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Sources: Jawbone has stopped making UP fitness trackers, sold the remaining inventory to a reseller at a discount to raise cash — Jawbone has stopped making its UP fitness trackers and sold its remaining inventory to a third-party reseller, sources familiar with the matter told Tech Insider.| Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Sources: Jawbone is trying to sell its wireless speaker business, will focus on health and wearables — Fitness tracker maker Jawbone has put its speaker business up for sale, according to multiple sources. — The company has been pitching potential buyers for its Jambox wireless speaker business …
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Some Silicon Valley luminaries, including Vinod Khosla and Jessica Livingston, express approval for Peter Thiel's tactics against Gawker — SAN FRANCISCO — After the news that one of Silicon Valley's stars secretly funded a lawsuit to bring down a gossip site, the overwhelming response …
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| Nick Denton / Gawker: |
Nick Denton challenges Peter Thiel to a public debate in open letter, says decade-long campaign by Thiel is out of proportion, asks about ultimate intent — Nearly a decade ago, after you had opened up to friends and colleagues, a gay writer for Gawker shared an item with the readers of Valleywag …
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Sources: the Feinstein-Burr encryption bill has lost support in Congress, likely won't be introduced this year — After a rampage that left 14 people dead in San Bernardino, key U.S. lawmakers pledged to seek a law requiring technology companies to give law enforcement agencies a “back door” …
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Investigation into SWIFT breach expands to 12 more banks; Symantec corroborates BAE's report that hackers used code similar to North Korean Sony hack — Symantec becomes the second firm to link the hack to the Sony Pictures attack. — The investigation into the attempted $1 billion electronic heist …
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Facebook starts selling offsite ads targeting non-users too — Facebook's advertising network is already a colossal business — it helped the social network bring in over $5 billion in revenue in its most recent quarter alone — but it is about to take a step towards become …
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See also Mediagazer| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google app on iOS gets faster load times, AMP articles in search, keyboard shortcuts, more — Faster load and search times are the highlight feature of an update to the Google app on iOS. Like on the mobile web and Android, AMP articles will now show up in search results.
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Pew: 62% of US adults get news on social media; 66% of Facebook, 23% of Instagram, 21% of YouTube, 19% of LinkedIn users get news there — A majority of U.S. adults - 62% - get news on social media, and 18% do so often, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Hacker behind LinkedIn's 117M e-mail database claims to have 360M Myspace user emails with passwords — There's an oft-repeated adage in the world of cybersecurity: There are two types of companies, those that have been hacked, and those that don't yet know they have been hacked.
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| The Intercept: |
Sen. Wyden: this year's annual intelligence authorization, just passed in Senate committee and not yet public, allows FBI warrantless access to email records — A provision snuck into the still-secret text of the Senate's annual intelligence authorization would give the FBI the ability …
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| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Musical.ly, with 10M DAUs and 70M registered users, is adding a streaming service called live.ly, is rumored to be raising $100M — Unless you live with a teenager, you've probably never heard of Musical.ly. — If you do, then you've probably already appeared in one of your kid's music videos.Sponsor Posts
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