Thankfully, Software Is Eating The Personal Investing World | Better safe than Siri: Security firm says Apple voice assistant is risky | Panasonic to Launch Smartphones in Japan That Sync With Rice Cookers, TVs | Make Way For More Tech Investment: Index Ventures Raises Another ?350M Fund | PopCap survey shows 44 percent of people play mobile games

Thankfully, Software Is Eating The Personal Investing World

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Liquidity fever is in the air in Silicon Valley. I felt this viscerally last month when a friend from Facebook came to me to talk investing.�A talented engineer who has been at the company for more than five years, my friend just reaped a pretty nice IPO payday.As you might expect, he?s been contacted by a seemingly endless list of investment advisors, slightly different in their approaches but all promising the same things ? a steady hand at the till, privileged access to top flight investment funds, and a portfolio that?s lower risk and higher return than the market.�Fed up with all the competing claims, he has started thinking about investing his money himself. After all, he must be brigh[...]
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Better safe than Siri: Security firm says Apple voice assistant is risky

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Apple’s Siri feature may be good for some casual fun, but it’s bad for company security.
That’s according to F-Secure Vice President�Maria Nordgren, who calls Apple’s iPhone and iPad voice assistant a major security liability for businesses,�technology site V3 is reporting.
“Siri, it’s cute right? I like it, but if you ask it a question, the data is not stored on the iPhone — it goes to a data center in Oregon,”�Nordgren said at a press�conference. “If anyone was interested in that information you’re screwed,”�Nordgren said.
With Siri data in hand, hackers could potentially gain�access to information such as web searches, loca[...]
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Panasonic to Launch Smartphones in Japan That Sync With Rice Cookers, TVs

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Panasonic will launch smartphones that sync with its household appliances, including its ovens and rice cookers, from this summer[...]
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Make Way For More Tech Investment: Index Ventures Raises Another ?350M Fund

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The economic signals coming from Europe are leading some to predict a big drop in startup investments up ahead, but that’s not the message coming from one of the region’s biggest VC firms. Index Ventures has just announced a new fund of ?350 million ($442 million), which it intends to use for early-stage investments in the tech sector covering seed, Series A and Series B investments that will ultimately split between�30 venture startups and 40 seed companies in Europe, or looking to do more in Europe as well as internationally.
A primary reason for the fund is that despite the millions in European tech funding to date, it’s still only a patch on what could be invested.[...]
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PopCap survey shows 44 percent of people play mobile games

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?Mobile games continue to vie with social games as the hottest sector�of the video game industry and that trend shows no sign of waning,? said�Dennis Ryan, PopCap’s vice president of worldwide publishing.�?Smartphone�adoption continues apace and tablet adoption has added considerable�fuel to the fire. Even more important, consumers are embracing the�shift toward freemium games and other add-on game content purchases,�driving the dramatic and rapid shift in the forms of monetization�being used by developers and publishers.?
You can see the full results�here.
Design is determining the winners in everything mobile. The most successful players are focusing on one thing: How to make product[...]
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