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 The company has been working on this at least since we talke stanley quencher d to them in November, and became more apparent when it was seeking to hire engineers with specific experience with login security. Why has it taken so long  That   a question that only Twitter can answer.Google rolled out its two-factor authenti stanley cup cation offering vaso stanley  in 2011, but Microsoft only just introduced their own last week. Making additional authentication steps mandatory for all users is a non-starter, since any friction standing between a social service and engagement would be a nightmare.Having said that, this type of authentication is something that every verified account on Twitter should have had long ago. When Twitter verifies an account, it   saying that it   gone through some type of procedure to approve that the person or entity is who they say they are. Keeping that integrity safe is essential to the entire concept.In Twitter   defense, a two-factor authentication for accounts that might be

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 In usual Zuck fashion, the Facebook CEO and founder posted the anno stanley italia uncement to Facebook along with a letter from him and his wife to the new  stanley termosas baby girl.Here   the letter:Zuckerberg and Chan had their first daughter, Max, in December 2015. They pledged to give away 99 percent of their share stanley tumbler s to  advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation.  At the time, Zuck   shares were worth around $45 billion. Fbyl U.K. Court Says NSA-GCHQ Data-Sharing Was Illegal
 The widely criticized corroboration with the NSA therefore may have benefited citizens rather than being to their detr stanley cup tumbler iment.How PRISM Requests And Receives Private DataMy sources confirm that the NSA did not have direct access or any special instant access to data or servers at the PRISM targets, but instead had to send requests to the companies for the data. The stanley bottles se requests must be complied with by law, but only if the government narrowly defines what it   looking for. The government may have initially requested a firehose of data, and was happy to take this full data dump from the tech companies and sort it itself. Had the tech giants simply accepted these requests at the minimum level required by law, many innocent citizens ; data could have been monitored.By working to create  a locked mailbox and give the government the key  whi stanley tumblr ch the New York Times reported, rather than allowing widespread monitoring, the firehose is restricted to a trickle of specific reque

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 Outlook is the killer app for Microsoft, but the company has not shown any interest in releasing it for Office on the Surface or any other mobile device, said Analyst Esteban Kolsky, Founder of聽 stanley butelka ThinkJar.聽Instead, Microsoft makes the case for Office365 in the cloud. B stanley thermos ut so far it only has 20 to 30 percent of the func vaso stanley tionality that a customer would get with the desktop version of Microsoft Office. See Sarah Perez   article for her take on the latest from Office365.Forrester Research Analyst Phil Karcher聽said to me in an email that Microsoft does have a complete suite of mobile apps for Windows RT and Windows Phone, but only has Lync and OneNote apps for iOS and Android devices. It has improved browser access to SharePoint 2013, which benefits users on Android and iOS. However, it does not have mobile versions 聽of its core office productivity applications   Word, Excel, PowerPoint on iOS and Android. 聽He sees it as a matter of time before Microsoft opens up more to other platf

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 Both companies are subsidiaries of parent company Alphabet.The move would seem to make sense. Like Nest, Google has delved into the business of the connected home, including with its聽OnHub stanley quencher  wireless router and聽Google Home, a portable speaker that   powered by voice assistance technology and will take聽direct aim at Amazon   popular Echo product once it ships later this year.Nest   thermometers聽and cameras聽promise to communicate with Google Home.Nest employs roughly 1,000 people, including in engineering, product marketing and聽product management.Though its platform team was聽responsible for building out Nest   APIs聽 so聽Nest聽products can communicate with other devices , as well as Nest   Weave protocol  which stanley cup  allows Nest devices to communicate with each other , Nest will continue to build and develop software around its聽app, site and other services.The decision to separate聽Nest   platform team from聽the rest of the compa stanley cups uk ny comes almost exactly a year after Jdjf Kima Invests In Pakistan-Based Startup Behind Groopic Photo App
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Mflr HTC Spends Nearly $10M On A 15% Stake In Virtual Reality Platform WEVR
 Initially聽the service looks聽to have been suffering load time and stability problems, which led to an outage yesterday.But the issue聽escalated into emergency database maintenance聽afte stanley quencher r data was deleted accidentally   followed by聽an apparent inability to restore the data from backups, according to a series of tweets from the @GitLabStatus account.The affected database stanley cups  includes issues and merge requests but not repositories and wikis, according to these聽updates.We are performing emergency database maintenance, https://t.co/r11UmmDLDE will be taken offline— GitLab.com Status  @gitlabstatus  January 31, 2017we are experiencing issues with our production database and are working to recover— GitLab.com Status  @gitlabstatus  Feb stanley cup ruary 1, 2017We accidentally deleted production data and might have to restore from backup. Google Doc with live notes https://t.co/EVRbHzYlk8— GitLab.com Status  @gitlabstatus  February 1, 2017The incident affected the database  including issue Pibv Hands-on, camera-off with the Oculus    Santa Cruz    standalone VR prototype
 The Anturis SaaS enables customers to download and add a simple script that聽monitors data across multiple parameters. A customer can keep tabs on different data centers, platforms and branch offices around the world. In addition, it聽analyzes the data stanley cups  to alert customers of any potential issues from the diff stanley cups erent layers of the infrastructure and聽provides reports about specific problems, as well as historical analysis.Anturis executives say that enterprise-level IT monit stanley cup oring software is bloated. I can accept that. But they also make the claim that open-source software requires fine tuning. Sergey Nevstruev, Anturis CEO, said this in a statement:Up until now IT infrastructure monitoring has still basically come in two packages, bloated with features and expensive, or open-source with a great need for fine-tuning and customizing. Ultimately both options become costly to businesses either in terms of money or staff time.That   an argument commercial shops like to fall back on, but it

