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Guardian responds to Whisper's denials, stands by its claims, urges media and users to keep pressing Whisper — Whisper: the facts — Executives from the anonymous social media app have dismissed as a ‘pack of lies’ the Guardian's revelation that they track users. But the evidence is clear
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See also Mediagazer| Jonathan Zdziarski: |
Whisper iOS app collects user location within 100 meters, data could be fuzzed server-side — Preliminary Findings on Whisper — At the suggestion of @kashhill, I did a brief analysis of the Whisper iOS application, which appears to be at the height of controversy with respect to user privacy.
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Whisper CTO says tracking “anonymous” users not a big deal, really — On Thursday, the Guardian reported that the developers of Whisper, a social media platform that allows individuals to post anonymous messages that can be seen by others based on a number of factors, isn't all that anonymous after all.
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Apple's iPhone 6 Finally Makes Its Debut in China — Apple launched its latest iPhone in China on Friday morning. But unlike some past debuts for its new gadgets, the event was decidedly low-key. — About 100 customers waited in line Friday morning outside Apple's store … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
This new “Apple SIM” could legitimately disrupt the wireless industry — Perhaps the most interesting news about Apple's new iPad Air 2 tablet is buried at the bottom of one of its marketing pages: It will come pre-installed with a new “Apple SIM” card instead of one from a specific mobile operator.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Amazon Fresh launches in New York, starting with Brooklyn's Park Slope area, for Amazon Prime members — Amazon Confirms It Will Deliver Fresh Groceries in New York City — Amazon's grocery delivery business is launching in New York City on Friday, the company said …
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| Nancy Scola / Washington Post: |
Obama nominates ex-Google lawyer Michelle Lee to head US patent office in a victory for Silicon Valley — Obama nominates former Google exec to lead U.S. Patent Office — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria in 2011. (Alex Brandon/AP) — Michelle K. Lee …
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| Conor Dougherty / New York Times: |
Analysts Ask What's Next for Google — SAN FRANCISCO — Google is still pulling in money hand over fist, but Wall Street is hungry for the company's next act. — On a conference call with analysts on Thursday, after Google reported its third-quarter earnings, the questions came fast and furious …
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Gaming company Razer valued at $1B+ after new funding from Intel — Gaming Company Razer Is Now Valued At $1B+ — Razer, the San Diego-based high-end gaming tech company, is on a roll. In the wake of the latest models of its thin Blade gaming laptops, a partnership with Tencent in China … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
MasterCard Will Borrow A Touch ID Trick For Fingerprint Scanning Credit Card — Apple isn't the only company using biometrics to authenticate payments and purchases - Apple Pay partner MasterCard wants to make fingerprint scanning something even people without an iOS device can use to digitally ‘sign’ for contactless transactions.| Ellen Huet / Forbes: |
Uber fired driver for tweeting negative articles about company; driver has since been re-hired — Uber Deactivated A Driver For Tweeting A Negative Story About Uber — Uber's watching you, and if you say something bad about the company, you might get booted out.| Martin Peers / The Information: |
HBO's standalone online streaming service likely won't be less than pay TV retail price of $15/month — HBO's Online Pricing Trap — HBO's broadband service looks doomed even before it starts. — While HBO hasn't disclosed details, pricing of the new broadband offering most likely … | Richard Slatter / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter partners with Soundcloud to launch Audio Card, a new way to share audio in timeline — Introducing a new audio experience on Twitter — The world's most influential musicians and media producers already share unique audio content through Twitter every day.
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See also Mediagazer| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Social Network Tagged Rebrands as an App Incubator — Tagged, a social-networking site that's struggled to attract users and grow revenue since its founding a decade ago, is changing its name and trying a new approach. — The San Francisco-based company has renamed itself if(we) … | Allen Pike: |
Developer notes difficulties of supporting old iPads, says obsolescence of A5 CPU is overdue — The iPad zombie — In March 2011, Apple announced the iPad 2. It was an incredible leap forward, dramatically thinner and faster than the original iPad. In many ways, the iPad 2 was when the iPad hit its stride.
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Facebook warns its users who use the same credentials as those stolen in earlier Adobe breach — Facebook Warns Users After Adobe Breach — Facebook is mining data leaked from the recent breach at Adobe in an effort to help its users better secure their accounts.
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| Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: |
Twitter to roll out its Buy button to general public in early 2015 — Twitter is aiming to launch its new Buy button to all organizations some time in the first quarter of 2015, VentureBeat has learned. — The Buy button officially debuted last month with Twitter testing its functionality … Thanks:@tched
| Xav de Matos / Joystiq: |
PS4 ‘2.0 update’ adds broadcast archiving, USB music player — PlayStation has revealed a fresh slate of changes coming to the PS4 interface in the upcoming 2.0 system update alongside a few items we already knew about, such as the ability to gussy up your console with themes.
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| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Investment firm KKR is putting $55M into a company that uses AI to automate IT processes — A German software company called Arago just received a $55 million investment from KKR in order to help take its IT automation software global. The company's algorithms learn how to perform administrative tasks …
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| John Carroll / FierceBiotech News: |
Canaan debuts $675M fund with an eye for biotech, med tech deals — When Canaan Partners rolled out its last $600 million fund in 2012, the partners expected that it would last a full three years. But in these fast and furious days of venture deals, it wasn't quite enough money for that kind of time horizon.
| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Google: The New “Messenger” App In Android 5.0 Is A Stock SMS/MMS Solution, Not A Hangouts Replacement / Rebrand — There's a new default homescreen tenant in town on Android 5.0, and its name is Messenger. We've seen this puzzling app in screenshots many times today, and it's left a lot of people wondering: where'd Hangouts go?
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VC investments in Q3 2014 at $11.01B, down 24% from Q2 but up 16% from Q3 2013 — Venture Investment Slows in Third Quarter But Already Exceeds Last Year — Venture investors tapped the brakes in the third quarter, but the pace was still well ahead of last year with $37.28 billion deployed …
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