Google is reportedly bidding for crowd-sourced map app provider Waze, igniting a possible bidding war with Facebook. Citing unnamed sources, Businessweek today reported that Google is one of multiple companies negotiating to buy Waze, ...
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Oracle and managed services provider ServiceKey have come to a proposed settlement of an intellectual-property lawsuit Oracle filed against the company last year. Oracle sued ServiceKey in February 2012, alleging that it and another ...
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Buried in a 100-page report issued last week by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property was a recommendation to copy a tactic cyber scammers use to extort money from innocent victims. The IP Commission – a ...
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One of only a handful of 37-year-old, still-working Apple-1 computers sold for a record three-quarters of a million dollars Saturday at an auction in Germany. The record price was paid by an anonymous bidder. In an interview with the?New ...
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Twitter's SMS-based, two-factor authentication feature could be abused to lock users who don't have it enabled out of their accounts if attackers gain access to their log-in credentials, according to researchers from Finnish anti-virus ...
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Yahoo has bid between $600m (£397m) and $800m (£530m) for premium on-demand streaming video site Hulu, according to reports. There is a $200m range in the bid because Yahoo has proposed a number of different prices based on ...
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A former member of a band of hackers faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to a single computer hacking charge. Jeremy Hammond, 28, of Chicago admitted to participating in more than a half dozen attacks perpetrated ...
Tags: Stratfor Hack, Computer Hacking
Using a new API announced by Amazon Web Services, developers can use Amazon.com, Facebook, or Google's sign-in systems for their cloud-based apps. Amazon calls the concept web identity federation, and the new AWS Security Token Service ...
Facebook is reportedly pulling out of acquisition negotiations with mobile app provider Waze, opening the door for a Google buy. Citing unnamed sources,All Things D reported today that talks between Facebook and crowd-sourced mapping app ...
Ukraine's interagency commission for distribution of quotas for coking coal imports in 2013 has officially posted the recommended distribution of the quotas for the June-August period of the current year, which was determined at a meeting ...
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Polar USA today introduced the new Polar Stride Sensor Bluetooth Smart, the first ever BluetoothSmart sensor that will allow runners to track speed and distance and capture intelligent training data while using a compatible device. ...
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Bedding major Tempur-Pedic International said its shareholders have approved changing the name of the company to Tempur Sealy International. The name change, made in the wake of the company's March acquisition of Sealy Inc., was ...
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Driven by the various online channels, the way consumers obtain information has changed considerably in recent years. The number of communications channels ranging from websites to social media, plus the increasing shift of purchasing away ...
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Starnet Worldwide Commercial Flooring recently recognized three Starnet Member Companies for excellence in Environmental Stewardship, a newly established award. The presentation was held April 26, 2013 during the Starnet Annual Meeting at ...
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The first expansion for the award-winning, free-to-play MMORPG Star Trek Online is now live and free-to-play from Perfect World Entertainment Inc. and Cryptic Studios. In Legacy of Romulus, fans may, for the first time ever, play as a ...
Tags: Romulus, Consumer Electronics, Star Trek