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| Dave Morin / Path Blog: |
We are sorry. — We made a mistake. Over the last couple of days users brought to light an issue concerning how we handle your personal information on Path, specifically the transmission and storage of your phone contacts. — As our mission is to build the world's first personal network …
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Tweets: @jspepper, @ethank, @davewiner, @loic, @anildash, @robpegoraro, @digiphile, @robinwauters and @nickbilton
| Dustin Curtis / dcurt.is: |
Stealing Your Address Book — It's not really a secret, per se, but there's a quiet understanding among many iOS app developers that it is acceptable to send a user's entire address book, without their permission, to remote servers and then store it for future reference.
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ZDNet, kottke.org, parislemon, Tweetage Wasteland, Gizmodo and TechCrunch
| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
FYI. Dave Morin Didn't Lie To Gawker About Path Storing User Data — Some people always see the good in people and some people always see the bad ... Gawker just published a post with what at first seems to be some pretty damning evidence against Path founder Dave Morin …
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| Ryan Tate / Gawker: |
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| Mike Isaac / Wired.com: |
| Colleen Taylor / GigaOM: |
| Groupon, Inc.: |
Groupon Announces Fourth Quarter 2011 Results — Revenue of $506.5 million, up 194% year-over-year Free Cash Flow of $155.1 million, up 258% year-over-year Operating Income of $15.0 million, up from $336.1 million loss Non-GAAP EPS of negative $0.02, including $0.07 of tax from international operations …
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| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
Alleged iPad 3 casing photo appears, sources say coming soon with improved GPU but no quad-core, thicker profile — Today the Apple rumor mill is fixated on a photo doing the rounds which allegedly shows the back housing of the next iPad (the iPad 3, or iPad HD, depending on who you talk to).| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
First Windows 8 ‘Consumer Preview’ preinstalled apps revealed — Microsoft's Windows 8 “Consumer Preview” is nearing release and the company is putting the finishing touches on the preinstalled application list. We have learned from sources familiar with Microsoft's plans that the company … | Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog: |
| TuneCorner Music Blog: |
Apple's iTunes Match (aka iMatch): The First Royalties Are In — The first royalty payments from iMatch are in, and they got me excited - the total amount is over $10,000 for the first two months. — This is magic money that Apple made exist out of thin air for copyright holders. — Let me explain:
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Why we are buying paidContent — First the news: Yes, the rumors are true. We are indeed buying the assets of ContentNext Media from Guardian News & Media Limited. And no, we are not disclosing the terms of the deal, except that we are buying the entire group of properties — paidContent.org … | Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Why Techmeme now lists events, and how to get your event listed — Events have always played an important role in the tech industry. Knowledge exchange and networking opportunities have long been a key draw, as Apple's history attests. The motivations for meeting have certainly expanded since the 1970s.
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bub.blicio.us. Tweets: @sacca, @anildash, @eldon, @kessler, @mparekh, @om, @jlgolson, @jspepper, @arnoldkim, @fromedome, @dsilverman, @efeng, @yannr and @mittix
| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Near Launch of Cloud Storage Service — Google Inc. is close to launching a cloud-storage service that would rival one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups, cloud-storage provider Dropbox Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. — Like Dropbox, Google's storage service …
| Joe Mullin / Wired: |
Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free — The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, testified in a courtroom Tuesday for the first time in his life. The web pioneer flew down from Boston, where he teaches at M.I.T., to an eastern Texas federal court to speak to a jury …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Justice Department Poised to Clear Google-Motorola Deal — WASHINGTON—The U.S. Justice Department is poised to clear Google Inc.'s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, giving Google a powerful armory …
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| Amazon.com: |
Amazon Announces Increased Prime Instant Video Selection for Kindle Fire and Prime Customers via Digital Video License Agreement with Viacom — Prime Instant Video now offers thousands of TV episodes from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, BET, CMT and Logo …
| Grant Gross / PC World: |
EPIC Sues FTC Over Google's Planned Privacy Changes — The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, asking a court to force the agency to take action against Google over planned changes in the company's collection of personal data.
| Matt Lynley / Business Insider: |
Facebook Updates Its IPO Filing To Confirm Its Special Relationship With Zynga — Find out more out the future of disruptive technology and companies like Facebook, Google, Zynga, Disney, NBC and more at IGNITION West! — Facebook and Zynga do indeed have a special arrangement … | David Goldman / CNNMoney.com: |
The iPhone is a nightmare for carriers — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The iPhone may be great for consumers, but takes a nasty toll on wireless carriers' bottom line. — Apple's ( AAPL, Fortune 500) iconic smartphone has almost single-handedly devastated profit margins for Verizon and AT&T. Sprint …
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Foxconn hacked by group called SwaggSec, here's what they are looking at... A hacker group called SwaggSec just released a dump of Foxconn internal information including a mail server login/password dump as well as logins to various online procurement sites and Intranets.
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| Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter: |
Chrome 17 has Arrived: Features Safer Downloads and Smarter Prerendering — Google just released version 17 of its popular Chrome browser. Given its rapid release schedule and its various beta and developer channels, there are no major surprises in this release.
| Mary Ann Azevedo / bizjournals: |
Apple moving 400 to Sunnyvale Town Center … is moving into a new 156,000-square-foot office building in the Sunnyvale Town Center, an embattled property that has been at the center of litigation for nearly three years. — Apple will be moving about 400 people into the building on South Mathilda …
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CNET, MacNN and NBC Bay Area
| Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Social Games: |
Developers say Facebook Credits is converting fewer paying users than they had hoped — Facebook's top developers say the company's payments infrastructure and virtual currency Credits are converting fewer paying users than they had hoped a year ago. — Facebook made it mandatory …
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| Foursquare Blog: |
Finding places on the go has never been easier - check out the new Explore for your phone! — Everyone needs recommendations on the go. Your dinner date just went swimmingly, now where's a great place to get dessert, or see some live music? Or maybe you're looking to grab lunch … Sponsor Posts
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Reimagine your photos with a prompt — Our new native image generation and editing is state-of-the-art, and ranked #1 in the world. Try it for free in the Gemini app.
F5:
Securing AI models and agents in the enterprise — The new AI stack creates a highly dynamic attack surface, and traditional controls aren't keeping up. F5's recent acquisition will bring advanced AI guardrails to enterprise apps.
Securing AI models and agents in the enterprise — The new AI stack creates a highly dynamic attack surface, and traditional controls aren't keeping up. F5's recent acquisition will bring advanced AI guardrails to enterprise apps.
Zoho:
Uncover what's new in Zoho Solo with iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 — It's that time of the year again when we get to bring you exciting new updates in Zoho Solo, all built to complement the latest from Apple.
Uncover what's new in Zoho Solo with iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 — It's that time of the year again when we get to bring you exciting new updates in Zoho Solo, all built to complement the latest from Apple.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
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