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(Reuters) – Amazon has quietly dropped support for disk encryption on its Fire tablets, saying the feature that secures devices by scrambling data was little used by customers. Privacy advocates and some users criticized the move, which came to light on Thursday even as Apple was waging an unprecedented legal battle over U.S. government demands that […]... →

For the first time in about eight years, we saw a decline in the small business customer base of app developers (in terms of revenue and per-project value). The primary reason cited is the rise of white labels and SDKs. “Uber for X” toolkits have indeed become a force to reckon with. Small businesses increasingly rely on “ready to use” frameworks rather than opting… Read More... →

In the latest sign of support for Apple’s ongoing security legal battle, Box, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech behemoths have filed an “amicus brief,” meaning that they have aligned interests and want their voice to be heard in the upcoming appeals. This is a different amicus brief than the one filed by Square, Twitter, LinkedIn and others earlier today. The… Read More... →

Sony is launching a new research and development program called “Future Lab” where it will make available some product prototypes to the public with the expectation of soliciting feedback and validating its hypotheses. The electronics manufacturer is bringing its first project to next week’s South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas where the focus […]... →

Posted by randfish[Estimated read time: 8 minutes] Identifying your target market is only one-fifth of the battle. If you want to win the proverbial war, you have to know your audience inside and out. Discovering the sites they visit and using that knowledge to your advantage is key, but the best practices to do so can feel unclear. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand outlines a five-step process to more effectively reach and market to your target community. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high... →

Called the X-Prize for music the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition pits multiple musicians and makers against each other at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Arts. A group of judges including Jazz great Pat Metheny will pick their favorites and you, the viewer, can jam along on your desk. The entrants include a unique home-brew system that lets pianists play the rhythm guitar, a… Read More... →

Peakview is the investment advisory arm of Shengjing Group and the largest global fund of funds in China. It also has millions of dollars to invest in U.S.-based venture capital funds, it says. This year. Right now. It’s a very different message than VCs are receiving from many other institutions, judging by our recent conversations with these backers, called limited partners.… Read More... →

ICX Media, a Washington, D.C. startup promising to help video creators find an audience and make money, announced today that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The company was founded by Michael Avon, Tom MacIsaac, Steve McCord and Joey McCord (pictured above). Three of the four co-founders previously worked together at mobile ad company Millennial Media, where Avon was chief… Read More... →

Основатели издательства нашли прибыльную модель за пределами стран СНГ, там же проект продолжит работу и после перехода под управление Sports.ru .... →

ANALYSIS: Facebook released its new interactive, full-screen mobile ad unit called Canvas last week. It gives advertisers an elegant, rich-media way to engage users directly within Facebook’s page. Agencies are already lapping it up and experimenting with it to showcase their products. The Canvas ad unit is the latest move by Facebook to monetize its billion […]... →

With $6.5 million in funding from Crosslink Capital, Upfront Ventures, 500 Startups and others, Comparably is launching a platform for employment and salary information. The Santa Monica-based startup says its site will make it easier to find whether or not your salary is competitive amongst industry peers with the same level of experience. The self-reported data can also be sorted by… Read More... →

Docstoc cofounder Jason Nazar is back with a new startup called Comparably which focuses on providing transparency about what workers are paid and insights about company culture. The service breaks down compensation based on various factors including company size, location, money raised, and also by gender. The company has started out focusing on providing information to […]... →

Nintendo is bringing one of its more obscure franchises to the 3DS, and it comes with some of the content from one of the Game Boy Advance’s best games. Rhythm Heaven: Megamix is due out for 3DS later this year in the West. It is a localized version of the game that Nintendo released in […]... →

Docker today announced that it has acquired Conductant, a small startup that focused on orchestration. While you have probably never heard of Conductant — and as far as we can see, the company doesn’t even have a web presence and has never received outside funding — this acquisition brings a lot of talent to Docker. Conductant was founded by Bill Farner and David Chung. While… Read More... →

Docker, the startup that rose to prominence by pushing container technology for wrapping up application code, today announced that it has acquired Conductant, a secretive early-stage startup founded by people with experience building software to automate the process of deploying code at scale. Bill Farner, cofounder and chief executive of Conductant who has formerly worked […]... →

It’s only a paper game. Nintendo announced Paper Mario: Color Splash for the Wii U today. Mario is Nintendo’s biggest star, and any new game featuring the plumber is a big deal. This is the first Mario role-playing game to come out for consoles since Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for the GameCube in 2004 […]... →

Nintendo is bringing new items and modes to the best game of 2015. Super Mario Maker gets an update on March 9 that provides new tools to change the way you make levels. Additionally, the build-your-own-Mario-course game is getting a Super Expert mode that will have you going through six hyper-difficult levels. You can only […]... →

Good luck! In today’s Nintendo Direct, the company revealed that Star Fox Zero will come out for the Wii U on April 22. The physical version will also come with Star Fox: Guard, a tower-defense style game also for the Wii U. You can also download both games separately as digital releases. Star Fox Zero […]... →

In the United States, doctors are dealing with a changing landscape. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies are paying them for the quality of care rather than for the number of patients served. But to properly measure this requires hundreds of hours manually extracting, organizing, and reporting the data. Able Health developed a service to automate […]... →

ANALYSIS: Despite the volume of, ahem, material revealed prior to the show, this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain still proved to be one of the more exciting conventions in recent years. Almost every major phone manufacturer had significant products to show off, save for a few noteworthy omissions (looking at you, Microsoft and Motorola). What follows […]... →