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Facebook's Never Had A Big User Data Breach, But May Never Recover When It Does — It's not if, but when. Between crooks, hackers and foreign governments, Facebook probably can't avoid a serious user data breach forever. When it happens, Facebook may never be able to quiet fears that “personal data isn't safe there.”
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Microsoft job postings confirm more about Windows and Windows Phone Blue — Summary: A new Microsoft job posting verifies that Windows Blue will include user experience improvements, not just under-the-covers interface tweaks. Bonus: There's a reference to ‘Windows Phone Blue’ on Microsoft's job site, too.
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When Mayer Called Yahoo's Mobile Revenue “Nascent,” She Wasn't Kidding (And Here's the Actual Number She Left Out) — On Yahoo's recent fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO Marissa Mayer called the company's mobile efforts a “nascent source of revenue,” a theme she reiterated in her appearance earlier … | Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Google Takeout now offering Blogger and Google+ Page exports — Google Takeout is a service by Google that enables account owners to save some of their data to a local system. The takeout service makes available data from a variety of Google services including Google Drive, YouTube … | John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Apple's Podcast Disaster — Is the company that basically invented the podcast putting it out to pasture? — Apple's podcast app is, without a doubt, the worst iOS app it's ever made. Others have been poorly received or largely ignored, but this is unprecedented: With nearly 6,000 ratings …
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| Adam Lashinsky / Fortune: |
Transcript: The keys to Andreessen Horowitz's success — Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz talk to Fortune's Adam Lashinsky about their investing philosophies, role models and business model. — FORTUNE — When partners at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are late to a meeting … Thanks:@waqasaday
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Why Mozilla Matters And Won't Switch To WebKit — Earlier this week, Opera announced that it would stop working on its own Presto layout engine and switch to WebKit. It's obvious that the open source WebKit engine currently has a lot of momentum behind it, with Google, Apple and now Opera backing it.
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Pinterest May Be Bigger Than You Think, Competing To Be The 2nd Most Popular Social Network — Facebook is the dominant social network in the United States these days, in terms of users, but there's a battle underway for the number two slot, a new study has found.
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Intel shifts gears on Itanium, raising questions about the server chip's future — Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium in a move that raises questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in Hewlett-Packard's high-end Integrity servers.| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
You're not gonna Like it: Facebook's new search struggles with the real world — Mark Zuckerberg needs to rethink Likes before Graph Search can shine — One week ago, I received a Facebook message from my friend David. “SUPER random question, but do you know a girl from Michigan whose name is Lauren and lives in Boston?” he asked.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Mega update: Dotcom's service now accepts Bitcoin, will expand into email, chat, voice, video, and mobile — Kim Dotcom knows how to stir up a storm on Twitter. On Saturday, he announced Bitcoin support for his cloud storage service and also sent out a slew of tweets suggesting Mega … | Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
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