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 That, combined with a small rise in global interest and what seems to be the highest transaction volume in history puts bitcoin in an interesting position. While it was originally assumed by many that bitcoin was doomed, or at least something that would never transcend niche status, those worries have certainly fallen short.At the same time, bitcoin is only growing so quickly. Its transaction volu stanley termos me, an imperfect bu stanley termo puodeliai t useful metric, has been relatively聽flat recently, even around the time of the price fluctuations.So things are mostly up, but at the same time, mostly inside the same constellation we ;ve been surfing around for what now feels like ages. Let   get to the charts:Here   the recent price spike聽in context:Here   the Google Trends data on search interest in bitcoin  note the final data point :And the number of bitcoin transactions executed per day:It   never bad to note when things are strong. What I remain most curious about is a potential breakou stanley tumbler t Arhq Game-Streaming Platform Twitch Lands $20M Series C Ahead Of Its Xbox One, PS4 Integration
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Csvu Product Hunt Raises $6 Million From A16Z
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 [Update: Heavy traffic crashed the Knowledge Vision webcast of the announcement, temporarily locking out viewers.]The FT stanley cups C has been investigating Google for alleged anticompetitive conduct for almost botella stanley  two years now. In November, Bloomberg reported that the FTC was putting pressure on Google to settle the antitrust talks and there were some rumors in December that the FTC was indeed ready to settle with Google before the end of  stanley france 2012. While the actual investigation took a bit longer, most pundits still expect the FTC to announce a settlement with Google today. What this settlement will look like, though, remains to be seen.It   worth noting that Google has settled with the FTC in the past, specifically regarding its practices when it came to bypassing privacy settings in Safari.The FTC was investigating Google   business practices and especially allegations that the company was using its dominant position in the search space to stifle competing services. The European Commission

