Techmeme: When Is Sheryl Sandberg Leaving Facebook? (Kevin Roose/New York Magazine)

February 23, 2013, 2:40 PM

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

“Physically Together”: Here's the Internal Yahoo No-Work-From-Home Memo for Remote Workers and Maybe More — Courtesy of a plethora of very irked Yahoo employees, here is the internal memo sent to the company about a new rule rolled out today by CEO Marissa Mayer, which requires that Yahoo employees …

More: CNET, Business Insider, AllThingsD, Business Insider and SocialTimes

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Matt Thomlinson / Microsoft Security Response Center:

Recent Cyberattacks — As reported by Facebook and Apple, Microsoft can confirm that we also recently experienced a similar security intrusion. — Consistent with our security response practices, we chose not to make a statement during the initial information gathering process.

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Tweets: @briankrebs, @panzer and @tim

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Microsoft suffers from same hacking attack as Apple, Facebook, small number of computers infected

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Kevin Roose / New York Magazine:

When Is Sheryl Sandberg Leaving Facebook? — It's tempting to read Jodi Kantor's Times story about Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new Lean In book and accompanying female-empowerment movement as a prelude to a run for public office, and many have done exactly that.

More: Business Insider and Quartz. Tweets: @karaswisher

Jodi Kantor / New York Times:

Sheryl Sandberg, ‘Lean In’ Author, Hopes to Spur Movement — Before Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, started to write “Lean In,” her book-slash-manifesto on women in the workplace, she reread Betty Friedan's “The Feminine Mystique.”

More: SiliconBeat and Guardian. Tweets: @rachelsklar and @tarensk

AllThingsD:

What to Expect When You Are Expecting a Lot of News Out of Barcelona — Mobile World Congress doesn't really get going until the weekend. — But here at AllThingsD, we want you to have a pretty good idea what to expect even before things kick off in Barcelona.

More: Engadget, CNET, Ars Technica, Neowin, CNET and IntoMobile

John Ribeiro / Computerworld:

Microsoft's Azure service hit by expired SSL certificate — The company also reported service problems with Xbox Music and Video Store services — Microsoft's Azure cloud platform faced a worldwide outage in its storage services from Friday afternoon because of an expired SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate.

More: Forbes, The Register, threatpost, Neowin, Softpedia News, ReadWrite, The Diversity Blog, ZDNet, The Verge, Wired, GigaOM and MSDN Blogs

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Donna Tam / CNET:

Hacker says security flaw let him access any Facebook profile — The social network recently fixed a bug discovered by a developer who demonstrated how the loophole let him take over other people's accounts. — A security hacker recently found a flaw in a Facebook system that allowed developers …

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Paul Goldberger / Vanity Fair:

Exclusive Preview: Google's New Built-from-Scratch Googleplex … Plans for the new “Googleplex” headquarters. — Google occupies some of the most famous offices in the world—think cafés everywhere you look, treadmills with laptops attached to them, pool tables and bowling alleys …

More: PC World, Los Angeles Times, The Next Web, The Verge, 9to5Google, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Marketing Land, PhoneArena, Business Insider and Gizmodo

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Visa Debuts New Mobile Payments And NFC Partner Program For Merchants And Developers, Ready — Credit card company Visa is ramping up its partner program to help integrate its payments technologies in mobile devices and platforms. The new initiative, called the Visa Ready Partner Program …

More: Business Wire, bizjournals, ValueWalk and Street Fight

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

New Retina MacBook Pro Processor Bumps Offer Minor 3-5% Performance Improvements — Following last week's introduction of new processors for the Retina MacBook Pro lineup, Primate Labs has analyzed benchmarks coming in from the new machines through the company's popular Geekbench 2 software.

More: Primate Labs Blog, AppleInsider, iClarified, TUAW and MacDailyNews

Cotton Delo / AdAge:

Facebook to Partner With Acxiom, Epsilon to Match Store Purchases With User Profiles — Can Facebook Ads Drive Offline Buying? — Use a loyalty card for discounts at the drug store? The ads you see on Facebook could start looking familiar. — Facebook is testing out a new kind …

More: SocialTimes, AllFacebook, Inside Facebook, Marketing Land and paidContent

Emily Price / Mashable!:

Study Shows iPhone More Reliable Than Samsung Smartphones … A new report from product Q & A site FixYa found that the iPhone was more reliable than smartphones made by Motorola, Samsung and Nokia. — The study looked at data from 722,558 problem reports listed on the site …

More: FixYa, MacRumors, Fortune, MacDailyNews, I4U News, Neowin, Electronista, iClarified, CNET, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile and ReadWrite

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Apple Pulls Controversial Proxy Proposal After Court Ruling — Apple has withdrawn from its proxy statement a controversial proposal it had intended to place before shareholders that had drawn the ire, and a lawsuit, from hedge fund manager David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital.

More: Bloomberg, Reuters, AllThingsD, CNET, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Fortune, AllThingsD, Macgasm, The Register, iClarified, Quartz, PandoDaily, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and The Verge

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