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Russian hackers accessed sensitive White House information, including real-time details of president's schedule, via compromised State Department system — How the U.S. thinks Russians hacked the White House — Washington (CNN)Russian hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion …
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| Abhijeet M. / SamMobile: |
Samsung's round smartwatch to be called Gear A, come in two variants, one with Bluetooth, one with 3G and calling support — Exclusive: Samsung's round smartwatch to be called Gear A, have 3G and calling support — A perfect smartwatch? There's no such thing, but Samsung … | Chris Thompson / Poynter: |
Fortune Magazine to announce hiring of six former Gigaom reporters, a third of editorial staff — Fortune Magazine to hire roughly one-third of GigaOm's editorial staff — Fortune Magazine will announce Wednesday morning that it has hired six reporters from GigaOm, according to multiple sources close to the matter.
| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Google plans to announce a product connecting its search users with home-service providers this spring — Google Wants To Send You A Plumber — The company is readying a new product intended to connect search users with local home-service providers.
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Thanks:@fwd| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
HBO Now launches in US on Apple TV, iOS, and Cablevision's Optimum Online for $14.99 per month — HBO Now goes live for Apple TV, iOS and Optimum users — We knew HBO's new Now streaming service would launch ahead of the Season 5 premiere of the popular Game of Thrones series …
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| Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company: |
An inside look at HBO's strategy to compete with Netflix by launching HBO Now — HBO to Netflix: Bring it on — On a frigid winter Friday in Manhattan's MediaGulch, HBO CEO Richard Plepler glides through the doors of a power-lunch spot called the Lambs Club.| Brad Heath / USA Today: |
US Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration secretly tracked billions of international calls for nearly a decade before 9/11 — U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades — Starting in 1992, the Justice Department amassed logs of virtually all telephone calls …
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| John Callaham / Windows Central: |
Kabam abandons Windows Phone development after releasing just one game — Windows Central has learned that Kabam, one of the biggest mobile game developers, has decided to stop making titles from the Windows Phone platform. This decision represents a complete reversal of Kabam's original plans …
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| Gaurav Raghuvanshi / Wall Street Journal: |
SingTel To Buy U.S. Cybersecurity Firm Trustwave for $810 Million — SingTel is buying 98% of the equity of Trustwave, with the balance remaining with CEO Robert J. McCullen — SINGAPORE—Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. Wednesday said it would buy Trustwave, a U.S. managed-security services specialist … | Alan Stafford / PC World: |
Review: Adobe Acrobat Pro DC's electronic signatures are its killer app — AT A GLANCE — With the new Acrobat DC, Adobe offers a killer app that could lure at least some users back from cheaper PDF editors: electronic signatures. Signatures are an essential part of business …
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| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
Angela Ahrendts tells employees to encourage customers to order Watch and new MacBook through Apple Store app and online store as part of “change in mindset” — Angela Ahrendts has told Apple employees ‘a significant change in mindset’ is coming to the way the company launches products
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Google appears to be developing a teleconferencing tool called GMeet — First noticed by Florian Kiersch on Google+, Google appears to be testing a new meetings service. Google Meetings, also referred to as GMeet, appears to allow users to schedule and join teleconference calls with one click.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Adds Post Notifications For Specific Accounts, Color And Fade Tools — Instagram has a couple of new photo editing tools available in its mobile applications, out today on Android and coming soon to iOS: Color and Fade. Color lets you adjust the tone of both the highlights … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Moderator, a service that ranked user-submitted questions, suggestions, and ideas, is closing on July 31 — Google Moderator is shutting down on July 31, 2015 — Google has quietly announced Google Moderator will be shut down on July 31, 2015. Users can download their Google Moderator data …
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Google and Microsoft case could determine what constitutes a “reasonable royalty” when patents are used as part of a standard — Google Will Battle Microsoft (Again) Over the Value of Patents in Tech Standards — Google and Microsoft will face off in a San Francisco appeals court Wednesday …
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Financial Times and GeekWire
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Data integration company Informatica goes private after $5.3B acquisition by private equity firm Permira — Informatica goes private in $5.3 billion deal — Summary:The data integration and management software provider will pursue its growth plans as a private company owned by Permira and Canada's pension plan.| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Former Uber CTO launches Ride, a carpool-organizing service for co-workers, backed by Uber investor TPG — Early Uber Architect Launches Carpooling App ‘Ride’ — A new smartphone app with ties to Uber aims to make carpooling easier for millions of daily commuters.
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Business Insider, New York Post, SlashGear and VentureBeat
Tweets: @scottmaustin, @dmac1 and @ajs
| Selena Larson / The Daily Dot: |
Anonymous messaging app After School back in App Store with moderation to combat bullying — After School attempts a comeback with bans on bullying — Wherever there's an anonymous app, there are teens using it to bully each other. — After School, one of the newest applications … | Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Groupon considering selling Breadcrumb checkout software and its Korean business Ticket Monster — Groupon Mulls Selling Off Checkout Software Business — Groupon is contemplating divesting some or all of its Breadcrumb business unit, which makes checkout software for restaurants and bars …
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