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Facebook plotting first steps in healthcare: support communities for ailments and preventative care apps — Exclusive: Facebook plots first steps into healthcare — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc already knows who your friends are and the kind of things that grab your attention.
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Apple Asks the Music Labels for a Price Cut on Streaming Subscriptions — There are lots of music subscription services that let people listen to all the songs they want for $10 a month. — Apple thinks that price is too high. — Sources say Apple is talking to the big music labels … | New York Times: |
JPMorgan says data breach affected 76M households, 7M small businesses — Cyberattack Against JPMorgan Chase Affects 76 Million Households — A cyberattack this summer on JPMorgan Chase compromised the accounts of 76 million households and seven million small businesses …
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Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Associated Press, eWeek, CNNMoney.com, Computerworld, WebProNews, Reuters, USA Today, Help Net Security, theWHIR.com, VentureBreak, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, New York Magazine and SC Magazine
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| Jayadevan PK / The Economic Times: |
Google planning to launch own mobile messaging app similar to WhatsApp — BANGALORE: After losing WhatsApp to Facebook in a multibillion dollar acquisition bid, Google is planning to launch its own mobile messaging app which the search giant is likely to test in India and other emerging markets.
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Gizmodo, Business Insider, Digital Trends, Tech Times, Reuters, bgr.in, Ubergizmo and Neowin. Tweets: @timesofindia. Thanks:@therealjpk
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Security researchers publicly release code to Github for “practically unpatchable” exploit BadUSB — The Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs Is Now on the Loose — It's been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room …
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GitHub, Business Insider, Mashable, TechSpot, MacDailyNews, Neowin, Gizmodo, SecurityWeek, Help Net Security, Engadget, SlashGear, The Verge and Electronista
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| Logan Whiteside / CNNMoney.com: |
Schmidt: Google's systems “far more secure and encrypted than anyone else, including Apple” — Google: Tim Cook is wrong about us — Apple got it wrong — Google is the safest place on the Web, the search giant's chairman says. — “We have always been the leader in security and encryption …
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An in-depth look at Apple Pay, and why it could be the safest way to make a credit card payment — Apple Pay: An in-depth look at what's behind the secure payment system — With Apple Pay slated to go live later this month, one can soon expect to see an avalanche of fear mongering from pundits who …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU Commission clears Facebook's $19 billion bid for WhatsApp — (Reuters) - European Union antitrust regulators approved on Friday a $19 billion offer by Facebook, the world's most popular social network, for mobile messaging startup WhatsApp. — The landmark deal is the largest … | Bloomberg: |
France's Iliad Said to Plan Bid for Bigger T-Mobile Stake — Iliad SA (ILD) is planning to bid for a bigger stake in Deutsche Telekom AG's U.S. unit than it sought in July, as the French telecom carrier approaches a self-imposed deadline to reach a deal, people familiar with the matter said.
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Apple's Health app is useless, dependent on other apps to gather data — Apple's Health App Is An Embarrassment — ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self. — You know those super-awkward “before” shots with a fat guy holding … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 8 Translator Keyboard Introduces Easy Access Language Translation Capabilities — With iOS 8 bringing support for system wide third-party keyboards for the first time, developers have been coming up with creative ways to introduce new functionality to the keyboard, beyond simply making it quicker to type.
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Early build of Android L with TouchWiz previewed on the Samsung Galaxy S5 — Exclusive Preview: Android L on Samsung Galaxy S5 — At Google I/O 2014, Google announced the next iteration of its Android operating system - Android L. As the operating system itself was still in early stages …
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Business Insider, Pocket-lint, IntoMobile, Electronista, SlashGear, Gigaom, Geek.com, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow, Engadget, 9to5Google, BGR, Phandroid, PC World, MobileSyrup.com and Droid Life. Tweets: @markgurman
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HTC third quarter profit beats estimates as cost cuts offset weak sales — (Reuters) - Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp swung to better-than-expected profit in the third quarter from a heavy loss a year earlier, as cost cuts helped it offset the impact of still-sluggish sales.
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GoPro stock falls as much as 14% as founder gifts 5.8M shares to new charity, sidesteps IPO lockup rule — GoPro's Lockup Loophole Spooks Investors — GoPro Inc. found a way to maneuver around its lockup restriction, a development that spooked investors and sent the high-flying stock down as much as 14% on Thursday.
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Dubai detectives to get Google Glass with facial recognition tech developed by local police — Dubai detectives to get Google Glass to fight crime — (Reuters) - Dubai police plan to issue detectives with Google Glass hands-free eyewear to help them fight crime using facial recognition technology … | Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Flipboard for Windows Phone 8 is finally here — At last, Flipboard has an app for Windows Phone 8. Nokia said a version of the magazine-inspired reading app would come to its platform over a year ago, and users have been waiting patiently ever since. — Now, it's finally here.| ZDNet: |
Samsung to start producing Apple's 14nm A9 processors by year end — Samsung expects sales boost from Apple chip deal — Summary: Samsung's chip boss said supplying its 14-nanometre FinFet chips to Apple will boost its financials greatly, reports ZDNet Korea's Cho Mu-hyun.
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Gearburn, AppleInsider, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, DailyTech, MacRumors, Electronista and The Tech Report
| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
New Apple patent hints at next-generation iOS Remote app that reproduces Apple TV GUI — Apple's next-gen iOS Remote app solution could boast full Apple TV GUIs, interactive content — An Apple patent application published Thursday describes a next-generation iOS Remote app system capable …
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iPhone, PadGadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, InvestorPlace and MacRumors
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Deezer launches US partnership with Bose, at $5/month with lower quality audio than Sonos deal — Deezer launches in the U.S., again, this time partnering with Bose — Deezer is launching another paid tier of its streaming service in the U.S., this time through an exclusive partnership with Deezer.
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Engadget, Gizmodo, SlashGear, TechSpot, AllAccess.com, Billboard, CNET, The Verge and VentureBeat
| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Intel responds to pressure from anti-feminist campaign #GamerGate, pulling ads from Gamasutra — Intel buckles to anti-feminist campaign by pulling ads from gaming site — #GamerGate supporters try to silence calls for video game equality — Intel has pulled an advertising campaign …
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CNN, Re/code, New York Times, Channel EYE, New World Notes, Flavorwire, The Mary Sue, Slate, Computer Business Review, Ars Technica, GamesIndustry.biz and Boing Boing
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Hulu makes peace with Apple's 30 percent cut, enables in-app billing in latest iPhone update — Hulu is giving Apple 30 percent of its Hulu Plus subscription fee for new users that sign up through the just-relaunched iPhone app. The company's business model may help with this significant bounty.| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Bing: No Plans To Give Ranking Boost For HTTPS — At Search Marketing Expo, Bing's Vincent Wehren, the Lead Program Manager for Bing Webmaster Tools, said they have no plans on ever giving a ranking boost to websites that switch to HTTPS. — In August, Google began giving sites that use HTTPS …
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| Todd Krabach / Facebook Developers: |
Facebook officially launches its mobile Like Button for native iOS and Android apps — Mobile Like Button now Available to Everyone — On average, the Like and Share Buttons are viewed across almost 10 million websites daily. At f8 this year, we let developers preview the Like Button on iOS mobile devices.Sponsor Posts
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