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Grocery delivery startup Instacart closing $220M round at a valuation of about $2B — Grocery Delivery Startup Instacart Scores $220 Million Investment — Instacart, the grocery delivery startup, disclosed in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it had closed a monster $210 million investment …
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Samsung launches Milk VR to deliver virtual reality videos to Gear VR — Milk VR will provide the videos for free as Samsung hopes to goose interest in virtual reality. — Samsung wants to jump-start the virtual-reality movement. — The Korean electronics conglomerate on Tuesday launched Milk VR … | Bloomberg: |
FBI investigating whether US financial institutions enlisted hackers to disable Iranian servers used to attack bank websites — FBI Investigating Whether Companies Are Engaged in Revenge Hacking — The hacked are itching to hack back. — So say a dozen security specialists …
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Hacker group Lizard Squad launches DDoS service with prices ranging from $6 to $500, says recent PSN and Xbox Live attacks were marketing scheme — Lizard Squad's Xbox Live, PSN attacks were a ‘marketing scheme’ for new DDoS service … A DDoS attack sends a huge amount of traffic to a server …
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51% of new devices activated during Christmas week were Apple, 18% were Samsung, 6% Nokia — Apple and Apps Dominated Christmas 2014 — Millions of people woke up and unwrapped a shiny new device under the Christmas tree. As we have done in years past, Flurry examined these new device activations …
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Promoted Twitter accounts appear in some users' Following lists, making it seem like the users actually follow those accounts — Twitter Ads Make It Seem Like People Follow Brands, Even If They Don't — Visa follows MasterCard? So it seemed. Twitter's expansion of ads into “Following” …
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| Pete Pachal / Mashable: |
Samsung unveils the Ativ Book 9, a 12-inch fanless Core M ultrabook with 10.5 hour battery, available in early 2015 from $1199 — Samsung's ultra-thin ATIV Book 9 laptop hands-on: Goodbye, fan noise — It's a sad fact of laptop life: any time you push the processor …
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How Disney CEO Bob Iger uses technology to keep every division of his company relevant — Disney CEO Bob Iger's empire of tech — Even in a dress-down gray sweater, Bob Iger looks a bit mechanical. His mouth is almost geometrically straight, his face constructed of some cool alloy.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Over 80 Percent of Dark-Web Visits Relate to Pedophilia, Study Finds — The mysterious corner of the Internet known as the Dark Web is designed to defy all attempts to identify its inhabitants. But one group of researchers has attempted to shed new light on what those users are doing under the cover of anonymity.| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Competition among mobile phone carriers leads to constantly shifting plans, confused consumers — A Flurry of Varying Cellphone Offers Sows Confusion Among Consumers — SAN FRANCISCO — One wireless phone plan allows customers to upgrade to a new phone in less than two years.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Used car site Beepi raises $12.7M from Yuri Milner, Scott Brommer, AngelList, and two early investors — Used Car Site Beepi Lands $12 Million From Yuri Milner and AngelList's Largest Ever Investment — Online used car marketplace Beepi has landed a $12.7 million investment …
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Huawei's 2014 smarphone sales rise to $11.8B with 75M units, compared to 2013 sales of 18.7M — China's Huawei 2014 smartphone sales rise by a third — (Reuters) - Huawei Technology Co Ltd's [HWT.UL] smartphone sales rose by almost a third to $11.8 billion in 2014, according … Sponsor Posts
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