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Snapchat raises $485.6M at $10B+ valuation from 23 investors — Snapchat Raises $485.6 Million to Close Out Big Fundraising Year — Snapchat Inc., among a pack of elite technology startups that has attained a valuation of $10 billion or more, capped the year with a filing that disclosed it raised $485.6 million.
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| William Turton / The Daily Dot: |
U.K. police allegedly arrest Lizard Squad hacker … Lizard Squad took credit for the Dec. 25 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. DDoS attacks overwhelm a network with too much traffic, leaving targeted networks inaccessible for legitimate users.
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Krebs on Security, Thames Valley Police, BGR, Polygon, Ubergizmo, The Desk, Washington Post, The Verge, Guardian, Mashable, WinBeta, Engadget, Gigaom, Windows Phone Central, We Live Security, Kotaku, Gizmodo and SC Magazine. Tweets: @talkopan
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's ‘While You Were Away’ Recap Feature Is Rolling Out To Many Users — Back in November, Twitter announced plans to implement a number of new initiatives to boost user engagement, and one of those features — a ‘While you were away’ recap of tweets you may have missed — appears to be rolling out to significant numbers of users.| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Fiber could use utility poles and other utility-owned infrastructure under Title II, spurring broadband, company says in letter to FCC — Google Strikes an Upbeat Note With FCC on Title II — In a rare public comment by Google on net neutrality, the Internet giant this week … | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust ETF files to sell up to 1M shares on NASDAQ under the ticker COIN — Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust ETF files to list 1 million shares on NASDAQ — The Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust exchange traded fund (ETF) is going public following a final filing Wednesday to have the trust listed on the NASDAQ.
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Tweets: @redditbtc and @balajis
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Interviews with Sony employees show that the company was slow to realize the gravity and impact of hacking — Sony Hacking Attack, First a Nuisance, Swiftly Grew Into a Firestorm — LOS ANGELES — It was three days before Thanksgiving, the beginning of a quiet week for Sony Pictures.| Tal Kopan / Politico: |
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Tweets: @davidgarrettjr, @davidgarrettjr, @ahess247, @essobi, @declanm, @cyberwar, @kashhill and @fmanjoo
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| Craig Buckler / SitePoint: |
Average web page size increased 15% in 2014 to almost 2MB; HTTP requests per page hardly changed at 95 — Average Page Weight Increases 15% in 2014 — The HTTP Archive Report collates information from almost half a million of the web's most popular websites.
| Adam Liptak / New York Times: |
Supreme Court to put briefs and other filings online starting as soon as 2016 — Supreme Court, in Big Leap, Plans to Put Filings Online — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will soon join other federal courts in making briefs and other filings available electronically, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. announced Wednesday.
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Bloomberg, TheDenverChannel.com, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, statecolumn.com, The Verge, NBC News, ResearchBuzz and SCOTUSblog. Tweets: @fdelond
| Emily Steel / New York Times: |
Snapchat's curated “Our Story” posts from worldwide New Year's Eve celebrations displayed on screens in Times Square — Snapchat Plans a Global View of New Year's Festivities — This New Year's Eve, there is a new 24-hour countdown. — Snapchat — the app with ephemeral messages …
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The Next Web, The Daily Dot, UPROXX, Tubefilter, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, bizjournals, Taipei Times and App Advice. Tweets: @drew
| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung Electronics says new smart TVs in 2015 to run Tizen platform — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday that all its new smart television products launched in 2015 will be powered by the Tizen operating system, marking a fresh effort by the company to increase the usage of the software platform.
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| J.R. Wu / Reuters: |
Taiwan clears Xiaomi, Apple, Samsung, Sony, Huawei, others of breaching data privacy laws — Taiwan clears Xiaomi, other smartphone brands of breaching data privacy — (Reuters) - Taiwanese regulators cleared on Tuesday China's Xiaomi Inc [XTC.UL] and other smartphone brands …
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| Jonathan Soble / New York Times: |
Abandoned Japanese social network Mixi resurges with Monster Strike, its first mobile game — ‘Monster Strike’ Gives Former Social Media Giant Mixi a Second Act — TOKYO — It was a familiar trajectory for a social network like Facebook that did not happen to be Facebook … Sponsor Posts
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