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| J.J. Colao / Forbes: |
The Inside Story Of Snapchat: The World's Hottest App Or A $3 Billion Disappearing Act? — THIRTEEN MONTHS AGO Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, the richest twentysomething in history, reached out to Snapchat's Evan Spiegel, who oversees a revenue-less app that makes photos disappear, with an invitation …
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Betabeat, Business Insider and Mashable
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| Kate Tummarello / TheHill: |
Snapchat hires lobbyists for the first time — The social network Snapchat has hired lobbyists in Washington for the first time. — Snapchat — which allows users to send photos and videos that disappear after a certain amount of time — has hired the powerhouse K Street firm Heather Podesta + Partners …
| Bruce Schneier / Wired: |
The Internet of Things Is Wildly Insecure — And Often Unpatchable — We're at a crisis point now with regard to the security of embedded systems, where computing is embedded into the hardware itself — as with the Internet of Things. These embedded computers are riddled with vulnerabilities, and there's no good way to patch them.
Tweets: @kashhill
| Eric Limer / Gizmodo: |
Asus ZenFones: An Android Army with Intel Inside — After years of bringing you the horror/glory that is the PadFone and FonePad, Asus is branching out on its fone offerings and introducing not one, not two, but three flavors of “ZenFone,” Android handsets with ultrabook lineage.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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Ars Technica, Digits, CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget, GeekWire, 9to5Google, Gigaom, BGR, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, Android Central, AndroidGuys and Droid Life. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Pebble Reveals The Pebble Steel For $249 Shipping Jan. 28; App Store Coming Soon — Smartwatch pioneer Pebble is introducing something everyone has been waiting for at CES this year: new hardware. But the hardware isn't so new that it throws the baby out with the bath water …
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Pebble, Re/code, The Next Web, Inquirer, The Verge, Ars Technica, ZDNet, Digits, ReadWrite, AppleInsider, CNET, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Fortune, Business Insider, Engadget, WebProNews, TIME, Gizmodo, iClarified, TechRepublic, iPhone in Canada Blog and IntoMobile
| Tim Stevens / CNET: |
| Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com: |
Mashable raises $13 million to launch expansion effort — Nearly a decade into its existence, the news Web site Mashable is taking on outside investors for the first time. — The site plans to announce on Monday that it has raised $13.3 million in an equity investment round led by Updata Partners.
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See also Mediagazer| Bloomberg: |
Apple promises to diversify its board after shareholder pressure — Apple Facing Criticism About Diversity Changes Bylaws — Apple Inc., facing behind-the-scenes pressure from some shareholders to add more female directors and executives, has taken a step to address the criticism and diversify its board.
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft reportedly considers letting consumers pick a device and then its OS: Windows Phone or Android — We've already heard rumors that Microsoft has courted smartphone OEMs to offer dual-boot options for Windows Phone and Android, as well as looked at cutting the licensing fees that it normally charges device makers.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Palo Alto Networks Buys Cyber Security Startup Founded By Former NSA Engineers, Morta — In its first acquisition, security company Palo Alto Networks is acquiring stealthy cyber security startup Morta Security. Financial details were not disclosed about the transaction …
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VentureBeat, Venture Capital Dispatch, NYT Bits and Tech Trader Daily
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Sponsored Data: AT&T will now let companies buy out your data charges for specific videos and apps — Today at CES, AT&T announced a new service called Sponsored Data, offering a way for companies to pick up the tab for 4G data usage whenever particular products or services are being used.
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Tweets: @joshuatopolsky, @dannysullivan, @russellbrandom, @reckless and @om
| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
How Mark Zuckerberg turned around Facebook by prioritizing mobile ad revenues — Profitable Learning Curve for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — In Taking Facebook Public, Reshaping It Around Mobile Phones, Chief Gained Focus on Bottom Line … MENLO PARK, Calif.— Mark Zuckerberg needed help.
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NEWS.com.au, Boz - Facebook, Business Insider, Quartz, Valleywag and Internet2Go
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Acquires Image Recognition And Visual Search Startup VisualGraph — Pinterest has just acquired two-man startup VisualGraph, which creates machine vision, image recognition, and visual search technologies. The company's founder Kevin Jing and his partner David Liu are joining the Pinterest engineering team today.
