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Apple Has Acquired Faceshift, Maker Of Motion Capture Tech Used In Star Wars — As the market for virtual reality technology continues to grow, Apple has made an interesting acquisition that could further its role in the space. TechCrunch has confirmed that Apple has snapped up Faceshift …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla's 2014 annual report: Revenue up 4.9% to $329M, 90% came from Google and Yahoo — Mozilla has released its annual financial report for 2014, revealing a revenue increase of less than 5 percent year-over-year, 90 percent of which came from Google and Yahoo.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Amazon to bundle other online movie and TV subscriptions with Prime Instant Video as soon as next month, with most partners expecting to share revenue — Amazon Said Planning to Add Other Online Networks to Prime Video — Major movie, TV channels said to join Prime as partners| William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Some Zenefits salespeople in at least seven states have sold insurance without licenses, leading to a probe by regulator in Washington state — Startup Zenefits Under Scrutiny For Flouting Insurance Laws — The $4.5 billion startup allowed salespeople to act as insurance brokers … | Google: |
Google lists top 10 domains with right to be forgotten requests, says Facebook, YouTube, Twitter most impacted — European privacy requests for search removals — In a May 2014 ruling, Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González, the Court of Justice of the European Union found …
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Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Business Insider, Washington Post, ITworld.com, Engadget, The Verge, Eater, The Hill, WebProNews, bizjournals, Inquirer, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Fortune, Memex 1.1, Ubergizmo, SiliconBeat and The Daily Dot. Tweets: @wsjd
| Chris Pan / Facebook Developers: |
Facebook releases SDK for tvOS that lets developers add Facebook login, sharing, and analytics to their Apple TV apps — Facebook SDK for tvOS Now Available — The new Apple TV brings the App Store to the big screen, and today we're introducing the Facebook SDK for tvOS beta to help …
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9to5Mac, iMore, The Next Web, MacRumors, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, The Verge and WebProNews. Tweets: @whatthebit
| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Apple reaches preliminary agreement with China UnionPay to use its network of over 5M NFC-enabled PoS devices, pending feedback from card-issuing banks — UnionPay, Apple Said to Reach Apple Pay Agreement for China — Mobile payment system may help UnionPay fend off competitors
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iClarified, Redmond Pie, Pocketnow, MacNN, Patently Apple, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, iLounge, AppleInsider, iMore, Forbes, Apple World Today, Tech Times, NFC World+ and bizjournals. Tweets: @jrichlive
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Pandora, iHeartRadio can stream songs from Adele's top-selling album 25, unlike Spotify, Apple Music, others, thanks to law for “non-interactive” services — Pandora is streaming Adele's 25 and her label can't stop it — Adele's 25 is the biggest album in the world right now …
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EW.com, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Seeking Alpha, Motley Fool, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, Mashable, hypebot, Billboard, iMore and Just Jared. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer
| Paul Lamkin / Forbes: |
Fossil Q Founder Android Wear smartwatch available today from $275, with stainless steel band for additional $20; Fossil promises a full day's battery life — Fossil Q Founder Available Now: Taking On Tag In Smartwatch Fashion — Fossil is following Tag Heuer into the world of connected timepieces.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Google expects to launch Accelerated Mobile Pages, its version of Facebook's Instant Articles, early next year — Google says its version of Facebook's instant articles will arrive early next year — Last month Google introduced Accelerated Mobile Pages, its open-source program designed …
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TechCrunch, The New York Observer, 9to5Google, BetaNews, PCMag India feed, TIME, International Business Times, SEO Book, Accelerated Mobile …, Business Insider, ABC News, Pocketnow, WebProNews, SlashGear, Search Engine Roundtable, ZDNet, Fone Arena, Android Central, GitHub, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, Tech Times, Search Engine Land and Re/code. See also Mediagazer
| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Study of 4000 embedded devices from over 70 vendors shows reused crypto keys leave millions of devices insecure, only 5 vendors known to have fixes on the way — ‘Worrying’ 9 Per Cent Of Encrypted Web Vulnerable To Private Key Attacks — Getting encryption right can be hard.
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SEC Consult, US-CERT, The Register and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @forbestech, @martijn_grooten and @dinosn
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Following ISIS crackdown, Telegram adds group admins, supergroups for up to 1K users — Encrypted messaging app Telegram, which has been in the news lately because of its use within the terrorist group ISIS, today announced a few new features aimed at people who use the app to chat in groups.
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Telegram, Android Police and Business Insider
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