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How Graph Search Works for Young People — We recently we announced the limited preview of Graph Search, a privacy aware enhancement to our existing search tool that helps people discover people, places, photos, and other interests that have already been shared with you on Facebook.
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Opera buys mobile video optimization specialist and browser maker Skyfire for up to $155m — Opera revealed plans to transition its Web browsers to WebKit this week, and the Norwegian firm is making more moves after announcing the acquisition of Skyfire Labs, a mobile video optimization specialist …
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Opera Press Room, AllThingsD, The Register, VentureBeat, CNET, Computerworld, Skyfire, Adotas, Geek.com, AndroidGuys, Mashable!, Web Browser, GigaOM, gHacks Technology News, The Verge, Engadget, GSMArena Blog, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, SlashGear and memeburn. Tweets: @om
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Jonathan Ive gets gold Blue Peter badge — Sir Jonathan Ive was presented with the award by Blue Presenter Barney Harwood — The BBC's Blue Peter programme has honoured Apple's design chief Sir Jonathan Ive with its highest accolade - a gold Blue Peter badge.
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BBC Media Centre, The Next Web, Inquirer, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Business Insider, Telegraph, TUAW, MacDailyNews, Macgasm and iDownloadBlog.com
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Exclusive: HTC One (M7) U.S. retail availability and price revealed — Nearly a week and a half ago, we broke the news that HTC would start selling the HTC M7 in Europe on March 8th. That date was later confirmed by another source, along with a price tag of of €649.99 (roughly $880).| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Staples executives confirm company will soon sell Apple products in the U.S. — In January we reported that Staples appeared set to begin selling Apple products via its U.S. distribution channels. However, Staples' official comment on this (since 2011) was that Apple would not sell Staples its products for U.S. distribution.
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| Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: |
Google must act quickly on libellous Blogger posts, says appeal court — Landmark ruling that tech giant could be liable for comments if it has been notified of them and failed to remove them — Google may have to act quicker to remove potentially libellous posts from its Blogger platform following …
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Source Code for Original 1990 Version of Adobe Photoshop Released — Starting today, you can download a free and legal copy of Photoshop. That's right — free and legal. There's a catch, though: it's the original 1.0.1 version of the program that was released back in 1990.
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Chubby Checker Sues Two Companies For $500 Million Over Wang-Measuring App Downloaded 84 Times — Here's a question that has been keeping me awake for the past several years: what would I call a smart phone application designed to approximate the size of my naughty parts?
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A world of hurt after McAfee mistakenly revokes key for signing Mac apps — Just allow untrusted certificates, one customer told. — Travis Nep Smith — A McAfee administrator accidentally revoked the digital key used to certify desktop applications that run on Apple's OS X platform … | Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
How Lightning Tightens Apple's Control Over Accessories — When the iPhone 5 was released in September with the new Lightning connection port, all those docks and accessories that longtime Apple customers had been collecting for years were suddenly obsolete.
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| Aaron Pressman / Reuters: |
Big hedge funds fueled Apple's 4th-quarter share plunge — Some of the biggest hedge funds that helped make Apple Inc a stock market darling lost faith and dumped their stakes in the fourth quarter, fueling the massive drop in the iPhone maker's share price.
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Apple Working on Fix for iOS 6.1 Passcode Hack — Looks like the latest version of Apple's iOS mobile operating system brought more than just Siri-enabled movie-ticket purchases and iTunes Match enhancements to the devices on which it runs. — A new vulnerability has been discovered …
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| Loek Essers / ITworld.com: |
Facebook can stick with its real name policy for now, German court rules — It is the first step in a litigation process that can take years, the regulator said — Facebook can stick with its real name policy in Germany, and doesn't have to allow nicknames on its platform for now.
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Amazon to investigate claims of worker mistreatment at German warehouse — Amazon has agreed to look into complaints from staff at one of the online retailer's fulfillment centers in Germany. The investigation comes after a German TV station aired a documentary that depicted temporary …
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That Tesla Data: What It Says and What It Doesn't — The Model S at the Tesla Supercharger in the Interstate 95 service plaza in Milford, Conn. — Elon Musk , the chief executive of Tesla Motors, has now responded in detail to the account of my test drive of his Model S electric car …
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Randi Zuckerberg Says Her Book Will Be a ‘Crazy’ Look at the ‘Front Lines’ of Facebook — Taking the next logical step in her quest to gin up as much celebrity as possible for being related to the CEO of Facebook and not much else, Silicon Valley media “personality” Randi Zuckerberg is writing … | Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Livescribe renames Sky smartpen after losing trademark dispute with BSkyB — Livescribe v BSkyB was one of the stranger trademark battles we've seen recently, because the two companies operate in such different spheres — one makes smartpens, the other runs TV and internet services.
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The Next Web and SlashGear
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The Science of Investing: Hearst's New Venture Arm in $30 Million Funding Deal With Los Angeles Tech Studio — Hearst Ventures, the investment arm of media giant Hearst Corporation, said it was making a minority equity investment in Science, the Los Angeles area tech “studio.”| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Judge allows case over HuffPo ownership to go forward, adds fraud claim — In a major development in the bitter court fight over the founding of the Huffington Post, a New York judge has for the second time refused the request of media moguls Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer to dismiss the case.| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Microsoft's “Scroogled” Campaign Against Gmail Wins 0.002% Of Users — It's been a week sine Microsoft went on the attack against Gmail, launching its “Scroogled” campaign portraying Gmail as a privacy monster that reads your emails for ad targeting purposes. How's that been working out?
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Skype calls now equivalent to one-third of global phone traffic — New research (PDF) from TeleGeography, a telecom market analysis firm, shows that worldwide Skype usage is now equivalent to over one-third of all international phone traffic—a record level.
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The Verge, ZDNet, BetaNews, TechCrunch, The Next Web, CNET, Softpedia News and PandoDaily
| Gina Chon / Quartz: |
Dropbox is talking to banks about an IPO later this year — Dropbox has been holding meetings with banks about an initial public offering, possibly in the second half of this year, according to sources briefed on the talks. — The market has been waiting for its next hot tech IPOs … | JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner: Treat employees like adults, and you won't have leaks — With 1 million user “endorsements” and counting, Jeff Weiner explains the secret behind his company's red-hot streak. (Hint: It has nothing to do with the 3,500 iPads he just gave employees.)
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| Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo: |
Iceland Wants to Ban Internet Porn — “If we can send a man to the moon, we must be able to tackle porn on the internet.” Those are the now immortal words of Halla Gunnarsdóttir, the political advisor to Iceland's Interior Minister Ögmundur Jónasson. Iceland wants to block all internet porn.
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| Stephanie Flosi / comScore, Inc.: |
comScore Releases the “2013 U.S. Digital Future in Focus” Report — Report Features Insights on Key Trends from 2012 and What They Mean for the Year Ahead — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a global leader in digital measurement and analytics, today released the 2013 U.S. Digital Future in Focus report.
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