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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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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 … | 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.| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
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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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| 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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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
HTC One M9+ launches in China: 5.2" Quad HD screen, fingerprint sensor, MediaTek SoC — HTC's bigger and better One M9+ launches in China — HTC clearly gets China's obsession with large-screen phones. Following the plastic 5.5-inch One E9+, the company is back with the metallic M9+ which …
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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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| 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| 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 … | 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 …
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| 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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| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
iFixit teardown shows Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is difficult to repair, gives it 3 out of 10 for repairability — Teardown shows Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is tough to repair — The smartphone, which has a curved screen at the edge, received a score of three out of 10 for repairability from iFixit.| 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 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rocket Internet Fashion Group GFG Raises $35M, Poaches Amazon Exec To Lead It — Rocket Internet — the Berlin-based startup incubator that went public in October 2014 — is today adding more muscle to the Global Fashion Group, a cluster of five of its emerging market fashion sites …
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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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| 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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| Andrew Nusca / Fortune: |
Fortune hires six former Gigaom reporters to double down on its technology coverage — Fortune bulks up on technology coverage, hires six — When technology industry executives visit Fortune's New York City headquarters, one of the things I enjoy most is when they inevitably slow to a stop …
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| 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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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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