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Search Engine Land, ReadWrite, Gigaom, Computerworld, CNET, VentureBeat, ZDNet and The Next Web
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Rebooting webOS: how LG rethought the smart TV — Four years after it was first introduced, webOS comes back to CES in a radically different form — Things never went very well for webOS. Between its blockbuster launch at CES in 2009 and its relaunch on LG's smart TVs today lies a history …
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Engadget, The Verge, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, BBC, The Verge, NDTV Gadgets, It's a Gadget and BGR. Tweets: @fmanjoo
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Samsung's new Galaxy Tab Pro series comes in 12-, 10- and 8-inch sizes, but looks a little too familiar (hands-on) — Not stopping with its new productivity-centered Galaxy Note Pro, Samsung has three more tablets to launch this year. Say hello to the Galaxy Tab Pro, in 12.2-, 10.1- and 8.4-inch screen sizes.
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Inquirer, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo, NEWS.com.au, Re/code, NYT Bits, BGR, Gigaom, The Verge and Business Insider
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
inMarket Rolls Out iBeacons To 200 Safeway, Giant Eagle Grocery Stores To Reach Shoppers When It Matters — Today inMarket is beginning a huge rollout of iBeacons to grocery stores including Safeway and Giant Eagle locations in Seattle, San Francisco and Cleveland.
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| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
Google Teams With GM, Honda, and Audi to Bring Android to Cars — That kid—the one in the back of the SUV with the iPad—is the automotive industry's worst enemy. He's also the reason some of the world's biggest automakers are working with Google to bring its Android software into vehicle infotainment systems.| Brian Heater / Engadget: |
Intel unveils RealSense hardware and software line, including 3D camera module — The takeaway at today's Intel press event? At this early stage (you know, before the event actually starts), all signs point to the RealSense product line - a number of hardware and software products that …
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VentureBeat, The Verge, Gizmodo, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, Forbes, Gotta Be Mobile and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @willsmith
| Katie Roof / Fox Business: |
Source: AOL Tried to Buy Business Insider for $100M+ — AOL Inc. (AOL) offered to purchase BusinessInsider.com, a popular business and technology news website, for more than $100 million but talks ultimately broke down when the two sides couldn't agree on price, the FOX Business Network has learned.
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
The Asus Transformer Book Duet hybrid can instantly switch between Windows and Android — Back at Computex in June, Asus introduced its Transformer Book Trio — a computer that could function as both a laptop and tablet and dual-booted between Windows 8 and Android.
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Engadget, LAPTOP Magazine, ZDNet, 9to5Google, PC World, CNET, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News and Electronista
| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Huawei's big Ascend Mate 2 4G can charge up your iPhone, coming to the US — Given the recent leak, Huawei's announcement of the Ascend Mate 2 4G should be no surprise to anyone. The device is essentially an LTE Cat 4 (read: 150Mbps!) refresh of its predecessor, packing a similar 6.1-inch 720p IPS panel …
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Gigaom, LAPTOP Magazine, TechCrunch, BGR, Inquirer, CNET, The Verge, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, Electronista and AnandTech. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Alex Colon / Gigaom: |
Corning's antimicrobial Gorilla Glass can kill bacteria on your smartphone — It's no secret that smartphones are gross. More than 59 percent of phone users have confessed to using their device in the bathroom, and those are just the people willing to admit as much to a survey.| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Vizio updates its Thin + Light laptop and all-in-one with Haswell processors, Iris Pro graphics — It's now been exactly two years since Vizio announced it was making the bold move of entering the PC marketplace with its Thin + Light laptops and all-in-one desktop computers.
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LAPTOP Magazine, Windows Phone Central and Engadget
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
The Pirate Bay plans own P2P network accessed via browser-like client to circumvent censorship — How The Pirate Bay Plans to Beat Censorship For Good — Over the past few years The Pirate Bay has had to deal with its fair share of censorship, mostly through court-ordered blockades.| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
T-Mobile to buy unused Verizon spectrum in deal worth over $3 billion — T-Mobile has agreed to buy 700 MHz A-block spectrum from Verizon Wireless for $2.365 billion. The sale will also see T-Mobile transfer certain AWS and PCS spectrum licenses with a value of around $950 million to Verizon …
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Business Wire, Gigaom, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Softpedia News, The Switch, Fortune, GeekWire, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneNews.com, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, iMore and Re/code. Tweets: @johnlegere
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