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St. Louis Cardinals investigated by FBI for breaching Astros' network; internal discussions about trades, proprietary statistics, scouting reports compromised — St. Louis Cardinals Investigated by F.B.I. for Hacking Astros — WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors …
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon is developing an app that pays ordinary people, rather than carriers, to deliver packages; no firm timetable for when the service would launch — Amazon Seeks Help With Deliveries — Web retailer mulls paying people to drop off packages amid push to cut shipping costs| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
‘600 Million’ Samsung Mobiles Vulnerable To Keyboard Cracking Attack — Given everything that's occurred over the last two years, Android phone owners would be forgiven for thinking major manufacturers had their backs when it came to security, especially encryption.| Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times: |
Snapchat debuts the first sponsored geofilter at all McDonald's locations in the US — Snapchat turns geofilter digital stickers into revenue source — Much of social media involves showing off where we are, whether it's watching a ballgame at Dodger Stadium, meeting Mickey Mouse …
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Etsy launches Fund on Etsy, a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding platform, as 2-month pilot in US — Etsy Launches Fund on Etsy Pilot Program to Crowdfund New Products — Today, we're launching Fund on Etsy, a crowdfunding pilot program to help Etsy sellers grow their businesses and create new products.
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple revokes Monster's authority to make licensed accessories through its MFi program — Apple Revokes Monster's Authority to Make Licensed Accessories — Move follows Monster's lawsuit against Apple unit Beats — Audio-equipment maker Monster LLC is discovering that all is fair in love and law.
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Adobe sees strong Q2 with $1.16B in revenue, 639K new Creative Cloud subscribers — Got email marketing? We've got best practices from LivingSocial and estate sale guru Everything But The House in our next Insight webinar. — Adobe now has 4.61 million paying Creative Cloud subscribers …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Huge Loss For Free Speech In Europe: Human Rights Court Says Sites Liable For User Comments — Last year we wrote about a very dangerous case going to the European Court of Human Rights: Delfi AS v. Estonia, which threatened free expression across Europe. Today, the ruling came out and it's a disaster.
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Hulu changes the name of its paid tier from Hulu Plus to just Hulu — Hulu Makes Name Change Official, Ditches the Plus — Hulu has officially changed the name of its paid tier: The online video service informed paying subscribers via email early Tuesday morning that Hulu Plus would now simply be known as Hulu.
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DSLreports, Digital Media Wire, TechnologyTell, Tubefilter, Ubergizmo and The Verge
| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber failed to win delivery deals with Apple, Starbucks as its push into logistics proves costly and complex — The $50 Billion Question: Can Uber Deliver? — Investors are counting on Uber to upend the delivery business much as it has for taxis, but progress has been slow so far
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
BitTorrent debuts Shoot, a $2 photo sharing app with no file size limits, for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, bets on an ad-free experience that puts privacy first — BitTorrent launches $2 photo sharing app Shoot for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone — BitTorrent launched a new photo …
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Official BitTorrent Sync Blog, iMore, Android Police, The Verge, Inquirer and Macworld. Thanks:@epro
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
New Xbox One interface shown: Quicker, social, and Cortana-equipped — And far fewer tiles than before. — The Xbox One is getting a major update later this year that'll bring an all-new user interface to the console. Microsoft gave a short preview of the new interface as part …
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Techstars acquires UP Global, operator of Startup Weekend and Startup Next — Techstars and Up Global have long been joined at the hip, both founded with the mission to support and empower entrepreneurs. — In fact, the very idea for the 54-hour Startup Weekend bootcamps …
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VentureBeat, PandoDaily, Techstars, Tech+, Inc.com, Chicago Tribune, Feld Thoughts, tech.co, UP Global and TechCrunch. Thanks:@toddbishop
| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter rolls out auto-play videos and GIFs after several months of testing, enlists Moat to independently measure the viewability of its video ads — Twitter Finally Rolls Out Auto-Play Video — Twitter is officially rolling out ads that will play automatically in a user's timeline …
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The Twitter Blog, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Next Web and Tech Times
Tweets: @harnevo, @vranicawsj, @msquinn, @groupmworldwide, @moat and @initiativeww
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Box debuts Box for Office Online, lets users create and manage Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files from its website — Introducing Box for Office Online, A New Way to Work in the Cloud — Microsoft Office files are among the most uploaded, edited and shared files in Box.
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ZDNet, PC Magazine, Business Insider, Computerworld, Bloomberg Business, The Next Web, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, WinBeta, Mashable and Office Blogs
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google expands security rewards to bugs in Android devices, starting with Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 — Google today launched the Android Security Rewards program to compensate researchers who find and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in the company's mobile operating system.| Darlene Storm / Computerworld: |
UK tech firm designs system using emoji instead of PIN numbers for online banking, says they are harder to hack, easier to remember — Will banks allow four emojis to replace PIN numbers? — Smiling sun, flames, guitar, penguin... that is just one combination of emojis that a person might use …
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