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Pew Report: Facebook growth slows, but user engagement increases; while Twitter and others grow userbase, not engagement — Social Media Update 2014 — In a new survey conducted in September 2014, the Pew Research Center finds that Facebook remains by far the most popular social media site.
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| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter plans to sell ads in streams of tweets on other publishers' apps and websites, share revenue — Twitter Planning to Sell Ads on Apps and Sites of Other Companies — Twitter is laying out plans to make money from the millions of people who see tweets all over the Web but don't actually use Twitter.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Lizard Squad's DDoS attack service “Lizard Stresser” runs mostly on thousands of hacked home routers — Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers — The online attack service launched late last year by the same criminals who knocked Sony and Microsoft's gaming networks offline …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Screenshots emerge of Windows 10's new dark theme, taskbar, and Spartan browser UI — This is Windows 10's new browser and dark theme — Microsoft is preparing to unveil a new browser in Windows 10, codenamed Spartan, and leaked images are providing an early glimpse at the Internet Explorer successor.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple planning Apple Pay expansion into Canada as soon as March — Apple is preparing to expand its new Apple Pay payments service internationally with at least the Canadian launch currently scheduled for early 2015, according to sources close to the situation.| Loek Essers / InfoWorld: |
Glitch in OS X Yosemite's Spotlight Search can expose IP address, system details of Apple Mail users to spammers — Glitch in OS X search can expose private details of Apple Mail users — Performing a Spotlight search opens email previews that load external images, even when the Mail client is asked not to do this
| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Microsoft plans new OneDrive sync engine that unifies consumer and commercial versions, syncs shared folders such as Dropbox, has selective sync — Microsoft lays out year-long roadmap for unifying OneDrive sync engines — Summary:In a new announcement, the company says it plans to unify …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apps from Apple's EU App Store continue to work even after refunds are processed — The fundamental flaw with EU 14-day refunds: you keep the app forever — A week ago, Apple introduced 14-day no-questions-asked refunds in the EU for iTunes Store and App Store content.
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| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Nintendo blames taxes as it exits Brazil — Mario isn't afraid to brave the dangers of ice worlds or Bowser's castle, but tariffs have scared him away from Brazil. — The game publisher revealed today that it is ending operations in the South American nation (via UOL Brazil).| Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
Database Company MongoDB Raises Another $80 Million — Database company MongoDB Inc. has raised another $80 million to take on powerful incumbents and startups in the race to win business customers. … The company had named a new president and chief executive, Dev Ittycheria …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat and MongoDB
| Amrutha Gayathri / Reuters: |
Box seeks to raise up to $162.5M in IPO at $11 to $13 per share at a valuation of up to $1.55B — Data storage company Box expected to be valued at up to $1.55 billion — (Reuters) - Online data storage provider Box Inc (IPO-BOX.N) expects its initial public offering to be priced at $11-$13 per share …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
China Bans Taxi Apps From Offering Rides With Regular, Unlicensed Cars — Last year saw Uber challenged with regulator and government battles across North America, Europe and Asia, and today China took its first step to cracking down on its fast growing taxi app space.
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