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Sources: Verizon approached AOL about possible acquisition or joint venture to strengthen mobile-video offerings — Verizon Said to Approach AOL About Possible Takeover or Venture — Verizon Communications Inc. has approached AOL Inc. (AOL) about a potential acquisition or joint venture …
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TheStreet.com, Wall Street Journal, VatorNews, USA Today, Quartz, CNET, Benzinga, Bloomberg, Telegraph, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, Reuters, Consumerist, The Verge, bizjournals and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @om, @howardlindzon, @pkafka, @jyarow, @zackwhittaker, @tim_stevens, @mattzeitlin, @puiwingtam, @ow, @caseynewton and @rafat
See also Mediagazer| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple now selling SIM-free unlocked iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in the US, from $649 — As we reported yesterday, Apple is now selling contract-free iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in retail stores and online. Following historic pattern, the 16 GB base model iPhone 6 costs $649 with higher tiers costing $100 extra.
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SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Digital Trends, InfoWorld, VentureBeat and Tech Times
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Bitstamp confirms exchange hacked, has lost less than 19K bitcoins worth about $5M — Bitstamp exchange hacked, $5M worth of bitcoin stolen — The European bitcoin exchange suspends its service after it was hacked, ZDNet can confirm. Less than 19,000 bitcoins were stolen from an operational wallet.
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BetaNews, CoinDesk, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Tech Times, Wired, The Verge, CNBC and The Next Web. Thanks:@zackwhittaker
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung updates SmartThings Hub, unveils subscription home monitoring service, coming April 2015 — Samsung unveils next-gen smart home hub and monitoring service — Looks like you didn't have to wait long to see what Samsung would do in the smart home world after acquiring SmartThings …
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Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, Business Wire, 9to5Google, Engadget, BetaNews, The Verge, ABC News, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, CNET, BGR, Tech Trader Daily, BBC, VentureBeat, ZDNet and Financial Review
| Ev Williams / Medium: |
Values of companies are too complex to be measured accurately by any single metric, like MAUs — A mile wide, an inch deep — I was recently quoted as saying, “I don't give a s**t” if Instagram has more users than Twitter. If you read the article you'll note there's a big “if” before my not giving of said s**t.
Tweets: @mattcutts, @sippey, @fmanjoo, @ow, @joshelman, @ia, @cpen, @nilofer, @hunterwalk, @mikeisaac, @wblau and @om. See also Mediagazer
| Ross Miller / The Verge: |
Sony announces new high fidelity Walkman NW-ZX2 with 128GB onboard storage running Android 4.2, coming spring for $1.2K — This is the new Sony Walkman — All signs pointed to a new Sony Walkman (literally) at CES 2015, and the signs didn't lie. The new Walkman ZX2 is real …
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Business Insider, Tech Times, Electronista, Ubergizmo, Android Police, The Next Web and Phandroid
| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Amazon executes sweeping reorganization of hardware group Lab126 following Fire Phone flop — Following Fire Phone Flop, Big Changes At Amazon's Lab126 — In recent months, a string of departures and managerial changes has hit Amazon's Lab126, the company's Silicon Valley-based R&D group …
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PC World, Beyond Devices, Forbes, GeekWire, Patently Apple and Business Insider. Thanks:@shlivy
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Gogo issues fake HTTPS certificates to block in-flight YouTube streaming, says no user info collected — Gogo issues fake HTTPS certificate to users visiting YouTube — Gogo has been caught issuing a fake digital certificate for YouTube, a practice that in theory could allow …
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Gogo Concourse, The Hacker News, PandoDaily, ReadWrite, Neowin, Gigaom, theWHIR.com, The Daily Dot, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Techdirt and Tnooz. Tweets: @__apf__
| Daniel Jalkut / Bitsplitting.org: |
Historical perspective on the notion that Apple has reached a peak of bugginess or that its marketing is prevailing — The Functional High Ground — Marco Arment laments his perception that Apple's software quality is in such a rapid decline that the company has “completely lost the functional high ground.”
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Marco.org, And now it's all this, MacStories, The Huffington Post, Daring Fireball, Wall Street Journal, TUAW, Valleywag and Business Insider. Tweets: @jimyoull
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Acquires Wit.ai To Help Its Developers With Speech Recognition And Voice Interfaces — Facebook today acquired Wit.ai, a Y Combinator startup founded 18 months ago to create an API for building voice-activated interfaces. Wit.ai already has 6,000 developers on its platform who have built hundreds of apps.
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Wit.ai, BetaNews, Inquirer, Re/code, Digital Trends, InfoWorld, Mashable, The Register, memeburn, Adotas, Wired, GeekWire, AllFacebook, Benzinga, Business Insider, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, The Next Web, Engadget and TIME. Tweets: @joshconstine. Thanks:@ryanlawler
| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
Moonpig API vulnerability exposed data of 3M customers for 17 months — Moonpig flaw leaves customer accounts wide open for 17 months (update) — Over the years we've seen our fair share of security breaches and loopholes, but rarely do they take the companies involved almost 17 months to patch them up.
