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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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FBI investigating breach at Juniper; US officials say attack likely to be state-sponsored; DHS assessing scope of compromised communications — First on CNN: Newly discovered hack has U.S. fearing foreign infiltration — Washington (CNN)A major breach at computer network company Juniper Networks …
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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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Sources: Amazon building its own overnight US airfreight operation, negotiating with Boeing for twenty 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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| 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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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.| 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| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Facebook and security researcher clash over disclosure best practices and compensation over Instagram bug and researcher's further systems probing — Facebook, Researcher Spar Over Instagram Vulnerabilities — A security researcher is in a bit of a scrum with Facebook over vulnerability disclosures …
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Facebook offers employees $10K to buy or rent a home within 10 miles of its Menlo Park headquarters — Facebook puts a price on suburban living for employees — Facebook Inc is offering employees at its Silicon Valley headquarters at least $10,000 to move closer to the office …
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San Francisco-based Lily announces $15M in funding, delays its drone from February until summer 2016 — Drone Maker Lily Announces a Product Delay and New Funding — People who order innovative new drones from start-ups without track records have good reason to be nervous.| 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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| Garrett Reim / Los Angeles Business Journal: |
Ultrasound wireless charging startup uBeam, backed by a16z, Marissa Mayer, Founders Fund, others, closes $2.6M of $4.7M goal on crowdfunding platform OurCrowd — Maker of Wireless Charger Losing Investment Power? — Wireless energy startup uBeam Inc. of Santa Monica seems to be raising its financing in reverse order.
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