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Sony three-year plan to focus on PlayStation and camera sensors; company may exit smartphone and TV markets — Sony sees 25-fold profit jump by 2018; could exit TVs, phones — (Reuters) - Sony Corp (6758.T) aims to boost operating profit 25-fold within three years by growing its camera sensors …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
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| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
White House Names DJ Patil as the First US Chief Data Scientist — It's finally official: The White House has named DJ Patil its first ever Chief Data Scientist and Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy. — Yes, that's a mouthful. Even as an acronym, Patil's new title is ten letters long: CDCaDCTODT.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Uber expands Series E round by $1B, bringing the total capacity for round up to $2.8B — Facing Demand, Uber Expands Funding Round by $1 Billion — Uber, the ride-hailing service, likes to trumpet its popularity with consumers. Their fervor is surpassed, perhaps, only by investors'.
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| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Samsung will buy Apple Pay competitor LoopPay — Samsung will buy LoopPay, a mobile payments company. — LoopPay's technology allows mobile payments through traditional magnetic credit card readers. That means it can theoretically work in a lot more places than Apple Pay, which requires special payment pads to work.
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Patent troll claims to own Bluetooth, scores $15.7M verdict against Samsung — Big patent trolls see court wins, twice in two weeks. Will it matter for reform? — Gordon Bremer didn't invent Bluetooth 2.0. In fact, as he admitted on the stand last week in an East Texas federal court … | Lauren Goode / Re/code: |
Ray Super Remote is a $199 touchscreen remote that can recommend content, easily switch inputs — Ray Wants to Change Your TV Experience, With a Touchscreen Remote Control (Video) — As more set-top boxes, game consoles and sticks that stream Web video crowd the main television set in the home …
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PC World, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Virtual Press Office, Gigaom and Variety
| Dustin Volz / National Journal: |
Google Calls FBI's Plan to Expand Hacking Power a ‘Monumental’ Constitutional Threat — Any change in accessing computer data should go through Congress, the search giant said. — Google is warning that the government's quiet plan to expand the FBI's authority to remotely access computer files amounts …
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Apple reportedly poached employees from A123 Systems to work on battery tech, now faces unfair competition lawsuit — Apple has poached five key engineers from A123 Systems to work in a new battery division at the Cupertino technology company, with some hires possibly going as far back as June, a new report claims.
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Snapchat Now Lets You Shoot Video And Play Music At The Same Time — Snapchat has solved one of the most annoying problems with mobile video so you can finally record your dance parties, even if you're the DJ. — The startup been experimenting for some time with ways to better integrate music into its application.
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Gigaom, The Verge, Engadget, Business Insider, iMore, Google Operating System and Inc.com. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
Microsoft debuts its Azure Machine Learning service with support for Python, R languages and a preview of its Hadoop-based HDInsight tool that runs on Linux — Microsoft embraces Python, Linux in new big data tools — Continuing its quest to make Microsoft Azure comfy for the non-Windows world …
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TechNet Blogs, VentureBeat, BetaNews, The Official Microsoft Blog, TechCrunch, GeekWire and ZDNet
| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Breath analysis startup Breathometer announces partnership with Uber, now prompts drunk users to order Uber or a cab — Breathometer Now Calls Ubers To Drive The Drunks Home — Breathometer and Uber are teaming up to get the drunks home safely. — We wrote before that Breathometer … | Ryan Merket / reddit: |
Reddit opens voting for users to choose 10 charities to receive 10% of 2014 $8.2M ad revenue — reddit donate - 10% of our 2014 advertising revenue will be donated to 10 charities you choose. Voting begins now! — Here at reddit, one of the things that gets us out of bed every morning …
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| Lucian Constantin / PC World: |
Samsung smart TVs don't encrypt the voice data they collect — Samsung does not encrypt voice recordings that are collected and transmitted by its smart TVs to a third party service, even though the company has claimed that it uses encryption to secure consumers' personal information.| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Software maker K2 raises more than $100M to help businesses build custom applications … K2 may not be the best known software company in the Seattle area. In fact, most people hearing the name probably first think of the Seattle-based ski manufacturer. — But in the shadow of companies …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
US carriers still stink at unlocking phones, analysis finds — Sprint is especially bad, while Verizon is the most customer-friendly. — A consumer rights activist who led the charge against restrictions on phone unlocking has graded the four major US carriers and found three … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Microsoft is killing Windows Phone's Rooms group chat — When Windows Phone 8 launched back in 2012, one of the biggest new features was Rooms, an extension to the People hub that let users hold conversations and share photos, notes, and calendars in private groups.
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TechnoBuffalo, TechFrag, Gigaom, The Register, SlashGear and Windows Central
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
NewCo, John Battelle's Event Startup, Raises $1.7M From Obvious, True Ventures And More — NewCo, the latest venture from Federated Media co-founder John Battelle and Brian Monahan that focuses on creating city-based “festivals” as a new approach to more standard startup and tech confabs …
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