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Alibaba's COO Daniel Zhang replaces Jonathan Lu as new CEO, as revenue increases 45% — Alibaba Names New Chief Executive and Reports Revenue Rise — HONG KONG — The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said Thursday that its revenue grew 45 percent compared with last year, meeting expectations …
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Cody Wilson, inventor of the 3D printable gun, files countersuit against US State Department claiming the blueprints are protected free speech — 3-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts the War Between Arms Control and Free Speech — This week marks the two-year anniversary since Cody Wilson …
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Apple hasn't fixed or even acknowledged widely-reported networking issues on OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 related to discoveryd — discoveryd Clusterf**k — I usually keep things fairly clean on this site. I have a simple metric: would I be embarrassed if my Mom read this post?
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Actively exploited WordPress bug puts millions of sites at risk — XSS vulnerability allows attackers to take full control of unpatched sites. — Millions of websites running WordPress are at risk of hijacking attacks thanks to a vulnerability that is actively being exploited in the wild …
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Zero-Fee Stock Trading App Robinhood Nabs $50M From NEA To Go Global — In case you thought paying $7 to $10 to trade a stock in the US was bad, it costs $65 in Australia. So now that its zero-fee stock trading app is thriving stateside with hundreds of thousands of users … | Carolina Milanesi / Kantar Worldpanel: |
Kantar: phablets made up 21% of US smartphone sales in Q1, up from 6% a year ago, driven by iPhone 6 Plus sales — US phablet market soars — Phablets claimed 21% of all US smartphone sales in Q1 2015 - nearly quadrupling their 6% share from the first quarter of 2014 …
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Guardian, Tech Times, iMore, PC Magazine, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Ubergizmo, Engadget, International Business Times, VentureBeat, BGR, The Loop, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, CNET and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google to shut down its website optimization service PageSpeed on Aug. 3 — Google Shuts Down PageSpeed Service For Accelerating Websites — Google is shutting down PageSpeed Service, its hosted solution for optimizing websites for faster delivery, on August 3.
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Computerworld, The Register, InfotechLead, iTnews, WebProNews and The Tech Portal
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| Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic: |
Mobile Justice CA app uploads all video footage as it's being captured to servers owned by ACLU, available for iOS and Android for now — Film the Police … Last month, video footage emerged that appeared to show something illegal: A U.S. marshal approached a woman who was filming him on duty …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Banjo raises $100M from SoftBank to build out software that detects world events in real time, using photos and videos uploaded to social media sites — Banjo Raises $100 Million to Detect World Events in Real Time — Banjo started four years ago as a simple app for viewing social media posts tagged …
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PayIvy is an open web marketplace for stolen account credentials and license keys using PayPal to carry out transactions — PayIvy Sells Your Online Accounts Via PayPal — Normally, if one wishes to buy stolen account credentials for paid online services like Netflix, Hulu, XBox Live or Spotify …
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International Business Times and Geek.com
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Work Management Platform Wrike Raises $15M Series B Round — Work management and collaboration platform Wrike today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series B round led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from DCM Ventures and previous investor Bain Capital Ventures.
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PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Business Wire, Forbes and silicontap.com. Tweets: @scalevp
| Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals: |
Mountain View city council allocates LinkedIn 1.4M of 2.2M square feet in North Bayshore, threatening Google's campus expansion plans — In stinging defeat for Google, LinkedIn scores lion's share of real estate capacity in Mountain View's North Bayshore — LinkedIn Corp. came away …
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bizjournals, Re/code, DailyTech, New York Times, The Verge, Patently Apple, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Mercury News, Forbes, Android Central, Business Insider, SiliconBeat and Mercury News. Tweets: @waxpancake
| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Zynga to lay off 364 people, or 18% of its staff, within the next three quarters as part of the company's $100M cost reduction program — Zynga Narrows Focus, Will Cut 18 Percent of Staff — With Don Mattrick out and founder Mark Pincus reinstalled as CEO, what will Zynga's future look like?
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