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Obama administration decides not to seek legislation forcing companies to decrypt data for law enforcement but doesn't disavow a legislative mandate — Obama administration opts not to force firms to decrypt data — for now — After months of deliberation, the Obama administration …
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The Chinese government arrested hackers accused of state-sponsored economic espionage at the request of the US before President Xi Jinping's US visit last month — In a first, Chinese hackers are arrested at the behest of the U.S. government — The Chinese government has quietly arrested …
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Remote computing firm LogMeIn to acquire password management service LastPass for $125M — LogMeIn just acquired LastPass to build one password platform to rule them all — Remote computing company LogMeIn announced today that it's agreed to acquire password management service LastPass … | Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed: |
A breakdown of WeWork's fundraising documents and pitch deck from October 2014; the company's latest $400M raise in June 2015 was at a $10B valuation — How WeWork Convinced Investors It's Worth Billions — Startups don't turn into unicorns — the buzzword for companies valued …
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Twitter ad executive Glenn Brown, who oversaw Twitter's video ad push, is leaving for Betaworks to be an entrepreneur in residence — Twitter Video Ad Exec Glenn Brown Leaves for Betaworks — One of Twitter's key advertising executives is leaving the company, a day after the company announced a major new ad push.
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VideoInk and Silicon Republic
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Facebook now offers profile picture frames to show support for one of eight college teams — Facebook Now Lets You Frame Your Profile Pic To Show Support For Your Favorite College Football Team — Facebook has been allowing users have a lot more fun with their profile pictures lately.
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Apple removes a few apps from the App Store that installed root certificates to block ads inside apps, including Been Choice — App Store removes root certificate-based ad blockers over privacy concerns — Root certificate-based apps don't just block ads, they deeply inspect all your traffic, even private and secure traffic.
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TechCrunch, Macworld, Marketing Land, Business Insider, Inquirer, AppleInsider, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Help Net Security, Pocketnow, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, Graham Cluley, PCWorld, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, Engadget, MacNN, MacRumors, SlashGear, TechEye, The Next Web, CNET and iMore. Tweets: @beenchoice
| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Leaked TPP agreement requires member countries to honor copyright takedowns — Wikileaks has released what it says is the final text of the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a “free trade” deal between the United States and eight other countries.
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WikiLeaks and Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Patent lawsuit filings down 33% year-over-year in Q3 2015, driven by drop in East Texas troll cases — New patent lawsuits down, driven by drop in East Texas “troll” cases — At this point, filing numbers are tied to just a few “non-practicing entities.”| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla Firefox will drop support for NPAPI plugins by the end of 2016 but will keep Flash around — Mozilla today announced its intention to remove Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) plugin support from Firefox “by the end of 2016.” The company has been working … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Launches AWS Mobile Hub To Help Mobile Developers Build Back-End Processes — Amazon today announced the launch of its AWS Mobile Hub based on AWS Lambda at its re:Invent developer conference, a new tool that makes it easier for mobile developer to build the back-end processes for their apps.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Second Wave iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Launch Kicks Off in 40 Countries Around the World — Apple's iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are now available for purchase in Taiwan, marking the start of the second wave iPhone launch. Beginning October 9, iPhone 6s and 6s Plus availability is expanding to more than 40 countries … Sponsor Posts
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