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Thank you, and we're listening — Yesterday we introduced a new version of our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service that will take effect in thirty days. These two documents help communicate as clearly as possible our relationship with the users of Instagram so you understand how your data will be used …
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See also Mediagazer| Derek Powazek: |
I'm Not The Product, But I Play One On The Internet — “If you're not paying for the product, you are the product.” — I don't know who said it first, but the line has achieved a kind of supernatural resonance online. And for good reason - it describes a kind of modern internet company that provides a free service.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
National Geographic stops posting Instagram photos in response to new terms of service — National Geographic has announced that it will stop posting pictures to Instagram. The move comes after the photo-sharing social network introduced a controversial new terms of service agreement …
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| Stilgherrian / Crikey: |
Users snap over Instagram, but should have seen it coming — The online world was abuzz with Instagram's hardline terms of use changes. But users should know what they're getting themselves in for when using social media platforms. — A frantic fart of fear frothed forth over changes …
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| Mollie Vandor / Twitter Blog: |
Your Twitter archive — It's no secret: You make Twitter what it is. And if you tweet, you may have found yourself wanting to go back in time and explore your past Tweets. Maybe you wanted to recall your reaction to the 2008 election, reminisce on what you said to your partner on your 10th anniversary …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Kodak Agrees To Sell Digital Imaging Patent Portfolio For $525M To Consortium Of 12 Licensees, Including Apple, Google, Facebook — Kodak has agreed to sell its digital imaging portfolio to a consortium of 12 licensees for $525 million, organized by patent-holding company Intellectual Ventures … | Beth Jinks / Bloomberg: |
Apple, Google in Group Buying Kodak Patents — A group including Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc. (GOOG) and Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) agreed to buy patents from bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co. (EKDKQ) for about $525 million, gaining digital-imaging technology to capture and share pictures.
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| Felix Salmon: |
How capitalism breaks the web — I share most if not all of Anil Dash's nostalgia for the web we lost. Once upon a time, in the wake of the dot-com crash, there was a real feeling that the mammals would supplant the dinosaurs, and that the web would increasingly become a real network of individual sites …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Twitter suspends @YourAnonNews, the most popular Anonymous account with almost 800k followers — The Twitter account YourAnonNews, the most popular account belonging to the hacktivist group Anonymous, has been suspended. The account appears to have been disabled at around 11:30AM EST.
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
iOS 6 Adoption Grows 29% Over The Weekend As People Finally Update After Google Maps Arrives — Apple Maps was so bad that people refused to upgrade to iOS 6 until they could get Google Maps, says data from massive mobile ad exchange MoPub. The 12,000 apps it supports saw a 29 percent increase … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple removes popular AppShopper app from sale as it falls afoul of App Store's new app promotion clause — Today brings a high profile removal from the App Store, as the popular AppShopper app is now missing from the store. The removal, publisher Arnold Kim confirmed to us … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Party Shuts Down Pirate Bay Proxy After Legal Threats — After expensive court action earlier this year, a group of music labels achieved their aim of having The Pirate Bay website blocked by ISPs in the UK. — With the official site inaccessible via direct means, many Pirate Bay users switched over to proxy services.
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| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Verizon's Redbox Instant launches in private beta: Unlimited streaming, 4 DVD credits a month — Redbox Instant by Verizon, a joint venture between Redbox and Verizon Communications, is now gradually rolling out to users in private beta after being teased earlier this month.| Andrew Nusca / ZDNet: |
IBM to acquire StoredIQ in big data play — Summary: IBM announced that it will acquire Austin, Texas-based information management firm StoredIQ in a push for more big data capability. — Andrew Nusca — IBM announced this morning that it will acquire StoredIQ, a privately-held information …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How spyware on rental PCs captured users' most intimate moments — Enlarge / As Brian Byrd played poker using a PC purchased from an Aaron's rent-to-own store, PC Rental Agent surreptitiously captured this screen shot. It is one of hundreds of thousands of images siphoned by the software.
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Samsung confirms malware exploit on Galaxy S III and others, ‘to address it as quickly as possible’ — Following news this weekend that an exploit on phones like the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II could allow malicious apps access to user data and other inner workings of the devices … | Stephanie Clifford / New York Times: |
Once Proudly Web Only, Shopping Sites Hang Out Real Shingles — Andy Dunn was fierce about the Internet-only model of his apparel company, Bonobos, after helping to found it in 2007. He gave a speech, “The End of Apparel as We Know It,” arguing that stores were a bad economic decision.
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| Graeme Philipson / ITWire.com: |
.com is so 20th century - Welcome to ICANN's great domain name auction — ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has held its lottery draw for 1,930 new sponsored global top level domains (gTLDs). — Successful bidders will be able to use gTLDs like .christmas and .sport …
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TechWeekEurope UK, ZDNet and Domain Name News
| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Web Retailers Scrap for Last-Hour Sales — WALTON, Ky.—Time is money. And in the fierce holiday-season battle between online and offline sales, a single hour can be worth millions of dollars. — GSI Commerce Inc., a unit of eBay Inc. that handles online shipping for 70 brands including Godiva …
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Fab nabs ‘seven-figure’ investment from Times of India — With investment from Times Internet, the fast-growing e-commerce site will increase its focus on India. — Fast-growing e-commerce site Fab plans to expand its focus on India after taking a “seven-figure investment” from Times Internet …
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Betashop, VentureBeat, GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Next Web, MediaNama and NextBigWhat
| Brian McClendon / The Official Google Blog: |
Count down to Christmas Eve with Google Santa Tracker — While millions of people eagerly await Christmas Day, Santa and his elves are keeping busy at the North Pole. They're preparing presents, tuning up the sleigh, feeding the reindeer and, of course, checking the list (twice!) … | Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Finally: AngelList and SecondMarket team up for legal, controlled look-alike to crowdfunding — In perhaps the worst kept secret in venture history, SecondMarket and AngelList have teamed up to allow accredited investors to legally invest purely online on AngelList for the first time.
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| Cecilia Kang / Washington Post: |
FTC releases landmark update to child online privacy laws — The federal government on Wednesday announced a landmark update to child online privacy laws, establishing new guidelines that make it harder to track a gadget-obsessed generation with constant access to the Web.
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The Verge, Hillicon Valley and Federal Trade Commission
| Zachary Lutz / Engadget: |
AT&T scores WCS spectrum victory, covers 608 markets and 82 percent of Americans — The wireless landscape shifted a bit today, as the FCC has made good on its promise to allow AT&T's deployment of LTE service over the WCS band. In all, the regulatory agency approved Ma Bell's acquisition …
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VentureBeat, GigaOM, Phone Scoop, The Verge and PhoneArena
| Alex Howard / O'Reilly Radar: |
DARPA and Defense Department look to a more open source future — As the United States military marches further into the age of networked warfare, data networks and the mobile platforms to distribute and access them will become even more important. — This fall, the (retired) … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
RIM's BB10 International Strategy Starts Coming Into Shape: Carriers EE, O2, Vodafone Sign Distribution Deals In The UK — BlackBerry maker RIM has clearly been on the phone to its carrier chums in the UK: EE, O2 and Vodafone have all this morning announced they will be offering BlackBerry 10 devices starting … Sponsor Posts
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Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Cloud Foundry:
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:
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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