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Tweets still must flow — One year ago, we posted “The Tweets Must Flow,” in which we said, … As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there.
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| Nancy Messieh / The Next Web: |
Twitter isn't censoring you. Your government is. — It's barely been a day since Twitter made the announcement that, going forward, tweets could be censored based on the local laws that govern a user's location, and the rumour mill is hard at work trying to figure out the reasons behind the decision.
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| Zeynep Tufekci / technosociology: |
Why Twitter's new policy is helpful for free-speech advocates — I know many people are upset at Twitter's announcement that it will now be able to block tweets country by country. There has been a lot of excellent writing / reporting on the content explaining that this is not as bad as it looks.
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Twitter Now Able To Censor Tweets, If Required By Law, On A Country-By-Country Basis — Until now, Twitter's not had the ability to censor certain tweets or accounts, to prevent them from being seen — if legally required — by users in particular countries.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Former Palm Head Jon Rubinstein Leaves Hewlett-Packard — Jon Rubinstein, the former Apple executive who took over handheld maker Palm and moved with it to Hewlett-Packard in a 2010 acquisition, has left HP effective today, AllThingsD has learned. — Rubinstein is said to have no immediate plans … | Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook responds to claims of factory worker mistreatment: “We care about every worker in our supply chain” — This morning, The New York Times published a lengthy report with details about the harsh conditions of working in the factories of an Apple parts supplier or Apple product manufacturer.
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| Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog: |
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
For $2 a Star, a Retailer Gets 5-Star Reviews — Agencies like the Federal Trade Commission have been trying to crack down on online product reviews that do not disclose the connection between a merchant and the person doling out the praise. — Big Victory on Internet Buoys Lobby
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook Readies IPO Filing for Next Week — Facebook Inc. could file papers for an initial public offering as early as next week and is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter for its IPO, said people familiar with the matter. — Facebook could file papers for the IPO …
Tweets: @tomperrotta
| Brandon Miniman / pocketnow.com: |
HTC Sense 4.0: First Impressions — We recently had the opportunity to check out a non-final build of HTC Sense 4.0 which will be likely be first seen on the rumored HTC Ville (pictured above) and the HTC Edge. For HTC, Sense represents a point of differentiation among a sea of Android devices … | Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Page Rage Escalates As Google Cancels Twitter Android Meeting — We've heard from insiders that Google's PR strategy to the Don't Be Evil toolbar bombshell- which exposed just how much the search giant is meddling with search results- is just to stay quiet until it blows over.| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Dear Google: Crappy Results Like This Don't Give The Impression You Care About Search — The debate about what should — and shouldn't — show in a Google search result for “santorum” has been well-documented, at this point. But I'd like to use this now famous search to illustrate something else …
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Samsung loses second German 3G patent lawsuit against Apple — One week after dismissing Samsung's first German patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, the Mannheim Regional Court also rejected Samsung's second complaint. — Either complaint related to the 3G/UMTS wireless telecommunications standard.
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Feature: The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big—and we mean big—data — Consider the tech it takes to back the search box on Google's home page: behind the algorithms, the cached search terms, and the other features that spring to life as you type in a query sits … | Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: |
Warner Bros. now adding restrictions to your Netflix DVD queue — Giant media company Warner Brothers might be taking further steps to ensure that its updated distribution strategy for newly released DVD movies has the maximum effect — regardless of how petty the company may seem as a result.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Google Spent Nearly $2 Billion On 79 Acquisitions In 2011 — Yesterday, Google filed its 10-K with the SEC, revealing the number of acquisitions and money spent on these purchases in the year. As of Q3, Google had spent over $1.4 billion on 55 acquisitions for the year.
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| Electronista: |
New RIM chief tries rival devices, vows ‘a lot’ of change — RIM CEO willing to try opponents' devices, more — New info trickling out from a CrackBerry interview with new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins may assuage some early fears that he was locked into his predecessors' management style.
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| Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: |
Google's “Trusted Photographers” Turns Business Photos Into A Self-Serve Product — Google is hoping to expand its Business Photos product with the launch of a new service called “Trusted Photographers” that essentially makes the process entirely self-service.| Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine: |
Analyst: Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet Have 40% of Android Tablet Sales — Strategy Analytics raised a lot of eyebrows earlier today with a report that said Android tablets accounted for 39 percent market share in Q4 2011, up from 29 percent a year ago. The iPad's share dropped from 68.2 percent to 57.6 percent.| Luke Fretwell / FedScoop: |
U.S. CTO Chopra to Step Down — U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra at FedTalks 2011 — Sources close to the White House have confirmed that U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra will announce he is stepping down on Friday. No information was provided on his future plans … | Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Hawaiian politician backs away from Web dossier law — A Web site attacking Hawaii Rep. Kym Pine that appears to have given birth to the H.B. 2288 dossier bill — A Hawaii politician who proposed requiring Internet providers to record every Web site their customers visit is now backing away from the controversial legislation.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Polish Politicians Don Guy Fawkes/Anonymous Masks To Protest ACTA Signing — There's been lots of talk today about how various EU governments are agreeing to sign ACTA (which still needs to be ratified by the EU Parliament). It's gotten the most attention in Poland, where there were mass protests … | Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
Internet economy set to hit $4.2T in 2016, half of world's population will be online — The Internet economy among G-20 nations is expected to nearly double by 2016, reaching $4.2 trillion (up from $2.3 trillion in 2010), according to a projection released today by the Boston Consulting Group.| Matt Rosoff / Business Insider: |
Google: “Ads Are Just More Answers” — When a user searches Google, the ads are just as important as the answers. — At least that's what Google says in its annual financial report filed with the SEC this afternoon. — The company lists new ad formats as one of the big things it changed in 2012:
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| Paul Farhi / Washington Post: |
How Siri is ruining your cellphone service — Paul Farhi covers media for The Post. — Like a few million other people this past holiday season, we bought an iPhone 4S, with its much-hyped Siri feature. The vocal interface allows users to speak all kinds of commands into the phone …
| Kim Zetter / Wired.com: |
Symantec: We Didn't Know in 2006 Source Code Was Stolen — Anti-virus giant Symantec says it did not know back in 2006 that source code for its software was stolen when it experienced a breach at that time. — The company surprised the public last week when it disclosed that hackers … Sponsor Posts
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