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British Prime Minister wants to ban encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp and iMessage if security agencies can't access them — British Prime Minister Suggests Banning Some Online Messaging Apps — LONDON — Popular messaging services like Snapchat and WhatsApp are in the cross hairs in Britain.
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Latest iOS 8.2 iPhone beta adds Apple Watch Bluetooth support, confirms app — The latest iOS 8.2 beta for the iPhone adds support for Apple's next major product launch: the Apple Watch. Inside of the Bluetooth Settings menu is a new panel specifically for pairing an iPhone with the Apple Watch.| Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo: |
Hackers claiming to be ISIS “Cyber Caliphate” seize US Central Command's Twitter and YouTube accounts — Someone Claiming to Be ISIS Says They Hacked CENTCOM, Leaks Docs Online — U.S. Central Command's Twitter and YouTube accounts just lit up in a bad way.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Chrome Remote Desktop for iOS — Google today launched its Chrome Remote Desktop app for iOS, some nine months after releasing the tool on its own mobile platform. Like its Android counterpart, the iOS version lets you remotely control your computer using your smartphone or tablet.
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Google stops providing security patches for pre-KitKat WebView, leaves 930M users vulnerable — Google No Longer Provides Patches for WebView Jelly Bean and Prior — Over the past year, independent researcher Rafay Baloch (of “Rafay's Hacking Articles") and Rapid7's Joe Vennix … | New York Times: |
Obama calls for federal legislation requiring companies to disclose breaches involving consumer information within 30 days; proposes Student Data Privacy Act — Obama to Call for Laws Covering Data Hacking and Student Privacy — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday will call …
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Microsoft will preview Windows 10 for phones, release beta version later this month — Microsoft prepares to preview Windows 10 for phones — Beta version expected by end of the month — Microsoft is preparing to preview its latest version of Windows Phone later this month.
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Facebook considered investment in Xiaomi last October but talks were never formalized — Exclusive: Facebook, Xiaomi discussed possible investment in the Chinese smartphone maker - sources — (Reuters) - Mark Zuckerberg and Xiaomi Inc CEO Lei Jun discussed a potential investment by Facebook …
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Android Authority, Gigaom, 9to5Google, ValueWalk and Android Central
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Twitter in talks to buy Yo-like startup ZipDial for $30M-$40M, in effort to enter Indian market — Twitter Is In Talks With India's ZipDial — We have heard that Twitter is making another acquisition, with international growth and mobile marketing in mind.| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Sequoia-backed international restaurant discovery service Zomato buys IAC's Urbanspoon for $50M to $60M to enter US market — Restaurant Discovery Site Zomato Buys IAC's Urbanspoon, Enters The U.S. — Zomato, the restaurant discovery site backed by Sequoia, has bought Urbanspoon from IAC …
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GeekWire, Zomato, VatorNews, PR Newswire, Mashable, The Economic Times, Business Insider, Android Police, The Next Web, Tnooz, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, Business Standard, Seeking Alpha and Eater. Tweets: @catherineshu. Thanks:@jonrussell
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Tinder acquires Chill, the creators of ephemeral messenger app Tappy, as part of a strategic acquihire; Tappy to shut down — Tinder Acquires Ephemeral Messenger Tappy — Tinder has just closed its first acquisition. The IAC-backed startup has purchased Chill, creators of Tappy, as part of a strategic acquihire.
Tweets: @jessebouman
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Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso hands over CEO Role to Sheree Waterson as it focuses on expansion to more physical stores — Nasty Gal Founder Hands Over CEO Role at Cutting-Edge Online Fashion Retailer — Sophia Amoruso will always be the #GirlBoss. But she's giving up the official boss title at Nasty Gal.| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
A newly declassified report reveals the FBI has broadened its surveillance program and retains copies of NSA-intercepted communications for analysis — F.B.I. Is Broadening Surveillance Role, Report Shows — WASHINGTON — Although the government's warrantless surveillance program … | Mike Snider / USA Today: |
Majority of shuttle drivers for Apple, eBay, Yahoo, and Zynga want to join Teamsters union — More Silicon Valley shuttle drivers look to unionize — The move to unionize Silicon Valley shuttle bus drivers is spreading. — The Teamsters have contacted the CEOs of six Silicon Valley-area companies …
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| David Yanofsky / Quartz: |
Instagram fixes privacy hole that exposed private photos posted from a public profile later changed to private — Your private Instagrams weren't as private as you thought they were — A privacy hole was publicly exposing an untold number of photographs Instagram users believed were private …
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| Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM Wins Most Patents — Again — but Google and Apple Climb in Rankings — There was little change among the largest recipients of U.S. patents in 2014. But two big Silicon Valley names - Google and Apple - continued climbing the charts. — The two technology giants remained well behind IBM …
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IFI CLAIMS® Patent Services, VentureBeat, eWeek, AppleInsider, InfoWorld, PC Magazine, iDownloadBlog.com and ZDNet. Tweets: @scottthurm
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Spotify now has 60M users, 15M of whom are paying subscribers — Two months after Spotify revealed it had 50 million users and 12.5 million subscribers, the music-streaming behemoth has issued an updated set of figures for 2015. — The company says it now has 60 million active users … | David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Supreme Court asks DOJ to weigh in on Google-Oracle API copyright flap — The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Obama administration for its views on an appeals court's conclusion that Oracle's Java application programming interfaces are protected by copyright.
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Apple suppliers TSMC, Foxconn announce record December revenues as iPhone sales soar — The iPhone's strong holiday sales helped two of Apple's biggest supply chain partners — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Hon Hai Precision Industry — post record monthly revenues in December …
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ReadWrite, DigiTimes, iDownloadBlog.com and TechSpot
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Capital One Acquires Budgeting App Level Money — Capital One has acquired San Francisco-based money management app, Level Money, the companies are announcing this morning. The app, which is focused on allowing consumers to keep track of their spendable cash and savings …
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http://blog.levelmoney.com/, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Droid Life, Android Police and Bank Innovation
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