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BBC investigation finds Apple repeatedly not meeting its supply chain standards on workers' hours, ID cards, dormitories, work meetings and juvenile workers — Apple ‘failing to protect Chinese factory workers’ — The undercover reporter filmed workers falling asleep on 12-hour shifts| John Biggs / TechCrunch: |
Sony Pictures' internal systems still haven't fully recovered, forcing some employees to work with decades-old tech — Sony Pictures Employees Now Working In An Office “From Ten Years Ago” — It's been different for everyone," she said. She was upbeat, optimistic …
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State-sponsored or not, Sony Pictures malware “bomb” used slapdash code — According to multiple reports, unnamed government officials have said that the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures was linked to the North Korean government. The Wall Street Journal reports that investigators suspect …
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Secret is relaunching as a faster anonymous social network with chat — Talk to any of Secret's 15 million users in just two taps — When Secret launched in February, it quickly became the most talked-about new social network in Silicon Valley. Like other '"anonymish" social networks …
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| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google Launches “Store Visits” Metric In AdWords, To Help Prove Online-To-Offline Impact — It's been well known that Google has been working on a solution to tie clicks on search ads back to in-store traffic and sales as part of Estimated Total Conversions in AdWords.
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Jawbone delays UP3 fitness band release until after holidays, offers discounts to preorderers — Jawbone's Missing Christmas — If you wonder how long the market can support richly valued startups, and what sorts of corporate stress might test investor enthusiasm, look no further than Jawbone … | Amar Toor / The Verge: |
Amazon launches Prime Now for Prime subscribers in New York City: one hour delivery of select items costs $7.99, two hour delivery is free — Amazon brings one-hour delivery to New York City with Prime Now — Service rolls out in select areas of Manhattan today, with other cities coming in 2015
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| Lizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal: |
Mobile analytics firm Mixpanel raises $65M Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz at an $865M valuation — Mixpanel Raises $65 Million to Build Predictive Data Tech — Suhail Doshi has big dreams for his mobile and Web analytics company Mixpanel Inc. and has just raised $65 million … | Kent Walker / Google Public Policy Blog: |
Google concerned by reports that MPAA is secretly working with studios to resurrect SOPA — The MPAA's Attempt to Revive SOPA Through A State Attorney General — We are deeply concerned about recent reports that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) led a secret … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Sony leaks reveal how Hollywood aims to achieve SOPA-style DNS blocking under existing laws — Sony leaks reveal Hollywood is trying to break DNS, the backbone of the internet — Most anti-piracy tools take one of two paths: they either target the server that's sharing the files …
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| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Vulnerability in embedded web server software from 2002 leaves about 12M home routers exposed — 12 Million Home Routers Vulnerable to Takeover — More than 12 million devices running an embedded webserver called RomPager are vulnerable to a simple attack that could give a hacker man …
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| Junio C Hamano / Gmane: |
Vulnerability in Git, Mercurial allows for arbitrary code execution on OSX, Windows; affects Visual Studio, Github client app, among others — Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.2.1 (and updates to older maintenance tracks) — Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel, gmane.comp.version-control.git
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Redfin raises $70.9M to continue national real estate expansion … Redfin today announced $70.9 million in fresh funding, money that the Seattle real estate brokerage will use to continue its national expansion. Total funding in the 10-year-old company now stands at $166 million.
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EyeEm Launches Open Edits, Letting You See How Pros Edit Their Photos — Photosharing startup EyeEm has launched version 5.0 of their mobile app on iOS and Android, bringing a slew of changes to their editing system that make it easier to get your photos looking like the shots curated from professionals.
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Critical vulnerabilities in SS7 telephony protocol found; tested techniques can decrypt cell phone calls and texts — German researchers discover a flaw that could let anyone listen to your cell calls. — German researchers have discovered security flaws that could let hackers …
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Longtime Internet Explorer leader Dean Hachamovitch is leaving Microsoft — Dean Hachamovitch is leaving Microsoft. And yes, of course, there is an IE shirt associated with this milestone, too. The longtime Internet Explorer leader, who led the efforts to modernize and revitalize Microsoft's web browser … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
WordPress 4.1 arrives with new default theme, distraction-free writing mode, Vine embeds, and more — WordPress.org today launched WordPress 4.1, which adds a slew of new features to help you “focus on your writing” with the blog management tool. You can download the new release now from WordPress.org/Download (6.4MB).
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Windows App Studio gets TouchDevelop programming language and web app templates, drops Windows Phone 8.0 — Microsoft today updated Windows App Studio, its free web-based tool designed to let anyone create an app, with support for TouchDevelop, a touch-friendly programming language that includes … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Skytap Raises $35M For Its Cloud-Based Enterprise Development And Testing Service — Skytap is a service that aims to help dev and test teams in the enterprise work more efficiently (and test their code more often). The company today announced that it has raised a $35 million funding round led …
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GeekWire, PR Newswire, SD Times, Brier Dudley's blog and PE Hub Blog
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Messaging Firm Line Buys Microsoft's MixRadio To Take Its Focus On Music Global — Last month we reported that Microsoft was considering spinning out MixRadio, but it turns out the music service's future is with someone else: Japan-based messaging firm Line which just announced an undisclosed deal to buy it.
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LINE News, VentureBeat, PC World, The Verge, GeekWire, PhoneDog.com, The Next Web, Engadget and MobileSyrup.com
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
US telcos can operate in Cuba as part of new reform, White House says — As part of a surprise move to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba, the White House announced that it would be “initiating new efforts” to help the island nation access the Internet.
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Windows Browser Ballot comes to an end as EC obligation expires — Microsoft will cease showing EU-based Windows users a selection screen offering a choice of different browsers to install, known as the browser ballot. — In December 2009, and after lengthy negotiations …
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