Apple Watch, which lacks iPhone's Activation Lock feature, can easily be reset if stolen
Watch OS 1.0 lacks the necessary security features to dissuade thieves — The Apple Watch contains security measures to prevent thieves from accessing your data, but it doesn't include …
‘Apple Music’ Beats-based streaming service to have Ping-like social network for artists
Apple's upcoming Beats-based streaming music service will likely be named “Apple Music” and will have deep social networking integration for artists, according to industry sources briefed on the plans...
Rdio launches Rdio Select streaming service at $3.99 per month, with ad-free radio stations and ability to keep 25 songs downloaded
Introducing Rdio Select: Enhanced Stations and Your Choice of Songs to Play Anytime. Only $3.99/month. — We're thrilled to announce a brand new way to enjoy …
Wolfram has created a website that will identify any image you throw at it
One of the most amazing things you can do with Wolfram Alpha is ask it what planes are overhead. If you're on your phone, it will pull your location, then cross reference that with a database of flig...
Microsoft Hyperlapse creates smooth time-lapse videos on Windows and Android
Microsoft first announced its Hyperlapse video technology just a couple of weeks before Instagram launched its own Hyperlapse app on iOS last year. Designed primarily as a way to transform bumpy GoPr...
Wal-Mart to take on Amazon Prime this summer with $50/year service that delivers select products in 3 days, invitation only for now
Wal-Mart challenges Amazon with unlimited shipping service for $50 per year — Wal-Mart Stores Inc is planning to test a new unlimited online shipping service …
19 early observations on Facebook's Instant Articles
Notes on the Surrender at Menlo Park — 1. The manner in which Instant Articles are seen within Facebook's News Feed is nearly as important as they way they're hosted. Yes, they load faster. But th...
Jennifer Fonstad and Theresia Gouw's Aspect Ventures raises first $150M fund
A Venture Capital Firm Led by 2 Women Plans to Introduce a Fund — SAN FRANCISCO — More than a year after striking out on their own, the founders of Aspect Ventures are preparing a formal introductio...
Researchers uncover “self-sustaining” botnets of poorly secured routers
Home and small office devices are free for the taking, ensuring follow-on hacks. — Large numbers of home and small-office routers are under the control of hackers who are using them to overwhelm web...
Criminals steal money from Starbucks app users with weak passwords by loading gift cards using their stored payment methods
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The Muse Raises $10M From Aspect Ventures To Scale A Career Site For Millennials
It was only a few years ago that I met Kathryn Minshew, Alexandra Cavoulacos, and Melissa McCreery through Y Combinator. They were three women who set out to make a career site for other young women ...
To-Do App Wunderlist Debuts An API, Early Integrations Of Slack, Sunrise, HipChat And More
Wunderlist, the to-do app based out of Berlin, is now approaching 13 million free and paid accounts. And today it is adding a new feature that it hopes will make the app a lot more useful and more us...
House passes USA Freedom Act to limit NSA mass collection of Americans' phone metadata, bill now goes to Senate
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Ubisoft bringing its franchises to virtual reality early next year
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Google offers a glimpse of the mechanics of its decision-making for right to be forgotten requests
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The dual-display YotaPhone 2 is coming to US in July via an Indiegogo campaign, unlocked with 32GB for about $680
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Snapchat launching its first regularly scheduled content: weekly stories from MLB and fans
Snapchat Will Feature Weekly Content From MLB and Baseball Fans — Snapchat is working with Major League Baseball Advanced Media to bring weekly baseball-related video content to its popular mobile-m...
Facebook Hires Former FCC Chairman Martin for Access Policy
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Apple's App Analytics feature now available to all developers, no request required
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Google's policy and communications head Rachel Whetstone takes same role at Uber; David Plouffe, who held that position at Uber, joins board in advisory role
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Google Fit now estimates distance and calories burned, provides widget and Android Wear watch face
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PayPal To List On Nasdaq Under PYPL Ticker After eBay Spinoff
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AT&T to offer Hulu to its customers on web and mobile apps later this year to drive Hulu subscriptions
To Offer OTT Service Via AT&T Websites, Mobile Apps Daniel Frankel / FierceCable : AT&T integrates Hulu programming into mobile apps and websites Devika Krishna Kumar / Reuters : AT&T to offer Hulu to...
Sources: Samsung paid around $250M for mobile payments technology company LoopPay
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Cisco slightly beats Q3 estimates with non-GAAP earnings of $0.54/share on $12.1B in revenue
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Amazon's New Ad Platform Lets App Developers Target Both Android And Fire Users
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Verizon fixes flaw allowing a hacker forging a customer's IP addresses to obtain user info which can be used to take over the customer's account
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Exclusive: PlanGrid raises $18 million from Sequoia to digitize construction blueprints
Leena Rao / Fortune : Tweets: @sequoia and @alexisohanian Tweets: Sequoia Capital / @sequoia : With 19M blueprints digitized and 200K building projects, @PlanGrid is a “game-changer” for the construc...
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