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Google partners with Barnes & Noble for same-day book deliveries from stores in West LA, SF Bay Area, and Manhattan — Google and Barnes & Noble Unite to Take on Amazon — Google and Barnes & Noble are joining forces to tackle their mutual rival Amazon, zeroing in on a service …
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Facebook acquires encryption startup PrivateCore to better protect its servers against malicious attacks — Facebook today announced it has acquired encryption startup PrivateCore, which specializes in protecting servers from malware threats, unauthorized physical access, and malicious hardware devices.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Buys Secure Server Technology Provider PrivateCore — Facebook announced this morning it has acquired PrivateCore, a Palo Alto-based secure server technology company. The deal does not appear to be solely an acqui-hire, as Facebook says that it plans to deploy PrivateCore's technology …
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| Nick Bilton / New York Times: |
uBeam wireless charging technology, which uses ultrasound to charge portable electronics, expected to be on shelves within 2 years — Wireless Charging, at a Distance, Moves Forward for uBeam — LOS ANGELES — When Meredith Perry, 25, started studying astrobiology at the University of Pennsylvania …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft turns its Xbox One into a digital TV tuner with $40 adapter for Europe — Microsoft is planning to release a digital TV tuner adapter to allow European Xbox One owners to turn their consoles into a TV set-top box. Launching in October in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the UK …
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| Sue Decker / HBR.org: |
Ex-Yahoo president Sue Decker on investing in Alibaba and learning from doing business in China — An Insider's Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal — Editor's note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Krebs says report on the theft of 1.2B email accounts is “for real”, having seen the data — Q&A on the Reported Theft of 1.2B Email Accounts — My phone and email have been flooded with questions and interview requests from various media outlets since security consultancy … | Katherine Clarke / NY Daily News: |
Microsoft in talks for flashy Fifth Ave. store: sources — Tech giant would go head to head with Apple on prime Manhattan retail strip — Tech giant Microsoft is in negotiations to open its first ever New York City retail store on Fifth Ave., sources told the Daily News.
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| Andre Meister / netzpolitik.org: |
Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code of government malware published — “Try before you buy! One free license key for the first taker!” — A hacker claims to have hacked a network of the surveillance technology company Gamma International and has published 40 gigabytes of internal data.
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Microsoft tips off authorities about child abuse images saved to OneDrive — Microsoft tip leads to child porn arrest in Pennsylvania — Microsoft's terms and conditions say it has the right to scan images in users' accounts — A tip-off from Microsoft has led to the arrest of a man …
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| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
Philippine telco PLDT buys 10% stake in Rocket Internet for 333 million euros, valuing it at 3.3 billion euros ($4.4 billion) — Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), the largest telecommunications company in the Philippines, is buying a 10 percent stake in German tech startup incubator Rocket Internet.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Yelp lied about review policies to inflate stock price, lawsuit claims — An investors' class action lawsuit against Yelp could help reveal whether rumors about the company's ad practices, which have never been proven, are true. — Yelp, a site that lets consumers post reviews of local businesses … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Windows ‘Threshold’ expected to add virtual desktops, drop charms — Summary: Microsoft is going to do more than reintroduce a Start menu as part of its plan to make Windows 9, a k a ‘Threshold,’ more appealing to Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 users.| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
DHS background check contractor USIS hacked, personal information of employees likely stolen — DHS contractor suffers major computer breach, officials say — A major U.S. contractor that conducts background checks for the Department of Homeland Security has suffered a computer breach …
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USIS Media Release, Help Net Security, Nextgov, SecurityWeek, USA Today, CNET, Boing Boing, RT, CNN, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet and Reuters
| Lehar Maan / Reuters: |
Subscription renewals help Symantec beat estimates — (Reuters) - Symantec Corp, best known for its Norton antivirus software, reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue as more customers renewed their subscription and due to higher demand from federal agencies.
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Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal
| Aditi Pai / mobihealthnews: |
Practice Fusion acquires after-hours patient-physician consultations company Ringadoc — San Francisco-based Practice Fusion, which offers electronic health records and patient management software company, has acquired after-hours virtual visits company Ringadoc for an undisclosed sum.
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VentureBeat, hitconsultant.net, Reuters and Forbes
| Mark Hachman / PC World: |
OneDrive continues Microsoft migration to Amazon mobile devices — As Amazon continues to blaze its own trail in Android devices, Microsoft's services are moving right along with it. — On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that its OneDrive cloud-storage app is now available in the Amazon Appstore …
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Gigaom, OneDrive Blog, ZDNet, Softpedia News, The Next Web, SuperSite for Windows, Neowin, Engadget, WinBeta and 9to5Google. Tweets: @theromit
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