Microsoft live stream of its media event in Redmond, Washington
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Apple acquires UK startup Semetric, which runs music analytics service Musicmetric
Apple buys the British startup behind music analytics service Musicmetric — Company helps record labels track digital sales, streams and social stats, and could become part of Beats Music relaunch
Sources: Samsung to drop Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 and use its own chip in next Galaxy smartphone
Samsung Said to Drop Qualcomm Chip From Next Galaxy Smartphone — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) will use its own microprocessors in the next version of the Galaxy S smartphone …
Alleged “right hand man” to Silk Road 2.0 leader arrested in Seattle
On Tuesday a Washington state man was arrested by federal authorities in Seattle's Bellevue suburb for allegedly helping to run Silk Road 2., the anonymous online marketplace for illicit goods that sp...
Christopher Poole announces retirement from 4chan, says “senior volunteers” will run site
The Next Chapter — I founded 4chan eleven and a half years ago at the age of 15, and after more than a decade of service, I've decided it's time for me to move on. 4chan …
White House breaks own State of the Union embargo for online audience
Obama administration posts full text of president's speech before its own media embargo in unprecedented decision targeting internet-savvy readers — The White House posted the entire text of Preside...
Dropbox acquires Israel-based CloudOn, a developer of mobile productivity tools
Dropbox Dips Into Israel With CloudOn Buy — Acquisitive tech startup Dropbox just gobbled up another young app maker to bolster its European expansion. — The cloud-storage provider on Tuesday clos...
Users of 3rd-party WhatsApp clients reportedly being banned from the service for 24 hours
WhatsApp is one of the most-used messaging apps in existence, and today countless users of the service have taken to Google+ and Twitter to report that they're being banned from the service for 24 hou...
HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites
The Associated Press reports that healthcare.gov-the flagship site of the Affordable Care Act, where millions of Americans have signed up to receive health care-is quietly sending personal health info...
Live blog: Microsoft unveils Windows 10
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FreedomPop launches unlimited WiFi with 10M hotspots across US for $5/month
FreedomPop Turns On Unlimited Wi-Fi Across The US For $5/Month — FreedomPop, the startup that is trying to steal users away from mobile carriers by offering free, basic cellular voice and data plans...
Apple Steps Up Lobbying in Washington to Counter Government Scrutiny
Tim Cook recently traveled to an unfamiliar destination for an Apple Inc. (AAPL) chief executive officer: The U.S. Capitol. — During the trip last month, Cook posed for a photo with Senator Orrin Ha...
Amazon ends its mobile-wallet beta six months after launch
Amazon to fold its mobile-wallet app beta on Wednesday — The closure comes amid rocky efforts by tech companies to expand into the financial industry. — Amazon will pull the plug on its Amazon Wal...
Every Khan Academy course is now available on the iPad for the first time
Over 150,000 training exercises have been added — Two technology trends are inescapable: people want to do everything online, and they want to do those things on a mobile device.
Plex Arrives On PS4 And PS3 In The U.S And Canada Today
Plex is coming to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 today. The personal media hub software originally came to Sony's consoles back in mid-December of 2014, with a U.S. launch promised for a later date.
Netflix Q4 earnings beat estimates with $1.48B in revenue and $0.75 EPS; now has 39.11M US subscribers and 18.28M more globally
Netflix Says Its Subscribers Love the Shows It Makes — So It's Going to Make a Lot More — A quick look at Netflix's Q4 numbers: $1.48 billion and earnings …
Vessel Signs More YouTube Stars to Subscription Service, Launches Limited Beta Test
Vessel, the digital subscription-video startup founded by ex-Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, has signed more than a dozen YouTube stars and other partners to its service as it opens up the service in an invitat...
Pinterest Acquires Machine Learning Commerce Recommendation Engine Kosei
Facebook knows who you were. Google knows what you want now. But Pinterest yearns to know what you want next, which is “exactly” why it acquired recomendation engine startup Kosei, Pinterest's head ...
Obama calls for bipartisan effort on cybersecurity legislation in State of the Union address
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Justice Department reaches $134K settlement with woman who DEA agents impersonated on Facebook
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Shazam raises $30M at a valuation of over $1B, has over 100M monthly active mobile users
that app you deleted in 2008—is still a thing. What else do you not understand at all? https://t.co/iycOevDoja See also Mediagazer
Netflix wants to complete its global expansion within two years, expanding to 200 countries
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Social Robot Jibo Fueled for Mass Production With $25.3 Million
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Google, Apple, Microsoft, Khan Academy, and others sign pledge to protect K-12 student privacy
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The Verge will run a $700 Super Bowl ad in one Montana market with 30K people
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Chrome 40 for iOS arrives with Material Design, Handoff support to your default browser on OS X
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
SpaceX confirms $1B funding round, with participation from Google and Fidelity
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IBM Q4: $5.81 EPS, beating estimates; $24.1B in revenue, down 12%; cloud revenue up 60%
Julie Bort / Business Insider :
Online travel agent Orbitz is exploring a sale, drawing interest from private equity funds and other Internet companies
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First Windows 10 mobile preview, due in February, key to Microsoft's OneCore vision
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Startup L. Jackson Speaks Out About Diversity, Cool Products, And All The People He's Not
intriguing http://tcrn.ch/1uoQPMj pic.twitter.com/gKzqcJDVlg Aaron Suplizio / @4strngz : Solid interview with @StartupLJackson. Certainly talks more like a builder than an investor...or does he? http...
LastPass Launches A Native Password Manager For Mac Offering Quick Search, Security Checks And Offline Access
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Overstock.com to launch video on demand and video streaming services in mid 2015
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Economists question Facebook report claiming global economic impact of over $200B and 4.5M jobs
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Valve's Steam Broadcasting video game streaming service launches for all Steam users
Aaron Souppouris / Engadget :
Planet Labs raises $95M from Data Collective and others for its small imaging satellites
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