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Moves joins Facebook, will continue as standalone app, will not “commingle data with Facebook” — Moves joins Facebook! — 24 April 2014 - Today, we're delighted to announce that Facebook has acquired our company and the Moves app. Since we launched Moves …
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| Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook buys Helsinki-based ProtoGeo Oy, maker of popular fitness tracking app “Moves” — With App Acquisition, Facebook Enters Fitness Tracking Market — Facebook is leaping into the fitness tracking market by buying a Helsinki-based maker of a mobile app that can track users …
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| Tom Wheeler / Official FCC Blog: |
FCC chairman to have net neutrality “enforceable rules” by the end of the year, mandate that ISPs “not act in a commercially unreasonable manner” — Setting the Record Straight on the FCC's Open Internet Rules — There has been a great deal of misinformation …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Washington's revolving door: Cellular lobby and FCC have traded leaders — Washington, DC, has long had a revolving door through which government officials exit to become lobbyists, and lobbyists enter to become government officials. — Regulators being led by former executives … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
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Facebook partners with Storyful to launch “FB Newswire”, a news feed for journalists on Facebook and Twitter — Announcing FB Newswire, Powered by Storyful — Every day, news is made on Facebook. More than one billion people use our platform to discover, explore and participate in news-making events around the world.| Mark Mazzetti / New York Times: |
Ex-Anonymous hacker Sabu launched cyberattacks on Iran, Syria, Brazil, and Pakistan while an FBI informant — F.B.I. Informant Is Tied to Cyberattacks Abroad — WASHINGTON — An informant working for the F.B.I. coordinated a 2012 campaign of hundreds of cyberattacks on foreign websites …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, others pledge $3.9M for open source projects to avoid the next HeartBleed — Tech giants, chastened by Heartbleed, finally agree to fund OpenSSL — IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and others pledge millions to open source.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Feds Beg Supreme Court to Let Them Search Phones Without a Warrant — American law enforcement has long advocated for universal “kill switches” in cellphones to cut down on mobile device thefts. Now the Department of Justice argues that the same remote locking and data-wiping technology represents … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Internet Glue Service IFTTT Launches On Android With Deeper Integration Than iOS — The Internet connection and automation service IFTTT is launching on Android today, and it offers a deeper set of integrations with the OS than their iOS offering. This, of course, is due to Android's …
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| Simon Khalaf / Flurry: |
A look at the demographics of “mobile addicts” who launch apps over 60 times per day — The Rise of the Mobile Addict — In May of 2013, KPCB's Partner and world-renowned analyst Mary Meeker shared her latest Internet Trends Report. In that report, Ms. Meeker shared an interesting stat …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Facebook, Gmail, Skype face Russia ban under ‘anti-terror’ data snooping plan — Summary: The Russian parliament's latest play could see major Western technology firms banned from the country if they don't store data on its soil — a move that would allow Russian authorities to easily snoop on user data.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Moving your apps to the cloud gets easier as Amazon adds Docker support — The biggest public cloud provider is finally waking up to one of the hottest enabling technologies around for shipping applications to the cloud. — Today public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services announced support …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
A debit card for bitcoin: Xapo solves the payment problem with MasterCard tie-in — Bitcoin has a long-standing problem. Despite all the hype over the digital currency, almost no one uses it in real life for day-to-day payments: the process is cryptic and cumbersome, and simply impractical compared …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag: |
CEO of digital ad platform RadiumOne avoids felony domestic abuse charges after video evidence thrown out — Tech CEO Dodges Felony Charge Despite Horrifying Abuse Video — RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh “G” Chahal pled guilty to two misdemeanors for domestic violence and battery last week.
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See also Mediagazer| Matt McGee / Glass Almanac: |
Google Releases XE 16.11, Offers To Replace Bricked Glass Units — Google has come up with a two-pronged approach to fixing the woes caused this week by the XE 16 and XE 16.1 software updates. — As you likely know, Explorers began reporting problems with XE 16 shortly after its release last week …
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| Ishbel Macleod / thedrum.com: |
87% of electronic spying is conducted by governments, with cyber espionage accounting for 22% of data breaches — Governments were responsible for over three quarters (87 per cent) of the 511 spying incidents recorded, the latest Data Breach Investigations Report by Verizon Communications has found.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft delivers Remote Desktop app preview for Windows Phone 8.1 — Summary: Microsoft has made available for download a preview version of its Remote Desktop app for Windows Phone 8.1. — On April 23, Microsoft quietly made available for download a preview of its Remote Desktop app for Windows Phone 8.1.
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Codecademy Moves To Be A One-Stop-Shop For Programming Education — Since its launch two years ago Codecademy has become synonymous with online education for basic computer programming. — In that time, the company says it's learned a few things itself and today launched a newly redesigned website …
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Codecademy Blog, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, The Next Web, Fortune, Y Combinator Posthaven and Forbes
| Juan Carlos Perez / PC World: |
Quip issues API for mobile word processor, aims it at enterprise IT — Quip has released an API for its browser-based word processor that it hopes enterprise developers will use to make the application do more jobs in workplaces. — Quip, which is led by former Facebook CTO Bret Taylor …
| Sarah Silbert / Engadget: |
Amazon's Prime Pantry service lets you ship 45 pounds of groceries for a $6 fee — Amazon's dead-set killing off the grocery store, with a same-day delivery service and even a Dash gadget for restocking items around the house. Now the retailer's going one step further … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Verizon profit jumps on Verizon Wireless takeover, but misses expectations — Verizon was aided by the rising profits from Verizon Wireless, which the company took full control of in February. — Verizon's first quarter as sole owner of Verizon Wireless was a mixed one.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Conversnitch lamp listens to nearby conversations and posts transcribed audio to Twitter — An Eavesdropping Lamp That Livetweets Private Conversations — As former NSA director Michael Hayden learned on an Amtrak train last year, anyone with a smartphone instantly can become a livetweeting snoop.| Sophie Knight / Reuters: |
Tokyo Court orders bankruptcy trustee to begin Mt. Gox liquidation — (Reuters) - Tokyo District Court ordered liquidation to begin at failed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, the company said on Thursday, after the bankruptcy administrator said on April 16 that it would be difficult to rehabilitate the firm.
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Etsy buys Grand St. — The handmade marketplace has acquired Grand St., a marketplace for indie electronics. — FORTUNE — Etsy, the operator of a handmade marketplaces, has acquired Grand St. — Grand St., which sells indie electronics online, had raised $1.3 million in seed funding …
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