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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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| 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.
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| Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge: |
Former Twitter employee files class action lawsuit for gender discrimination, says company's hiring and promotion processes favor men — Twitter is facing a class action lawsuit for gender discrimination — A former software engineer says the company's promotion process favors men
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Mashable, Reuters, PandoDaily, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, Courthouse News Service, TechCrunch, WebProNews, The Technology Chronicles, CNET, SlashGear, TIME and Associated Press. Tweets: @brycecovert
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Critics say CISA won't boost security, will allow private companies to share more user data with government — CISA Security Bill: An F for Security But an A+ for Spying — When the Senate Intelligence Committee passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act by a vote of 14 to 1 … | 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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| 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.| 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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| Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica: |
Review of Dell's latest Linux laptop, the M3800 Developer Edition: quality build, but poor battery life, 4K scaling issues, high $1500 base price — Dell's Linux PC sequel still “just works”—but it adds 4K screen and rough edges — 4k scaling issues keep it from being perfect—but, hey, it's for developers, right?
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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.| 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.| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
How Life360 prevailed in court after its CEO sent “Dear Piece of S**t” letter to AGIS, a company suing them for patent infringement — How Life360 won its patent war — Jury saw CEO's “Dear piece of s**t” letter to his “patent troll”—and understood.| Financial Times: |
Universal pushes Spotify to add limits to its free tier during licensing negotiations — Universal takes on Spotify freemium model — The “freemium” model used by Spotify to amass 60m users and 15m paying subscribers around the world is facing a new challenge just months …
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Rolling Stone, The Verge, TechSpot, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, PC Magazine, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, Thai Tech, IBNLive, Digital Trends and Telegraph. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
New “On-Body Detection” Smart Lock Mode In Android Seems To Be Hitting Some Devices — If a tipster's screenshots are to be believed (and I think in this case, they are to be believed), Google is testing and / or rolling out a new smart lock mode called on-body detection.
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Gizmodo, Computerworld, Business Insider, Tech Times, The Register, Thai Tech, Electronista, TechCrunch, AndroidOS.in, Android News, Rumours …, 9to5Google, PC Magazine, Engadget, The Verge, SlashGear, CNET, Android Authority, Digital Trends, GSMArena Blog, Ubergizmo, PC World, PhoneDog.com and Pocketnow
| Ellen Huet / Forbes: |
Newly merged Kuaidi-Didi reportedly controls 99% of Chinese taxi-hailing market, claims 6M rides per day, putting Uber's future in China at risk — In Wake Of Kuaidi-Didi Merger, Uber Faces An Even Tougher Battle In China — During the Lunar New Year in China, taxi-hailing app Kuaidi showered its riders with red envelopes.
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