U.K.'s Daily Mail Explores Bid for Yahoo Backed by Private Equity
Potential bid could take one of two forms, sources say — The parent company of the Daily Mail, the British newspaper and global tabloid website, is in talks with several private-equity firms about a...
Google Fiber drops free internet option for new subscribers in Kansas City, now starts plans at $50 per month
Google Fiber is ending a free-Internet offer in its first city — When Google Fiber first arrived, it came with a compelling pitch: Pay a one-time construction fee, and you get Internet access for fr...
Doctors used data collected by a Fitbit Charge HR to decide whether to reset a patient's heart rate with electrical cardioversion
This Dude's Fitness Tracker May Have Just Saved His Life — A 42-year-old man from New Jersey recently showed up in an emergency ward following a seizure.
After Daimler confirmed talks with Amazon and Microsoft about investment in HERE, Bosch says it is considering buying a stake, too
Bosch considers stake in digital mapping company HERE — Auto supplier Bosch [ROBG.UL] said on Friday it was in talks with high-definition digital maps company HERE …
With 60K home WiFi routers preordered, Luma raises $12.5M Series A from Accel, Amazon, others
Amazon Invests in Luma, a New Home WiFi System — It's been a year since we were introduced to Eero, a home Wifi solution that promised to improve coverage by using multiple access points.
Pinterest rolls out Promoted Pins outside the US, first in the UK, where MAUs are up 50% YoY to 10M, then in other English-speaking markets later this year
Pinterest sharpens focus on expansion with promoted pins in UK — Pinterest has started selling Promoted Pins in the UK …
FBI says hacking group has accessed US government networks to steal data since at least 2011
FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years — The feds warned that “a group of malicious cyber actors,” whom security experts believe to be the government …
How IP mapping service MaxMind locating 600M IP addresses to the geographic center of the US led to trouble for one Kansas resident
How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell — An hour's drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin …
Strategy Analytics: 12.8M VR units will be sold in 2016 for $895M; 77% of revenue will go to Oculus, HTC, Sony; 87% of units will be smartphone-based VR devices
VR headsets to generate $895M in revenue in 2016 — Market researcher Strategy Analytics said it expects global virtual …
Hitachi's Emiew3 humanoid robot is smaller and faster than Softbank's Pepper, speaks four languages, set for release in 2018
Hitachi readying robotic rival to SoftBank's Pepper — TOKYO — The android moves at a top speed of 6kph. In just a few years, it will provide customer service in airports …
Twiggle raises $12.5M Series A led by Naspers for its AI powered e-commerce search engine
Twiggle raises $12.5M in Series A to bring human language context to e-commerce search — Israeli search revolutionaries Twiggle announced on Thursday that they have closed their Series A funding rou...
Goldman Sachs leads a $30 million round for Persado's AI-based, automated copywriting service
Sometime today you're going to read a marketing message that was probably written by Persado's software — and if you haven't, Goldman Sachs has led a $30 million investment into the company to make su...
Japan government to test system this summer allowing foreign tourists to verify identity and make purchases using only fingerprints
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Appeals court overturns injunction against MPAA-backed Mississippi AG's Google investigation as premature, says Google can fight AG's actions in state court
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Mobile search and ad startup Quixey replaces founding CEO Tomer Kagan with veteran exec Mark Lazar after raising $60M and missing sales targets last year
Mark Bergen / Re/code :
Personal sharing shifts from Facebook to more intimate audiences on Snapchat and Instagram
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg :
An analysis of the top 121 US undergraduate computer science programs found that none of the top 10 require students take a cybersecurity course
Kelly Jackson Higgins / darkREADING :
Slack shares its platform product roadmap, highlights app discovery, interactivity, and developer experience as major themes, suggests app ideas
nice job @shellen @stewart cc @500Startups http://twitter.com/... Slack API / @slackapi : Today we share the Slack Platform Roadmap and Ideaboard. Help build the future along with us https://medium.co...
Researchers: hard-to-detect malicious Firefox add-ons can hijack very popular add-ons like NoScript and Firebug to execute malicious code and steal data
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
How skilled attackers are using newly evolved crypto-ransomware to turn every network intrusion into a potential payday
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica : Tweets: @thepacketrat and @chrispirillo Tweets: Sean Gallagher / @thepacketrat : So the TL;DR is: hospitals (& most biz's) have based their “security” on preventing da...
Facebook says it's working on new ways to police shady retailers advertising “overwhelmingly unsatisfactory” products on Facebook
Sapna Maheshwari / BuzzFeed :
How a cashless society enables more financial surveillance and censorship through choke points run by corporate intermediaries
including, shamefully, PayPal — by @sarahjeong http://theatln.tc/1S7v8vo Lainna Fader / @lainnafader : “Where money becomes a series of signals, it can be censored; where money becomes information, it...
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