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Sources: Apple's licensing deals include premission to create up to five additional radio stations like Beats 1 — Apple's music deals allow for new Beats stations at any time — While Apple Music may have gotten off to a less than stellar start, Apple's 24/7 radio station Beats 1 has lived … | Dino Grandoni / New York Times: |
Hackers distributed Flash-based malware via Yahoo's ad network for seven days ending Monday; number of affected people not disclosed — Hackers Exploit ‘Flash’ Vulnerability in Yahoo Ads — For seven days, hackers used Yahoo's ad network to send malicious bits of code to computers …
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Twitter May Be a Takeover Target, but Google Is Unlikely to Take It Over — As markets closed yesterday, Twitter's stock sank to its lowest level ever — a drop that raised speculation, yet again, that another company would take it over. At only a $19 billion market valuation, that's not a surprise.
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| Sarah Jeong / Motherboard: |
Google's Patent Purchase Promotion ends with company buying 28% of patents submitted, with a median price tag of $150K — How Google Renewed Its Fight Against Patent Trolls — Congress killed patent reform last year, but big tech companies are taking the matter into their own hands.| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Netflix Announces Its New ‘Unlimited’ Maternity And Paternity Leave Program — A few hours after hitting its all-time stock price high today, Netflix has announced a new program for all employees. — In a blog post, the company outlined its unlimited maternity and paternity leave program.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Samsung Pay on TV lets you buy apps and games with your credit card, debit card, and PayPal — Samsung has introduced a new way for people to pay for content right through their television. Called Samsung Pay on TV, it supports major credit cards, debit cards, PayPal, and other mobile billing options.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Intel targets gamers with sixth-gen ‘Skylake’ CPU launch — With mobile annihilating the mainstream PC industry, Intel knows gaming is buttering its bread. The chip giant launched its sixth-gneration “Skylake” desktop processors today with two enthusiast quad-core models: the Core I7-6700K and i5-6600K.
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| Wilson Rothman / Wall Street Journal: |
Epson's new EcoTank printers hold two years worth of ink, cost between $400-$500 and replacement cannisters of ink will cost $52 — Review: Epson Kills the Printer Ink Cartridge — The new EcoTank printers cost more up front but can churn for years without running dry| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter rolling out landscape support to iPhone 6 Plus users — In yet another staggered feature rollout, Twitter has begun enabling full landscape support for its iOS app on the iPhone 6 Plus. Like with many of Apple's bundled applications, Twitter app users on the larger … | Samuel Sidler / WordPress News: |
WordPress releases 4.2.4 security patch to address three cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, a potential SQL injection and side-channel attack — WordPress 4.2.4 Security and Maintenance Release — WordPress 4.2.4 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions …
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Leak shows Samsung's flagship Galaxy Note 5 has no removable battery or microSD slot — Here is the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 in Hand — Samsung will show us the brand new Galaxy Note 5 at a press event in New York City, next week. As we inch closer to that unveiling …
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| Susan Svrluga / Washington Post: |
With over 36K tweets, #ILookLikeAnEngineer is challenging stereotypes in tech — ilooklikeanengineer wants to challenge your ideas about who can be a scientist — It all started when a “self-taught engineer, extreme introvert, science-nerd, anime-lover, college dropout” wrote that she was tired of stereotypes.
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Tweets: @isisanchalee, @daraoke, @werner, @padmasree, @jllord, @nkkl, @deanne_bell, @rgan0, @kishau, @moosewreck, @triketora and @mit
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Hybrid storage startup Tintri raises $125 million — Tintri specializes in VM-aware storage for cloud environments and counts AMD, F5 Networks, GE, NEC, MillerCoors and Time Warner as enterprise customers. — Hybrid storage startup Tintri has raised $125 million in a Series F funding round announced Wednesday.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Data-analysis firm Tableau Software acquires Infoactive, a startup that turns data into infographics — Tableau makes first acquisition ever, swoops up startup that turns data into infographics … For the first time in its 13-year history, Tableau Software is acquiring another company.
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Movie studios sue MovieTube, seek SOPA-like power through broad site-blocking court order — Memo to MPAA: Congress didn't pass SOPA — Studios' suit demands “entire Internet” block, filtering infringing sites, EFF says. — Remember 2012, when there was that giant Internet backlash … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft revamps Outlook on the web with new look and features, drops Outlook Web App name — Microsoft today renamed the web version of Outlook in Office 365: Outlook Web App (OWA) will now be known as “Outlook on the web.” This useless app renaming exercise, which is sadly a typical occurrence …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instacart Makes Its First Acquisition With “Acqui-hire” Of App Maker Wedding Party — On-demand grocery delivery service Instacart has made its first acquisition since raising hundreds of millions in venture funding for its growing business. The company is “acqui-hiring” …
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| Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein to spend $40M to aid tech firms led by women and people of color — Oakland's Kapors spend $40 million to help diversify tech world — Oakland technology entrepreneurs and philanthropists Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein will spend $40 million … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
MLB Advanced Media to spin out streaming video unit valued at over $3B, signs deal giving NHL up to 10% equity in the new company named BAM Tech — Pro Baseball's Streaming Video Unit Gets Ready for a $3 Billion Spinoff by Adding Pro Hockey — MLB Advanced Media, the company that streams video …
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GE announces Predix Cloud for the Internet of industrial things, available to customers in 2016 — GE preps industrial-strength cloud of its own — It's no secret that General Electric GE has glommed onto the concept of the Internet of industrial things big time.
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| Jacob Demmitt / GeekWire: |
Microsoft unveils Xbox One DVR features, enabling recording and playback of free over-the-air TV … Xbox One owners will soon be able to use their game console to record and play back live television from free, over-the-air broadcasts, Microsoft announced this morning.
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