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Activist hedge fund Starboard buys shares in AOL amid its campaign for a Yahoo-AOL merger.
Tech companies make year-end push in support of USA Freedom Act, which would try to curb NSA spying.
With UnionPay deal, Apple opens App Store to loads and loads of Chinese credit-card holders.
Google is testing Project Loon (Internet-access balloons) in Australia.
Forrester report: Mobile payments will reach $142 billion in 2019.
State Department targeted by hackers, becoming the fourth government agency to announce a breach in past few weeks.
Russia is building an alternative to Wikipedia.
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