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Uber raises $1.2B, looks to invest in the Asia Pacific region; acknowledges shortcomings in company's culture — The Ride Ahead — 2014 has been a year of tremendous growth for Uber. It was just a year ago that Uber was operating in 60 cities and 21 countries - today we are in over 250 cities in 50 countries.
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| Murali Sitaram / Official Google for Work Blog: |
Google launches the Google for Work and Education Partner Program, consolidating existing programs across Apps, Chrome, Cloud Platform, Maps and Search — Introducing the Google for Work & Education Partner Program — Posted by Murali Sitaram, Director of Global Partnerships & Strategic Alliances, Google for Work
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| Kashmir Hill / Fusion: |
Ex-employees say staff warned Sony of lax security for years and company failed to act on risk assessment advice — Sony Pictures hack was a long time coming, say former employees — We still don't know exactly how Sony Pictures got hacked or who did the hacking.
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| Sherrel Wheeler Stewart / Reuters: |
Tim Cook agrees to lend his name to Alabama LGBT anti-discrimination bill after initial resistance from Apple — Alabama anti-discrimination bill to be named after Apple's Tim Cook — (Reuters) - An anti-discrimination bill championed by Alabama's only openly gay lawmaker will bear …
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| Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times: |
Older viewers also abandoning TV in favor of phone, computer — People in the U.S. are watching more digital video as traditional TV viewing declines, and it's not just young people driving the trend, according to a new report from Nielsen. — The measurement firm said Wednesday that the amount …
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| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Operation AURORAGOLD: How the NSA hacks cellphone networks worldwide and spies on the GSM Association, which includes Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, Facebook, others — How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide — In March 2011, two weeks before the Western intervention in Libya …
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| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Yahoo Set to Pass Twitter in U.S. Mobile Ads After Mayer Revamp — Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) is poised to surpass Twitter Inc. (TWTR) next year to become the third-biggest company in U.S. mobile advertising, bolstering a key part of Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer's turnaround effort.
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| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung mobile executives to leave after profit slide: source — (Reuters) - Three deputies to the head of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's mobile division are leaving, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday, as the world's largest smartphone maker faces a rapid decline in profit.| Adam Zeis / iMore: |
Sonos Controller updated with multi-account support, Playbar enhancements and more — The good folks at Sonos have just released a new and improved Sonos controller app for both Android and iOS. The new version makes some beta features official, and just in time to help spread some holiday cheer.
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| Aruna Viswanatha / Reuters: |
US Justice Department creating new unit to work with the private sector to prevent online crime and advise on electronic surveillance in cyber investigations — New U.S. cybersecurity prosecutor unit to focus on prevention — (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is creating a unit within …
| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Apple seeds new beta of OS X 10.10.2, highlights fixes for Wi-Fi issues — Apple has seeded a new build of the OS X Yosemite beta to AppleSeed users and developers. The seed notes for build 14C78c say that testers should focus on Wi-Fi connectivity, indicating that Apple has done some work in that area to resolve outstanding issues.
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| Nick Statt / CNET: |
Eddy Cue testimony in antitrust trial: Apple's iPod updates, DRM strategy were to prevent hacks, piracy — Apple defended iPod from hackers, iTunes chief says in antitrust trial — iTunes chief Eddy Cue says hackers wanted to break apart Apple's digital music ecosystem in a trial questioning its use of software updates.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Amazon Unveils Its Own Diapers and Baby Wipes Called Amazon Elements — For years, Amazon naysayers have warned that the e-commerce giant's ambition would drive it to compete ever more directly with the merchants who sell goods on Amazon's popular online marketplace.
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| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
T-Mobile postpones LTE Nexus 9 launch, no new date in sight — When T-Mobile officially launched sales of the Nexus 6 smartphone it said it would start selling an LTE version of the Nexus 9 tablet in early December. Now, it appears those plans have changed.
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| Lev Grossman / TIME: |
Inside Mark Zuckerberg's plan to wire the world and put every single human being online — Exclusive: Inside Facebook's Plan to Wire the World — Chandauli is a tiny town in rural India about a four-hour drive southwest of New Delhi. India's a big country, and there are several Chandaulis.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Docker announces Docker Hub Enterprise to manage companies' apps behind the firewall, and a suite of orchestration services for admins — Docker debuts on-premises software for storing companies' apps in containers — At its user conference in Amsterdam today, the executives of hot startup Docker …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's Azure RemoteApp app-delivery service to be generally available December 11 — Summary: Microsoft's Azure RemoteApp service — which will allow users to remotely access corporate applications on a variety of devices — will be generally available starting on December 11.
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