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Apple acknowledges iMessage issue, says bug fix coming in future software update — Apple's iMessage Issue Goes From Bad to Worse With Server Glitch — Apple's iMessage system is a model of convenience when connecting between iPhones. But trying to leave the ecosystem is the very definition of horror.
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| George Avalos / Mercury News: |
Apple to occupy seven-building Sunnyvale campus — SUNNYVALE — Apple has agreed to lease a seven-building campus in Sunnyvale where the tech giant could move about 1,450 workers, according to city documents and commercial property sources. — The deal is the latest sign of a remarkable burst of expansion by Apple.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Stops Irresponsibly Defaulting Privacy Of New Users' Posts To “Public”, Changes To “Friends” — After years of putting new users at risk of oversharing by defaulting the visibility of their status updates and photos to public, Facebook is switching the default to “friends”.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
House of Representatives passes ‘gutted’ NSA surveillance reform — Privacy watchdogs hope Senate will roll back amendments to USA Freedom Act — The USA Freedom Act, a bill meant to end NSA surveillance of phone records, has passed the House of Representatives.
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Led by Apple Inc. iPhone, smartphones now account for 87 percent of U.S. handsets — New research by Counterpoint indicates that 87 percent of Americans upgraded to smartphones by the end of March, with Apple remaining the top vendor. — Counterpoint's Market Monitor quarterly tracker …
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| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Google Fiber: we don't charge for peering, don't have fast lanes — Google used its Google Fiber internet access business Wednesday to chime in on the continuing debate around peering and internet fast lanes, and guess what: the company doesn't use either.| Jeremy Kirk / PC World: |
Critical Internet Explorer zero-day exploit detailed after Microsoft fails to patch it — An older version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has an unpatched software flaw that could allow rogue code to run on a computer, the second such flaw found in a month.
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| John McCann / TechRadar.com: |
Samsung Music will close its doors on July 1 — Saying bye bye to bloatware … A Samsung executive had already warned us that the Korean firm may close its content hubs, and that's exactly what's happening as Samsung Music (aka Music Hub) will shut down on July 1.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Darkcoin, which offers greater anonymity than bitcoin, rises tenfold in value in only a month — Darkcoin, the Shadowy Cousin of Bitcoin, Is Booming — Someone out there likes anonymous money. — In only a month, the little-known bitcoin alternative known as Darkcoin has rocketed nearly tenfold … | Brandon Butler / Network World: |
Microsoft taps partners to sell Azure and take on Amazon in cloud — Microsoft has a big channel and soon it will arm them with Azure — Network World - Microsoft distributors will soon be able to resell the company's Azure cloud IaaS, Microsoft announced today in a blog.
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Recall announced for all 440k Nest smoke detectors due to previously-disclosed safety issue with wave-to-dismiss feature — Nest recalling 440,000 smoke alarms for safety risk — NEW YORK — Nest Labs is recalling 440,000 smoke alarms to fix a feature that could prevent the alarm from sounding immediately.
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| Matt Haughey / Medium: |
Google probably considers MetaFilter a haven for comment spam, despite best-in-industry moderation — On the Future of MetaFilter — Peak ads, MetaFilter's Google Problems, and the need to scale back. — MetaFilter is the little weblog that could, established in 1999 as one of the first community blogs.
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Codecademy translates its ‘learn to code’ site into three new languages and readies London office — Codecademy is starting to think global. The New York-based startup has translated its popular learn-to-code platform into three new languages today and formalized partnerships in five countries.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Indian Ecommerce Giant Flipkart Buys Fashion E-tailer Myntra To Fight Amazon's Growth — India's biggest e-commerce company, Flipkart, is acquiring fast growing online fashion retailer Myntra, the two companies confirmed today. — The pair share two investors, Tiger Global Management and Accel Partners.
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The Intercept's Micah Lee releases OnionShare, a free tool for anonymous file-sharing over Tor — Free App Lets the Next Snowden Send Big Files Securely and Anonymously — When Glenn Greenwald discovered last year that some of the NSA documents he'd received from Edward Snowden had been corrupted … | Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Fab to Cut Another 80 to 90 Jobs, a Third of Global Staff — E-commerce company Fab is announcing another round of job cuts tomorrow, laying off between 80 and 90 employees to trim costs as it shifts resources to focus more on designing and developing products under its own brand name.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Weibo Drops 5% After Reporting In-Line Q1 Revenues Of $67.5M, Better-Than-Expected $0.03 Loss Per Share — This afternoon Weibo reported the financial results of its first quarter, including revenue of $67.5 and non-GAAP earnings per share of -$0.03. The market had expected the company …
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JD.com Raises $1.78 Billion, Pricing IPO Above Range — JD.com Inc., the Chinese online retailer whose business model is similar to Amazon.com Inc.'s, raised $1.78 billion in its U.S. initial public offering after pricing the shares above the marketed range.Sponsor Posts
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