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Creepy Girl-Stalking App Girls Around Me Has Been Yanked From The App Store — Notorious girl stalking app Girls Around Me has been pulled from the App Store. — Girls Around Me — the creepy geo-location app that allowed you to stalk and find personal information about girls … | Amit Runchal / Interactioned: |
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| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
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RIM Weighs Bleak Options — Research In Motion Ltd.'s new chief executive faces two bleak options: Attempt a bold turnaround of the embattled BlackBerry maker, or find a willing buyer. Neither will be an easy task. — RIM said sales of BlackBerrys fell sharply in the latest quarter …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
French ‘Three Strikes’ Law Slashes Piracy, But Fails to Boost Sales — It's a cheerful day for the copyright industry. In France the controversial “graduated response” law (Hadopi) has evaporated unauthorized file-sharing. — A new report from the Hadopi office, conveniently written …
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| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
OMGPOP Draws Zynga's Daily User Traffic Up By 25% — As the dust settles after Zynga's purchase of New York mobile social game developer OMGPOP, the company is visibly taking on a new shape. A 25% larger and more mobile one. That's the percentage growth of its total daily active user base …
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| Somini Sengupta / New York Times: |
With Advance Warning, Bracing for Attack on Internet by Anonymous — SAN FRANCISCO — On a quiet Sunday in mid-February, something curious attracted the attention of the behind-the-scenes engineers who scour the Internet for signs of trouble. There, among the ubiquitous boasts posted …
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| Zee / The Next Web: |
A Round Up of ALL of Google's April Fools Jokes. Fair play, they really make an effort... If there's one thing Google clearly does better than its competing tech giants, it's April Fools. We were honestly having difficulty writing up pieces on each of Google's announcements as they flew … | Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Ozon: Surviving the Long Winter of the Russian Internet — When you describe an international company as the “fill-in-the-blank-Western-Internet- giant” of “fill-in-the-blank-BRIC-country” it makes the whole thing sound like a fail-proof formula. — As if you can take a concept that has already … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Smartbooks redux: Qualcomm promises ultrathin quad-core laptops — Windows 8 may bring a failed computer category back from the dead: in late 2009, Qualcomm promised that an ARM-based laptop computer called a “Smartbook” would change the industry, and today, PCWorld reports that the company is promising ARM-based laptops once again.
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| Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
Obama to sign pro-crowdfunding JOBS Act into law Thursday — A piece of legislation designed to make crowdfunding a legal option for startups will be passed into law as President Barack Obama plans to sign the JOBS Act Thursday, VentureBeat has confirmed. — The Jumpstart Our Business Startups … | Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Debunking Senator Al Franken On Google, The Internet & Privacy — I liked Al Franken as a comedian. I liked the idea of him becoming a US Senator. I definitely like the idea that he wants to defend Americans from potential privacy problems. But I don't like that he sounds like an uneducated senator of old.| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
E-books settlement talks advancing: sources — (Reuters) - The Justice Department could reach a settlement in the next few weeks with Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and some of the major publishers suspected of colluding to push up electronic book prices, according to two people close to the negotiations.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
SecondMarket Lays Off 10 Percent in Light of Facebook IPO — SecondMarket, the marketplace for private company shares that built much of its business on pre-IPO interest in Facebook equity, laid off 10 percent of its staff today. Prior to the layoffs, the New York City-based company employed approximately 150 people.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
TweetDeck back online, unauthorized access was ‘random’ and likely never ‘used maliciously’ — TweetDeck, taken down earlier today, is now back online for everybody. The original issue appeared when a user in Australia discovered he was able to access hundreds of Twitter and Facebook accounts.| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
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