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India bans zero-rated internet services, including Facebook's Free Basics, for infringing on the principles of net neutrality — India's Telecom Authorities Have Ruled Against Facebook's Controversial Free Internet Plan — “Who could possibly be against this?” Zuckerberg asked.
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BBC, The Verge, Techdirt, Mark Zuckerberg, GeekWire, World Wide Web Foundation, Washington Post, VentureBeat, Hindustan Times, Bloomberg Business, Re/code, Save the Internet, CNET, Times of India, Ars Technica, Washington Post, The Register, Tech in Asia, TechCrunch, Slate, BetaNews, Tech Times, SlashGear, Wired.co.uk, Business Insider, Guardian, PCWorld, Motherboard, The Next Web, Gizmodo and Engadget
Tweets: @amir and @mollywood
| Steve Ragan / CSO: |
Hackers leak names and contact details of over 9K DHS staff, claim DOJ is next — Hackers leak DHS staff directory, claim DOJ is next — Staff directory contains details on over 9,000 employees — On Sunday, an account on Twitter posted a Department of Homeland Security staff directory with 9,355 names.
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Motherboard, Engadget, InfoWorld, Computerworld, Ubergizmo, Office of Inadequate Security, FedScoop, TechWorm and International Business Times. Tweets: @onekade
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Sources: Google to release Gear VR-like headset this year compatible with a broad range of smartphones, embed VR technology into Android OS — Google pushes further into world of virtual reality — Google is developing a new virtual-reality headset for smartphones, and adding extra support …
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The Verge, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, CNET, PCWorld, Motherboard, Silicon Valley Business …, Droid Life, TouchArcade, Phandroid, Fortune, High Scalability, PhonesReviews UK, Computerworld, SlashGear, Business Insider, Tech Times, GamesIndustry.biz, Daily Mail, International Business Times, Silicon Republic, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, Pocketnow, TechSpot, Digital Trends, Neowin, ValueWalk, Fone Arena, Android Beat, BGR, Engadget, Road to VR, 9to5Google, CNET, SiliconANGLE, VRFocus, VentureBeat, Mashable and ZDNet. Tweets: @abatalion
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Instagram launches account switching on iOS and Android — Facebook-owned Instagram today announced that starting this week, users will be able to switch accounts when using the app on Android and iOS. The feature will be available in version 7.15 of the app, and it allows people to have as many as five accounts logged in at once.
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Instagram Blog, The Next Web, Marketing Land, The Verge, PhoneDog.com and iPhone Hacks
| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business: |
Wired to start offering ad-free version of its website for $3.99 a month from Feb 16, will block visitors using ad blockers — Wired Is Launching an Ad-Free Website to Appease Ad Blockers — Readers can pay $3.99 for a four-week subscription to a version of its site without advertising.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
The Pirate Bay, other torrent sites add support for Torrents Time plugin allowing you to stream movies and TV shows from your browser — The Pirate Bay now uses Torrents Time to let you stream all its movies and TV shows — On Tuesday, a new simple solution for streaming torrents directly in your browser showed up on the Web.
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The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Digital Trends, Geek.com, Gizmodo, Plagiarism Today, TorrentFreak, KitGuru, The Next Web, Cult of Mac, Business Insider, Billboard, Motherboard, Wired.co.uk, Neowin, Lifehacker, Tech Times, Fortune, mirror, TrustedReviews, Silicon Republic, GeekTime and International Business Times. See also Mediagazer
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Hashtags included in 45% of Super Bowl ads; Facebook or Twitter mentioned in only 5% of ads — Hashtags In Super Bowl Ads Dropped Slightly To 45% In 2016 — As with last year, social networks were rarely mentioned, with Twitter and Facebook tied in our count.
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Search Engine Land, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Google, BGR, iPhone Hacks, SiliconANGLE, TechSpot, NBC Bay Area, The Verge, Silicon Valley Business … and CNET. Tweets: @chrismessina. Thanks:@dannysullivan. See also Mediagazer
| Akin Oyedele / Business Insider: |
Yelp earnings released early, show Q4 EPS of $0.11 on revenues of $153.7M, CFO to leave, stock falls more than 10% — Yelp's earnings just leaked — Yelp's fourth-quarter earnings results crossed well ahead of schedule on Monday. — The company told Business Insider that the results …
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Yelp, Re/code, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Business
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
StubHub takes on Ticketmaster with new platform for both primary and secondary tickets — StubHub has announced big plans to infiltrate the primary ticketing market, as the eBay-owned company takes on the might of Ticketmaster in the lucrative live events realm.| Bill Gurley / Above the Crowd: |
Behance founder, early-stage investor and advisor Scott Belsky is now a general partner at Benchmark — Benchmark's New General Partner: Scott Belsky — The partners at Benchmark are delighted to announce that Scott Belsky has joined the firm as our newest general partner.
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TechCrunch. Tweets: @alexrkonrad, @sacca, @chrisfralic, @scottbelsky, @cdixon and @msquinn. Thanks:@emmkrem
| Rex Crum / Mercury News: |
Hong Kong's VTech to acquire LeapFrog, maker of electronic educational toys, for $72M — LeapFrog jumps to be acquired by VTech for $72 million — EMERYVILLE — LeapFrog Enterprises, the maker of well-known electronic educational toys for children, said Friday it has agreed to be acquired … | Andrea Peterson / Washington Post: |
Amazon nearly doubled its lobbying expenditures in 2015, focused on issues like sales tax, drones, and cloud services — Why Amazon is doubling down on lobbying — Amazon nearly doubled its lobbying expenditures in 2015 versus the previous year, spending $9.4 million dollars trying to sway Congress and executive agencies.Sponsor Posts
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