Rakuten buys shopping site Ebates for $1 billion

Jawbone doubles battery life, makes fun of smartwatches PayPal subsidiary Braintree to process Bitcoin payments IT News Daily September 09, 2014 Rakuten buys shopping site Ebates for $1 billion Japanese online shopping giant Rakuten has added another company to its cart with the acquisition of Ebates, a cash-back shopping website. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Jawbone doubles battery life, makes fun of smartwatches 2. PayPal subsidiary Braintree to process Bitcoin payments 3. Tech industry groups ask US Senate to 'swiftly pass' NSA curbs 4. Home Depot confirms breach of its payment systems 5. FireChat's developer wants to give IoT a mesh-network boost 6. Chef muscles up with Microsoft, Amazon Jawbone doubles battery life, makes fun of smartwatches Jawbone has doubled the battery life of its UP24 activity monitor wristband to two weeks through a firmware update. READ MORE PayPal subsidiary Braintree to process Bitcoin payments Online payments platform Braintree will start processing Bitcoin transactions, allowing merchants to accept payments in the crypto-currency. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: SAS What Kind of Big Data Problem Do You Have? Everyone's still talking about big data - and for good reason. It's continuing to grow as the use of computers, mobile devices and the Internet continues to increase. This paper will give you a crash course in how one company categorizes analytic problems and the best technologies to address them. Learn more>> Tech industry groups ask US Senate to 'swiftly pass' NSA curbs Tech industry organizations have written a letter to leaders in the U.S. Senate, to ask them to swiftly pass the USA Freedom Act, legislation that is expected to end the collection of bulk domestic phone data by the National Security Agency. READ MORE Home Depot confirms breach of its payment systems Home Depot said Monday that its payment systems had been breached, potentially affecting any customers who shopped at its stores in the U.S. and Canada since April. READ MORE RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IDG TV IDG.tv is now live! Watch all the latest videos from IDG's global network of technology experts, all teed up in searchable channels with a fun, fresh look. Click to continue FireChat's developer wants to give IoT a mesh-network boost Internet of Things devices that are too small to reach the Internet by themselves will get help from a vast network of nearby smartphone users if the latest plan from FireChat vendor Open Garden succeeds. READ MORE Chef muscles up with Microsoft, Amazon Chef, a popular open source software program for managing the configuration settings of servers, software and other IT components, now can reach deeper into the data center with the help of some intertwined services from Microsoft, VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS). READ MORE Follow IT News You are currently subscribed to itnews_daily as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com To contact IT News, please send an e-mail to online@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2014 IT News, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **