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FAQ: Google's mobile friendly algorithm update, rolling out today, explained — Mobilegeddon Checklist: How To Prepare For This Week's Google Mobile Friendly Update — The Google Mobile Friendly Update launches tomorrow, a day that many including ourselves here at Search Engine Land are calling “Mobilegeddon.”
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Failed Apple Rootpipe Fix Leaves Backdoor On All Macs, Researchers Claim — When Apple released the latest version of Mac OS X Yosemite earlier this month, it claimed to have fixed a significant flaw, a backdoor named Rootpipe, that had been resident on its computers since 2011.| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
Twitter begins automatically filtering notifications of abusive mentions, broadens violent threats policy, and introduces temporary account suspensions — Twitter to filter notifications for all accounts in effort to cut down on abuse — Social network moves to ban indirect threats …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
YouTube app to stop working on older Apple TVs, iOS, Google TVs, older smart TVs, and gaming consoles by late May as Google retires YouTube Data API v2 — YouTube App No Longer Available on Older Apple TV, iOS Devices — YouTube today announced changes to its YouTube Data API …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Confirmed: BlackBerry Is Buying File Security And DRM Startup WatchDox for up to $150M — Canadian handset maker BlackBerry has been on a mission to turn around its beleaguered handset business by focusing more on software, and it looks like it has taken a significant step in that direction, specifically around file security and DRM.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Now Lets You Opt In To Receive Direct Messages From Anyone — Twitter has for years tested a feature that would allow anyone to opt in to receive direct messages from other users on its platform, even if the accounts weren't following each other as per earlier requirements.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Shyp, an on-demand mailing service, raises $50M Series B round led by KPCB, valuing the company at more than $250M — Shyp, an On-Demand Mailing Service, Raises $50 Million — From private rides to hamburgers to marijuana, there is perhaps no better time in history to get anything delivered …
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| Pip Marlow / Microsoft: |
Microsoft to open its first flagship store outside of North America, in Sydney — All eyes on Australia: First Microsoft flagship store in Asia Pacific lands in Sydney — By Pip Marlow, Managing Director, Microsoft Australia — I'm proud to announce that Sydney has been chosen as the home …
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| Stephen Witt / New Yorker: |
Profile of Lydell Glover, a small-town employee of PolyGram and Universal Music and once the world's leading leaker of pre-release music — The Man Who Broke the Music Business — The dawn of online piracy. … » … » … »| Tony Robinson / Bloomberg Business: |
Hewlett-Packard to Sell Snapfish Operation to District Photo — Hewlett-Packard Co. said it would sell its Snapfish photo-sharing site to District Photo, part of the computer maker's plan to refocus operations as it splits in two. — Snapfish works with retailers to help consumers store, share and print photos online.
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Qualcomm plans to use Samsung's foundries for Snapdragon 820 production instead of TSMC — Exclusive: Qualcomm to Use Samsung's Foundries for Its Next High-End Chip — Breaking from past practice, Qualcomm plans to have its next-generation Snapdragon 820 processor manufactured … | Matt Rosoff / Business Insider: |
Yahoo's 8-K on Microsoft search deal: termination at will for either party in four months, higher Yahoo revenue share, more flexibility — It looks as if Marissa Mayer drove a pretty hard bargain with Microsoft — Last week, Marissa Mayer took a big step toward undoing …
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