Yahoo reveals another hack where an “unauthorized third party” in Aug. 2013 stole data from 1B+ accounts including names, emails, telephone numbers, birthdates
Yahoo has disclosed that — in addition to its September hacking incident — another “unauthorized third-party” …
Democratic FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler says he will resign on January 20, which will allow a new Republican majority to begin dismantling Obama-era regulations
Democratic FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said today he would resign, ending months of will-he or won't-he speculation about his plans.
Meeting with tech leaders, Trump says they can call him or his team any time, Thiel is “ahead of the curve”, and administration will work on “fair” trade deals
FOUR—are the president-elect's children. That is 16% of everybody in the room...”—@msuster http://bothsidesofthetable.com/ ... Mark Suster / @msuster : I will separate my business interests from the p...
Instagram doubles its monthly active user base in two years to 600M, adding 100M in six months
That's 600 million Instagrammers, and a whole lotta brunch pics — It appears that the rise of Snapchat and all its Spectacles fun have yet to slow Instagram's growth: the Facebook-owned …
Facebook tests context-based actions in Messenger via its “M” assistant, such as sending location or stickers
Facebook's “M” virtual assistant hasn't been rolled out to all that many people, but its interactions with a limited user base have helped train Facebook's artificial …
Source: Twitter was left out of Donald Trump's tech summit over refusal to create #CrookedHillary emoji, which was part of a larger $5M deal with the campaign
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Fitbit to keep Pebble software and services running through 2017, but smart features dependent on third-party services will be reevaluated
Greetings, Pebble Devs, from our new home at Fitbit! — After last week's announcement and Dev Blog post, we wanted to share the latest …
Sources: Verizon is looking to get a price cut or exit the $4.8B Yahoo deal after company discloses 1B accounts hacked in 2013; Yahoo stock down 4.5%
Verizon Communications Inc. is exploring a price cut or possible exit from its $4.83 billion pending acquisition of Yahoo! Inc. …
13 pictures of tech CEOs appearing unhappy at Donald Trump's tech summit
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Facebook Messenger adds Snapchat-like photo filters, including “3D masks”, special effects, stickers, more
What's better than a few geofilters? A billion algorithmically generated filters. That's Facebook Messenger's strategy to steal the visual communication crown from Snapchat …
Trump transition official says Twitter was too small to be included in tech summit and that #CrookedHillary emoji ordeal had nothing to do with excluding them
at least a little bit,” said Donald Trump to tech leaders today http://boingboing.net/... http://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer
Onvocal introduces OV Bluetooth headphones, the first headphones that allow access to Amazon's Alexa via a smartphone app
Technology startup Onvocal has new Bluetooth earphones, dubbed OV, that offer full voice control of your music and direct access to voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and Google Assis...
California adopts energy standards requiring idle computers to draw less power; energy commission estimates 6% of desktops, 73% of laptops meet standards
California became the first state in the US to approve energy efficiency requirements for laptops, desktops, and monitors today …
Docker open sources critical infrastructure component “containerd”, cloud vendors including Alibaba, AWS, Google, IBM, and Microsoft sign on to work on it
Docker announced today that it was open sourcing containerd (pronounced Container D), making a key infrastructure piece …
FTC orders owner of Ashley Madison to pay $1.66M fine, as remainder of $17.5M settlement gets suspended due to inability to pay
The owner of hacked infidelity website Ashley Madison will pay $1.66 million to settle an investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and several U.S. states …
Palantir CEO Alex Karp was the only Trump summit attendee from a private firm, showing Peter Thiel's influence
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Two senior US officials say new intel shows Vladimir Putin directed how hacked DNC material was leaked to discredit US as global leader
U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved …
Sources: Twitter spent over a year developing a standalone messaging app in India, aimed at on-boarding new users, but killed it in September after trial runs
Twitter spent more than a year developing an instant messaging app for emerging markets but killed the product without launching it, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Big data firm Databricks, built on top of the Apache Spark open source project, raises $60M Series C led by NEA, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz
Looking to be the next leap forward in data organization, computation, and delivery for big data Databricks, the business built …
Tweetbot maker Tapbots launches Pastebot 2.0 for Mac, a $20 clipboard manager that can sync across multiple Macs, available now
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
Australian federal court orders ISPs to block torrenting sites, including The Pirate Bay, within 15 business days under new site-blocking law
Claire Reilly / CNET :
Wordpress adds support for 360-degree photos and video to all its hosted blogs, viewable on desktop, mobile, and VR headsets
All blogs hosted by WordPress.com are getting the ability to host VR content today. The site is launching support for 360-degree photos and videos …
Jury rules Arista did not infringe Cisco patent and owes no damages over Cisco's 2014 claim of copyright infringement
Dan Levine / Reuters :
Virtual reality startup WEVR launches Netflix-style subscription service for cinematic VR titles, available on HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR initially
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Chinese selfie app maker Meitu closes flat on first day of trading after raising $629M at a $4.6B valuation in an IPO in Hong Kong
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg :
Logicworks raises $135M round led by Pamplona Capital for its cloud automation and management platform
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Evernote's new privacy policy, set to take effect on Jan. 23, would let some employees read user notes to aid with machine learning, although users can opt-out
and once again alarms its users Jeff Benjamin / 9to5Google : Evernote's privacy policy lets its employees access your notes, with no opt out option … Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet : Don't like Everno...
Delivery startup Just Eat acquires rival Delivery Hero's UK business for $251M cash, plus $50M based on performance, buys Canadian rival SkipTheDishes for $83M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Next version of Microsoft Edge blocks Flash plugin by default, loads HTML5 content if available; Microsoft will exempt popular websites, hasn't said which ones
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge :
Wynn Resorts to put Amazon Echo in 4.7K+ Wynn Las Vegas rooms, starting summer 2017
Tech Roundup Ashley King / Phandroid : Wynn Las Vegas is putting Amazon Echo in all of their rooms Mary Beth Quirk / Consumerist : Don't Want Alexa Listening In Your Wynn Las Vegas Hotel Room? Unplug ...
Online wedding registry Zola confirms it received $25M investment led by Lightspeed Venture Partners; Lightspeed partner Alex Taussig to join board
Jason Del Rey / Recode :
Google settles privacy suit, tentatively agrees to only scan emails for ads after they arrive in your inbox, which should have little effect on users or privacy
Russell Brandom / The Verge :
150 prominent filmmakers sign an open letter to major camera makers, including Canon, Nikon, Sony, and others, asking for default storage encryption
Andy Greenberg / Wired :
Magic Leap's VP of communications Andy Fouche leaves firm for Andy Rubin's new startup
Peter Kafka / Recode :
Cisco confirms it won't offer its Intercloud public cloud infrastructure beyond March 2017, shifting existing clients to other services
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat :
Ad tech firm Neustar bought for $1.83B by private investment group led by Golden Gate Capital, pending shareholder approval
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Sources: secure messaging app Symphony, used by 14 of biggest banks on Wall Street, is raising up to $200M at a $1B+ pre-money valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
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