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Cyanogen Raises $80 Million With Backing From Twitter, Telefonica and Rupert Murdoch — After months of passing around the hat, open Android startup Cyanogen said Monday it has closed an $80 million funding round that includes backing from a number of strategic investors.| Miguel Helft / Forbes: |
How Cyanogen got started and its plans to disrupt Android, including upcoming first Cyanogen OS phone without Google apps from Blu — Meet Cyanogen, The Startup That Wants To Steal Android From Google — It's a little hard to take Kirt McMaster seriously at first.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Square Introduces Square Cash for Businesses, With a Low 1.5 Percent Processing Fee — Five years ago, Square introduced a sleek card reader to the small-business world that made it easy for everyone from taxi drivers to craft sellers to coffee shop owners to accept credit card payments for the first time.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
HTC One M9 review: great design, performance, and battery life, but camera disappoints — HTC One M9 review — Haven't we seen this before? — Déjà vu (noun): a feeling that one has seen or heard something before — I've spent the better part of the last two weeks with HTC's new One M9.
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| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Schmidt: Google Glass is being made ready for users, is a long-term project, and a big and fundamental platform — Google Isn't Giving Up on Glass, Schmidt Says — Google is sticking with its controversial Glass Internet-connected eyewear because the technology is too important to scrap … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Livestreaming service YouNow has 100M+ monthly visitors, engaged community, a business model, and is paying its broadcasters via partnership program — The live-streaming app where amateurs get paid to chat, eat, and sleep on camera — Tayser Abuhamdeh doesn't have what most people would call an exciting job.| Startup L. Jackson / Startups and S**t: |
Advice for raising seed in a feeding frenzy: anticipate your A round, raise what you need, and hire VCs like employees — An Open Letter to YC Founders on Demo Day Eve — It's YC fundraising season and the perennial discussion about valuations has begun. It's frankly kinda tired.
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| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
Google's Nexus Player officially hits the UK on March 26th for £80 — Google successfully invaded living rooms everywhere with its simple and cheap Chromecast dongle, and late last year announced its next product bound to the big screen: the Nexus Player.
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Researchers uncover method to hack BIOS firmware, subvert secure operating systems like Tails — Hacking BIOS Chips Isn't Just the NSA's Domain Anymore — The ability to hack the BIOS chip at the heart of every computer is no longer reserved for the NSA and other three-letter agencies.
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| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Online ‘Swatting’ Becomes a Hazard for Popular Video Gamers and Police Responders — Practical jokers have delighted for years at tormenting celebrities at home by calling in bogus reports of violence and provoking huge police responses. — Now they have found a way to turn their pranks …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Uber Takes Strategic Investment From Times Internet To Boosts Its Business In India — India is Uber's second largest market worldwide behind only the U.S., and the company is today bolstering its position in the Asian country after agreeing to an alliance with media firm Times Internet.
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Uber Blog, Reuters, Tech Times, Tnooz, PC World, VatorNews and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @satyangajwani
| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Cisco IP Phones Vulnerable to Eavesdropping — Some of the IP phones designed by Cisco for small businesses are plagued by a vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to eavesdrop on conversations and make phone calls from affected devices, the company revealed last week.
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