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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Ashley Madison's data breach could have profound consequences for users and will likely be catastrophic for the company — The mind-bending messiness of the Ashley Madison data dump — Massive data breaches have become so routine as to become background noise.
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| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
Ashley Madison's $19 ‘Full Delete’ Option Made The Company Millions — The hacked cheating site sold peace of mind to tens of thousands of users. — Ashley Madison, the hacked affairs site, made nearly $2 million dollars off of its so-called “Full Delete” function in 2014, according to private company documentation leaked yesterday.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Sources: Google Express to shut down its two Bay Area delivery hubs, looks to outsource delivery to on-demand startups — Google Express Plans to Shut Down Its Two Delivery Hubs — Google Express, the search giant's same-day delivery service, is shutting down its two delivery hubs … | Stacey Higginbotham / Fortune: |
Meet Ring, the connected door bell company that just scored Richard Branson as an investor — Jamie Siminoff, CEO of Ring, a maker of a video doorbell, is proof that a missed connection isn't the worst thing that can happen to an entrepreneur. — Fourteen years ago he met Richard Branson … | Sam Biddle / Gawker: |
Snapchat lost $128M and generated only $3M in revenue between January and November of 2014, according to leaked financials — Snapchat Lost a Ton of Money Last Year — In 2013, teenage attention-pit Snapchat turned down a $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook, which is only not an insane …
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| Amin Vahdat / Google Research Blog: |
How Google's networking infrastructure has evolved over ten years and five generations to deliver more than 1 petabit/sec of total bisection bandwidth — Pulling Back the Curtain on Google's Network Infrastructure — Pursuing Google's mission of organizing the world's information … | TechCrunch: |
Here Are The 52 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 2 — Hardware was the clear cut theme of Day 1, but Demo Day 2 of Y Combinator's Summer 2015 was a bit more... eclectic. Moving services! Streaming services! Hotel booking, augmented reality, eSports!| Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
Lightning strikes Google Compute Engine data center in Belgium; services disrupted and 0.000001% of data lost — Lightning in Belgium Disrupts Google Cloud Services — Not even the mighty Google data centers are immune from acts of god it turns out. — A series of successive lightning strikes … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
WhatsApp launches a desktop web app for iPhone users, can work in conjunction with mobile to mirror real-time conversations — WhatsApp's web client now works for iPhone users too — WhatsApp's web client is finally arriving for iOS users, eight months after it first arrived for Android.
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| Kevin Tofel / ZDNet: |
Report: BlackBerry Venice Android slider to launch on all four major US carriers in November — Return of the keyboard: BlackBerry Venice with Android expected in November — With all four U.S carriers rumored to carry the sliding keyboard phone, it surely would have to run Android.
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Alex Rampell, co-founder and former CEO of TrialPay which was acquired by Visa this year, joins Andreessen Horowitz as general partner — With an Eye on Fintech, Andreessen Horowitz Adds a New General Partner — The leaders of Andreessen Horowitz believe that experience is the best teacher.
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| Paul Elias / Associated Press: |
SF and LA District Attorneys amend complaint against Uber, claim murderer, sex offenders got through background checks, want tougher screening — San Francisco district attorney expands Uber lawsuit — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco district attorney announced Wednesday the expansion … | Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld: |
Intel Skylake CPU details revealed: These faster, more power-efficient chips can even drive three 4K monitors — Skylake-based laptops should offer a nice boost over today's Broadwell laptops, and here's why. — After weeks of teasing us, Intel finally lifted the kilt to show us details of its 6th generation CPU.Sponsor Posts
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