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How Airbnb and Lyft Finally Got Americans to Trust Each Other — In about 40 minutes, Cindy Manit will let a complete stranger into her car. An app on her windshield-mounted iPhone will summon her to a corner in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood, where a russet-haired woman … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal Says He Didn't Do It: “I Didn't Hit Her 117 Times” — It is hard to know where to start in this astonishingly vehement account that RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal just posted on his personal site, titled “Can You Handle the Truth?,” in which he defends himself from charges of domestic violence.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
RadiumOne Confirms That It Has Fired CEO Gurbaksh Chahal — RadiumOne just announced that its board of directors terminated CEO and Chairman Gurbaksh Chahal on Saturday night. The company said in an emailed statement that Chief Operating Officer Bill Lonergan will be taking over the CEO role.
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| Gary Kamiya / San Francisco magazine: |
San Francisco Is Dead. Long Live San Francisco. — Yes, the city we know is going away. But, as has happened throughout its history, a new one will arise. Let's give it a chance. — In 1999, my wife and I saw a For Sale sign on a small house on Nob Hill, two blocks away from the apartment where we'd been living for years.
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| The Atlantic Online: |
Net Neutrality: A Guide to (and History of) a Contested Idea — This week, news broke that the Federal Communications Commission is considering new rules for how the Internet works. — In short: the FCC would allow network owners (your Verizons, Comcasts, etc.) to create Internet …
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| Lee Fang / VICE: |
Several key FCC staffers recently worked for ISPs who would benefit from net neutrality defeat — Former Comcast and Verizon Attorneys Now Manage the FCC and Are About to Kill the Internet — A tombstone for Internet freedom. Photo via Flickr user DonkeyHotey — The open Internet may soon become a thing of the past.| Barbara van Schewick / Center for Internet and Society: |
| Benedict Evans: |
Why iPad plateaued: tablets are eroding the PC market, but the smartphone is the transformative new category — iPads and tablet growth — Apple's revenue has pretty much stopped growing. This chart shows the quarterly revenue the company has reported - a series of ever larger spikes upward around …
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| Ms. Smith / Network World: |
Microsoft warns Internet Explorer 6 - 11 vulnerable to zero-day spotted in the wild — FireEye researchers spotted a new zero-day in the wild, with all versions of IE vulnerable, but with IE 9 -11 being targeted for ‘Operation Clandestine Fox.’ — “Microsoft is aware of limited … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Bitcoin Slips Following News Of Fresh Restrictions In China — Bitcoin, which has recently traded under $400 and over $500, shed more than 10% of its value over the past few days, falling from around $500 to under $440, before recovering slightly. — As has happened many times in recent months …
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| John Zorabedian / Naked Security: |
Viber images and videos were not encrypted during transit or storage, company says “issue has already been resolved” — Here we go again: Viber mobile messenger app leaves user data unencrypted — Viber, a mobile messenger app that allows users to make phone calls …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal: |
Airbnb starts recommending nearby destinations to SF users, other cities coming soon — Airbnb Wants to Be a Travel Agent — Airbnb wants to be a travel agent. — People who opened the apartment-sharing company's mobile app in San Francisco on Thursday found something new …
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| Ron Nixon / New York Times: |
US built Twitter-like services for Cuba, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and dozens more countries — U.S. Says It Built Digital Programs Abroad With an Eye to Politics — WASHINGTON — The United States built Twitter-like social media programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, like one in Cuba … Sponsor Posts
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