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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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Experts Are Still Divided on Whether North Korea Is Behind Sony Attack — Security cameras stand across the street on Culver Boulevard from the Sony Pictures Studios' water tank in Culver City, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. Damian Dovarganes/AP — The FBI announcement last week … | Hollywood Reporter: |
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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.| 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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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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| 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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| 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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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.| Eddie Makuch / GameSpot: |
PlayStation Now debuting on non-Sony devices in 2015, beginning with select Samsung Smart TVs — PlayStation Now Coming to Non-Sony Devices In 2015 — Streaming service will be available on “select” Samsung Smart TVs in first half of 2015. — Right now, Sony's game-streaming service PlayStation … | John Ribeiro / PC World: |
Ireland wants US to use treaty to access Microsoft held emails — “Respect Irish sovereignty,” Ireland has told a court that is hearing a dispute over access for U.S. law enforcement to email communications held by Microsoft in Dublin. — “Ireland respectfully asserts that foreign courts …
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Preparing for IPO, Alibaba removed 90M counterfeit goods from its marketplaces during the first 9 months of 2014 — Alibaba Took Down 90 Million Fake Products in Lead to IPO — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA), which faced scrutiny for selling counterfeit goods on its websites …
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