Lately the news has had a few articles about how companies like Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo etc. are pushing the government for radical changes to their surveillance policies and demanding better protections for their customers. We have seen new ads focused on explaining how important our data is to them (and in some cases how the other guys are abusing it). The groups lining up and demanding change are many of the same companies that Edward Snowden’s bevy of leaked documents claimed were working hand in hand with the NSA to allow for mass spying on peoples’ data and that in cases where they were not directly cooperating lax security practices allowed for easy retrieval of user information.
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Subscription streaming music service Spotify will soon launch a new free service for streaming music, which will be financed through advertising.
According to the Korean newspaper, Samsung plans to use AMOLED screens in their tablets. Sources say that they should be implemented in 8 and 10 inch models.
Yahoo continues its series of takeovers of smaller companies, and this time they took over the company Ptch, best known for its eponymous application for processing video designed for mobile devices.
Box, one of the most popular service for storing data in the cloud, has collected about $100 million of fresh investment capital, according to company's CEO Aaron Levie. In search for investors they turned to Europe, Japan, Australia and Latin America, since these are regions where they are planning to expand their business. After collecting this amount, the value of the company is estimated at about $2 billion.
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