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Google's policy and communications head Rachel Whetstone takes same role at Uber; David Plouffe, who held that position at Uber, joins board in advisory role — Google Comms and Policy Head Whetstone Takes Over That Job at Uber — Rachel Whetstone, the longtime head of Google's powerful public policy …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Wal-Mart Preps Rival to Amazon Prime — Wal-Mart Stores is preparing to launch a subscription fast-shipping service similar to Amazon Prime to boost its online business and take on Amazon.com, according to people involved with or briefed about the product. — Codenamed “Tahoe,” …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Facebook's Instant Articles can provide 100% of the ad revenue and analytics data to publishers, add up to a good deal, at least for now — Facebook Starts Publishing the New York Times, BuzzFeed and More With Its ‘Instant Articles’ Program — Hey Web publishers! Facebook is coming in peace.
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See also Mediagazer| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
“Venom” vulnerability in Xen, KVM, and QEMU virtual machine platforms lets attackers break out of VM environment, affects cloud providers everywhere — Extremely serious virtual machine bug threatens cloud providers everywhere — “Venom” allows attackers to break out of guest OS, escape into host.
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| Curt Woodward / BetaBoston: |
Apple, A123 settling their lawsuit over poached battery engineers — Apple and advanced battery maker A123 Systems say they have nearly settled a federal lawsuit accusing Apple of poaching A123's scientists and engineers to build a competing battery business.| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
Verizon fixes flaw allowing a hacker forging a customer's IP addresses to obtain user info which can be used to take over the customer's account — Verizon Security Flaw Left Millions Of Home Internet Users Vulnerable To Attack — A simple browser plug-in was all you needed to gain access to the internet giant's customer accounts.| Peg Brickley / Wall Street Journal: |
Hedge fund Standard General wins auction of RadioShack brand and customer data with $26.2M bid — Standard General Wins Auction of RadioShack Brand — In addition to the trademark, the hedge fund picked up rights to RadioShack's customer data — Standard General LP …
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| Tony Prophet / Blogging Windows: |
Microsoft introduces Windows 10 Editions: Home, Mobile, Pro, Enterprise, Education, Mobile Enterprise, and IoT Core — Introducing Windows 10 Editions — Windows 10 is coming this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages. Today, we are excited to share more details on the Windows 10 Editions.
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| Rachael King / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's BeyondCorp initiative moves from trusting the corporate network to device-level security for its own internal corporate apps — Google Moves Its Corporate Applications to the Internet — Google Inc., taking a new approach to enterprise security, is moving its corporate applications to the Internet.| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
House passes USA Freedom Act to limit NSA mass collection of Americans' phone metadata, bill now goes to Senate — In Landslide Vote, House Overwhelmingly Passes USA Freedom Act without Amendments — Is this the year Congress passes a bill to limit NSA spying? The House of Representatives certainly hopes so.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
The dual-display YotaPhone 2 is coming to US in July via an Indiegogo campaign, unlocked with 32GB for about $680 — The dual-display YotaPhone 2 is now cheaper, better, and available in white — The YotaPhone 2 was one of the pleasant surprises of last year, combining an OLED display … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's App Analytics feature now available to all developers, no request required — Apple's TestFlight-based App Analytics service is now available to all registered iOS developers through the iTunes Connect interface. Apple recently made App Analytics available to select developers upon request …
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AT&T to offer Hulu to its customers on web and mobile apps later this year to drive Hulu subscriptions — AT&T Will Begin Offering Hulu To Its Customers Later This Year — Hulu and AT&T announced an expanded deal today designed to bring the video streaming service to AT&T's customers on both mobile devices and on the web.
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Facebook Hires Former FCC Chairman Martin for Access Policy — Facebook Inc. has hired Kevin Martin, former chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, to manage policy for the company's mobile and global access efforts as it seeks to get more people online.
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