TalkTalk says 156,959 customers were affected by attack, or about 4% of its customer base including 15,656 whose bank account numbers and sort codes were stolen
Nearly 157,000 had data breached in TalkTalk cyber-attack — Company says over 15,000 also had financial details hacked …
Google acquires Fly Labs, maker of video editing iOS apps, to join its Photos team
Google Acquires Fly Labs To Join Its Photos Team — Today, Google acquired Fly Labs to join its Google Photos team. The company aimed to help people edit videos and photos and it sported 3 million d...
Yahoo Rolls Out A New, Flickr-Powered Image Search That Returns Your Own Photos
Yahoo announced today an upgrade to its image search engine which now includes a combination of web results as well as images from its photo-sharing site Flickr, including your own photos.
Class action suit claims AMD misled consumers by advertising that its Bulldozer processor had 8 cores, when it functionally had just 4
AMD sued over allegedly misleading Bulldozer core count — Suit claims that Bulldozer was advertised as having 8 cores, but functionally only had 4.
BlackBerry Priv review: most elegant BlackBerry design to date, BlackBerry default apps are decent, but display is dim, poor performance compared to competition
BlackBerry Priv Review: A New Hope … BlackBerry wants to give you the best of both worlds. But has the world already passed this brand by?
PageFair anti-ad-blocking service was hacked a week ago, temporarily pushing malware to visitors of over 500 sites including the Economist
A prominent ad-blocker-blocker served malware to Economist readers — One of the web's most prominent ad-blocking tools has been serving malware to Economist readers.
Square sets IPO price range at $11-13 per share, at a valuation up to $4.19B, well below its last private round
Square sets IPO price range, would be valued below last private round — Payments company Square this morning filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission …
FCC rejects petition to require services like Google, Facebook, YouTube, Pandora, Netflix, and LinkedIn to honor “Do Not Track” requests
Websites can keep ignoring “Do Not Track” requests after FCC ruling — Petition to impose Do Not Track requirements rejected by commission.
Sources: Instagram is testing ads that use 3D Touch and Apple Pay
Instagram's testing new ads that drive sales — Instagram doesn't want to be just a platform for pretty brand photos. It wants to prove it can drive sales, developing new ads that showcase a variety...
Motorola Droid Turbo 2 review: truly shatterproof display, battery life of 36-40 hours, but low light camera results are inconsistent, and price is high at $624
Motorola Droid Turbo 2 review — I'm biking through Brooklyn when the Droid Turbo 2 slips from my hand and smacks the pavement.
Gamergate film based on Zoe Quinn's memoir in the works from Amy Pascal's production company
Amy Pascal Wins Zoe Quinn's Gamergate Memoir ‘Crash Override’ — EXCLUSIVE: Amy Pascal's Pascal Pictures has won a bidding battle for Crash Override: How To Save The Internet From Itself …
Samsung Galaxy View review: 18.4-inch tablet is interesting as a TV alternative, but build feels cheap, hard to recommend at $600
Samsung Galaxy View review: Biggest Samsung tablet ever, smallest TV in your house — While visiting a friend in her charmingly cozy studio apartment full …
Alibaba reaches deal to buy online video service Youku Tudou, valuing the company at about $4.4B
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Five senators introduce the Consumer Review Freedom Act to ban non-disparagement “gag” clauses that intimidate customers from leaving negative reviews
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Apple debuts Shopping category on the App Store, helping spotlight apps that use Apple Pay and were formerly in the Lifestyle category
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New Relic buys devops monitoring tool Opsmatic
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Sources: US task force to recommend simple, free registration of recreational drones weighing over 250gm
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Sources: Verizon weighs $10B sale of enterprise assets, which include the business formerly known as MCI and Terremark, its data center unit
Pebble Time Round review: attractive design, good build quality, but app options limited, battery life is short by Pebble-standards, arriving Nov. 8 for $249
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Facebook debuts two new ad tools for businesses to better understand and target nearby consumers
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Survey finds significant portion of popular apps send user personal information like email and location to Apple, Google, and other third parties
Abstract — What types of user data … Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing : Apps regularly spy on users; Android moreso than iOS Lulu Chang / Digital Trends : Third-party websites are getting a lot of your p...
Sweden's Anoto Buys Digital Pen Maker Livescribe For $15M
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E-commerce startup Gumroad lays off most of its staff after failing to realize rapid growth, says it will stay in business
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch : Tweets: @amyhoy Tweets: Amy Hoy / @amyhoy : if you use gumroad... be wary, i can't imagine they can run it effectively with ~3 people http://techcrunch.com/...
Famo.us lays off some of its staff after raising $31M and failing to create a business model around its open source Javascript rendering engine
Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Tweets: @mrdoob , @pinboard and @mitsuhiko . Thanks: @joshconstine Tweets: Ricardo Cabello / @mrdoob : Oh no! Who is going to save HTML5 from itself now? http://techcrunc...
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