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Alleged Chinese Hacking: Alcoa Breach Relied on Simple Phishing Scam — Email That Purported to Be From Carlos Ghosn Held a Virus That Let Hackers Allegedly Steal Nearly 3,000 Messages, According to Indictment — At first blush, the email appeared to be from Carlos Ghosn …
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| Bloomberg: |
U.S. Companies Hacked by Chinese Didn't Tell Investors — Three U.S. public companies identified as Chinese hacking victims didn't report the theft of trade secrets and other data to investors, despite rules designed to disclose significant events. — Two of the companies … | Reuters: |
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| Mathew Ingram / Gigaom: |
Giants behaving badly: Google, Facebook and Amazon show us the downside of monopolies and black-box algorithms — The internet is a wondrous thing — a limitless universe of content and products and information, all of which can be summoned up from the comfort of a chair or the palm of the hand … | Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
Investor Talk on Uber's Valuation Hits as High as $17 Billion — The bids for Uber's funding round rolled in this past week, and the price for the on-demand car service seems poised to steeply rise. — Several investors have stepped up during the bidding process, offering valuations near or above $17 billion, two people said.| Hollie Slade / Forbes: |
Browser-based encrypted email service ProtonMail launches beta, aims for Gmail-like simplicity — The Only Email System The NSA Can't Access — When the NSA surveillance news broke last year it sent shockwaves through CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Switzerland.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Amazon is inviting some customers to try its Fire TV set-top box free for 30 days — Amazon Now Has Plenty of Fire TVs, and May Let You Try One for Free — Remember when Amazon sold out of its Fire TV boxes, just a few days after introducing them? — Now they have more.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple's Expanded ‘Your Verse’ Campaign Pitches iPad As Mobile Creation Tool — Apple is releasing two new TV spots today, along with companion sections on its website. The spots will continue its ‘Your Verse’ advertising, which attempts to demonstrate the ways that the iPad can be used to create and ‘do’.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart raises $210 million, following its acquisition of rival Myntra — India e-commerce giant Flipkart last week bought up smaller, fashion-focused rival Myntra, and today it has more news after announcing a new $210 million round of funding.
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| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
What Microsoft gets wrong about the tablet-laptop redundancy — While onstage at the Surface Pro 3 event, Microsoft vice president and Surface creator Panos Panay cited a pretty surprising statistic: 96 percent of iPad owners also own a laptop. Tablet and laptop ownership relationships …
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
An Interview With Walt Mossberg And Kara Swisher, The Most Powerful Media Duo In Silicon Valley — On Tuesday, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher will host the Code Conference. — It's their tech industry conference featuring big-name speakers like Google cofounder Sergey Brin … | Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Following Microsoft, Sony's PlayStation business officially enters China — It's only been about a month since Microsoft announced that it'll be bringing the Xbox to China come September, courtesy of the local government lifting its somewhat lax ban on imported video games and consoles.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Kakao, behind South Korean messaging service KakaoTalk, to merge with internet portal Daum — Kakao And Daum To Merge, Creating One Of South Korea's Largest Internet Companies — Kakao Corp and Daum announced today that they will merge through an equity swap, creating a company with a 3.4 trillion won …
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Spotify lands another hot integration, this time with mixing app Djay — Could Made For Spotify be the new Made For iPod? — Spotify isn't profitable quite yet, but with 10 million paid subscribers, the company is likely closer than anyone else in the on-demand music space to breaking even.
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The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile, MacRumors, CNET News, TechCrunch, TUAW, TechRepublic, Geeky Gadgets, The Mac Observer, ZDNet, Yahoo Tech and Macworld. Tweets: @hamburger
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple requests retrial of Samsung patent case, demonstrates dissatisfaction with jury verdict — After the original version of the Apple v. Samsung II jury verdict that came down on May 2 (and had to be amended on May 5), Apple's PR department had issued a premature statement that basically described …
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