AT&T to stop offering two-year phone contracts on January 8, moving to up-front purchase of new phones or AT&T Next financing plans
AT&T to ditch most two-year phone contracts on January 8th — AT&T's long affair with the two-year contract seems to be coming to a close, Engadget has learned.
Valve Apologizes For Steam's Christmas Malfunction, Says It Affected 34,000 Users
Valve has finally apologized for last week's Steam Christmas disaster, explaining in a lengthy statement today that the issues stemmed from a Denial of Service attack and wound up exposing the informa...
Sources: BBC websites hit by DDoS attack, services disrupted for several hours
Web attack knocks BBC websites offline — All the BBC's websites were unavailable early on Thursday morning because of a large web attack. — The problems began about 0700 GMT and meant visitors …
Microsoft now notifies users if it believes their accounts were targeted by a state-sponsored hacker
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Former Microsoft employees say company failed to alert Hotmail users in 2011 that their accounts were hacked by Chinese authorities
Microsoft failed to warn victims of Chinese email hack: former employees — Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities …
Debian founder and Docker employee Ian Murdock has died at 42
Docker today announced that Ian Murdock, a member of the startup's technical staff and a former Sun and Salesforce employee known for founding the Debian Linux operating system, has passed away. He w...
Twitter is reversing its ban on political watchdog Politwoops
Four months after being banned by Twitter, Politwoops is coming back. — If you're not familiar with it, Politwoops is a kind of social media watchdog. It automatically monitors the Twitter feeds of...
Redesigned Twitter for Mac app now available with dark mode, GIF support, Group Direct Messages, Quote Tweet functionality, and more, but lacks polls support
Every couple of years, I find myself writing … Harrison Weber / VentureBeat : Twitter for Mac finally gets a redesign Juli Clover / MacRumors : Twitter for Mac Gets Major Update With Revamped Design, ...
Uber announces it completed its one billionth trip on Christmas Eve in London
Uber just completed its billionth trip — By most measures, Uber has had a pretty good year: numerous political victories, new product launches, and scary amounts of cash raised. And the hits keep c...
In Silicon Valley Now, It's Almost Always Winner Takes All
In September, 2014, after investing in a ride-sharing company called Sidecar, Richard Branson declared that it was “early days and, like a lot of other commodity businesses, there is room for innovato...
India Becomes Mobile-Phone Market With a Billion Subscribers
China is the only other country with more mobile phone users — With 12 operators, India still has among the cheapest tariffs — India's number of mobile-phone subscribers topped 1 billion, becoming...
Sources: development for updated Twitter Mac app was outsourced; one source says to Black Pixel
Twitter's updated Mac app wasn't made by Twitter — Twitter's oft-neglected app for Mac got a much-needed update today, adding support for inline GIFs, videos, quote-tweets, and other features that m...
AT&T Snaps Up Assets, Talent From Carrier iQ, Phone Monitoring Startup Goes Offline
Remember Carrier iQ? In the years before Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA, the name and its software became synonymous with creepy, unseen monitoring of everything that you do on a smartpho...
Egypt shuts down Facebook's Free Basics internet service on telco provider Etisalat, reasons unclear
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Sources: NSA continued to spy on some allies after Snowden leaks, also capturing communications with US lawmakers and Jewish groups
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Flawed Chrome extension forcibly installed by AVG antivirus software could have exposed browsing history and other personal data of 9M+ users, has been patched
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Apple agrees to pay €318M in taxes to close the investigation into €1B of undeclared profits by its Italian subsidiary, tax office confirms
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Ukraine investigates malware attack on a power grid that may have caused a blackout in Ivano-Frankivsk region
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Fidelity revises its value of stakes in IPO hopefuls Twilio, up by 31%, and Nutanix, down by 10%
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Chain issues first private investor shares using Nasdaq Linq blockchain platform
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Credit Karma acquires mobile notifications firm Snowball for engineering talent, will remove Snowball's Android app from Play Store, shutter service
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Alibaba partners with US brands like P&G and Macy's to sell their goods in China, hoping to reignite growth
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Hem.com, the home design startup headed by Fab cofounder Jason Goldberg, is trying to sell, Swiss furniture maker Vitra likely buyer
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Tweets: @eringriffith Tweets: Erin Griffith / @eringriffith : here's hem CEO a year ago talking 30 year plan... http://fortune.com/...
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