Twitter says it has suspended 125K accounts for promoting or threatening terrorist acts since mid-2015
Twitter Steps Up Efforts to Thwart Terrorists' Tweets — For years, Twitter has positioned itself as a “global town square” that is open to discourse from all.
Twitter To Introduce Algorithmic Timeline As Soon As Next Week
A Tweetstorm is brewing in San Francisco. … Say hello to a brand new Twitter. The company is planning to introduce an algorithmic timeline as soon as next week, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Apple adds server API to CloudKit, unlocking new developer possibilities for the iCloud service
Apple has quietly added a server-side API to CloudKit, following an announcement on the developer news blog. This will enable developers to add a lot of functionality to apps powered by CloudKit …
Amazon's Alexa voice recognition service on Echo speaker and Fire TV gets Uber ordering, Spotify streaming, and Domino's pizza delivery
Amazon Alexa Can Now Order An Uber From Your Echo Speaker Or Fire TV — It's been a big week for Amazon's connected speaker Echo.
GoPro and Microsoft sign patent licensing agreement for “certain file storage and other system technologies”
GoPro and Microsoft sign licensing agreement — On Friday, Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC announced a new collaborative patent licensing agreement with GoPro Inc …
PayPal stops taking payments for UnoTelly VPN and SmartDNS service, saying service can be used to bypass copyright law
PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services — PayPal is widely known for their aggressive stance towards BitTorrent sites, Usenet providers and file-hosting services …
GCHQ's data-mining techniques revealed in new Snowden leak
Shhh! Top Secret—don't pass it on... (credit: GCHQ) — A “Data Mining Research Problem Book” marked “top secret strap 1” has been leaked that details some of the key techniques used by GCHQ to sift...
Google Creative Lab partners with publisher Visual Editions to offer immersive and interactive books designed specifically for smartphones
Google Is Publishing Unprintable Books — Early Wednesday morning, Google released two electronic books in its Play Store.
Verizon updates go90 video app to exempt it from data caps for customers not on prepaid plan
Verizon just blatantly betrayed net neutrality by excluding its video app from data caps — The FCC's net neutrality rules, passed last year, explicitly ban internet providers from a number …
Talks between the UK and US underway to amend laws to allow UK to serve wiretap orders directly to US firms
The British want to come to America — with wiretap orders and search warrants — If U.S. and British negotiators have their way, MI5, the British domestic security service …
Google confirms Hangouts will now use peer-to-peer connections to improve call quality and speed
Google Hangouts has received a small but important backend upgrade: peer-to-peer (p2p) connections. Google confirmed to VentureBeat that the functionality started rolling out to all users this week.
BlackBerry says it's laying off about 200 in Waterloo and Florida, contradicting earlier reports
Dieter Bohn / The Verge :
Yahoo loses Arjun Sethi to Social Capital after buying his company MessageMe in 2014
Yahoo Loses Mobile Entrepreneur Arjun Sethi to Venture Firm — Yahoo Inc. is losing another one of the entrepreneurs brought in through Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's startup shopping spree.
Amazon and other retailers should stop selling cheap USB-C cables with faulty wiring that can damage laptops, and instead demand certification for these cables
Dieter Bohn / The Verge :
Sources: Jessica Alba's e-commerce startup Honest Co. is working with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley on an IPO
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg Business :
Autodesk to cut jobs by 10 percent as it transitions to cloud
10% of its workforce — as part of restructuring plan Richard Chirgwin / The Register : Autodesk vapourises ten per cent of jobs to go completely cloudy Autodesk : Autodesk Announces Restructuring Plan...
Virtual reality startup Wevr raises $25M, plans to launch cross-platform VR content network, Transport
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
LinkedIn will stop selling ads on other sites, an offering launched after its $175M purchase of Bizo in 2014
and shuts down its ad network http://adage.com/... See also Mediagazer
Zirx says it's shutting down its on-demand parking service February 29 to focus on its enterprise business
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch :
Vulnerabilities in Netgear's ProSafe network management system could lead to remote code execution with system privileges, arbitrary file download
Lucian Constantin / PCWorld :
Data from the Washington regulator shows 83% of Zenefits deals in WA state through Aug 2015 done by unlicensed insurance brokers
William Alden / BuzzFeed :
Tableau Software closes down more than 49% on slowdown in licensing revenue, weak forecast, even as its quarterly earnings and overall revenue beat estimates
Brian Solomon / Forbes :
AltspaceVR, an app that allows multiple users to meet in virtual spaces, launches on Gear VR
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch :
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