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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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| 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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| Ryan Tate / Gawker: |
Don't Forgive Path, the Creepy iPhone Company that Misled Us Once Already — The tech world has been consumed today with news the app Path quietly uploaded users' iPhone address books without permission. Path, in an increasingly common Silicon Valley ritual, apologized and promised it wouldn't happen again.
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| 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 …
Tweets: @parislemon and @mathewi
| Mike Isaac / Wired.com: |
Path CEO: ‘We Thought We Were Doing This Right’ — SAN FRANCISCO, California — “We thought we were doing this the right way. It turns out, we made a mistake.” — Dave Morin, the CEO and creator of social media app Path, tells me this as we sit in his 22nd-floor headquarters in downtown San Francisco.| 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 …
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Thanks:@richardlusk| 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).| 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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| 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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| Wall Street Journal: |
U.S. to Clear Google's 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 of technology patents to deploy in the smartphone wars.
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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 … | 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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| 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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| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft, Google, and Apple talk up “fair and reasonable” patent license fees — Microsoft today issued a brief statement promising to make “essential patents” available to competitors at fair and reasonable licensing rates, and promised not to sue companies making products that infringe these patents.
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| 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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| Jackie Cohen / All Facebook: |
Facebook Hits A New Record High Value Of At Least $103.4 Billion — Facebook stock has blown past even the most bullish estimates to a value of $103.4 billion to $110 billion, based on today's SharesPost auction closing at $44 per share. — The $103.4 billion figure is based … | Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Foxconn hacked by group called SwaggSec, here's what they are looking at... Hacker group SwaggSec just released a dump of Foxconn internal information, including a mail server login/password dump and logins to various online procurement sites and Intranets. The hack seems to be a retaliation …
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| 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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MacNN, CNET and NBC Bay Area
| 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 …
| 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.
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