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iPhone kill switch reduced thefts by 40% in San Francisco, 25% in New York city, and 50% in London — Smartphone theft drops in London, two U.S. cities as anti-theft ‘kill switches’ installed — (Reuters) - Thefts involving smartphones have declined dramatically in three major cities …
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| Jungah Lee / Bloomberg Business: |
Samsung to release two versions of 5.1" Galaxy flagship with all-metal bodies, one with a 3-sided display next month — Samsung Said to Plan 3-Sided Screen in New Galaxy Smartphone — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Samsung Electronics Co. plans to release two new versions …
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| Rajesh Jha / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft acquires Sunrise, creator of an innovative calendar app for mobile devices — I'm pleased to announce that Microsoft has acquired Sunrise, provider of a next-generation calendar app for iOS and Android. We are making this acquisition because we believe a reinvention …
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Over 720K Android Wear devices shipped in 2014, with Moto 360 being the clear leader — Over 720,000 Android Wear devices shipped in 2014 — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Wednesday, 11 February 2015 — Over 720,000 Android Wear devices shipped in 2014 out of a total of 4.6 million smart wearable bands.
| Baljeet Singh / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter acquires Niche, a service that helps connect social media stars with brands — Welcoming Niche to the Twitter team — As we continue to invest in the growing media ecosystem, it's important to provide a wide variety of tools for content creators to distribute and ultimately manage all of their content.
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Report: in response to Apple Pay, Square is working on an Android tablet; Google testing Plaso, a mobile payment system that allows you use your initals to pay — Square working to rely less on Apple's iPad, claims report — Square, the mobile payments service found in countless coffee shops across … | Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Samsung TVs start inserting ads into your movies — Thought you could watch that video on your local hard drive without ads? Think again: A number of owners of Samsung's smart TVs are reporting this week that their TV sets started to interrupt their movie viewing with Pepsi ads …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Confirms Aperture to Be Removed From Mac App Store After Launch of Photos for OS X — Shortly after last week's deployment of OS X 10.10.3 to developers, Apple updated its official Aperture page on its website, adding a notice stating that Aperture will be removed from the Mac App Store when the Photos for OS X app launches.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches new open-source modular switch platform 6-pack — Facebook Reveals Final Piece In Scalable Data Center Vision — Facebook revealed the final piece in its scalable data redesign today, one that completes its vision of redefining traditional hardware and software … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Starting today, wireless carriers have to unlock your phone — Once you've paid off your contract, carriers can't say no. — Major wireless carriers in the US have promised to unlock customers' phones or tablets once they've paid off their contracts, beginning today.
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| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung Display to invest $3.6 billion in new OLED production line — The company logo is displayed at the Samsung news conference at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas January 7, 2013. — (Reuters) - Samsung Display, a subsidiary of South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Facebook launches ThreatExchange, an API-based platform that lets companies share security threat info — Facebook today launched ThreatExchange, described as “an API-based clearinghouse for security threat information.” It's really a social platform, which Facebook naturally excels at building …
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Apps Search Pioneer Quixey Poised to Raise $60 Million From Alibaba, Twitter, SoftBank — Quixey, the app search engine, is close to getting $60 million in funding from a powerful coterie of investors, including China's Alibaba Group, Twitter, SoftBank and others.
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
To track illegal activity, DARPA is developing a dark web search engine that indexes Tor Hidden Services pages, sites accessible only through the Tor browser — Darpa Is Developing a Search Engine for the Dark Web — A new search engine being developed by Darpa aims to shine a light …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Reserve Raises $15M To Help With Your Restaurant Reservations And Payments — Reserve, the app promising to serve as your “personal dining concierge,” is announcing that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding. — The company was incubated at Expa, the startup studio created by StumbleUpon and Uber co-founder Garrett Camp.| Help Net Security: |
IBM security finds over 60% of Android dating apps are open to hacks, risking corporate data — Majority of dating apps are open to hacks — IBM Security found that over 60% of leading Android dating mobile apps they studied are potentially vulnerable to a variety of cyber-attacks … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Tim Cook talks about Apple Watch, international growth, commitment to privacy, and more in a wide-ranging Goldman Sachs interview — Apple CEO Tim Cook Speaking Live at 2015 Goldman Sachs Technology Conference — Apple CEO Tim Cook is speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
FBI tries to prevent disclosure of information about use of fake “stingray” cell towers by local police — FBI really doesn't want anyone to know about “stingray” use by local cops — Memo: cops must tell FBI about all public records requests on fake cell towers.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AOL Stock Drops 11% On Q4 Miss Of $710.3M In Sales, As It Pushes Ahead On Programmatic — On the heels of a plan to restructure its business to focus more on programmatic advertising and its bigger content brands, today AOL reported its Q4 earnings that show it still has some way to go on that front.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
App marketplace maker AppDirect raises $50 million from Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital — Summary:The San Francisco-based startup makes a white-label app marketplace that allows businesses to sell software-as-a-service applications to other businesses. — AppDirect has closed … Sponsor Posts
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