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A look at North Korea's cyberwar army, as more reports point to it as culprit in Sony hack — Here's What We Know About North Korea's Cyberwar Army — It is still not definitively known if the hacking attack that brought the computer network belonging to Sony Pictures to its knees was carried out on behalf of North Korea or not.
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
FBI warns US businesses of possible cyberattacks in wake of Sony Pictures breach — Exclusive: FBI warns of ‘destructive’ malware in wake of Sony attack — (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned U.S. businesses that hackers have used malicious software …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook, Google, And Twitter's War For App Install Ads — An unexpected consequence of our love of apps is that now there's just too damn many of them. The app stores are overcrowded, leaving developers desperate for a way to get their games and utilities discovered.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox For Business Is About To Launch An Enterprise Tools API To Fight Box — Dropbox's frilly consumer brand and lack of hardcore enterprise security features has kept its “For Business” software from scoring more corporate clients. But an internal-only Dropbox launch plan attained … | Scott Kirsner / BetaBoston: |
Airbnb acquires Pencil Labs, creators of scheduling app Wyth — Airbnb picks up Pencil, Cambridge startup that built scheduling app — Airbnb has quietly acquired a small Cambridge startup, Pencil Labs. Pencil Labs had built a scheduling app called Wyth that was intended to eliminate …
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| Dan Grover: |
WeChat product manager details the differences between Chinese and US mobile app UI trends — Chinese Mobile App UI Trends — This summer, I packed up all my things and moved from San Francisco to Guangzhou, China for work. Through an unlikely chain of coincidences that I don't entirely recall …
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| David Carnoy / CNET: |
Amazon Echo speaker review: uneven sound quality, voice control a mere novelty, no iOS integration — Amazon Echo talks the talk, but still needs a little work on walking the walk — The Good The Amazon Echo is an attractively designed speaker and its voice-control system … | Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Apple going to trial this week for decade old iTunes DRM lawsuit, faces potential $350M in damages — Star Witness in Apple Suit Is Steve Jobs — SAN FRANCISCO — Three years after his death, Steve Jobs is very much a presence in courtrooms across the country. — And that's not necessarily good news for Apple.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Mozilla rolls out Firefox 34 with default Yahoo search for North America, disables support for SSL 3.0 standard — Firefox's latest update makes Yahoo the default search option — That was fast. It was just two weeks ago that Mozilla announced a deal making Yahoo the default search engine in Firefox … | Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
Hortonworks IPO: 6M shares at $12-$14, valued at approx $600M, less than $1B reported earlier, hopes to raise $96.6M; will debut on Nasdaq under symbol HDP — Hortonworks lowers IPO target a bit, hopes to raise up to $96.6M — Big Data software provider Hortonworks on Monday set price targets … | Trevor Cole / Globe and Mail: |
Profile of Tobi Lütke, CEO of software maker Shopify, which powers over 120K online stores — Meet our CEO of the Year — Tobi Lütke wears his pink hard hat with pride. “I like it,” he says. “I'm the only person with a pink hard hat in the entire house.” — By “house” he means “building.”| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Uber hires Goldman Sachs to raise money from bank's high-net-worth clients in a convertible debt offering separate from the reported $1B raise — Exclusive: Uber hires Goldman Sachs to raise money from bank clients — On-demand ride company Uber has hired Goldman Sachs GS to raise money …
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| Jeremy C. Owens / Mercury News: |
Cypress Semiconductor buys Spansion in $4B Silicon Valley chip deal — Cypress Semiconductors and Spansion, two of the largest chip companies in Silicon Valley, announced Monday that they will merge in a $4 billion deal. The newly formed company will retain the Cypress name and San Jose headquarters … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
AOL Adds More Video Help by Buying Content Syndicator Vidible for Around $50 Million — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has spent a lot of time building out his video business. Now he is buying Vidible, a startup that's supposed to make it easier for publishers to get their video on other people's websites.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Microsoft Buys Mobile Email Startup Acompli For More than $200 Million — Microsoft is expected to announce later Monday morning that it is indeed buying e-mail start-up Acompli. — There may not be much surprise in this one thanks to an errant blog post, but Microsoft's purchase …
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