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US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand planned to hijack Google and Samsung app stores to implant spyware on smartphones — Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware — Users of millions of smartphones put at risk by certain mobile browser gaps, Snowden file shows| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple readies Transit subway, train + bus guides for iOS 9 Maps, deploys robots for indoor mapping — Having originally planned to add a new transit directions feature to Maps last year, only to pull the feature before WWDC 2014, Apple now hopes to launch its Transit service with iOS 9, according to sources.| Pew Internet: |
Pew Report: 69% of US adults are not confident social networks will keep their data private and secure — Americans' Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance — The cascade of reports following the June 2013 government surveillance revelations by NSA contractor Edward Snowden …
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Microsoft overhauls Outlook.com with new interface, “Clutter” email filtering, add-ins, improved Skype integration, more; rolls out to test group today — Microsoft is overhauling Outlook.com with a new look and features — Microsoft is migrating its Outlook.com email service …
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Office Blogs, VentureBeat, The Next Web, SuperSite for Windows and WinBeta
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US proposes tighter export controls limiting sales of zero-day flaw information outside US without special license — U.S. aims to limit exports of undisclosed software flaws — The U.S. Commerce Department proposed new export controls Wednesday that would treat unknown software flaws …
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Federal Register, ExportLawBlog, ZDNet, The Register and Threatpost
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Shopify pops 65% on the NYSE, starts trading above $28 per share — E-commerce platform Shopify began trading above $28 a share, up from the $17 per share price the company originally set last night. — The company put up 7.7 million shares of stock for sale this morning (NYSE: SHOP) …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Google developing Internet of Things OS called Brillo, designed to run on devices with perhaps as little as 32MB RAM — Google Developing ‘Brillo’ Software for Internet of Things — Google wants its software to power any electronic device that connects to the Internet, whether or not it has a digital screen.
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Amazon's Prime Now service will start delivering from local stores in Manhattan — Amazon announced today that its Prime Now service will now start delivering goods from local stores in Manhattan, with plans to expand soon to other communities later this year.
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| Alexander Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
Nikesh Arora to replace Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son as Yahoo Japan Chairman — Arora to Replace Softbank CEO Son as Yahoo Japan Chairman — SoftBank Corp. chief executive Masayoshi Son will step down as chairman of Yahoo Japan Corp.'s board of directors to be replaced by Nikesh Arora …
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| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Uber poached 50 experts in vehicle autonomy from Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Center, a third of the lab's staff — Uber gutted Carnegie Mellon's top robotics lab to build self-driving cars — This January, as much of the world was getting over its post-holiday hangovers … | Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Apple's new MacBook, with its shallow keyboard and Force Touch trackpad, makes major usability compromises for thinness — Mistake One — MacBook “One”, 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, and Hops for scale. — I've had mixed luck with impulse buys. — As a kid, I impulse-bought Marble Madness for my Sega Genesis.
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YouTube live streams now support HTML5 playback and 60fps video — YouTube today announced it is enabling HTML5 playback for live streams. At the same time, live streams can now be viewed at 60 frames per second (fps). — A few puzzle pieces had to come together to make this possible.
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YouTube Creator Blog, XSplit, PCWorld, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, Fortune, The Verge, The Next Web, Neowin, TechCrunch and Engadget
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Delta cuts off over a dozen travel sites including Hipmunk and TripAdvisor from its flight and fare data, as travel sites fear more airlines may follow suit — Travel Websites Allege Delta Air Lines Is Shutting Them Out — Carrier says it reserves right to decide where and how flight, fare data is displayed| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Lenovo Shipped Record 18.7M Smartphones in Q4 2014, But Profit Dropped 37% — Lenovo just completed its first full quarter of business as the owner of Motorola and, with its $2.91 billion acquisition from Google under its wing, the Chinese company shipped a record 18.7 million smartphones in its most recent Q4 2014 quarter.
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| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
QuizUp is trying to reinvent itself by turning into a social network — One of the strangest things any company can do is suddenly shove a social network in your face. It's even worse when a service you're used to suddenly gets socialized in a way that is unavoidable.
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TechCrunch, Macworld, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Re/code and The Geek Byte. Tweets: @hunterwalk
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Techmeme adds an author leaderboard, introduces a linking-based metric to rank by “Leadership” — Today we've expanded our Leaderboard page to offer four lists instead of one. In addition to ranking publications, we now rank authors. On top of that, we've introduced a second ranking method …
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H-P to Sell 51% of Chinese Data-Networking Unit to Tsinghua Holdings — Buyer is expected to pay $2.3 billion for majority control of H3C Technologies — Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to unveil sweeping changes to its business in China, including the sale of a majority stake …
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| Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
Troll uses Twitter adverts to urge transgender people to kill themselves — Promoted tweet from fake account purporting to be that of Australian feminist campaigner inserts transphobic content into Twitter users' timelines — Twitter users have expressed outrage at a troll's use …
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ITProPortal, Gawker, BuzzFeed, Wired.co.uk, International Business Times, Softpedia News, Telegraph, Raw Story, The Mary Sue, Fortune, Business Insider, Gizmodo, The Verge and Engadget. Tweets: @caitlin_roper
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google Webmaster Tools Rebrands To Google Search Console — Google announced they have renamed Google Webmaster Tools to Google Search Console. — The ten year old name for the toolset designed for webmasters, publishers and business owners is changing to Google Search Console. Why?| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Dropbox isn't growing its enterprise business fast enough to be worth $10B — The clock is ticking for Dropbox, valued at $10 billion more than a year ago — Dropbox's rise has been impressive: Since its launch in 2007, it has added 300 million new users across 200 countries.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Stripe is in talks to raise at a $5B valuation, just seven months after its last round that valued the company at $3.5B — Stripe to Land $5 Billion Valuation in New Investment — In Silicon Valley, the rich keep getting richer. — Stripe, the online payments company … | Robin Sidel / Wall Street Journal: |
FICO: theft of debit card data from bank ATMs is up 174% YoY, up 317% at nonbank machines — Theft of Debit-Card Data From ATMs Soars — Thieves are stealing information to make counterfeit plastic — Criminals are stealing card data from U.S. automated teller machines at the highest rate … Sponsor Posts
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