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Google's robotics lead and Android founder Andy Rubin leaving the company to start an incubator for hardware startups, will be replaced by James Kuffner — Former Android Leader Andy Rubin Leaving Google — Rubin Is Starting an Incubator for Startups Interested in Building Technology-Hardware Products
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Hungary internet tax cancelled after mass protests — Hungary has decided to shelve a proposed tax on internet data traffic after mass protests against the plan. — “This tax in its current form cannot be introduced,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.
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| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Samsung Galaxy A5 and A3: Sleek, slim, fully metal (hands-on) — Side by side on a table, the two nearly identical rectangular handsets look innocuous enough and extremely familiar. Yet two things quietly make the Samsung Galaxy A3 and A5 stand out: their all-aluminum material and their unibody construction.| Dave McNary / Variety: |
Seth Rogen Set as Steve Wozniak in Steve Jobs Biopic — Seth Rogen has been set to star as Steve Wozniak opposite Christian Bale in Sony's Steve Jobs biopic. — Variety reported on Oct. 15 that Bale was in talks to star in “Jobs,” Sony's biopic about the late Apple co-founder.| ProPublica: |
Twitter's MoPub is using the UIDH “perma-cookies” inserted by Verizon into web pages — Somebody's Already Using Verizon's ID to Track Users — Twitter's mobile advertising arm enables its clients to use a hidden, undeletable tracking number created by Verizon to track user behavior on smartphones and tablets.
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| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter demotes Daniel Graf, elevates Kevin Weil to lead consumer product group — Twitter Demotes Product Chief Daniel Graf — Kevin Weil Becomes Fifth Product Head in As Many Years — Twitter Inc. has demoted its new head of product, Daniel Graf, just six months after his much-touted hire away from Google Inc.
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SocialTimes, The Verge, Mashable, Re/code, Gigaom, AllTwitter and CNBC
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| Elisabeth Hulette / Virginian-Pilot: |
Circuit court rules criminal defendant may be forced to unlock phone with his fingerprint, but not his passcode — Police can require cellphone fingerprint, not pass code — A Circuit Court judge has ruled that a criminal defendant can be compelled to give up his fingerprint …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple No Longer Rejecting Calculator Widgets From The App Store — The maker of a popular iOS app and widget, PCalc, which took advantage of iOS 8's support for Notification Center Widgets, was recently told by Apple that his handy app would be pulled from the App Store due to the fact that …
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Tweets: @stevestreza and @nateboateng
| Garett Sloane / Adweek: |
Instagram ads arrive in the form of 15-second autoplay spots from Disney, Activision, Lancome, Banana Republic, and the CW — Instagram's Video Ads Are Finally Live, and Here Are 4 From Major Brands — Disney, Activision and Banana Republic among early buyers
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| Pamela Rolfe / Hollywood Reporter: |
Spain passes LPI law allowing publishers to charge aggregators that link to news stories; effective January 2015 — Spain Passes Much-Debated Intellectual Property Law — Critics complain of an unenforceable Google tax and missed opportunity for clear anti-piracy law| Klint Finley / Wired: |
An Open Source Platform That Makes Building Apps Cheap and Easy — Companies like Google and Facebook have done an awful lot of work to make their internet apps feel just as snappy and responsive as the software that runs directly on your PC, letting us, say, follow constantly-updating online timelines … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Thank you, Tim Cook — Why we're not “moving on” from the Apple CEO's big statement today — In a way, what Tim Cook said today felt inevitable. At least since 2008, when Owen Thomas asked the question in Gawker, a steady accretion of reporting has suggested Apple's chief executive is gay.
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Tweets: @fmanjoo, @jeffreygoldberg, @smcbride, @erynofwales, @pschiller, @gcaweir, @btaylor and @owenthomas
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC nears reclassifying ISPs as common carriers on back-end, while still allowing fast lanes — FCC reportedly close to reclassifying ISPs as common carriers — FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler speaking to the cable industry in April 2014. — NCTA — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler …
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Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, Techdirt and Wall Street Journal
| Sophie Knight / Reuters: |
Sony reports strong Q3 PS4 sales of 3.3M units, cuts annual smartphone sales forecast to 41M, after lowering them to 43M from 50M in Q2 — Sony reports narrower second-quarter loss than estimated on strong PlayStation 4 sales — (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp reported a second-quarter operating loss …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
IBM teams up with Tencent to offer business software cloud services to companies in China — IBM teams with Chinese ISP Tencent to advance cloud portfolio — Summary: The companies will work together to build Software-as-a-Service offerings that tap into mobile, cloud and big data for use in internal processes and operations.
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PC World, Reuters, TechRadar.com, PR Newswire, Telecompaper and Wall Street Journal
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
uBeam Nabs $10 Million In Funding From Upfront Ventures To Make Wireless Charging A Reality — Wireless power seems like one of those things everyone always dreams about. I mean, how great would it be to have your phone just charge while it's sitting in your pocket with no need to plug it in?
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Both Sides of the Table, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, PE Hub Blog and socalTECH.com. Tweets: @pmarca. Thanks:@allisonchampion
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Alphaworks, The Equity Crowdfunding Platform From Betaworks, Brings On Erin Glenn As CEO — Today the folks at Alphaworks, the equity crowd-funding platform branched out of betaworks, are announcing leadership changes, with Erin Glenn taking the lead as CEO.
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