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Samsung forecasts Q4 profits of $7.8B, up 50% YoY to its highest level in more than three years, with strong chip sales and a Galaxy S7 rebound — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said on Friday its fourth-quarter profit likely leapt 50 percent from a year earlier to its highest level … | TechCrunch: |
Sources: DJI acquires majority stake in Hasselblad, the iconic Swedish camera company — Jan 5, 2017, 10:19 amJan 5, 2017, 11:04 am — Last year DJI took a minority stake in Hasselblad, the iconic Swedish camera company. The companies also announced a partnership to work together …
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Techdirt founder Mike Masnick faces $15M libel suit over articles that cast doubt on Shiva Ayyadurai's claim to have invented e-mail — This is the latest case from attorney Charles Harder, who previously represented Hulk Hogan against Gawker. — Techdirt founder Mike Masnick will be going toe …
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FTC sues D-Link over lax security in its routers and IP cameras, says D-Link used hard-coded logins, left private software sign-in key code online for 6 months — FTC: D-Link failed to take reasonable steps to secure its routers and Internet Protocol (IP) cameras, potentially compromising sensitive consumer information
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Dell unveils Canvas, a 27-inch 2560x1440 sloped monitor to rival Microsoft's Studio; the display is compatible with PCs, ships in April with price TBD — The most exciting part of Microsoft's Surface Studio — an all-in-one PC announced back in October — was its ability to fold down from a traditional …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
The excitement for Amazon's Alexa at CES shows Apple is missing out on expanding its HomeKit suite — Apple never shows up to CES, but the last couple years, it's still managed to have a quiet presence through HomeKit. That's true this year, too, but it's been really quiet …
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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Misfit unveils touchscreen smartwatch Vapor, with 1.4-inch full AMOLED display, GPS, and optical heart-rate sensors, expected to ship in late 2017 for $199 — Some people want to fill the world with smartwatches — Misfit, a maker of low-power, jewelry-like wearables that was acquired … | Nancy Watzman / Internet Archive Blogs: |
Internet Archive launches Trump Archive, a searchable repository of Donald Trump TV appearances, with 520+ hours of video from 2009 until now — The Trump Archive launches today with 700+ televised speeches, interviews, debates, and other news broadcasts related to President-elect Donald Trump … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google updates Calendar to integrate with Google Fit and Apple Health to help users reach fitness goals — With Goals, Google launched a new Google Calendar feature last year that allowed you to easily schedule and track certain goals you set for yourself.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
How the digital legacy of the Obama White House will live on via tech projects such as a Twitter bot, a Giphy page, and Internet Archive sharing — President Obama was the first US President to use Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook Live and YouTube to engage the public.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cloud storage startup Bitcasa posts “goodbye” message on its site, implying it may have been acquired — CES seems to be making some bloggers a little trigger happy with posting. Just a little while ago VentureBeat published a story claiming that Intel had acquired Bitcasa … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
New York-based SaaS HR firm Namely raises $50M, closing a $80M Series D led by Altimeter Capital and Scale Venture Partners — One of the big HR startup stories of the last year has been the trials and tribulations of Zenefits, but news coming out today from another company in the space shows …
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