WhatsApp Ditches $1 Annual Fee, Tests Business Accounts But No Ads, Says CEO
Today at the DLD conference in Munich, Germany, the CEO of Facebook-owned WhatsApp made a couple of big announcements about how the messaging app plans to evolve to its next phase as it approaches 1 b...
Airbus CEO says it will provide helicopters to Uber's chopper service in a trial project launching in a few weeks
Airbus to Join Forces With Uber for On-Demand Helicopter Service, CEO Says — European aerospace company looking to expand its audience for helicopters
LastPass web design elements can enable a hard-to-detect phishing attack; company says it has released an update that mitigates most of the risks
ShmooCon: LastPass design elements create perfect Phishing opportunity — “There's a cool hacker technique called right click, inspect element...”
BT takeover of EE gets final Competition and Markets Authority clearance
BT Group's takeover of mobile phone network EE has been given final clearance by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). — The £12.5bn deal brings together the UK's largest fixed-line business ...
Qualcomm, Guizhou province to establish $280M server chip development company in China; Qualcomm will also license server chip technology, provide R&D processes
Qualcomm, Chinese Province Set Up Server-Chip Venture — China has taken steps to build a bigger domestic semiconductor industry
AOL considering changes to its brand, including a name change, to better reflect properties like Huffington Post, TechCrunch, ad platforms, CMO Allie Kline says
AOL's identity crisis: The company may ditch the ‘AOL’ brand — Verizon-owned AOL has an image problem.
Netflix Pretends It Will Crackdown On VPNs Just Days After Admitting It's Futile To Do So
For a few years now, broadcasters have whined endlessly about the use of VPNs to access Netflix in markets where the streaming service had yet to launch. You'll recall that Australian broadcasters …
BlackBerry dismisses claim that Netherlands Forensic Institute cracked its device encryption, suggesting user error or third-party apps may be involved
BlackBerry Devices: Secure As They Have Always Been — There have been recent media reports that police-affiliated groups in the Netherlands …
Alexa can now read Kindle books aloud from an Amazon Echo for free
You won't get the tone of a professional voice actor, but Alexa can read your Kindle books aloud: Best of all, there's no charge. — With so much recent focus on using an Amazon Echo to control smart...
From impersonation and spammers to Gamergate: how Twitter's rules evolved from the tension between its free-speech ethos and business reality
The History of Twitter's Rules — “Because of these principles, we do not actively monitor and will not censor user content, except in limited circumstances described below.”
Profile of ComplaintsBureau.com owner Scott Breitenstein, who decided to ban revenge porn on his site after interviews for this piece
At Home with a Revenge Porn Mogul — Scott Breitenstein has been called an “internet terrorist,” “the worst man on the internet,” and worse. Tweets: @ryanlcooper , @emmaroller , @thisisfusion , @case...
Uber won't face limits on surge pricing under NYC Council legislation; Mayor de Blasio releases $2M study saying Uber isn't to blame for worsening congestion
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Hacking collective Ghost Security Group says ISIS created its own encrypted messaging app
this illustrates the futility of communication surveillance Rob Jackson / Phandroid : ISIS creating own Android App to coordinate terror attacks Tweets: Craig Mod / @craigmod : A gift from ISIS to Ame...
Wikipedia launching $100m fund to secure long-term future as site turns 15
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Windows Phone's Word Flow keyboard is coming to ‘other platforms’ starting with iOS
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As Netflix expands globally, local and regional rivals discuss banding together to outbid it on content rights
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @shaliniwsj , @shaliniwsj and @shaliniwsj . See also Mediagazer Tweets: Shalini Ramachandran / @shaliniwsj : Numbers: $NFLX pays premiums equal to 120-150% of an origina...
Truly wireless $300 earbuds from Bragi and Earin are available now, but suffer from bluetooth connectivity issues and poor sound quality
Review: Truly Wireless Headphones Arrive, But With a Few Strings Attached — Bragi Dash and Earin earbuds may usher in an era of ‘hearable’ computers, but they're also works in progress
NSA's new transparency report shows how the agency is implementing its new non-bulk phone metadata collection program under the USA Freedom Act
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Intuit sells Demandforce to Internet Brands
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Sources: Fab co-founder Bradford Shellhammer's shopping site, Bezar is running out of money just 10 months after launch
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US Department of Transportation and 18 automakers say they'll share cybersecurity data and best practices, work with security researchers who expose flaws
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