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| Bob Lord / Twitter Blog: |
Keeping our users secure — As you may have read, there's been a recent uptick in large-scale security attacks aimed at U.S. technology and media companies. Within the last two weeks, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have chronicled breaches of their systems …
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digiphile, PC Magazine, ABCNEWS, CNET, Mashable!, The Next Web, PC World, Gizmodo, Marketing Land, digitaltrends.com, Forbes, CNN, Ars Technica, The Register, TechCrunch, Krebs on Security, Daily Mail, ZDNet, Business Insider, Hillicon Valley, GigaOM, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, The Technology Chronicles, VentureBeat, Mercury News, Naked Security, PandoDaily, The Consumerist, Wired, Boing Boing, WinBeta, SlashGear, CBS San Francisco, InfoWorld, The Loop, Neowin, AllTwitter, SocialTimes, FierceCIO:TechWatch News, Securosis Highlights, Daily Dot, The Daily Caller and The Raw Story
Tweets: @marcoarment, @mattrosoff, @andrewlavallee, @gaberivera, @pbump, @tsimonite, @owenthomas, @nk, @chadcat, @csoghoian, @pkedrosky, @dannysullivan, @beschizza and @sg
See also Mediagazer| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Twitter Hacked, 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compromised — Twitter disclosed on Friday evening that its systems had been attacked in the past week by an unidentified group of hackers. As a result of the the attack, the hackers may have had access to the usernames …
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Washington Post, NYT Bits, CNET, ZDNet, New York Times and BestTechie
Tweets: @om, @tim and @dannysullivan
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Sends Out Emails To 250K Users Who ‘May’ Have Been Compromised, Says Hack Was Not Related To Yesterday's Outage — Twitter is sending out emails to 250,000 users it says may have had their accounts compromised in the last week as the site experienced “unusual access patterns that led …
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ReadWrite, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, nbcnews.com and AllTwitter
| Federal Trade Commission: |
Path Social Networking App Settles FTC Charges it Deceived Consumers and Improperly Collected Personal Information from Users' Mobile Address Books — Company also Will Pay $800,000 for Allegedly Collecting Kids' Personal Information without their Parents' Consent
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New York Times, The Next Web, The Verge, CNET, Guardian, Techdirt, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Hillicon Valley, ClickZ, Engadget, PC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, TechSpot, SlashGear, BuzzFeed, digitaltrends.com, VatorNews, Forbes, iPhone Hacks, App Advice, MacRumors, Business Insider, Macgasm, Ars Technica, Computerworld, AllThingsD, epic.org, nbcnews.com and TUAW
| Casey Newton / CNET: |
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EEQJ, NYT Bits, SocialTimes, The Verge, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, AllThingsD, The Next Web, Los Angeles Times and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @jason_diaz. Thanks:@caseynewton
| Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence: |
Exclusive: Eric Schmidt Unloads on China in New Book … Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is brutally clear: China is the most dangerous superpower on Earth. — Corporate Intelligence reviewed preliminary galleys of Schmidt's new book, “The New Digital Age,” (Random House) which debuts in April.
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Daring Fireball, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, The Verge and Business Insider
| Strategy Analytics: |
Apple Becomes Largest Mobile Phone Vendor in United States in Q4 2012 — According to our Wireless Device Strategies (WDS) service, mobile phone shipments grew 4 percent annually to reach 52 million units in the United States during the fourth quarter of 2012.
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BetaNews, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, DailyTech, MacRumors, IntoMobile, iDownloadBlog.com, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, Computerworld, Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, HotHardware.com News, TechSpot, Engadget, Redmond Pie, Tech Trader Daily, Digits, iPhone Hacks, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Examiner, AppleInsider, Inquirer, ITworld.com, PhoneArena, TUAW, FierceMobileIT News, Electronista, Marketing Land, Mashable! and AllThingsD
| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Exclusive: Twitter nears $10 billion valuation — Twitter shares now selling for $9.9 billion. — FORTUNE — Twitter isn't done letting early employees sell shares, Fortune has learned. But the stakes have been raised substantially. — Last Friday, the Financial Times reported that BlackRock … | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
HP closes German site, lays off 850 employees — Summary: The world's number one PC maker by shipments is to close a site in Germany, laying off more than 8 percent of the country's workforce. — Zack Whittaker — Computer manufacturing giant HP will close a site in Germany …
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Yahoo! Finance, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Forbes, PandoDaily and AllThingsD
| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Google sidesteps France link-tax, reaching a €60m deal to help publishers move to the digital age instead — After years of disputes around the digitization of out-of-print works with French book publishers and authors, Google recently announced that its legal battles in France were finally over.
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Reuters, Google, CNET, paidContent, Guardian, PC Magazine, Search Engine Land, The Verge, WebProNews, Reuters, 9to5Google, Engadget, PandoDaily and Electronista. Tweets: @filloux. See also Mediagazer
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft raises the Windows 8 Pro upgrade price to $200, but ignores loophole that lets you buy it for $15 — Exactly two weeks ago, Microsoft announced that it would be increasing the price of the Windows 8 Pro upgrade to $200, a 400 percent price hike from the previous $40, as of February 1.| Jon Buys / OStatic blogs: |
WikiMedia Foundation Releases GeoData For Geotagging Wikipedia — The WikiMedia Foundation has added a new extension to MediaWiki, the foundation for Wikipedia, that adds geographic data for individual wiki articles. Aimed primarily at mobile users, GeoData will make finding information about your present location easy and fun.Sponsor Posts
Channel 9:
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
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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