On 60 Minutes, security expert Karsten Nohl eavesdrops on cellphone calls and texts knowing just the phone's number by hacking SS7, a global carrier protocol
Hacking Your Phone — Sharyn Alfonsi reports on how cellphones and mobile phone networks are vulnerable to hacking
Amazon to offer $8.99/month stand-alone video streaming option in US; Prime membership to be offered monthly for first time for $10.99/month in US
Amazon Ups the Ante on Streaming Video — New stand-alone option for its service is direct challenge to rival Netflix
Global streaming music revenues grew 45% to $2.9B in 2015; paying users hit an estimated 68M, up from 41M in 2014
IFPI Global Music Report 2016 — Global music revenues increase 3.2% as digital revenues overtake physical for the first time — Digital sales contribute 45 per cent …
Supreme Court declines to hear appeal by the Authors Guild to challenge Google Books
Supreme Court rejects challenge to Google book-scanning project — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by a group of authors who contend that Google's massive effort …
Intel unveils Apollo Lake next generation platform for cheap Atom-based devices, with first products shipping in the second half of 2016
Intel Unveils New Low-Cost PC Platform: Apollo Lake with 14nm Goldmont Cores — This week, at IDF Shenzhen, Intel has formally introduced …
Sources: Verizon tops pack of Yahoo bidders as deadline arrives; Time, AT&T, others drop out as Daily Mail remains in talks with private equity co-bidders
Verizon Tops Pack of Suitors Chasing Yahoo — Telecom giant looks to build online ad business; Time, other potential bidders won't make offers
9.7-inch iPad Pro has the “best performing mobile LCD display that we have ever tested”
iPad Pro 9.7 Display Technology Shoot-Out — iPad Air 2 and iPad Pro 9.7 — President, DisplayMate Technologies Corporation — into any other work without the prior written permission of DisplayMat...
LinkedIn launches LinkedIn Students app for Android, iOS in the US to help college grads find a job
LinkedIn's newest app helps college grads find jobs — For all the talk about its benefit to the “economic graph,” one of the main things LinkedIn is recognized for is being an online resume …
Sources: EU antitrust charges against Google over Android may be announced very soon
Europe nearing Google antitrust charges — Brussels has stepped up its efforts to finalise antitrust charges related to the Android mobile operating system, advancing a case which is set to sharply e...
Bill Campbell, legendary “Coach” to Silicon Valley execs, and former Intuit CEO, has died of cancer at age 75
Silicon Valley's Legendary “Coach” Bill Campbell Has Died — Bill Campbell — who garnered the name “The Coach” for the sage advice and counsel he gave numerous tech leaders … Tweets: @sacca , @nikill...
Google VP of VR Clay Bavor describes his vision for VR: perfectly capture and depict reality, create VR spaces for free expression
Clay Bavor, Google's VP of VR, on His Plan to Make Virtual Reality Amazing for Everyone — In late 2013, Clay Bavor began experimenting with teleportation.
Facebook's David Marcus on bots rollout: bots should respond in under 5 seconds, server load may be to blame for latency; new ecosystem takes time to get right
Facebook Messenger's David Marcus on the rocky rollout of bots — The search for the killer bot is well underway in Silicon Valley — but it's off to a rocky start.
GGV Capital raises $1.2B, with $250M for “Discovery”, a fund focused largely on seed-stage opportunities in China
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DJI releases the Matrice 600, a $4600 drone which can stream in 1080p at 60 FPS from a distance of 3 miles, as well as the $1600 Ronin-MX aerial gimbal
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Accenture: investments in fintech startups in Q1 2016 grew 67% YoY to $5.3B, with 62% going to companies in Europe and Asia
Sam Shead / Business Insider :
IBM inks video deals with AOL, CBC, more; debuts quality live-stream over ‘commodity’ Internet
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Oracle acquires Israeli big-data firm Crosswise for reported $50m
David Shamah / The Times of Israel :
Assisted driving tech firm Nauto raises $12M Series A led by Andy Rubin's Playground Global
Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch :
Gilt co-founder Alexis Maybank launches Project September, a service with photos from users' Instagram feeds and camera rolls that users tag with buying leads
Jason Del Rey / Re/code :
GoPro announces GoPro VR 360-degree video channel, mobile apps, discloses $5K Omni VR rig price tag, will demo “LiveVR” streaming at NAB show starting on Monday
James Trew / Engadget :
Alphabet's Access CEO Craig Barratt says it is looking into providing fixed wireless services where installing fiber is too expensive
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