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51% of new devices activated during Christmas week were Apple, 18% were Samsung, 6% Nokia — Apple and Apps Dominated Christmas 2014 — Millions of people woke up and unwrapped a shiny new device under the Christmas tree. As we have done in years past, Flurry examined these new device activations …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Sources: Microsoft is building a new, lightweight browser codenamed Spartan for Windows 10 — Microsoft is building a new browser as part of its Windows 10 push — Summary:Microsoft is planning to roll out a new browser when it debuts Windows 10, according to sources. But IE isn't going completely away.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Grocery delivery startup Instacart scores $220M investment at a valuation of around $2B — Grocery Delivery Startup Instacart Scores $220 Million Investment — Instacart, the grocery delivery startup, disclosed in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it had closed a monster $210 million investment …
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| Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune: |
How Disney CEO Bob Iger uses technology to keep every division of his company relevant — Disney CEO Bob Iger's empire of tech — Even in a dress-down gray sweater, Bob Iger looks a bit mechanical. His mouth is almost geometrically straight, his face constructed of some cool alloy.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Chaos Computer Club claims it can reproduce fingerprints from people's public photos — Chaos Computer Club, Europe's largest association of hackers, claims it can reproduce your fingerprints from a couple of photos that show your fingers. At the 31st annual Chaos Computer Club convention in Hamburg …
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BBC, The Hill, Chaos Computer Club Updates, CNNMoney.com, PC Magazine, Guardian, Computerworld, The Register, The Hacker News, Gigaom, ReadWrite, RT, Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, TechNewsWorld, Business Insider, Tom's Guide, PandoDaily, TechnoBuffalo, CNET, TechSpot, MacDailyNews, ExtremeTech, BGR, GeekWire, Electronista, Fox News, Digital Trends, iDownloadBlog.com, Geek.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, App Advice, MacRumors, SlashGear, Engadget, Ubergizmo and bit-tech.net. Tweets: @levie
| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Washington Post hopes to generate more revenue by licensing its content management system to other news organizations — Here's A New, Inventive Way Jeff Bezos Plans To Make Money From The Washington Post — When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013 … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple introduces 14-day no questions asked refunds for App Store & iTunes in EU countries — Apple has recently introduced a new 14-day no questions asked return policy for iTunes, App Store and iBooks purchases in Europe including the UK, Germany, Italy, France, and many other EU countries.
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Samsung launches Milk VR to deliver virtual reality videos to Gear VR — Milk VR will provide the videos for free as Samsung hopes to goose interest in virtual reality. — Samsung wants to jump-start the virtual-reality movement. — The Korean electronics conglomerate on Tuesday launched Milk VR …
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TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Gigaom, The Verge, PhoneDog.com, SamMobile and Scientific American Content
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
As Microsoft scales back original vision of the Xbox One as a general-purpose living room platform, key team members keep leaving the company — Almost every single Xbox executive we profiled in this video last year has left the company — Boyd Multerer — the genius Microsoft engineer …
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SiliconANGLE, Associated Press, Neowin, Polygon, VentureBeat, gameinformer.com, Joystiq, Business Insider, SlashGear, Windows Phone Central and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @boydmulterer, @monkbent, @fmanjoo and @ckindel
| Christopher Williams / Telegraph: |
UK banks in talks to launch Apple Pay in 2015, execs concerned about data collection by Apple — UK banks in talks over Apple ‘wave and pay’ — Negotiations between the tech giant and at least one bank have proved tricky because of wrangling over the terms, including what data Apple will be able to access
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MacRumors, The Register, Mobile Marketing Watch, AppleInsider, SiliconANGLE, Associated Press, TechSpot, TUAW, iMore, The Verge, AppleTell, BGR, 9to5Mac, Gotta Be Mobile, Neowin, InvestorPlace, App Advice, TechnoBuffalo, Pocket-lint, Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, PC Magazine, MacDailyNews, SlashGear, ReadWrite, Cult of Mac, Patently Apple, Electronista, iPhone Hacks, O'Grady's PowerPage, Ubergizmo and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @dgwbirch and @liarpoliticians
| Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
Scaled Inference raises $13.6M at a valuation of about $60M from Khosla Ventures and others, to offer machine learning software as a cloud service — Scaled Inference Raises $13.6 Million to Build Out Machine Learning — Artificial intelligence and machine learning are back in vogue.
Tweets: @felicisventures
| Julia Angwin / Backchannel: |
Book excerpt from Dragnet Nation: a quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance — Who Is Watching You? — Companies and institutions track us almost indiscriminately. Is this the world we want to live in? … But today the anxious question …
Tweets: @youranonnews
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