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The Interview now available to rent for $5.99 or purchase for $14.99 through YouTube, Google Play, Xbox Video, and SeeTheInterview.com — Where To Watch ‘The Interview’ Online Right Now — Sony will release “The Interview” online Wednesday, the company announced.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung shutters flagship London store amid falling sales — Closing down a marquee location in one of Europe's biggest malls — What are Samsung Experience Stores? Why, they're a dying species, if the latest development in Samsung's efforts to establish its own retail empire are any indication.
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| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
NFL to post game highlights and other video clips on Facebook with Verizon Wireless ads, share ad revenues with Facebook — Facebook Scores NFL Video Clips With Ads From Verizon — Facebook has scored a big partner as it ramps up its online video ambitions: the National Football League.| Eric Meyer / Thoughts From Eric: |
Facebook's Year in Review suggestions may in some cases be inadvertently tactless, hurtful — Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty — I didn't go looking for grief this afternoon, but it found me anyway, and I have designers and programmers to thank for it. In this case, the designers and programmers are somewhere at Facebook.
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| David Lerman / Bloomberg: |
NSA reports show agency may have violated laws by unauthorized surveillance of Americans for over a decade — U.S. Spy Agency Reports Improper Surveillance of Americans — The National Security Agency today released reports on intelligence collection that may have violated the law …
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook bringing playlists, featured videos, YouTube-inspired layout to videos tab on Pages — Facebook Challenges YouTube Channels With New Features For Pages — Twitter's not the only one Facebook is battling for control of news and content distribution.
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| Gulveen Aulakh / The Economic Times: |
Delhi High Court lifts ban on sale of OnePlus handsets — NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today lifted the December 16 ban on sale of OnePlus handsets embedded with Cyanogen software and asked its single judge who had passed the earlier order, to hear it afresh two weeks from now.| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Uber CEO Indicted in South Korea Over Its Taxi Service — Prosecutors in South Korea charged Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick and the head of its domestic business partner MK Korea Co. with violating a transportation law. — San Francisco-based Uber …
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| John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
Judge denies Facebook's request to dismiss class action lawsuit over private message scanning to target ads — Suit over Facebook's practice of scanning users' messages to go forward — Company's TOC “does not establish that users consented” to the practice, court rules.
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
MPAA Secretly Settled With Hotfile for $4 Million, Not $80 Million — It's been nearly a year since Hotfile was defeated by the MPAA, resulting in a hefty $80 million dollar settlement. — While the public agreement left room for the file-hosting service to continue its operations …
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
FTC charges data broker LeapLab with selling consumers' financial details to fraudsters — Data Broker Is Charged With Selling Consumers' Financial Details to ‘Fraudsters’ — Federal regulators are cracking down on information resellers who hawk personal details about consumers to companies …
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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google Bars Developers From Including User Testimonials In Play Store App Descriptions — Google has updated its Play Store guidelines to again clamp down on how developers can list their apps. The keyword spam section of the support site now includes a rule that specifically forbids developers …
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