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Alibaba to launch Netflix-like video streaming service called TBO or Tmall Box Office in about two months in China — Alibaba to launch Netflix-like video streaming service in two months — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) will launch an online video streaming service in China in about two months …
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
How Facebook's Open Compute Project became a major force in data center hardware, with hundreds of companies, including HP, Foxconn, and Goldman Sachs on board — How Facebook is eating the $140 billion hardware market — It started out as a controversial idea inside Facebook.Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Startups look to compete with incumbents like Uber by focusing on niches like car-pooling and mass transit — New Ride Services Forge Own Specialized Paths — When Trae Vassallo's children hop in the car to head to their after-school sports practice in the San Francisco Bay Area several times a week … | Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business: |
Oracle's sales of new licenses decline as more startups embrace open source database software — Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Souped-Up Free Software — Dan Wagner, the chief executive officer of U.K.-based mobile payments company Powa Technologies Ltd., poses a challenge for database giant Oracle Corp.| Fletcher Babb / VentureBeat: |
Spotify's unreleased ‘Rewind’ feature builds playlists of songs from past decades based on present-day preferences — Spotify's unreleased ‘Rewind’ feature builds playlists from the past — Spotify has soft-launched a new feature titled “Rewind.”| Danielle Wiener-Bronner / Fusion: |
Uber orders drivers to stay away from taxi protests in China, uses GPS to ensure they comply, threatens to cancel contracts if they don't — Uber is using GPS to punish drivers in China who get too close to protests — Uber is using their tracking devices to identify, and threaten …
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Chinese hackers have found a way to identify Tor and VPN users in the country by exploiting a vulnerability in server software used by popular Chinese portals — Chinese Hackers Circumvent Popular Web Privacy Tools — SAN FRANCISCO — Chinese hackers have found a way around widely used privacy technology …
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| Ava Kofman / The Atlantic: |
Augmented Reality may find more applications than Virtual Reality because of its real-world aspect, but must first surmount numerous technical challenges — Oculus Rift, Magic Leap, and the Future of Reality-Skewing Wearables — After coordinating scientific research …
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| Patricia Cohen / New York Times: |
After recent breaches, IRS promises to add additional security measures to protect against fraud and identity theft by early 2016 — I.R.S. Adds New Safeguards to Thwart Identity Theft and Fraud — Reeling from an online attack that allowed criminals to steal personal information …
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| James Hookway / Wall Street Journal: |
Vietnam's Internet penetration, enabled by smartphones, increased to 44% from 12% a decade ago, enabling a rapid growth of digital businesses — Vietnam's Mobile Revolution Catapults Millions Into the Digital Age — Smartphone use has dramatically increased Internet penetration and growth in online services| Klint Finley / Wired: |
High and hard to predict costs make success unlikely for both SpaceX and OneWeb satellite Internet projects — Internet by Satellite Is a Space Race With No Winners — Another space race is on. — On one side: Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX (and Tesla Motors), backed by Google.| Facebook: |
Facebook now takes into account how long you've viewed specific stories in News Feed in determining which posts to surface — News Feed FYI: Taking Into Account Time Spent on Stories — The goal of News Feed is to show you the content that matters to you.
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| Connie Yu / The Intercept: |
Government and Anthem data breaches pose indefinite threat of future harm as birthdate, full name, and SSN remain integral to identity in many systems — Data Theft Today Poses Indefinite Threat of “Future Harm” — Benjamin Nuss was one of the nearly 80 million people whose social security number …
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