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Uber investigating its New York general manager, Josh Mohrer, for tracking Buzzfeed journalist's location without her consent — “God View:” Uber Investigates Its Top New York Executive For Privacy Violations — In the wake of a BuzzFeed News story, the transit company is looking …
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Tweets: @danprimack, @aplusk, @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffjarvis, @mattdpearce, @semil and @mikeisaac
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Uber risks turning off investors, employees, and the public with its aggressive culture — Uber, a Start-Up Going So Fast It Could Miss a Turn — In just four years of operation, Uber has ignited a new global ride-sharing industry with the promise of transforming urban transportation … | Ross Miller / The Verge: |
Apple Watch will feature info-rich “Long Look” notifications if wearer keeps wrist raised, and static, non-interactive maps — 11 things we just learned about how the Apple Watch works — As of today, developers can now make apps for Apple Watch.
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Kik Messenger Takes $38 Million in Funding, Buys GIF Startup Relay — Messaging app Kik has raised $38.3 million in new funding and acquired Relay, a messaging network focused on sending and receiving GIFs. — The round was led by Valiant Capital Partners, and included new investors Millennium Technology … | Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Android Lollipop's Trusted Places removes need to unlock device in select geographical areas — Google Play Services Update Adds Trusted Places Feature To Lollipop's Smart Lock — Smart Lock in Lollipop encompasses both trusted face and trusted devices, but a new option is joining the party—trusted places.
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| Justin Fenton / Baltimore Sun: |
Prosecutors withdraw key evidence in robbery case to avoid revealing how police used phone tracking technology — Judge threatens detective with contempt for declining to reveal cellphone tracking methods — Baltimore prosecutors withdrew key evidence in a robbery case Monday rather …
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| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
Big numbers for Prezi: 50 million users, 160 million presentations created and $57m in fresh funding — It's a big day for Prezi, the Hungarian-American company behind the nifty cloud-based presentation platform with the same name. — At the Slush conference in Helsinki, Finland …
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Apple told to pay $23.6M for infringing pager technology patents from the 1990s — Apple Told to Pay $23.6 Million Over Pager Technology — Apple Inc. (AAPL) was told to pay a Texas company $23.6 million after a jury found its iPhone and other devices used pager technology from the 1990s without permission.
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg: |
Toronto Asks Court to Shut Down Uber's Operations — Toronto is asking a court to order the mobile car-booking service Uber Technologies Inc. to shut down in North America's fourth-largest city. — Uber has been operating in Toronto since 2012 without a proper license …
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| Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
Microsoft Intros Docker Command Line Interface for Windows — Microsoft launched a command line interface for Docker that runs on Windows. Until now, users could only manage Docker containers using a Linux machine or a virtualized Docker environment on a Windows machine.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Restaurant Discovery Service Zomato Raises Further $60M — Zomato, the restaurant search and discovery service, has closed a further $60 million in funding, giving the company a post-money valuation of $660 million. Investment comes from India's Vy Capital, and existing backers Info Edge, and Sequoia Capital.
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MediaNama, The Economic Times, Quartz, VCCircle, The Indian Express, Firstbiz, The Hindu and Trakin' the india …. Tweets: @jonrussell. Thanks:@sohear
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Jolla Crowdfunds $380K+ To Build An iPad Alternative — Update: Well that was very fast indeed. Jolla's Indiegogo campaign to build an open source iPad alternative — taking its Sailfish OS onto the tablet form factor — has passed its initial funding target of $380,000 with around 2,450 backers putting in cash.
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Google Removes SSLv3 Fallback Support From Chrome — Google has released Chrome 39, fixing 42 security vulnerabilities and removing support for the fallback to SSLv3, the component that was the target of the POODLE attack revealed last month. — When the POODLE attack was disclosed … | Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Bigcommerce Gets $50 Million to Set Up Online Shops for Small Businesses Worldwide — Bigcommerce, a software service that helps small and mid-sized businesses set up online shops, has taken on a new $50 million investment, led by SoftBank Capital, as it pursues its goal of becoming the dominant …
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PayPal unveils Pebble app for notifications, watch-only payments at stores accepting PayPal — PayPal challenges Apple Pay with an app for the Pebble smartwatch — PayPal's mobile payments app is now available for the Pebble smartwatch, the company announced in a blog post today.| Erin Kelly / USA Today: |
Senate effectively kills USA Freedom Act, a bill that proposed an end to NSA phone metadata collection — NSA spying bill stalls in Senate vote — WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday failed to get the 60 votes needed to advance a bill that would stop the National Security Agency …
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500 Startups Launches $10M Mobile Collective Fund, Hires Ex-Dolphin Browser Exec Edith Yeung To Run It — “In the past we were 500 Startups. In the future we might be 500 VCs.” — That's Dave McClure, founding partner and Sith Lord behind global seed fund 500 Startups and his growing roster of investment partners.| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Indian phone manufacturer Micromax to put Cyanogen software on its upcoming low-cost devices — Cyanogen's next stop is India — The Android mod-maker inks a deal to come preinstalled on new Micromax phones — Cyanogen, the company that makes the popular Cyanogenmod Android Firmware …
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's iPhone 6 Plus & iPad Air 2 lose out to Samsung & Surface in detailed color accuracy analysis — Following its detailed reports on displays used in the new iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3, today DisplayMate published a scientific analysis of color accuracy for the six best mobile displays it's tested this year.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Amazon's $39 Fire TV Stick starts shipping today, but new orders won't arrive before January 15 — As expected, Amazon today started shipping its $39 Fire TV Stick to fill preorders. Yet if you preordered the streaming device in the last few days or want to order it now, don't expect to see it before January 15, 2015.
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The Next Web, Amazon.com, TechCrunch, Engadget, Digital Trends, SlashGear and WebProNews
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Facebook's Flow could help JavaScript programmers spot elusive bugs — Easing what has traditionally been a difficult programming task, Facebook has released as open source a debugging tool for JavaScript, called Flow, designed to highlight problems caused by the misuse of data types.
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