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HP’s enterprise printers get NFC-based smartphone authentication

Using mobile devices for one-off printing tasks on office printers may not be a big deal, but Hewlett-Packard is trying to mitigate any security risk through direct wireless printing features...

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Veronica Mars donators receive free digital copy after Flixter fail

Fans who collectively donated $5.7 million on Kickstarter to make Veronica Mars were promised they'd be able to watch the movie online the same day it came out in theaters. But many were...

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Nokia takes on Lytro with refocusable images option

In keeping with their promises during the Lumia 1520 launch, the Nokia Refocus imaging app is now available to everything with a PureView camera. The next wave of smartphone cameras aren’t going...

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Mobile ad revenue will explode this year while desktop ads dwindle

Google will see a surge in mobile advertising revenue in 2014 even as revenue from desktop web ads continues to decline, according to a new report from research firm eMarketer. eMarketer...

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Google scraps its banner ad experiment

Harrison Weber is reporting on Venture Beat and Ginn Marvin is reporting on Marketing Land,  that Google is going to scrap its banner ad experiment. Google started showing banner ads last October which...

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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg denies rumors of potential Disney job

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has had talks about becoming the new CEO of Disney, according to the New York Post. The 44-year-old Sandberg already sits on the Disney board and is said...

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German crowdfunding platform Companisto us expanding across Europe

Companisto, a German equity-based crowdfunding platform, has so far raised €4.5 million for the 25 startups it’s chosen to take on. Now it’s expanding with an English-language version that will...

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Big Fish Games to begin accepting Bitcoin payments for games

Gaming enthusiasts are finally able to pay for their habit with bitcoins, after America’s Big Fish Games started accepting the controversial digital currency. Big Fish, which produces games such as Big...

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Xen Project Hypervisor update comes with enhanced ARM support

The Xen Project community, a Collaborative Project hosted at The Linux Foundation, today announced availability of the Xen Project Hypervisor version 4.4 with enhanced ARM support. The latest release also...

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IBM seems to be placing all of its bets on Big Data

IBM is utterly focused on big data and analytics as its future growth engines, according to its annual report published over the weekend. But the company has hedged a little...

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Pinterest unveils the company’s first transparency report

Pinterest on Friday unveiled the company's first transparency report, a document detailing the number of information requests Pinterest received in the past six months from both state and federal government agencies. Unlike other...

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Greek startup raises $1.5 million to expand its cloud-based recruitment platform

Workable, a startup founded in Athens, Greece, that has developed a cloud-based recruitment platform for SMEs, has today confirmed a new investment of $1.5 million led by Greylock IL, the Israel/UK-based...

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