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Google adds the ability to send and request money in Gmail via Google Wallet on Android in US — Google Wallet has been integrated into Gmail on the web since 2013, but today Google is rolling out a new integration on mobile. Starting today, users of the Gmail app on Android will be able …
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| Lauren Zumbach / Chicago Tribune: |
Vibrator maker We-Vibe offers to pay $3.75M for tracking users' sexual activity and agrees to stop collecting personal data to settle class action suit — A Chicago woman says an app connected to her personal massage device sent private information to the manufacturer.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple found guilty of price-fixing iPhones in Russia, could be fined up to 15% of Russian sales — Last August, Russia opened an investigation into Apple over alleged price-fixing related to the iPhone. At the time, Apple denied any involvement and said that “retailers set their own prices” for the products.| Liza Mundy / The Atlantic: |
Efforts to tackle Silicon Valley's sexist culture, including unconscious bias training, are helping but need to go further to break apart the “boys' club” — One weekday morning in 2007, Bethanye Blount came into work early to interview a job applicant.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Teams rolls out as a free, on-by-default feature to Office 365 business users worldwide, with 150 integrations available or coming soon — Microsoft's Slack competitor is rolling out to Office 365 business users worldwide starting March 14. More features are still to come, including guest access, in late June.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft adds LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman to its board — Microsoft is continuing to bring its LinkedIn integration deeper into the fold with the appointment of its co-founder Reid Hoffman, to the Microsoft board of directors. — Microsoft has added LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman to its board of directors.
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| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Cisco file amicus brief to help Google in its fight against a court order to hand over emails stored on a foreign server — Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Cisco have filed an amicus brief in support of Google, after a Pennsylvania court ruled that the company … | Nicole Casal Moore / University of Michigan News: |
Researchers show how sound waves can exploit accelerometer vulnerabilities in a wide range of tech including IoT, cars, medical devices, and phones — ANN ARBOR—Sound waves could be used to hack into critical sensors in a broad array of technologies including smartphones, automobiles …
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Source: Department of Justice to indict four people, one in Canada and three in Russia, in connection with 2013 Yahoo data breach — U.S. officials are planning to issue indictments related to the hacking attacks against Yahoo! Inc., according to a person briefed on the matter.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Spotify and Waze integrate to enable navigating with Waze from within Spotify, and to make Spotify playlists accessible from within Waze — Drivers use their smartphone for both navigation and music, so why not put the two together? Waze and Spotify have announced that they've done just that …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple hires respected forensics and security expert Jonathan Zdziarski for its Security Engineering and Architecture team — iPhone forensics expert, security researcher, and former jailbreak community developer Jonathan Zdziarski today announced he has accepted a position with Apple's Security Engineering and Architecture team.
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Zdziarski's Blog of Things, 9to5Mac, BGR, Business Insider, Recode, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie, Ubergizmo, The Tech Portal, International Business Times, Silicon Valley Business …, iPhone Hacks, TechCrunch, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, Fortune, Engadget, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Axios, MacDailyNews, Insanely Great Mac, and iLounge
Tweets: @caseynewton, @erdekhayser, @josephfcox, @robpegoraro, @0xcharlie, @mmasnick, and @jonyiveparody
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Delivery management platform Bringg raises $10M Series B led by Aleph VC, to help any business have faster, more transparent on-demand delivery — Bringg, a startup taking advantage of the shift toward faster, more transparent on-demand delivery, has raised an additional $10 million in Series B funding …
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