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Microsoft to sell MSN China to XiChuang Technology

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 30, 2016 7:32 p.m. ET Share Chinese firm run by former Microsoft exec Getty Images Microsoft said in May it planned to shut down the Chinese Web portal. By Jay Greene Three…

Aug 31, 2016

Russian hackers targeting U.S. think tanks, security firm says

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 30, 2016 5:20 p.m. ET Share Cyberattacks linked to same group that hacked DNC Bloomberg News Center for Strategic & International Studies, confirmed on Tuesday that it was…

Aug 30, 2016

Tesla Still Driving Towards The Perfect Autopilot With New Restrictions

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Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla is a smart company run by smart people. They know that there are going to be some missteps in the quest to achieve great things. Tesla has revolutionized how we view electric cars and are going to be at the forefront of how we transport ourselves in the…

Aug 30, 2016

Workforce Live Preview: Andrew Robinson Podcast - Workforce Magazine

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Workforce Live Workforce Live Preview: Andrew Robinson Podcast Workforce Live's Frank Kalman chats with Dallas speaker Andrew Robinson from TGI Fridays on his upcoming talk at the Four Seasons Dallas on Sept. 7. August 30, 2016 Hear Workforce’s very own Frank Kalman interview Andrew Robinson, senior…

Aug 30, 2016

FBI warns hackers are targeting state voter records

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 30, 2016 4:15 a.m. ET Share Recent cyberattacks on two state election boards Bloomberg News Federal officials have grown increasingly concerned that hackers, and even foreign…

Aug 29, 2016

5 things Tim Cook has done better at Apple than Steve Jobs did

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Tim Cook had big shoes to fill when he took the reins as Apple Inc.’s chief executive from company co-founder Steve Jobs five years ago. That role has exposed him to intense scrutiny, with particular emphasis placed on the ways in which he has or has not stacked up against Jobs, whose legacy…

Aug 29, 2016

This Suburban Dad Positioned His One-Man Business To Break $2 Million This Year

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Not many people break $1 million in a one-person business . Laszlo Nadler , whose startup appeared in this blog last year, blasted through that milestone in 2015. This year, the father-of-two, based in East Brunswick BC -0.27% , N.J., is on track to break $2 million at his Amazon store…

Aug 28, 2016

Brain implants would make ‘The Matrix’ come to life

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“The Matrix” is now 17 years old, but I still remember my jaw dropping when Neo interfaced with the Matrix for the first time and uploaded a kung-fu database directly to his brain. My first thought was: Wouldn’t it be cool to upload information directly into our minds, instead of wasting time and…

Aug 28, 2016

Want to invest in self-driving cars? Check out the chips

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The vision of a world that depends on self-driving cars has been the hottest topic in Silicon Valley this summer. In the past few weeks, a slew of partnerships have formed between big auto makers, tech companies and startups as companies place a variety of bets to ensure they are not left behind.…

Aug 27, 2016

6 Predictions For How IoT Tech Will Affect Online Marketing And SEO

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pexels.com We’ve got a few major technological developments competing to be the next major tech revolution, akin to the rise of the Internet a few decades ago. Virtual and augmented reality are contenders, but an even bigger phenomenon may be the Internet of Things (IoT). Through the IoT, everyday…

Aug 27, 2016

You Can Fix Critical iOS Security Flaw By Jumping To iOS 10

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Apple AAPL +0.57% and security experts are urging iOS users to update to the newly released iOS 9.3.5 as soon as possible. Apple developed the update to address critical security flaws in iOS after exploits were used to compromise iPhones and spy on journalists and dissidents in the wild. Another…

Aug 26, 2016

Frank Ocean cranks up the Apple vs. Spotify beef

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Since launching Apple Music last summer, Apple Inc. has shelled out some of its massive cash reserves to the music industry’s biggest and brightest stars, landing exclusive album releases on the streaming service. But now there is a brewing backlash to Apple’s strategy. Last week, Universal Music…

