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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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| 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 … | Path: |
Path and the FTC — Today the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it reached a settlement pending court approval with Path regarding alleged violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protections Act (COPPA). The gist of the FTC's complaint is this: early in Path's history …
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| Ben Smith / BuzzFeed: |
The Best Parenting App Is Against The Law — Outdated rules and overzealous regulators mean kids can't use Path. Stop COPPA! — Via: path.com — The Federal Trade Commission levied a $800,000 fine on the social networking service Path Friday morning for having, among other things … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
FTC Still Seems More Interested In Making Headlines Than Really Protecting Privacy — So, the FTC got some press today for announcing a high profile “settlement” with social networking startup Path. You might think that this is entirely about the news that came out a year ago …
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| Casey Newton / CNET: |
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EEQJ, NYT Bits, SocialTimes, The Verge, App Advice, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, Ars Technica, The Next Web, VentureBeat, TechSpot and Federal Trade Commission. Tweets: @jason_diaz. Thanks:@caseynewton
| David Hornik / VentureBlog: |
Secondary Market Stupidity — I have heard of short term memory, but this boarders on amnesia. Were the buyers in this latest secondary transaction (Twitter at $10B) asleep during the Facebook IPO? Did they miss the part where lots of well intentioned “investors” bought Facebook shares at $80B …
| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Washington Post Joins List of News Media Hacked by the Chinese — SAN FRANCISCO — The question is no longer who has been hacked. It's who hasn't? — The Washington Post can be added to the growing list of American news organizations whose computers have been penetrated by Chinese hackers.
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Washington Post, The Next Web, SlashGear, Daily Mail, The Verge, Krebs on Security and Associated Press
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Google shares hit all-time high — The company's stock, which rose to $775.32 today, contrasts with the stock performance of rival Apple. — It's not a bad day to be Google. — The search giant's shares soared to an all-time high today amid hopes it will soon resolve its European antitrust issues.| 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.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Chrome, IE, Silk pry open mobile-browsing market — Newer arrivals on smartphones and tablets have only a small part of the market, but that could be a foot in the door. — New mobile browsers including Google's Chrome, Microsoft's IE, and Amazon's Silk are gaining a foothold …
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Sources: Ziff Davis is close to buying IGN — It's no secret that News Corp. has been trying to sell gaming portal IGN for some time. It even floated an aspirational price to the Wall Street Journal: $100 million. — We've heard all sorts of rumors about who the buyer could be since that article …
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Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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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