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In response to rise of programmatic advertising, AOL drastically restructures ad sales staff — As Ad Business Shifts to Machines, AOL Restructures Its Sales Staff in a Major Reorg — According to numerous sources, AOL is now initiating long-planned changes to drastically reorganize …
Tweets: @waltmossberg, @howardlindzon, @jayrosen_nyu and @mdudas
| Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority: |
Cyanogen's CEO says they'll be independent from Google in 3-5 years, offering its own app store in 18 months and alternatives to Google apps — CEO: “Today, Cyanogen has some dependence on Google. Tomorrow, it will not.” — Kirt McMaster, the outspoken CEO of Cyanogen Inc. …
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WikiLeaks demands answers after being notified that Google handed over three staffers' emails to the US government in 2012 — WikiLeaks demands answers after Google hands staff emails to US government — Search giant gave FBI emails and digital data belonging to three staffers| Jon Southurst / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase to launch first regulated US bitcoin exchange on Monday, approved by half of all state regulators — Coinbase Secures Approval to Launch Regulated US Bitcoin Exchange — Bitcoin wallet and brokerage Coinbase is set to launch a US exchange on Monday - one that is already approved by 50% of all state regulators.
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| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
Profile of OneWeb founder Greg Wyler and his plan to launch 648 low-orbit internet satellites by 2018 amid burgeoning competition — The New Space Race: One Man's Mission to Build a Galactic Internet — Greg Wyler is friendly and gregarious and talks about his business plans with a fervor that borders on the religious.
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Tweetbot for Mac pulled from App Store after authentication issues, possibly tied to Twitter token limits — Twitter's war on developers continues: Tweetbot for Mac falls victim to token limit, gets pulled from App Store — In November, 9to5Mac brought you an exclusive interview …
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AppleTell, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, App Advice and iMore
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| Quinn Norton / Medium: |
Barrett Brown sentence shows increasing dangers of security journalism, and why reporters should step back until laws are fixed — We Should All Step Back from Security Journalism — I'll Go First — I started studying the computer underground back when I worked in tech, as an early web developer, in the mid 1990s.
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| Aloysius Low / CNET: |
Xiaomi Mi Note review: refined hardware, distinct design, limited LTE support outside of Asia — Xiaomi's latest flagship dazzles with quality design — The Good The Xiaomi Mi Note's refined steel and glass design is as good as any. Impressively, Xiaomi crams a 13-megapixel camera …
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11 of 14 projects in Sundance Film Festival's experimental showcase use virtual reality — How virtual reality ate the Sundance Film Festival — The future of independent film may not be film at all — The most buzzworthy feature of 2015's Sundance Film Festival isn't a film at all … | Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
Report: Qualcomm working on updated Snapdragon 810 chip for Samsung's Galaxy S6 — Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) is expected to provide Samsung Electronics with a new version of its Snapdragon 810 chipset in March for the next version of Samsung's flagship Galaxy S smartphone, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Saavn, 'India's Spotify', Reveals It Has 11M Monthly Users And Hires Ex-Google Exec — It's looking like 2015 will be a big year for India's music streaming space. A week after Rdio's arrival in the country, Saavn — a New York/India startup that was among the first to cater to India …
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Digital Music News, Music Business Worldwide, Music Week, exchange4media.com, Billboard, Music Week and MediaNama. Tweets: @jonrussell
| Patrick Tucker / Defense One: |
Obama's cyber plan raises questions about data anonymization, chilling effects for researchers — What the Cyber Language in the State of the Union Means to You — On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama appeared before the American people and again acknowledged digital data theft …
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Politico, PC World, Inc.com, The Intercept and New York Times
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