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Global Government Surveillance Reform — The undersigned companies believe that it is time for the world's governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information. While the undersigned companies understand …
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Tech Giants Issue Call for Limits on Government Surveillance of Users — Eight prominent technology companies, bruised by revelations of government spying on their customers' data and scrambling to repair the damage to their reputations, are mounting a public campaign to urge President Obama …
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Revealed: spy agencies' covert push to infiltrate virtual world of online games — NSA and GCHQ collect gamers' chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft and Second Life — Read the NSA document Exploiting Terrorist Use of Games & Virtual Environments
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China Mobile to Accept iPhone Orders This Week — China Mobile Ltd. plans to take preorders for Apple Inc.'s iPhones from Thursday in Shanghai, according to an advertisement on its website, as the world's largest mobile carrier by subscribers moves closer to launching high-speed fourth-generation mobile services in the country.
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Stealth payment startup Clinkle lays off 25% of staff — Layoffs at stealth payment startup Clinkle — Clinkle still wants to kill Square. But first it needs to get its own house in order. — FORTUNE — Clinkle, a stealthy mobile payment startup that recently raised …
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Snapchat Files For A Restraining Order, Accuses Ousted Founder Of Leaking Confidential Court Docs — Snapchat has filed for a temporary restraining order against Reggie Brown, the man who claims to have invented the idea for disappearing messages. According to court documents filed today … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's “Threshold” could include three SKUs (modern, traditional, and enterprise) built on common Windows core — More on Microsoft's SKU-morphic Windows vision — Summary: Microsoft's plans for Windows SKUs is undergoing a transformation.
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AllThingsD Editors Are Said to Complete NBCUniversal Deal — AllThingsD editors Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, who are leaving News Corp. at the end of the year, completed a deal with NBCUniversal for a news and conference business that will bring their current staff to a newly named website …
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Microsoft CEO Search: Stalemate — The Microsoft CEO succession process appears to be stalled. This is a company with immense human, technical, and financial resources; the tech industry is filled with intelligent, energetic, dedicated candidates. What's wrong with the matchmaking process?
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Qualcomm Introduces Its First 64-Bit Chip, Though This One Takes Aim at the Low End — Qualcomm is detailing on Monday a new entry-level mobile processor that packs a number of high-end features. — The Snapdragon 410 is designed for phones that sell for $150 or less but includes … | Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Marissa Mayer's Next Big Acquisition Could Be Imgur, The Photo-Sharing Site Reddit Loves — This fall, Yahoo began serious talks to buy photo-sharing site Imgur, a source with first-hand knowledge of those discussions tells us. — Since she joined Yahoo in July 2012, CEO Marissa Mayer has acquired dozens of startups.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Confirmed: Flipboard Raises Another $50 Million To Close Out Its Series C Round — Flipboard has confirmed that it raised an additional $50 million, which will close out the Series C round of financing that it brought on in September. In addition to the new funding, Flipboard is also announcing … | Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Facebook hires NYU deep learning expert to run its new AI lab — Facebook launched a new artificial intelligence lab in September, and now we know the person who will run it — New York University deep learning expert Yann LeCun. He has been an instrumental figure in the space … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Google Launches Google+ Social Ads on Other Sites — Advertisers can plug anything they want on Facebook and Twitter for free. And if they pay up, they can take those posts and transform them into “native” ads, so more people can see them. — Now Google is trying the same thing with its Google+ social network.
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Fast-growing IT automation startup Opscode raises $32M, changes name to Chef — Seattle entrepreneur Barry Crist likes to say that the best time to raise money is when you don't really need it. — And that was certainly the case for Opscode, the fast-growing IT automation startup that today … | Ryan Lizza / New Yorker: |
Why Won't Obama Rein in the N.S.A.? — On March 12, 2013, James R. Clapper appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to discuss the threats facing America. Clapper, who is seventy-two, is a retired Air Force general and Barack Obama's director of National Intelligence …
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| Matthew Humphries / Geek.com: |
Samsung squeezes 1TB into an mSATA SSD for Ultrabooks — If you own an Ultrabook or laptop that contains an SSD, chances are it uses the mSATA rather than SATA interface. mSATA drives are typically a quarter the size of a standard 2.5-inch SSD, which allows for much thinner devices.
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| Enricko Lukman / Tech in Asia: |
Lazada raises $250 million, totalling $486 million so far — Rocket Internet's e-commerce ventures are on a roll. After just recently announcing $112 million in funding for fashion e-commerce sites Zalora and The Iconic last week, today its sister site Lazada also announces … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft beefs up account security with recent activity, recovery codes, and better notification controls — Microsoft today announced security improvements to Microsoft accounts, including a recent activity feature, recovery codes, and more control over notifications.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
“Hour of Code” Calls on Students to Program Computers, With Support From Obama (and the Republicans, Too!) — By now you may have heard about the United States' woeful lack of public coding classes, despite the economy's ever-growing need for technical workers.
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