst of reports that Facebook could be about to get into financial services, one of the startups it's rumoured to have talked to … | Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Google considering giving a boost in its search-engine results to websites that use encryption — Google May Push Sites to Use Encryption — A powerful voice at Google wants websites to be more secure. — In a move that experts say could make it harder to spy on Web users …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft makes Office Online available in Chrome Web Store — Summary: Microsoft is making the Web versions of its Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote apps available to users through the Chrome Web Store. — Microsoft's Office Online — the Webified and free versions of Word, Excel … | Michael Brown / PC World: |
Quantenna promises to deliver 10-gigabit Wi-Fi in 2015 — Today's fastest 802.11ac routers deliver throughput speeds on par with hardwired gigabit-ethernet connections. That might seem slow by next year, when Quantenna Communications launches its new Wi-Fi chipset.
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| Supriya Kurane / Reuters: |
FT: Barcode printer maker Zebra Tech to buy Motorola Solutions' enterprise unit for $3.5B — Zebra Tech to buy Motorola Solutions' unit for $3.5 billion: FT — A woman takes a picture in front of a Motorola logo before the worldwide presentation of the Moto G mobile phone in Sao Paulo November 13, 2013.
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Samsung exec at trial: marketing drove our sales; designer denies influence of slide-to-unlock — Samsung Designer Denies Apple Influence: “Absolutely Not” — Did Samsung steal its slide-to-unlock feature from Apple's smartphone software? — “Absolutely not,” said Samsung senior UI designer Youngmi Kim … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Did Microsoft just kill its anti-Google ‘Scroogled’ campaign? — Summary: A Microsoft Corporate Vice President claims Microsoft is ‘done’ with its ‘Scroogled’ campaign. But is the company really Scroogled out? — Has Microsoft quietly done away with its anti-Google “Scroogled” campaign?
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Amazon Says No to Accepting Bitcoin, Maybe to Building an Amex or Visa Competitor — Like bitcoin? Like Amazon? Want to use bitcoin to buy stuff from Amazon? — I have some bad news for you. Not going to happen anytime soon. — “Obviously it gets a lot of press and we have considered it …
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Inside Clinkle, Lucas Duplan's struggling payments app now three years in the making — A SILICON VALLEY DISASTER: A 21-Year-Old Stanford Kid Got $30 Million, Then Everything Blew Up — The week after Thanksgiving, 40 Clinkle employees gathered in the kitchen of their San Francisco office.| Michael Learmonth / AdAge: |
YouTube using traditional advertising to promote star content creators — Exclusive Interview: Susan Wojcicki's Plan to Make YouTube ‘Stars’ Real-Life Famous — And Guaranteeing Audiences In Bid to Pry More TV Dollars Away In the Upfront — How Advertising Performs in a Social Media World| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
‘Airbnb For Retail’ Startup Storefront Raises $7.3M From Spark Capital, Expands To LA — Now more than ever, both big brands and independent merchants are looking for flexibility in the way that they reach consumers. With Storefront, they're able to find space to set up popup shops …
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