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Skype Translator preview goes live on Windows 8.1 with support for real-time translation of English and Spanish — Skype Translator Preview - An Exciting Journey to a New Chapter in Communication — For more than a decade, Skype has been breaking down geographical barriers to make every day audio and video communications possible.
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HBO GO is now available on Amazon Fire TV, support for Fire TV Stick coming in spring — HBO GO Now Available on Amazon Fire TV — HBO GO joins a growing list of services that support Amazon Fire TV voice search — customers simply say the name of a movie or TV show to find it on Amazon …
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| The Foursquare Blog: |
Foursquare launches on iPad with emphasis on trip planning — Introducing Foursquare for the iPad, the best way to plan your holiday travels. — Since the new Foursquare came out a few months ago, people have been telling us that they do a lot of their planning on their iPad …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat: |
Google integrates Nest with its iOS and Android apps, enables voice commands, Now cards — You can now control your Nest thermostat with the Google app on iOS and Android — The “Works with Nest” program has a new addition: the Google app. — Starting now, Nest thermostat owners … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Bay admin talks about the raid, copycats, says he's not sure site will be relaunched — Pirate Bay Responds to The Raid, Copies and The Future — For more than a decade The Pirate Bay's been the bastion of uncensored information. Until the raid on some of its critical infrastructure last week …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Gartner: 301M Smartphones Sold In Q3 As Xiaomi Muscles Into The Top 5 At Samsung's Expense — Smartphones now account for 66% of all mobile phones worldwide and are on track to see 2014 sales of 1.2 billion units in 2014. But while Android appears to have “won” the so-called platform war …
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| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Google is talking to retailers about 1-click “Buy Now” button and an Amazon Prime-like free 2 day shipping program — Google Shopping May Go Deeper Into Ecommerce — Google is reportedly floating the idea of a “Buy Now” button and two-day shipping program.
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| Brad Smith / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Apple, Amazon, other tech giants, trade groups, and academics support Microsoft in its case against US Government on overseas search warrants — Business, Media and Civil Society Speak Up in Key Privacy Case — Today represents an important milestone in our litigation concerning …
| Laura Lorenzetti / Fortune: |
SurveyMonkey is worth $2 billion after new $250 million fundraising round — SurveyMonkey, the online survey platform, raised $250 million in equity financing, making the company worth close to $2 billion. — The funding will help the company pursue future acquisition purchases …
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| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
SoundCloud introduces ‘Collection,’ a dashboard for following artists and listening to your playlists — SoundCloud is great for discovering unique content and mixes you'll scarcely find anywhere else, but sometimes keeping track of all that audio goodness gets a bit cumbersome.
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| Brian Ries / Mashable: |
Uber introduces surge pricing during Sydney hostage siege, then backtracks, offers free rides, refunds — Uber intros surge pricing during Sydney hostage siege, then backtracks after user outcry — This post was updated at 10:45 p.m. ET to include an updated statement from Uber
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| Eugene Volokh / Washington Post: |
Sony unlikely to prevail in court if it sues media organizations for publishing stolen data — Can Sony sue media outlets who publish the stolen Sony documents? — David Boies, representing Sony, has written a letter to various media outlets, demanding that they not publish or otherwise use …
| Alex Heath / Cult of Mac: |
Workflow lets you easily chain together and automate hundreds of actions across iOS apps — Workflow pushes the limits of how powerful iOS can be — A new app called Workflow aims to close the divide between the power of OS X and the convenience of iOS.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Amazon's Kindle for iOS app updated w/ Goodreads integration, Audible progressive play, more — Amazon pushed out an updated version of its Kindle for iOS app today bringing a list of new features to the reading app. — Kindle for iOS now includes integration with Goodreads …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Survey reveals most technology companies' privacy policies do not cover employee access to user data — We Asked 29 Tech Companies If Their Employees Can Access Your Personal Data — Privacy policies rarely mention the weakest point in any company's security infrastructure: its employees.| Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Facebook now has an empathy team, calls users “people” to consider them in more human way — Facebook: We Don't Call Them ‘Users’ Any More, We Call Them ‘People’ — Facebook has overhauled the way it talks about its userbase and advertising customers in order to consider them in a more “human” way.| Matthew Bennett / The Spain Report: |
Spanish Newspaper Publishers' Association Now Asks Government To Help Stop Google News Closure — NEWS: AEDE announces it wants the Spanish government and EU competition authorities to stop Google closing Google News: “to protect the rights of citizens and businesses”.
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Google: |
T-Mobile teases a new uncarrier deal livestreaming tomorrow as it claims 50% faster LTE in NY — T-Mobile has announced that it will be unveiling its latest contract-free deal in a livestreamed ‘fireside chat’ tomorrow, Un-carrier 8.0. … The company hasn't hinted at any of the details, but we'll of course let you know ...| Chine Labbe / Reuters: |
France says UberPop to be banned as irate taxi drivers stall traffic — (Reuters) - The UberPop transport service will be banned in France from Jan. 1 to avoid unfair competition, the interior ministry said on Monday as taxi drivers impeded morning traffic into Paris in a one-day protest against the U.S.-based online cab-hailing firm.| Loek Essers / PC World: |
Google faces up to €15M fine over privacy violations in Holland — Dutch authority to Google: change privacy policy or else — If Google doesn't change how it handles users' private data by the end of February, it may face fines of €15 million (about US$18.6 million), the Dutch Privacy Authority said Monday.
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