Facebook launches Instant Articles on iPhone, with interactive features like videos and maps, names NYT, BuzzFeed, Guardian, and six other partners
Introducing Instant Articles — As more people get their news on mobile devices, we want to make the experience faster and richer on Facebook.
Facebook's Instant Articles can provide 100% of the ad revenue and analytics data to publishers, add up to a good deal, at least for now
Facebook Starts Publishing the New York Times, BuzzFeed and More With Its ‘Instant Articles’ Program — Hey Web publishers! Facebook is coming in peace.
Microsoft Edge will not support VML, VB Script, Toolbars, BHOs, or ActiveX to improve security
Microsoft Edge: Building a safer browser — With Microsoft Edge, we want to fundamentally improve security over existing browsers and enable users to confidently experience the web from Windows.
Domino's to begin taking pizza orders via Twitter beginning May 20 in the US; frequent customers can order using only the pizza emoji
Domino's to roll out tweet-a-pizza — Ordering a pizza is about to get as simple as a tweet. — Beginning May 20, Domino's, the pizza delivery behemoth …
Apple, A123 settling their lawsuit over poached battery engineers
Apple and advanced battery maker A123 Systems say they have nearly settled a federal lawsuit accusing Apple of poaching A123's scientists and engineers to build a competing battery business.
Apple Watch review: best functions are fitness, texting, paying, and airport check-ins, a good product with a chance to be great
A Month With the Apple Watch: Does It Pass the Test of Time? — While there have been many reviews of the Apple Watch since it officially emerged in April …
Bigger than Heartbleed, ‘Venom’ security vulnerability threatens most datacenters
Summary:Security researchers say the vulnerability affects “millions” of machines in datacenters around the world. — Move over, Heartbleed. There's a new catastrophic vulnerability in town.
Tim Armstrong says AOL to remain in content business, denies spin-off of Huffington Post, says TechCrunch won't be sold and will retain editorial independence
CEO Tim Armstrong Says AOL Is Staying In The Content Business (And He's Not Selling TechCrunch) — It was an interesting day at AOL.
Ultra HD Blu-ray spec finalized, will support HDR, improved color range, 60fps content, and next-gen audio formats
Ultra HD Blu-ray specification now complete, logo unveiled — The Blu-ray Disc Association today announced it has finalized what could be the last major disc-based movie format: Ultra HD Blu-ray.
Sources say Verizon has no plans to spin off AOL's editorial properties including TechCrunch and Engadget, with Huffington Post's future less certain
Although Tim Armstrong's vague memo emphasized content and touted new opportunities, Verizon deal is about ad-tech and arose from few options for AOL
Kara Swisher / Re/code :
Facebook's Instant Articles build on insights from its Paper app, load 10x faster than mobile web articles
Facebook Starts Hosting Publishers' “Instant Articles” — After months of rumors, Facebook today unveiled “Instant Articles”, a program that natively hosts publishers' content …
Warrantless airport seizure of laptop “cannot be justified,” judge rules
Feds said a laptop is simply a “container” that can be searched without warrant. — The US government's prosecution of a South Korean businessman accused of illegally selling technology used in aircr...
Facebook Instant Articles: A Slippery Slope For Google To Do The Same, Hurting The Web?
Today, Facebook announced Instant Articles, a way for publishers to post stories directly on Facebook. We've known this would be coming, and there's been some debate over whether it's good or bad.
Privacy advocates fear AOL's ad technologies will allow Verizon to better track users across devices
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Google's new enterprise security architecture now hosts its internal apps on the Internet, shifting to device-level instead of network-level trust for security
Google Moves Its Corporate Applications to the Internet — Google Inc., taking a new approach to enterprise security …
Right to be Forgotten - Google rejects 70% of 250,000 removal requests
On 13 May 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union made a historic judgement in favour of Spanish man Mario Costeja González who had claimed that an auction notice about his repossessed house ...
Google debuts its first Apple Watch app with update to Google News & Weather for iOS
Google Debuts Its First Apple Watch App With “Google News & Weather” — The Apple Watch already had a healthy ecosystem of third-party applications when the smartwatch debuted in April …
Instart Logic Raises A $43M Expansion Round For Its Cloud Application Delivery Platform
Instart Logic, a service that helps businesses speed up the delivery of their cloud applications, today announced that it has raised a $43 million funding round led by new investors Four Rivers Group ...
Greenpeace report highlights Apple's investment in renewables, finds streaming video from Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu is driving energy usage higher
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FiftyThree releases Think Kit for Paper, a new toolset for enterprise and education, can now be exported to Keynote, PowerPoint, more
Today, we're proud to announce … Brent Dirks / App Advice : Paper by FiftyThree updated with Think Kit tools and a redesigned sharing functionality Jackie Dove / The Next Web : FiftyThree debuts Think...
Samsung's Gear SDK reveals design, UI, and specifications for Gear A, codenamed Orbis, with rotating bezel to help navigate software
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EFF pulls support for USA Freedom Act after court ruling that the Patriot Act's Section 215 does not authorize mass collection of telephone metadata
Electronic Frontier Foundation :
As Acquisition Rumors Swirl, Free Mobile Service FreedomPop Goes Live In The UK
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Android One, Google's program to bring quality low-cost smartphones to developing markets, debuts in Europe with a decent $260 device available in Turkey
Android One's entry into Turkey marks … Antonio Villas-Boas / Business Insider : Google's plan to connect millions of people to the internet for the first time is coming to Europe Ewan Spence / Forbes...
Lee Jae-yong, likely Samsung's next chairman, may shift strategy to reinvigorate the company's weakening smartphone business, focus less on scale, more on M&A
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Small ISP Birch Communications stands up to Rightscorp's DMCA subpoena for user IDs and wins
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica :
Talkspace raises $9.5M Series A led by Spark Capital for therapy-by-text sessions; IBM's Watson to help determine the best patient-therapist match
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch :
BitTorrent's encrypted P2P chat app Bleep launches publicly for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac with new whisper option that deletes messages after 25 seconds
crypto messaging disgruntles data snoops John Brownlee / Cult of Mac : BitTorrent's new app is a secure alternative to iMessage and Snapchat Simon Sharwood / The Register : What the BLEEP? BitTorrent'...
GoDaddy reports Q1 revenue of $376.3M, strong Q2 top-line projection, average revenue per user up 9.6% to $115
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch :
Samsung launches Artik, a line of chips to power the Internet of Things, for between $10-$100
Shara Tibken / CNET :
U.S. Authorities Near End of AT&T-DirecTV Review, Unlikely to Block Deal
Wall Street Journal :
MediaTek Tries 10-Core Chip in Latest Bid to Crack High-End Phone Market
Ina Fried / Re/code :
Square Capital, the advance-payment arm of Square, announces new funding, says it's loaned $25M in last month, over $500M to small businesses in last 18 months
Matt Weinberger / Business Insider :
Zillow hits $162M in Q1 revenues, approaches 140M monthly unique visitors after blockbuster Trulia acquisition
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