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Facebook launches Instant Articles on iPhone, with interactive features like videos and maps, names NYT, BuzzFeed, Guardian, and six other partners — Introducing Instant Articles — As more people get their news on mobile devices, we want to make the experience faster and richer on Facebook.
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See also Mediagazer| 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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Instant Articles build on insights from its Paper app, load 10x faster than mobile web articles — Facebook Starts Hosting Publishers' “Instant Articles” — After months of rumors, Facebook today unveiled “Instant Articles”, a program that natively hosts publishers' content …
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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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| Allyson Gale / Official Android Blog: |
Google Fit now estimates distance and calories burned, provides widget and Android Wear watch face — Google Fit: Make every step count — When you set fitness goals it's important that you have the tools in place to check in on your progress. So to help you keep track of how far you've come … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Google's policy and communications head Rachel Whetstone takes that 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 … | 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.
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Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, ValueWalk, MacNN, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Xconomy, Patently Apple and iLounge. Thanks:@curtwoodward
| 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 … | 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.| 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.| Crispin Cowan / Microsoft Edge Dev Blog: |
Microsoft Edge will not support VML, VB Script, Toolbars, BHOs, or ActiveX to improve security — Microsoft Edge: Building a safer browser — With Microsoft Edge, we want to fundamentally improve security over existing browsers and enable users to confidently experience the web from Windows.
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Slashdot, Redmond, Windows Central, CNET, Securelist, BetaNews, Pocketnow, WinBeta, Digital Trends, Mashable, Threatpost, HEXUS.net Latest Content, SecurityWeek, Neowin and Tom's Hardware Guide. Tweets: @artem_i_baranov
| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Cisco slightly beats Q3 estimates with non-GAAP earnings of $0.54/share on $12.1B in revenue — Cisco tops Q3 earnings, revenue expectations — Summary:Cisco's CFO attributed the better-than-expected results to a “good balance again across our portfolio,” highlighting earnings per share grew faster than revenue.
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook announces improved benefits for US contractors and vendors, including $15 minimum wage, 15 paid days off, child benefits — Facebook Presses for More Pay for Janitors, Cooks — Tech giant pushes its vendors to improve pay, benefits for their workers
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Facebook, The Verge, ZDNet, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, CNET, Fortune, CBS San Francisco and WebProNews
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Sources: Samsung paid around $250M for mobile payments technology company LoopPay — Samsung Paid Around $250 Million for LoopPay, Its Apple Pay Competitor — What's the price of competing with Apple, Google and PayPal in mobile payments? For Samsung, about $250 million.Sponsor Posts
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