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Staples investigating credit card breach at its retail stores after multiple banks report fraud — Banks: Credit Card Breach at Staples Stores — Multiple banks say they have identified a pattern of credit and debit card fraud suggesting that several Staples Inc. office supply locations …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Lumia to replace Nokia brand, starting in France, global rollout in the coming weeks — Microsoft Lumia will replace the Nokia brand — Microsoft started dropping hints about its plans to kill off the Nokia and Windows Phone brands last month, and now the company is ready to make it official.| iFixit: |
Mac Mini 2014 teardown: CPU and RAM soldered to logic board, impeding user repairs or upgrades — Mac Mini Late 2014 Teardown — This guide has been found to be exceptionally cool by the iFixit staff. — It's been two years since the Mac Mini's last appearance on iFixit's teardown table …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google beefs up 2-step verification with physical USB Security Key option in Chrome — Google today announced it is beefing up its two-step verification feature with Security Key, a physical USB second factor that only works after verifying the login site is truly a Google website.| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Banks racing to become your first card in Apple Pay as most users will use the default card — New Gold Rush: why banks are racing to be the first card in your Apple Pay — Beyond the home screen, beyond the lock screen, the battle for the pre-screen — Over the weekend I was hit … | Sharon Profis / CNET: |
| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Apple clarifies Spotlight Search data and location sharing, says information shared is minimal — Yosemite, iOS 8, Spotlight, and Privacy: What you need to know — A story made the rounds earlier today calling into question the new Spotlight Suggestions feature in OS X Yosemite and iOS 8.| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Scammers hack business phone networks to rack up billions in fraudulent charges, vexing carriers and lawmakers — Phone Hackers Dial and Redial to Steal Billions — SAN FRANCISCO — Bob Foreman's architecture firm ran up a $166,000 phone bill in a single weekend last March.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Magic Leap Secures $542M Led By Google For “Lightweight Wearable” Tech That Merges Physical And Digital Worlds — It's rare that a company can stay relatively secretive while raising a huge amount of funding, but Florida's Magic Leap has managed that. The startup, led by CEO Rony Abovitz …
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Former Microsoft exec Bob Muglia raises $26M for Snowflake, a data warehousing startup — Bob Muglia is floating in the clouds, or should we say on some snowflakes. The longtime Microsoft veteran — who left the company in 2011 after 23 years, including a stint as the president …
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TechCrunch, Fortune, PE Hub Blog, The New Stack, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Gigaom and silicontap.com
| Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft Values CEO Satya Nadella's Pay at $84 Million — Call Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the $84 million man. — Microsoft said it awarded the new CEO compensation valued at more than $84 million for the fiscal year ended June 30. — The majority of the money, $59.2 million … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires Firebase To Help Developers Build Better Real-Time Apps — Google today announced that it has acquired Firebase, a backend service that helps developers build realtime apps for iOS, Android and the web that can store and sync data instantly.
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Firebase, Gigaom, VentureBeat and Google Cloud Platform Blog
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Yahoo In Talks To Buy Video Ad Platform BrightRoll For Around $700M — Yahoo has been building up its video and video advertising content, and we have heard that it may make another key acquisition in the area to further raise its game. The company is in talks to acquire BrightRoll …
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See also Mediagazer| John Ribeiro / PC World: |
NSA approves Samsung Knox devices for government use — Samsung Electronics' Galaxy devices have been approved by the U.S. National Security Agency under a program of the agency to quickly deploy commercially available technologies. — The Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) …
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The Register, BetaNews, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Inquirer, ZDNet and ABC News
| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
Tim Cook, in his own words, on why the iPad has a bright future — Apple's iPad business was the lone drag in its otherwise strong earnings report today. iPad sales last quarter dropped 13% from the previous year, to 12.3 million, their third straight quarter of decline.
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