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Amazon Book Reviews Deleted in a Purge Aimed at Manipulation — Giving raves to family members is no longer acceptable. Neither is writers' reviewing other writers. But showering five stars on a book you admittedly have not read is fine. — After several well-publicized cases involving writers buying … | Suw Charman-Anderson / Forbes: |
Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption — Amazon, the great disintermediator that put a spanner — in fact, a set of 25 spanners in a handy case, yours for just $9.99 — in the businesses of many a retailer, is going to face exactly the same fate if it doesn't start to address its weaknesses soon, particularly in the area of publishing.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Your Facebook Pokes Are Stored For Two Days, Then Their Encryption Keys Are Deleted — Facebook Poke messages self-destruct after a few seconds, but is Facebook saving these potentially embarrassing photos and videos? No. It's deleting them. Pokes are encrypted, and Facebook deletes … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg Is The Voice Behind The “Poke” Notification Sound And Wrote Code For The App — Mark Zuckerberg invented Poking, one of Facebook's earliest features, so it's fitting he was part of the small team that built the new Poke app over the last 12 days.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
After hacker disappears from Twitter, Verizon reveals customer data was leaked by a marketing firm — Verizon is sharing more details about the alleged leak of customer data that occurred over the weekend. The company still insists there was no breach, but the carrier has now revealed …
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Intellectual Ventures: Don't Mind Our 2000 Shell Companies, That's Totally Normal — Back in 2010, we wrote about a report suggesting that Intellectual Ventures was using somewhere around 1000 shell companies to hide many of its patent shakedown attempts. For years, IV itself liked …
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Foxconn Buys Stake In Camera Maker GoPro, Turning Founder Into A Billionaire — Nicholas Woodman, avid surfer and GoPro founder, is now a billionaire. (Photo courtesy of GoPro) — GoPro cameras have become the go-to item for filming extreme sports. The small, high quality video cameras …
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Pirate Bay Censorship Backfires as New Proxies Bloom — As reported earlier, the UK Pirate Party has taken the difficult decision to shut down their Pirate Bay proxy service. — Music industry group BPI threatened legal action against six members of the party, who would each have to risk bankruptcy to fight for their ideals.| Edmund Lee / Bloomberg Tech Blog: |
The New York Times Paywall Is Working Better Than Anyone Had Guessed — The New York Times instituted a paywall on its website last year, a controversial move that has yielded great results. — Ever since the New York Times rolled out its so-called paywall in March 2011, a perennial dispute has waged.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google Chrome 25 will disable silent extension installation, kill all such extensions retroactively — Google on Friday announced that it is changing its stance for silently installing extensions in its browser. As of Chrome 25, external extension deployment options on Windows will be disabled …
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Microsoft Releases Wordament, the First iPhone Game with Xbox Live Achievements — Microsoft has released a game tonight called Wordament for the iPhone. The game has been a popular Windows Phone game, but is now also available on iOS. Wordament was originally a side-project … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Mozilla backpedals on Firefox 64-bit for Windows, will keep nightly builds coming after all — Last month, Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg quietly announced that the 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows would never see the light of day. After what he referred to as …
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