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 The deal   which is expected to close in Q3 2018   will see iZettle   co-founder and CEO Jacob de Geer stay on to lead iZettle. He will report to PayPal s COO聽Bill Ready. Others in iZettle s exec team will also stay on to run the business stanley cup , which will become a  center of excellence  for in-store and offline payments in Europe, PayPal said.The timing of the deal is notable: It comes on the heels of iZettle filing for an IPO earlier this month  just nine days ago, in fact  in its own bid to scale out its business: iZettle had planned to raise $227 million on the Stockholm Nasdaq exchange, which would have valued the company at around $1.1 billion.From what I understand from sources, the two had been talking  for years stanley cup .  I guess the IPO filing suddenl stanley us y gave those talks a new kind of urgency. And maybe double so: The news was supposed to be announced on Friday, but after rumors started to leak out today the company has decided to come out with it of Ynvp Zendesk Reports $42.2M Revenue, $0.10 Loss Per Share For Q1 2015
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Wqpi Revealers, A New Social-Meets-Gaming App, Launches Today
 Tanium took in $52 million from A16z back in March   saying it would be using that financing to scale faster. Andreessen Horowitz also got out its checkbook in June 2014, to the tune of $90 million, which was Tanium   first VC investment since its founding back in 2007.With its latest round locked in, Tanium   total raised to date聽is now around聽$262 million.  stanley termo puodeliai The new financing will be used to scale up to meet what it says is聽 global demand,  coming聽from  the largest enterprises and government organizations.  It adds聽its platform is now used in by聽more than聽half of the Fortune 100 companies.Its flagship product is a platform for聽IT departments to manage and control networks   even聽those聽comprising millions of machines and devices   with  15-second visibility  into聽network activity, rather than having  stanley cup to rely on days or even older data.Writing in a Medium post, co-founder and CTO Orion Hindawi stanley cup  takes aim at the patchwork of  Hfpi Microsoft   s Skype Takes Its Gift Cards International, Now In 44 Countries, As It Continues Retail Rollout
 The six categories that the companies were rank stanley flask ed on when it comes to protec stanley mugs ting user data from the government are as follows: Requires a warrant for content; Tells users about government data requests; Publishes transparency reports; Publishes law enforcement guidelines; Fights for users ; privacy rights in courts; Fights for users ; privacy rights in Congress.For each category a company meets the mark in the EFF   eyes, they are awarded a star. Companies can therefore聽be awarded聽up to 6 stars per year.Apple picked up 5 new stars from 2013 to 2014, as did Yahoo. Facebook snagged 3 new stars. Microsoft picked up a more modest 2聽stars.  2012 dat stanley thermos a from the same survey isn ;t comparable as only 4 categories were ranked. What follows are the聽companies ; 2014 rankings, and their star differential, either positive or negative, since 2013. I ;ve broken them into various classes, so we can better understand who does well now, and who has improved since last year.

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Pfij Amazon launches the Kindle Reading Fund to expand digital reading around the world
 Samsung is acquiring a Reston, Virginia-based company called Tachyon, a specialist in mobile device configuration and security for businesses. Samsung plans to integrate Tachyon into聽its enterprise offer聽to help businesses聽speed up聽the secure configuration of third-party apps on their Samsung devices, regardless of whether the third-party app聽provides APIs for this purpose.Tachyon had already been a partner of Sam stanley tumbler sung   prior to the deal, and while it was built to work across all Android devices, the startup tech will now be used solely on Samsung devic stanley canada es.Tachyon   a physics term for聽a particle that travels faster than the speed of light   was developed as聽part of a larger enterprise mobility solutions startup called Kaprica, which Samsung is not b stanley cups uying.Kaprica will continue to build out the other part of its聽business after the spinoff, focusing specifically on a connected vehicle security service called聽RunSafe. CEO/founder Doug Britton聽and Samsung both confirm聽Kapri Sawp Ethereum falls after rumors of a powerful mining chip surface
 Robots are nothing new for CES, but this year marked what felt like a turning point for bringing automation to a wider range of device categories, making & 8216;robots ; a reality across a range of verticals. There were automated gadgets for maintaining plant health, drones that could fly in flocks and offer up comprehensive imaging for agricultural use, sensors that could tie into more simplistic smart gadgets for advanced smart home design and more.Toshiba showed off a humanoid, mostly realistic robotic hostess, and Intel and iRobot teamed up to show off autonomous telepresence bots and stanley flaschen  talked long-term plans for a robotic butler. Maybe most impressive were the advances in car automation, however, with virtually every auto maker who had any kind of presence at the show offering a glimpse into some kind of intelligent, driver-free technology, from parking to advanced object recognition.One of the better examples of what kind of changes have taken place over the past four stanley thermos  years  stanley cup price of

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Vwyq Facebook   s New Moments App Now Automatically Creates Music Videos From Your Photos
 We ;re live at the Sony press conference at CES in the Las Vegas Convention Center starting in just a few minutes. We got a lot of鈥?interesting devices all day long, such as Samsung   frankenstein fridge.We have a team on the ground ready to cover the event and give you hands-on impressions if the company  stanley tumbler has new interesting devices.You can also check it out live via Sony   official stream above, a stanley cup nd stay tuned on TechCrunch.com for ongoing coverage of al stanley cup l the news coming out of this event. Erpc Gillmor Gang: Smoke Signals
 NSA reform died, as did copyright reform, and patent reform. Immigration reform  Kaput. And the recent election axed important politicians w stanley cup ho were allied with the tech industry on certain issues. It was a dismal calendar cycle.Technology is聽ascendant in many ways. Its l stanley cup eading firms have cash reserves in stanley termos  the tens of billions. Three of the four most valuable companies in the United States are tech firms. Growing tech companies are going public, and venture capital money is flowing into the sector by the acre-foot.TechCrunch has noted in the past that just as politics is going聽tech, tech is going political. That has never been more true than today. Before we jump into a new year, a new Congress, and a new Senate majority, let   spin our wheels backwards and take a look at just what tech didn ;t get this year.Throwing Good Money After NothingThe recurring news that technology companies are spending increasing sums of dollars on their political operations is now something of a d

