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HTC market valuation falls below its cash on hand; brand, factories, and other assets deemed to have no value by investors — HTC Trading Below Cash Leaves a Smartphone Brand With No Value — An HTC M9 smartphone. Photographer: Pau Barrena/Bloomberg — A 60 percent plunge … | Mark Scott / New York Times: |
PageFair study claims ad-blocking, regularly used by 200M people worldwide, will lead to $22B of lost ad revenue this year — Study of Ad-Blocking Software Suggests Wide Use — Guillermo Beltrà spends a lot of time surfing the web. — Yet like many avid Internet users … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
OEMs and carriers make Android's security update strategy ineffective at Android's scale; a major attack on unpatched phones seems inevitable — Waiting for Android's inevitable security Armageddon — Editorial: Android's update strategy doesn't scale, and that's recipe for disaster.
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How a Twitter bot written to automatically enter contests won 1000 prizes in 9 months, or about 4 contests per day — Twitter Contest Winning as a Service — This is the story of how I wrote a Twitter bot to automatically enter contests and ended up winning on average 4 contests per day, every day, for about 9 months straight.
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Engadget, Business Insider, Guardian, PCMag Australia Feed, Techweez, Fox News and TechSpot. Tweets: @jkupferman
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How WeChat works, and how it became so popular in China: millions of apps within the WeChat app, built-in payments, and more — When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China — This post is all about WeChat, but it's also about more than just WeChat.| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
One year after the relaunch: Dennis Crowley on the future of Foursquare, privacy, and Yelp — Nearly a year after Foursquare's relaunch, we caught up with chief executive Dennis Crowley to talk Foursquare's future, its plan to cash in on ad tech, privacy, burrito discovery, and why the six-year-old startup doesn't have to kill Yelp.| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Plex for iOS gets total redesign, better sync and Rotten Tomatoes integration — It's been a long time since Plex updated its iOS app, but today it's announced a major overhaul that brings a number of new features and makes the app available for free. — The first thing you'll notice is the revamp of how the app actually works.| Graham Ruddick / Guardian: |
Preparing for a Fresh launch in UK, Amazon leases former Tesco distribution center in London — Amazon leases warehouse in prime position to deliver food to London — The lease of the former Tesco distribution centre in Surrey is a warning to British supermarkets that Amazon Fresh is on its way| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Vainglory creator Super Evil Megacorp raises $26M round led by Index Ventures — Vainglory Breaks Through in E-Sports on a Tablet — Under everyone's noses, the competitive video game scene has gotten huge, with more than 113 million fans globally by some estimates.
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Super Evil Megacorp, PE Hub Blog, The Verge and VentureBeat
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Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo now use IWF hash list to identify and block child porn images — Facebook, Google and Twitter block ‘hash list’ of child porn images — Some of the world's biggest internet companies are joining forces to crack down on the sharing of child abuse images| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Blockfeed, available in NYC, extracts location from news articles and serves users a feed based on where they are — Blockfeed App Surfaces Hyper Local News — The death knell has been sounded for local journalism at regular intervals during the digital era.
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Xiaomi partners with Foxconn to assemble smartphones in India, announces $110 Redmi 2 Prime, its first locally-made phone — Xiaomi ties up with Taiwan's Foxconn to assemble smartphones in India — Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc [XTC.UL] has tied up with Taiwan's Foxconn … Sponsor Posts
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