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Microsoft to launch cross platform fitness wristband this fall, will work with Android, iPhone and Windows Phone — Microsoft + Wearables — Yes, it's real. It's just not a watch — Everyone's doing it, it seems. Samsung jumped in first. Google formalized it on Android just this past week.| R. Jai Krishna / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg apologizes for poorly communicating controversial News Feed study: “We never meant to upset you” — Sandberg: Facebook Study Was ‘Poorly Communicated’ — Facebook 's psychological experiment on nearly 700,000 unwitting users was communicated “poorly …
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Tweets: @harrymccracken, @jason, @violetblue and @carnage4life
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Thanks To “Right To Be Forgotten,” Google Now Censors The Press In The EU — The EU's Right To Be Forgotten removals have been happening for about a week on Google, and now news publications are discovering the fallout. For some searches, you can't find their news stories relating to certain people.
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How Tinder, created by a team of five, mythologized its founding story and excluded plaintiff Whitney Wolfe — Tinder's Forgotten Woman: Whitney Wolfe, Sexism, and Startup Creation Myths — Whitney Wolfe, a former vice president for marketing at Tinder, the wildly popular hookup facilitation app …
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Business Insider. Tweets: @fugueish, @felixgillette, @randfish, @neetzan, @johnolilly, @emilywlevy, @nickconfessore, @bairdjulia, @jenvalentino, @mclamagna, @thestalwart, @gabrielsnyder, @mattdpearce, @doreeshafrir, @samfbiddle, @theman, @llewellynhinkes, @pmarca, @m2jr, @edmundlee, @kevinroose, @_tessr, @percival and @kevinroose. Thanks:@mattlynley
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Goldman says client data leaked, wants Google to delete email — (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc said a contractor emailed confidential client data to a stranger's Gmail account by mistake, and the bank has asked a U.S. judge to order Google Inc to delete the email to avert a “needless and massive” breach of privacy.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Thieves in Brazil use malware to hijack online payments, steal billions in aggregate — Brazilian ‘Boleto’ Bandits Bilk Billions — With the eyes of the world trained on Brazil for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, it seems a fitting time to spotlight a growing form of computer fraud that's giving Brazilian banks …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Google Play Services 5.0 now available with Android Wear support, security enhancements, more — Google today announced that a major update to Play Services is now rolled out, bumping it from version 4.4 to 5.0. Many of the details in this update were announced at Google I/O last week …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook acquires video ad tech startup LiveRail for $400-500M, plans to keep it running — Facebook Acquires LiveRail For $400M To $500M To Serve Video Ads Everywhere, Improve Its Own — Facebook has just bought video ad tech startup LiveRail, which connects marketers to publishers …
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Facebook, LiveRail, BBC News, Reuters, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, VatorNews, AllFacebook, PC Magazine, Marketing Land, ZDNet, Inside Facebook, Gigaom, Re/code, bizjournals, Mashable, AdExchanger and VentureBeat
Tweets: @joshconstine, @mikeisaac, @joshconstine and @joshconstine
| Chris Morris / CNBC: |
Google bans porn from its ad network — Google is getting out of the porn advertising business. The changes, which went into effect late Monday, prohibit any promotion of most sexually themed sites, specifically those that feature “graphic sexual acts with intent to arouse including sex acts such as masturbation.”| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Profile of Del Harvey, Twitter's VP of trust and safety who deals with the worst of Twitter — Meet Del Harvey, Twitter's Troll Patrol — The gala on a recent Thursday evening was typical boom-time San Francisco glitz. Attendees from Google , Yahoo and Facebook traded in jeans and hoodies … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Does A “Summer Cleaning,” Shuts Down Its Xobni Acquisition, Plus Other Under-Performing Products — Yahoo's spring cleanings have extended into the summer months, the company announced today, detailing a series of product changes and closures, many of which are nearly obsolete, obscure, or just unpopular.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft surrenders the 23 domains it recently confiscated from No-IP — Order restored to universe as Microsoft surrenders confiscated No-IP domains — Microsoft has surrendered the 23 domain names it confiscated from dynamic domain hosting service No-IP.com, a move that begins the process …
