New King of Tech Startups: Smartphone Maker Xiaomi Raises $1.1 Billion at $45 Billion Valuation
Xiaomi has said it has closed a massive $1.1 billion round of funding that values the fast-growing Chinese phone maker at a jaw-dropping $45 billion, pre-money.
Apple introduces 14-day no questions asked refunds for App Store & iTunes in EU countries
Apple has recently introduced a new 14-day no questions asked return policy for iTunes, App Store and iBooks purchases in Europe including the UK, Germany, Italy, France, and many other EU countries.
UK banks in talks to launch Apple Pay in 2015, execs concerned about data collection by Apple
UK banks in talks over Apple ‘wave and pay’ — Negotiations between the tech giant and at least one bank have proved tricky because of wrangling over the terms, including what data Apple will be able...
Snowden documents reveal the NSA routinely intercepted SSL/TLS traffic, decrypted VPN connections, struggled with PGP, Truecrypt, Tor, CSpace, OTR, ZRTP in 2012
Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security — US and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack …
Sony says ‘The Interview’ was rented or purchased more than 2M times, generated over $15M in online sales; Apple starts offering the movie on iTunes
‘The Interview’ Generated Over $15 Million In Online Sales — Sony announced Sunday night that “The Interview” …
Pinterest finds Promoted Pins, currently in beta, are shared as often as organic pins, plans rollout to all partners on Jan. 1
Pinterest to Unveil Early Results From Promoted Pins, as It Looks to Ramp Up Advertising — Pinterest* will unveil early results from one of its first formal …
China's Great Firewall attacks Google once again, blocks any form of access to Gmail
Gmail users in China are now finding that Google's email service is totally inaccessible in the country. While Gmail's website has been blocked in China since June, along with every other Google serv...
Bitcoin was the worst-performing currency of 2014, dropping more than 56% to under $330
And 2014's Worst Currency Was...Bitcoin — It's been a bad year for the Russian ruble and a terrible 12 months for the Ukrainian hryvnia. But it's been a catastrophic 2014 for Bitcoin, the virtual c...
Yahoo Directory Closes, Five Days Early
The Yahoo Directory, the core part of how Yahoo itself began in 1994, officially closed today, five days ahead of when Yahoo had said the end would come. — If you try to reach the Yahoo Directory at...
PlayStation Network back online after three-day outage due to DDoS attack; Sony says some users may still experience intermittent issues
PSN is still down for some as Sony gets service back online — Sony says that its online service is back up and running, but many people are still having issues playing games.
Sources: Microsoft is building a new, lightweight browser codenamed Spartan for Windows 10
Microsoft is building a new browser as part of its Windows 10 push — Summary:Microsoft is planning to roll out a new browser when it debuts Windows 10, according to sources. But IE isn't going comp...
Meet Lizard Squad, the group whose DDoS attack crippled Xbox Live and PlayStation Network
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Archivist Daniel Rehn of wwwtxt, a cache of Internet content from 1980-94, finds similarities in conversations from then and now
WWWTXT: The Oldest Internet Archive — Los Angeles archivist Daniel Rehn has found a cache of “web text” that dates back to 1980. What's amazing is how much hasn't changed.
Twitter fixes bug that caused login issues for Android and mobile web users
Some users are currently having trouble signing in to twitter. Rich McCormick / The Verge : Twitter error kicks Android app users out of their accounts Jon Fingas / Engadget : Twitter login bug kicks ...
Court allows Aereo to auction TV streaming technology assets
with some caveats Himanshu Arora / TechSpot : Court allows Aereo to sell off its TV streaming technology Electronista : Aereo bankruptcy auction approved for week of February 20 Steve Dent / Engadget ...
Warrant for raid on Kim Dotcom legal, New Zealand Supreme Court rules
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As competition among VCs increases, some founders sell shares in early funding rounds
vcs are apparently 100% neutered atm.
Windows Phone apps downloaded most on low-cost, low-memory phones
Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom :
W3C to recommend allowing companies with whom users show an “intention to interact”, like a Facebook login, to track them, weakening “Do Not Track” efforts
Fred B. Campbell Jr / New York Times :
Iran to expand Internet “smart filtering” to censor content without banning entire websites
Michelle Moghtader / Reuters :
Comcast-TWC merger looks less likely amid growing opposition, concern over state of US broadband
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom :
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