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The taxi industry heard Google’s & Uber’s driver less car plans. 

How do you think leaders of the taxi industry feel about this? 

          

        CEO Alfred LaGasse in an email to VentureBeat. Kalanick’s comment displays the same lack of consideration for people that Uber has shown when it comes to public safety in its transportation business. The TLPA represents 1,100 taxicab and limousine companies globally. While the giant tech company buried the partnership within a larger app update, Uber marketing manager Michael J Fine called the partnership "huge" 

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Pair Two Mini Jam box Speakers for Big Sound   

Jawbone's Mini Jam box now comes with even bigger sound: Update your pocket-sized speaker's firmware to allow a wireless connection between two devices for in unison or separate stereo playback.The new Multi Play function couples two Mini Jam boxes to double the volume and control, without interrupting your audio. Plug in your speaker and download the update online at Jawbone.com, then press and hold all three top buttons on both devices, until you hear a promp searching for another Mini Jam box. 

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Snapchat can no longer legally claim that photos sent over its service are ephemeral, disappear forever and aren't saved, after a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission today. Snapchat is a private messaging app for sending photos that are supposed to disappear automatically after a certain amount of time. The idea is that Alice could send Bob a photo and feel secure that there was no way Bob could save the photo or share it with other people, or that anyone else could accidentally find the photo that was meant only for Bob. 

 

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Jury: Apple should duke it out with Google over patents. 
If Apple thinks Google's Android infringes its mobile tech, the two should go head-to-head, jury members in the Apple v. Samsung trial say. 

 If Apple believes Android features infringe its technology, it should battle directly with Google instead of handset makers, jurors from the Apple v. Samsung patent-infringement trial said. Apple took pains to make its patent-infringement suit all about Samsung, not Android, but the jury wasn't quite convinced.  

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AOL Admits Data Breach Was Behind Spam Surge

       AOL email accounts may have been compromised, and all AOL users are strongly encouraged to change their passwords. The admission came a week after floods of spam were discovered seemingly coming from AOL email addresses. The spam was sent to contacts in AOL users' address books and contained links for diet pills and Android malware.At the time, AOL denied that the company's systems had been hacked into, and insisted that the spammers were spoofing, or forging AOL users email addresses, not actually accessing the accounts. The second assertion turned out to be true, but it didn’t mesh with the denial of a data breach

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Twitter Says Native Ads Will Be Available To All MoPub Publishers Tomorrow. 

MoPub is making native ads available to all of its publishers tomorrow! Today’s MoPub blog post quotes executives from a couple of those early partners, including Flipboard CTO Eric Feng. (That’s Flipboard in the images above.) While the news doesn’t apply directly to ads on Twitter, the acquisition of MoPub is a way for the company to extend its advertising reach beyond Twitter itself (where units like Promoted Tweets are themselves a form of native advertising.)