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| Soma Somasegar / MSDN Blogs: |
Microsoft acquires SyntaxTree, creator of UnityVS plugin for Visual Studio — Game developers build the apps that hundreds of millions of users play every day across a wide variety of devices, from Xbox and Windows to iOS, Android and the Web. Games are the most popular application type …
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Ars Technica, BetaNews, ITworld.com, eWeek, TechCrunch, ZDNet, WinBeta, Neowin, The Next Web and GeekWire
| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Qualcomm buys Wilocity to put gigabit wireless connections in smartphones — Qualcomm confirmed on Wednesday that it is buying gigabit wireless specialist Wilocity in a move that puts the mobile chipmaker firmly behind the new WiGig standard. At some point next year, we will start seeing … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft seeks Office for Android testers as it readies tablet version — Touch-friendly Office Android apps coming before Windows version — Microsoft may have released a basic Office app for Android phones almost a year ago, but the company is now building a suite designed specifically for Android tablets.| Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
Samsung shuts down its Video and Media Hub, transfers users' accounts to M-Go — M-Go to Take Over Samsung's Movie Business — Samsung Electronics has discovered that making great screens and delivering great on-screen entertainment require different skills.
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Variety, ZDNet, FierceOnlineVideo News, Gigaom and Ubergizmo
| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Daily Dot: |
CBS esports site OnGamers fires first employee and senior editor Rod “Slasher” Breslau after Reddit bans the site for vote-rigging — Reddit ban leaves esports site OnGamers fighting for survival — In November, CBS Interactive's flagship esports news site launched with big ambitions.
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onGamers. Tweets: @ongamers_com, @mathewi, @mioff, @devinconnors, @slasher, @slasher and @kmmokai
| Joon Ian Wong / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase Announces High-Security ‘Vault’ Bitcoin Accounts — Called ‘Vault’, the new account was designed in response to demand for a more secure type of wallet from Coinbase's growing customer base of institutions and wealthy individuals, according to company CEO Brian Armstrong, who explained:| Juliette Garside / Guardian: |
Study: 19% of top 100K most visited websites are blocked by Britain's adult content filters — Internet filters blocking one in five most-popular websites — Jezebel and Guido Fawkes sites among those blocked by at least one mobile or fixed line service provider in UK, campaigners say
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TorrentFreak, BetaNews, The Independent, Forbes, PandoDaily and BGR
| Kif Leswing / Gigaom: |
Google announces the first 100 Project Ara beta testers — It appears Google's ambitious modular phone experiment is moving into the next phase. At Google's I/O developer conference, the Advanced Technology and Projects team was able to boot a Project Ara device in public for the first time …
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Dan Makoski, 9to5Google, AndroidGuys, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, The Next Web, Android Central and Techaeris
| Justine Coyne / Pittsburgh Business Times: |
Uber, Lyft ordered to cease operations in Pittsburgh — Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. have been issued a cease-and-desist order and must immediately stop operations in Pittsburgh. — In an order granted Tuesday, Judges Mary D. Long and Jeffrey A. Watson said the companies cannot operate until …
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Philly.com, Uber Blog, CNET, Fast Company, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, CBS Pittsburgh and Engadget
Tweets: @billpeduto and @uber_pit
| David Katzmaier / CNET: |
Samsung to end plasma TV production this year — Following in the footsteps of Panasonic, Samsung says it will end production of plasma display panels by the end of this year. — The Samsung PNF8500 is the last great plasma TV. — Sarah Tew/CNET — Samsung SDI has announced …
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GlobalPost, TechSpot, Tech Times, Slate, Engadget and The Verge
Tweets: @wirecutter and @dkatzmaier
| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon resists FTC request to tighten in-app purchase policy for children — Amazon Resisting FTC on Policy Change for In-App Purchases — Amazon-FTC Dispute Is Over Limiting Children's Purchases — Amazon.com Inc. is bucking a request from the Federal Trade Commission that it tighten …
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