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Sources: Google to unveil new photo service, independent of Google+, at I/O later this month — Google Is Close to Unveiling New Web Photo Service — Google Inc. is set to reveal an online picture sharing and storage service that will no longer be part of the Google+ social network, people familiar with the plans said.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft looks to be building a new light-weight email app called Flow — Summary:Microsoft appears to be building an app for fast, light-weight, real-time conversations called Flow, which is likely to debut on iPhone, according to leaked information. — Microsoft seems to be developing …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Logjam crypto vulnerability affects tens of thousands of web and mail servers, browsers being updated with fix — HTTPS-crippling attack threatens tens of thousands of Web and mail servers — Diffie-Hellman downgrade weakness allows attackers to intercept encrypted data.
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The Logjam Attack, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, InfoWorld, ZDNet, SecurityWeek, Slashdot, bit-tech.net, The Next Web, The Register and Threatpost
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| Kim Seung-yeon / Yonhap News Agency: |
LG unveils 55-inch, 0.97mm thick, wallpaper OLED panel that sticks to walls with magnets as demonstration of future OLED products — LG Display unveils wallpaper OLED panel — South Korean flat panel maker LG Display Co. showcased on Tuesday a detachable organic light-emitting diode …
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| Jana Messerschmidt / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter and Google partner to bring more tweets into Google search results, rolling out on mobile in the US today and desktop soon — A new way to discover Tweets — We're excited to team up with Google to bring Twitter's unique, real-time content to Google's search results.
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The Register, Computerworld, Tech Times, Google Operating System, Search Engine Roundtable, InfoWorld, PC Magazine, Fone Arena, SiliconANGLE, StreetInsider.com, Adweek, The Official Google Blog, Inc.com, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Slashdot, SiliconBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, TIME and Variety. Tweets: @marshallk. See also Mediagazer
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Adblock Plus launches Adblock Browser: Firefox for Android with built-in ad blocking — Adblock Plus today launched Adblock Browser for Android. Currently in beta, the company's first browser was created by taking the open source Firefox for Android and including Adblock Plus out-of-the-box.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Amazon names Maria Renz as shadow to Jeff Bezos, or more formally, technical adviser to CEO, the first woman to hold the role — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Names First Woman Executive to Coveted Top Role — For more than 15 years, one role at Amazon has stood out as perhaps the most coveted … | Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
Proper Google Maps app appears on Android Wear via latest phone app update — With the latest update to Google Maps on your phone, Android Wear gains some mapping functionality. — After updating to Google Maps version 9.9 on your phone — which brings a neat new transparent status bar …
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| Jamie Condliffe / Gizmodo: |
You Can Now Use ‘Netflix for Torrents’ Popcorn Time in Your Browser — It's over a year since Popcorn Time burst on to the scene, allowing you to stream torrents rather than download them. It's had its ups and downs—but now you can use it in your browser.| TechCrunch: |
Sources: Spanish mobile marketplace Wallapop is raising $100M from Accel, Fidelity Growth Partners, and others — Wallapop Is Poised To Disrupt Classifieds, As Accel, Insight, Fidelity Pack Its War Chest — Back in November rumors surfaced in the Spanish-speaking press that little known Wallapop … Thanks:@riptari
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook: Apple Watch in stores ‘by June’, in talks for Apple Pay in China — During his trip last week across China, Apple CEO Tim Cook held a meeting at Apple's China headquarters with several employees in attendance, according to sources with knowledge of the briefing.| Ian Kar / FinTech Today: |
Digital payments startup Ripple Labs raises $28M Series A — Ripple Labs Raises Massive $28 Million Series A Round — Co-Produced By FinTech Today and Breaking Banks Radio — Ripple Labs, the innovative startup focusing on the distributed ledger and supports of the popular Ripple protocol …
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Facebook acquires and shuts down payment startup Tugboat Yards — Facebook has acquired Tugboat Yards, a startup with a tool that publishers and other groups could use to let fans make contributions in exchange for subscriptions and other services. — The Tugboat Yards service …
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| Grant Gross / PCWorld: |
Six Chinese residents charged with stealing phone technology from two US companies, Avago Technologies and Skyworks Solutions — Six China residents charged with stealing US mobile phone technology — Six residents of China face economic espionage and theft of trade secret charges …
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CIO.com, SiliconBeat and Reuters
| Lucian Constantin / PCWorld: |
Critical vulnerability in NetUSB driver exposes millions of routers to hacking — Millions of routers and other embedded devices are affected by a serious vulnerability that could allow hackers to compromise them. — The vulnerability is located in a service called NetUSB …
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SEC Consult, US-CERT, Help Net Security, ZDNet, Threatpost, SC Magazine, Norse, The Register, SecurityWeek and Forbes
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Switch Raises $35 Million In Strategic Funding To Expand Its Cloud-Based Phone System — Just four months after Switch Communications made its cloud-based communications suite generally available, the company has raised another $35 million in funding to get customers signed up.
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Tweets: @asenkut, @googleventures and @pmarca
| Brian Womack / Bloomberg Business: |
Yahoo's efforts to exit stake in Alibaba possibly complicated by potential changes to IRS's spinoff rules — Yahoo Shares Drop on Potential Changes to IRS's Spinoff Rules — Yahoo! Inc. shares declined 7.5 percent on reports that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service is considering a rule change …
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Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Yahoo, Seeking Alpha, Bloomberg View, BuzzFeed and Reuters. Tweets: @richardrubindc
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Facebook expands free Messenger video calling to almost every country — Facebook has rolled out video calling on its Messenger app to more countries around the world, following the introduction of the feature in 18 countries last month. — “We're happy to share we've now rolled …
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David Marcus, Digital Trends, iMore, The Next Web, Engadget, SocialTimes, Ubergizmo, SlashGear and WebProNews
| Chris Brook / Threatpost: |
St. Louis Federal Reserve confirms DNS hijack of affiliated sites in April, including FRED, its economic database, plus archival and geographic databases — St. Louis Federal Reserve Falls Victim To DNS Hijack — The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank confirmed this week that it fell victim to a DNS hijack last month.| PYMNTS.com: |
Mastercard introduces Send, a P2P payment service that works with most debit cards and other services like Western Union, to transfer funds within 30 minutes — MasterCard Launches (Almost) Real Time Payments — MasterCard has entered the realm of real-time payments.
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Global Hub, ZDNet, CoinTelegraph.Com News, The Next Web, Engadget, Fortune, Quartz and Bank Innovation
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest unveils new ad pricing models and first video ad unit, a Promoted Pin called Cinematic Pin, which animates as the user scrolls down or taps on it — Pinterest Unveils Its First Video-Like Ad And New Ad Pricing Models — Advertisers are going to have a lot more to work with on Pinterest starting today.
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