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04:22 06.02.2016

Uber Drivers Plan Strike During Super Bowl Weekend

Uber has slashed driver wages in the last month, with some reportedly earning less than minimum wage. Now drivers are planning a protest in San Francisco right when they could be significantly increasing their hourly pay. The city expects roughly 300,000 visitors to begin pouring in this weekend for the Super Bowl and that means a very real increase in traffic and Uber ride requests. Uber,… Read More... →

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02:40 06.02.2016

The Pirate Bay now uses Torrents Time to let you stream all its movies and TV shows

On Tuesday, a new simple solution for streaming torrents directly in your browser showed up on the Web. By Friday, infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay had already adopted it. Torrents Time provides an embedded torrent client that lets users download and play the files inside torrents with one click. There is no need to […]... →

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02:15 06.02.2016

Watch us play Unravel, an adorable puzzle platformer from Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts isn’t a gaming publisher known for taking a ton of risks these day, but it is giving at least one smaller, unknown game a chance in 2016. Next week, EA and developer ColdWood Interactive will release Unravel, a puzzle platformer, for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The game puts players in the […]... →

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02:01 06.02.2016

LinkedIn sheds $11 billion on stock’s worst day since debut

(by Supantha Mukherjee and Tenzin Pema for Reuters) — LinkedIn Corp’s shares closed down 43.6 percent on Friday, wiping out nearly $11 billion of market value, after the social network for professionals shocked Wall Street with a revenue forecast that fell far short of expectations. The stock plunged as much as 46.5 percent to a […]... →

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01:45 06.02.2016

Big in Tehran: Inside Iran’s $140M console and PC market

GUEST: I’ve chalked up 2015 revenue for the PC and console games market in Iran to approximately $140 million, based on research firm Newzoo’s latest data, and project it to grow to $167 million this year. But the majority of this is hard to measure or accurately track because it lurks in gray and black markets […]... →

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01:32 06.02.2016

Microsoft And GoPro Sign Patent Licensing Deal For File Storage Technology

Microsoft, though its Microsoft Licensing LLC, and GoPro today announced that they have signed a collaborative patent licensing deal for “certain file storage and other system technologies.” “This agreement with GoPro shows the incredible breadth of technology sharing enabled through patent transactions,” said Nick Psyhogeos, president of Microsoft Technology Licensing,… Read More... →

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01:10 06.02.2016

Ubisoft hypes up Trackmania Turbo’s VR capabilities with 360-degree video app

Someone should follow the money to see if Ubisoft chief executive Yves Guillemot has invested heavily in Dramamine or a barf-bag company because his publisher is preparing to release a game that I’m not sure anyone will have the stomach to handle in virtual reality. Trackmania Turbo, the attention deficit disorder of racing games, is bringing […]... →

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01:00 06.02.2016

Meet The People Vying For The First-Ever Diversity Crunchie Award

In case you haven’t noticed, diversity and inclusion are really important in tech, which is why we’ve stepped up our diversity coverage and have decided to present the first-ever award for diversity, the Include Diversity Award, at the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards on Monday, February 8. The Include Diversity Award goes to the person who has made the biggest contributions to… Read More... →

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00:18 06.02.2016

Revolut Gets More Funding For Its Mobile Foreign Exchange Service

British startup Revolut just closed its seed round. After announcing having raised $2.3 million this Summer, the company has added a couple of new investors. In total, the company has raised $4.8 million (£3.2 million) from Index Ventures, Balderton Capital, Seedcamp and Point Nine, Venrex and business angels. Read More... →

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00:12 06.02.2016

Daily Search Forum Recap: February 5, 2016

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

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00:05 06.02.2016

Gillmor Gang LIVE 02.05.16

Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today 1-2:30pPT. Join our LIVE chat during the live show broadcast here through Chat Center Gillmor Gang on Facebook HERE Our sister show G3 on Facebook HERE The entire archive of G3 shows on Ustream Read More... →

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00:00 06.02.2016

Don’t Sleep On New Data Privacy Regulations

Chalk it up to the Snowden Effect. Although it has been nearly three years since Edward Snowden turned the world on its head by releasing a trove of highly sensitive documents, the ripples of his decision are still being felt broadly. To that end, the European Union recently finalized the text of what looks to be the world’s single most significant — and severe — data privacy… Read More... →

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23:46 05.02.2016

Wevr Raises $25M, Announces Cross-Platform VR Content Network

It’s a question on a lot of entrepreneurs’ minds: will the virtual reality space need replica networks for everything? Will the unique input and interface needs of VR lead to there being a Facebook for VR, a Twitch for VR and a Gmail for VR? Today, Wevr is launching a private beta of Transport, a video platform that may have the potential to be the YouTube for virtual reality… Read More... →

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23:46 05.02.2016

Hacker hijacks Dridex botnet to serve free antivirus

If you need a reminder that the term “hacker” should not have a negative connotation, this one is for you. Security firm Avira recently noticed that someone had hijacked the Dridex botnet to send users its free antivirus software, instead of malware. A botnet (a term formed from the words robot and network) is a […]... →

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23:44 05.02.2016

11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week

This week, Alphabet surpassed Apple as the most valuable public company in the world, China released HD true-color photos of the moon, and IBM made three acquisitions. Here are the stories to catch you up on this week’s tech news. Read More... →

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23:44 05.02.2016

Bay Area Airbnb Hosts Get Less Than They Bargained For During The Big Game

As Super Bowl 50 draws near, some Airbnb hosts are hoping for a substantial payout. Crazy listings are popping up – this home is going for $6000 a night. If that’s out of your price range, how about sharing a room for only $1300 per night? The thought process seems solid – an estimated million people descending on the already housing-strained San Francisco Bay area. With… Read More... →

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23:40 05.02.2016

BMW-backed valet startup, Zirx, kills off consumer business to focus on enterprise

Zirx, perhaps the second-most hyped startup in the we’ll park your car nook of the tech industry — see: Luxe — announced today that it plans to shut down its consumer business at the end of the month. The BMW-backed company, however, isn’t going away completely. Zirx writes that it “made the tough choice to close our consumer valet parking service […]... →

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23:39 05.02.2016

ZIRX Is Shutting Down Its Consumer Valet Service To Focus On Its Enterprise Business

ZIRX, an on-demand valet startup, is shutting down its consumer service at the end of the month, according to an email that the company sent out to ZIRX members today. The company confirmed the move in a blog post. However, the company isn’t shutting down. ZIRX is shifting its focus to its enterprise service that offers parking to companies, while shuttering its consumer valet service… Read More... →

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23:22 05.02.2016

Twitter says it’s ‘suspended over 125,000 accounts’ related to terrorism

Twitter today said it had suspended more than 125,000 accounts that were used to make threats about or promote terrorist activity, especially as it pertains to ISIS. “Like most people around the world, we are horrified by the atrocities perpetrated by extremist groups. We condemn the use of Twitter to promote terrorism and the Twitter […]... →

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23:10 05.02.2016

BlackBerry confirms layoffs, but not magnitude

BlackBerry has confirmed a MobileSyrup report that the company recently laid off employees at its Canadian headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario. There is a discrepancy, however, concerning the magnitude of the reduced head count. The report, based on anecdotal tips from multiple sources, characterizes the layoffs as “significant”: 35 percent of the location’s workforce, or about 1,000 […]... →

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