The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, January 9

App Store broke its sales record on New Year's Day Google plans US auto insurance comparison shopping site, says analyst IT News Daily January 09, 2015 The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, January 9 CISPA is back! ... Snowden says hack-backs are a bad choice ... Google wants a cut of the US insurance market... and more news of the day. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. App Store broke its sales record on New Year's Day 2. Google plans US auto insurance comparison shopping site, says analyst 3. EFF lays out plan to end online harassment 4. Facebook buys video tech startup QuickFire Networks 5. How to prepare for Verizon's 2-day cloud shutdown 6. Microsoft abruptly dumps public Patch Tuesday alerts App Store broke its sales record on New Year's Day Appy New Year! (Sorry, I had to.) Apple announced that Jan. 1, 2015 was "the single biggest day ever in App Store sales history," with customers spending nearly half a million dollars on both apps and in-app purchases on that day alone. READ MORE Google plans US auto insurance comparison shopping site, says analyst Google may soon pilot a comparison shopping site for auto insurance in the U.S., as well as acquire an insurance shopping site in San Francisco to give it a head start, according to a research analyst. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Box Cloud File Sharing Solutions: Box vs. Dropbox This report is recommended for any growing business or company considering an investment in enterprise content collaboration and cloud file sharing. Both let users access important content simply and securely, on any device: desktop, laptop, phone or tablet. Learn more EFF lays out plan to end online harassment READ MORE Facebook buys video tech startup QuickFire Networks Facebook is acquiring QuickFire Networks, a video processing and transcoding company that should help the social network deliver video more efficiently to its users as more of it shows up in their feeds. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Sungard Availability Services and EMC Pros and Cons of Cloud-Recovery Services Looking to drive positive business outcomes? New research from IDG shows that organizations are increasingly turning to cloud and recovery services to do exactly this. Meanwhile the volume of IT services - including cloud and recovery services - provided by third parties continues to explode. Click here to read more. Learn more How to prepare for Verizon's 2-day cloud shutdown READ MORE Microsoft abruptly dumps public Patch Tuesday alerts For the first time in a decade, Microsoft today did not give all customers advance warning of next week's upcoming Patch Tuesday slate. Instead, the company suddenly announced it is dropping the public service and limiting the alerts and information to customers who pay for premium support. 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) 2015 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. **