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Qualcomm's board rejects calls to split its licensing and chipmaking businesses after completing strategic review announced in July — Qualcomm Rejects Split After Completing Strategic Review — Board backs keeping licensing and semiconductor units together — Stock slump, slower sales, investigations drove push for split
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Nielsen: Facebook Remains The Top App Of 2015, But Messenger Was The Fastest-Growing — Facebook this year continued to hold the number one position as the top app installed on U.S. smartphones based on the average number of unique users, according to a new report out this week from Nielsen … | Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors — Encryption backdoors have been a hot topic in the last few years—and the controversial issue got even hotter after the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, when it dominated media headlines.
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An internal US government catalogue details dozens of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and intelligence agencies — A Secret Catalogue of Government Gear for Spying on Your Cellphone … THE INTERCEPT HAS OBTAINED a secret, internal U.S. government catalogue of dozens …
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League of Legends developer Riot Games is now owned entirely by Tencent — Riot Games now owned entirely by Tencent — The League of Legends studio's remaining shares have been bought up Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends, has sold its remaining equity to Chinese online company Tencent Holdings.
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| Sophia Pearson / Bloomberg Business: |
Court says FAA can require that pilots have commercial licences to offer flight sharing in exchange for expenses, in blow to services Flytenow and AirPooler — Uber-Style Flight-Sharing Service Shot Down by U.S. Court — FAA was ‘justified’ in rule-making, appeals court rules
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Obama: law enforcement monitors public social media posts as part of the visa review process — Obama Says the Feds Vet Social Media Before Issuing Visas — After the massacre at a San Bernardino, California, holiday party this month, a wave of speculation crested over whether …
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Axel Springer executives talk about digital transformation, learning from Silicon Valley, international plans, investments in Business Insider, Airbnb, more — An Old-Media Empire, Axel Springer Reboots for the Digital Age — BERLIN — When Mathias Döpfner, chief executive of Axel Springer … | John Goglia / Forbes: |
FAA Finally Admits Names And Home Addresses In Drone Registry Will Be Publicly Available — The FAA finally confirmed this afternoon that model aircraft registrants' names and home addresses will be public. In an email message, the FAA stated"Until the drone registry system is modified, the FAA will not release names and address.
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IESG advances addition of HTTP status code 451 to allow sites to convey they can't show content due to legal restrictions, in stance against online censorship — Why 451? — Today, the IESG approved publication of “An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles”.
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| David Harris / Cargo Facts: |
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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Ubergizmo, TechSpot, USA Today, Engadget, Digital Trends, The Verge, Tech Times, Fortune, TechnoBuffalo, The Seattle Times, Business Insider, Bloomberg Business, Reuters, Marketing Land, InvestorPlace, Tech Insider and GeekWire. Tweets: @jimhirshfield. Thanks:@bankinnovation
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Lumia 950 XL review: fast, light, great camera, and Continuum is perhaps a glimpse into the future, but still too few apps and the design is boring — Microsoft Lumia 950 XL review — A year ago, I gave up on Windows Phone. Frustrated by a lack of quality apps …
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