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| Andrew Pollack / Bloomberg Business: |
Apple and Samsung ink separate agreements with China's UnionPay to introduce their competing mobile payments systems in the country, expect early 2016 launch — Apple, Samsung Agree With UnionPay for China Payments From 2016 — Agreements in China subject to certification from regulators
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| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Facebook, Researcher Spar Over Instagram Vulnerabilities — A security researcher is in a bit of a scrum with Facebook over vulnerability disclosures that not only tested the boundaries of the social network's bug bounty program, but also prompted threats of legal and criminal action.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Evernote is killing Skitch for Android, iOS, and Windows on January 22, but not Mac — Note-taking app company Evernote today delivered some sad news for users of the image annotation app Skitch. The iOS, Android, and Windows versions of Skitch will be going away on January 22.| Nandita Bose / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Target in initial development of its own mobile wallet - sources — Target Corp is in early stages of developing its own mobile wallet, three people familiar with the matter said, signaling a potential threat to new entrants like Apple Pay a week after Wal-Mart Stores Inc announced its own plans.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Windows Phone 8.1 users won't get Windows 10 Mobile update until 2016 — Microsoft is planning to make Windows 10 Mobile available to existing Windows Phone 8 and 8.1 users starting in early 2016, rather than this month, officials are now saying. — Even though Microsoft officials …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft acquires Metanautix, an analytics startup that helps big companies navigate their data — Microsoft has acquired a young Palo Alto startup called Metanautix, a firm specializing in helping large enterprises filter through their hordes of in-house data. Terms of the deal haven't been disclosed
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| David Harris / Cargo Facts: |
Sources: Amazon building its own overnight US airfreight operation, negotiating with Boeing for 20 767 widebody freighters — [EXCLUSIVE] Amazon building its own overnight airfreight operation, sources say — Amazon.com Inc. is creating a logistics operation that will include overnight air operations …
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| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Juniper discovers three-year-old backdoor in its NetScreen enterprise firewalls that allows decrypting VPN traffic, admin access, says to patch immediately — Juniper Patches ScreenOS Backdoor — Juniper Networks today has released an emergency patch that removes what it's calling …
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Ars Technica, Re/code, eWeek, Techdirt, Adam Caudill, Forbes, Juniper Forums, Security Affairs, Petri IT Knowledgebase, BBC, CIO.com, The Hacker News, Tech Times, The Next Web, SecurityWeek, Help Net Security, The Register, PCWorld, Juniper Networks, ZDNet, bit-tech.net, SiliconANGLE, Light Reading, Engadget and iTnews
| Jean-Baptiste Kempf / Yet another blog for JBKempf: |
VLC for Chrome OS, built using Android Runtime for Chrome, is now available to download — Announcing VLC for Chrome OS — VLC on ChromeOS — ChromeOS is one of the last Operating Systems where you could not run VLC and play all your media as you wished.
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PCWorld, Engadget, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Laptop Mag, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Liliputing, Android Central and The Next Web
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, attached to ombibus budget bill, is passed by Congress and is expected to be signed into law later today — Congress passes controversial cybersecurity bill attached to omnibus budget — This morning, Congress passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act …
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
FCC wants to meet with T-Mobile, Comcast, AT&T by January 15 to discuss their zero-rating programs — Regulators want to talk to AT&T, Comcast and T-Mobile about sponsored data — Federal regulators have asked AT&T, Comcast and T-Mobile to meet with them to discuss a growing …
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CutCableToday, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, MacNN, The Hill, Engadget, Ubergizmo, Los Angeles Times, CNET, The Next Web, GeekWire, The Hill, Ars Technica, TmoNews, Phandroid, Bloomberg Business, Pocketnow, AndroidHeadlines.com, BGR, MacRumors and ExtremeTech. Tweets: @counternotions. See also Mediagazer
| Jason Cipriani / Fortune: |
BlackBerry beats expectations with Q3 loss of $89M and revenue up 12% from last quarter to $548M, optimistic Priv will break even in Q4; stock up over 14% — Here's Why BlackBerry Saw Its First Revenue Gain In 9 Quarters — BlackBerry CEO John Chen's determination to move the company away … | Reuters: |
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