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Paul's Blog, Help Net Security, Guardian, Netcraft, The Register, CNET, The Next Web, Gizmodo UK, Business Insider and TechWorm. Tweets: @gcluley
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Glassdoor Closes $70M Funding Round Led By Google Capital And Tiger Global — Glassdoor, the site that lets employees rate their companies' work environment and anonymously disclose their salary information, today announced that it has raised a $70 million funding round led by Google Capital …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Key wireless charging groups A4WP, PMA agree to merge — The alliance should help bring a little bit of clarity to the fragmented world of wireless charging technologies. — Powermat technology, pushed by the PMA, is already available at select Starbucks. — LAS VEGAS—Two down, one to go.
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BGR, The Digital Reader, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, Re/code and rezence.com
| James Kendrick / ZDNet: |
CES 2015: Lenovo unveils Yoga tablets, laptops, and new pen technology — Summary:Lenovo intends to continue riding its Yoga line of tablets and laptops, and launched a Yoga Tablet 2 with a strange feature, along with the Yoga 3 and ThinkPad Yoga laptops. — The Yoga line of tablets …
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Lenovo Newsroom, Engadget, CNET, Blogging Windows, Gigaom, PC World, The Verge, Wired, Liliputing, Business Insider, AnandTech and Gotta Be Mobile
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
CarPlay and Android Auto will be in Volkswagen cars this year — At CES this week, Volkswagen finally announced its plans for Apple's CarPlay and Google's Android Auto: both will be available later this year. The technologies will work on VW's MIB II dash electronics …
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Volkswagen Media Centre, Engadget, CNET, Consumerist, MacRumors, iMore, Android Central, Connectedly, 9to5Google, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Dish announces Sling TV: stream channels like ESPN, CNN, and TNT over the internet for $20 per month without a cable subscription — You Can Finally Get ESPN on the Web, for $20 a Month — Lots of people say they want to ditch cable TV for the Web, but can't because they want to watch sports …
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Dish, CNET, Xbox Wire, DailyFinance.com, Android Authority, eWeek, Polygon, VatorNews, BGR, blog.chron.com, SiliconANGLE, Android Police, Neowin, Gotta Be Mobile, Ars Technica, UPROXX, Windows Phone Central, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Phandroid, GamePolitics blogs, Gizmodo, Dan Rayburn, PC World, Lifehacker, Droid Life and AppleInsider
Tweets: @chriswelch and @justmadhu
See also Mediagazer| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Samsung is adding Slingbox-like features to its new smart TVs — Janko Roettgers — Credit: Kobby Dagan / Shutterstock.com — Credit: Kobby Dagan / Shutterstock.com — This is interesting: Samsung is adding what amounts to a kind of Slingbox to all of its new smart TVs …
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| Michael Kan / Computerworld: |
ZTE Grand Max X Plus prepaid smartphone with 6-inch display, 4G LTE, 5 megapixel front facing camera coming to Cricket this week for $200 off-contract — ZTE attacks US prepaid handset market with 6-inch smartphone — ZTE sees big promise in the U.S. prepaid handset market … | Caleb Pershan / SFist: |
Mark Zuckerberg's New Book Club Sold Out Its First Title On Amazon — Mark Zuckerberg is not like us. For example, when it comes to New Year's resolutions, the Facebook CEO actually achieves things. And in the five short days of 2015 so far, he's already become Oprah Winfrey.
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| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Yahoo Mail mobile app now tracks packages on iOS — Yahoo Mail just issued an update to its iOS app that will help you keep an eye on your goods while they're still in transit. — In the Yahoo Today section of the mobile app users can track packages from Amazon, eBay, Zappos, Target, Best Buy, Macy's and others.| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
TapSense announces platform for contextual ads on Apple Watch as developers scramble to deliver ads through Watch SDK — TapSense Announces Platform to Bring Contextual Ads to Apple Watch — Amidst the new and upcoming product launches at this year's Consumer Electronics Show … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Intel Turns Off Russian Forums, Blogs & Comments In Response To Russian Blogging Law — Back in April of last year, we were among the first to report on a very dangerous new law in Russia targeting bloggers, requiring any blogger or social media user with more than 3,000 “visitors” a day to register their real name with the government.
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
Qualcomm and LIFX partner up for smart lighting reference design — To make it even easier to build a connected light bulb, Qualcomm Atheros and startup LIFX have teamed up to create a Wi-Fi module and software that lets lighting manufacturers get a connected product on the shelves in no time.
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9to5Mac, CNET, The Next Web, eWeek, Gizmodo UK, ITworld.com, Reuters, Digital Trends, VentureBeat and Pocket-lint
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