The digital media division of Verizon, which will include Yahoo, AOL, and The Huffington Post after the Yahoo deal closes, will be named Oath
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Sources: Apple and Didi were in contact for more than a year, closed the $1B deal in three weeks after CEOs met in April to discuss cooperation
Trust Our Machines Junko Yoshida / EE Times : What Apple Gains by Sinking $1B into Didi Evan Selleck / iPhone Hacks : Apple's Investment in Didi Chuxing Could be Another Boost for the Apple Car Chris ...
Facebook launches Messenger platform with chatbots
Facebook users will soon be able … Mike Rosenbaum / salesforce.com : Introducing Salesforce for Messenger Al Plumlier / The Verge : There will be a bot for everything — It's all happening at once … ...
WhatsApp says it has enabled end-to-end encryption for all forms of communication on its service, which now has over a billion users, by default
WhatsApp has always prioritized making … Open Whisper Systems : WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete John Snow / blog.kaspersky.com : WhatsApp switches to secure end-to-end encryptio...
FCC chairman Tom Wheeler proposes rules that would force ISPs to ask your permission before sharing personal data with some outside parties
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Ohio man faces federal charge for reblogging a GIF on Tumblr urging murders of US servicemen
Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post :
Founder of Silk Road drug marketplace Ross Ulbricht sentenced to life in prison, to forfeit $184M
A Post by Fernando Caudevilla … Dareh Gregorian / NY Daily News : Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht gets slammed with life sentence for running online drug bazaar Stefanie Jones / The Huffington Post : ...
The Interview now available to rent for $5.99 or purchase for $14.99 through YouTube, Google Play, Xbox Video, and SeeTheInterview.com
Starting at 10am Pacific Time this morning … Brad Smith / The Official Microsoft Blog : “The Interview” now available on Xbox Video Richard Procter / ReadWrite : “The Interview” Is Now Showing At A St...
Aaron Swartz's Lawyer: Prosecutor Stephen Heymann Wanted ‘Juicy’ Case For Publicity
WASHINGTON — The federal prosecutor who reportedly insisted on jail time for the late Aaron Swartz was “very, very difficult to deal with,” Swartz's lawyer told The Huffington Post.
AOL looking to spin out Techcrunch's CrunchBase
AOL, the New York-based media company that is the corporate parent of The Huffington Post and TechCrunch, is looking to spin out CrunchBase, the Techcrunch-owned database of technology companies and p...