Aug 26, 2016

China taking more collaborative approach to cybersecurity

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By and Published: Aug 25, 2016 11:27 p.m. ET Share In shift, foreign tech companies take active role in making rules Bloomberg News China has tried to show it is responsive to foreign concerns…

Aug 26, 2016

Everything We Know About NSO Group: The Professional Spies Who Hacked iPhones With A Single Text

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Omri Lavie, co-founder of NSO Group, which has just been caught exploiting iPhones with its Pegasus malware. Image from Lavie’s Google Plus account. NSO Group employees’ lives must seem no different from others in the Israeli tech scene. They turn up every morning at their office in Herzelia, in Tel…

Aug 26, 2016

WhatsApp will start sharing user data with Facebook

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By and Published: Aug 25, 2016 4:55 p.m. ET Share Change likely to raise privacy concerns Bloomberg News Facebook Inc. is exploring ways to generate revenue from its stable of apps, including…

Aug 26, 2016

Gigster is the Craigslist For Top Developers

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With tech jobs concentrated in the Bay Area and New York, it could be challenging for companies outside of America’s coastal cities to find top-notch developers. That’s where Gigster fills the void. The marketplace gives top developers from tech companies like Google opportunities to moonlight for…

Aug 25, 2016

5 stadiums with worse names than Chicago’s Guaranteed Rate Field

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Ffooter / Shutterstock U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago, soon to be Guaranteed Rate Field. Slide 1 of 7 “Grab your mitt, kiddo, we’re going to Guaranteed Rate Field tonight!” That’s a sentence that is unlikely to ever roll off the tongue of any Chicago parent headed to a White Sox game. But after this…

Aug 25, 2016

Indian Startups Are Tapping Into New Sources Of Capital As Funding Dries Up

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(Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) As 2016 progresses into its second half, a KPMG and CB report shows that Venture Capital Investments in India have fallen to $583 million, down from $1,042 million raised during January to March this year. Though this funding slowdown is part of a global trend,…

Aug 25, 2016

The Big Data Era of Mosaicked Deidentification: Can We Anonymize Data Anymore?

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A display at the Big Bang Data exhibition at Somerset House in 2014. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images for Somerset House) The era of “big data” has brought with it an incredible wealth of massive new datasets cataloging global society. Making possible this deluge of publicly accessible data is the…

Aug 24, 2016

Want To Be A Great Leader? Encourage Lots Of Mistakes And Weird Career Moves

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Shutterstock Amir Orad could just rest on his laurels. He’s had an amazing run of success in his career. For instance, he’s taken one company from $30 to $200 million in revenues within a few years and steered another to a $145 million exit. And now, as CEO of Sisense for the past 18 months, Orad…

Aug 24, 2016

How Cell Phones Can Map The CIA: Is Location Secrecy Dead?

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A map at the Big Bang Data exhibition at Somerset House in 2015. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images for Somerset House) Last week I asked whether government secrecy is dead in the internet and social media era. Yet, the web is just one of the myriad commercially-owned data streams that poses a…

Aug 24, 2016

Google to crack down on mobile sites with pop-up ads

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 23, 2016 6:50 p.m. ET Share Sites with ‘intrusive interstitials’ may be pushed down in search results starting in January Bloomberg News It’s unclear exactly what type of…

Aug 24, 2016

Spotify seeks long-term music rights deals as IPO looms

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 23, 2016 5:00 p.m. ET Share Some labels want service to pay more for songs Getty Images Daniel Ek, CEO and founder of Spotify, speaks at a media event in 2015. By Hannah Karp…

Aug 24, 2016

Malware Targets Hillary-Haters With False Promise of Video Showing ISIS Payoff

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Under the heading “Clinton Deal ISIS Leader caught on Video ” the email reads Hillary clinton (sic) caught on video exchanging money with ISIS leader in 2013. After watching the video clip you can then decide on who to vote. Sentiment is not enough to choose who to vote. There’s a link to the…

Aug 24, 2016