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When the Most Personal Secrets Get Outed on Facebook — AUSTIN, Texas—Bobbi Duncan desperately wanted her father not to know she is lesbian. Facebook told him anyway. — One evening last fall, the president of the Queer Chorus, a choir group she had recently joined …
Tweets: @jerkob, @davewiner and @dsilverman
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U.S. Suspects Iranians Were Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks — WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that Iran was the origin of a serious wave of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached financial institutions in the United States … | Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Amazon to Kindle customers: There's an antitrust refund incoming — Amazon has begun notifying Kindle users that they may have a refund on ebook purchases in the pipeline, in the aftermath of the antitrust settlement around price-fixing by publishers. The message, sent out to users … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Findery, Caterina Fake's Startup Previously Named ‘Pinwheel’, Debuts In Public Beta — Findery, the new location-based note sharing startup from Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake, launched in public beta yesterday afternoon. — Findery lets you take photos and notes from specific locations … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
LulzSec hacker “neuron” pleads guilty to Sony Pictures security breach — An Arizona man has admitted to hacking a Sony Pictures website and making off with personal information for thousands of individuals as part of a campaign by the LulzSec collective. — Raynaldo Rivera …
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Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5X Returns Overall — Editor's note: Robert Wiltbank, PhD, is a professor at Willamette University, where he and Wade Brooks run an angel investing fund managed by second-year MBA students. He is on the board of the Angel Resource Institute … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Obama and Romney talk technology policy in letters to the NY Tech Meetup — In the middle of this week, the New York Tech Meetup posted two letters that it had received, one apiece from the two leading presidential candidates. The Meetup had sent a letter to both campaigns, asking for the following:
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Report: Majority Of FTC Commissioners Want Antitrust Action Against Google, But Vertical Search Might Not Be Issue — Reuters is reporting that majority of those on the US Federal Trade Commission believe an antitrust case should be brought against Google. But if action comes …
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TNL.net, Neowin, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, New York Times, OSDir.com, Reuters and Techdirt
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Asus Vivo Tab RT pre-sales begin, first Windows RT tablet starts at $599.99 — We were warned that Windows RT tablets wouldn't be cheap, and those warnings have now been confirmed. The Asus Vivo Tab RT, formerly known as the Tablet 600, is now available for pre-order for $599.99 …
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Amazon lays out Kindle Paperwhite limitations including uneven lighting and lack of audio — The Kindle Paperwhite is proving to be a hit with consumers, but Amazon's latest e-reader isn't without its quirks. Among those are uneven light distribution, lack of text-to-speech audio …
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ICANN to replace Digital Archery program with gTLD domain raffle — ICANN hopes to use a lottery to decide which new top-level domain applications will be evaluated first — The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has proposed holding an old-fashioned raffle to determine …
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Domain Name Wire, Slashdot and gTLD Strategy Blog
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Deutsche Telekom aims closing MetroPCS deal in second-quarter 2013: report — (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) aims to complete the merger of its T-Mobile U.S. unit with MetroPCS (PCS.N) between April and June 2013, Chief Financial Officer Timotheus Hoettges told a German newspaper.
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Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena, Techie Buzz and Engadget
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What Workday's IPO Success Says About Software — Enterprise software firm Workday finally debuted in the public markets this week. It did so in an anything but Facebook-like manner. The target price was raised before the IPO, but conservatively enough to leave a 73% pop in the stock at the start of trading.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
It's Done: Early Hulu Investor Providence Equity Partners Has Sold Its Stake For $200M — It's been a long time coming, but private equity firm Providence Equity Partners has sold its stake in Hulu for $200 million, people familiar with the matter have confirmed.
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Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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