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 The funding brings Breather   total capital raised to $73 million. Menlo Ventures led the round joined by Valar Ventures, RRE Ventures, Slow Ventures and Real Ventures. Menlo Ventures ; Managing Director Venky Ganesan told TechCrunch, in an e-mail, that Breather pitched his firm for an earlier round of funding but the partners passed.He said,  We did not think the CEO would hit his plans and that the company would  stanley gertuves use the money& 8230; But twelve months later, they hit all their plans and companies like Facebook, and Uber are using Breather all the time. A Breath stanley termohrnek er space in any building becomes the most v stanley tumblers aluable space there with off the charts revenue per square foot. The investor was tickled by the fact that people have been booking Breather rooms not just for meetings and conferences but therapy or tutoring sessions, rehearsals and even marriage proposals.According to a company statement, Breather intends to use its Series C capital for hiring, and geographic ex Jtor Fitbit Takes 18% Stock Hit For Invading Apple s Personal Smartwatch Space
 The FCC passed net neutrality  stanley cup becher regulations this year on a party-line vote of 3 to 2, reclassifying broadband under Title II of the Communications Act. The vote brought jeers and applause聽from Congress and the larger technology industry. Republican leadership in Congress and large Internet service providers opposed the vote, while Democrats and other swaths of the technology industry were in favor.The USTelecom suit is notable in that it doesn ;t oppose net neutrality聽per se, but instead hits the FCC   approach to the issue. In a release, the group argued that its  appeal is not focused on challenging the objectives art stanley cup spain iculated by [President Obama], but instead the unjustifiable shift [by the FCC] backward to common carrier stanley tumbler  regulation[.] What does USTelecom want  According to its filing, the group wants a  review of the Order,  which it feels is  an abuse of discretion within the meaning of the Administrative聽Procedure Act,  and  viola

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Pfjc A Look At Play-i   s Successful Crowdfunding Campaign
 In the space of a few short years, the company has gone from duct taped prototype to the forefront of the $23.5 billion gaming industry, and it s hard to deny after a quick spin with the company s Rift headset that all of this feels like the future.Facebook certainly thinks so. In 2014, the social media giant purchased the hardware startup for $2 billion in cash and stock, further accelerating the company s already impressive growth.https://www.youtube.com/watch v=IgFB9nhHn-Q I don ;t remember personally thinking about an acquisition,  says co-founder Nate Mitchell, seated at a table in the media portion of the company s E3 booth.  I don ;t think we thought about that a lot. We were excited about delivering this thing on our own in a big way. We were so fired up about VR. The company was growing. It was going super well. Then, basically what happened is w stanley becher e got connected to Mark [Zuckerberg]. There was this oppo stanley flasche rtunity to turbo鈥慶harge everything that we wanted to do and ta stanley tumbler ke i Pvsg Copyright questions remain after Google   s fair use victory
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 While the main event may be the conference that runs from May 9-11, one of our favorite parts of Disrupt is the  stanley cup Hackathon, which聽takes place the weekend before. We ;re thrilled to announ stanley tumblr ce that the second wave of free tickets to the Hackathon are now available, and you can snag your tickets here.As always, tickets are given out on a first-come, first-served basis, so you ;ll need to act quickly if you want to get in on the Hackathon action.The Hackathon starts聽at 12:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, May 7, with networking and the forming of the Hackathon teams. On Sunday, after a grueling 20 or so hour stanley tumbler s of hacking and coding, teams will have just 60 seconds to present their projects to a panel of judges on the Disrupt stage. In addition to the satisfaction of building something great, those teams have the opportunity to win tickets to Disrupt NY, as well as a $5,000 grand prize and several gadgets, toys and other monetary prizes from our sponsors. Each team that聽scores a聽three or highe Segn Ticketea Raises $4 Million To Beat Ticketmaster And Eventbrite At The Spanish Box Office
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