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Judge orders Google to comply with FBI's secret NSL demands — San Francisco federal judge tells Mountain View company to comply with FBI's warrantless National Security Letter requests for user details, despite ongoing concerns about law's constitutionality.
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Tumblr's Creative Director Quits — Jacob Bijani joined Tumblr as one of its original, most formative employees (and its first designer/product engineer) back in 2008—when a $1.1 billion Yahoo buyout was unfathomable. Now he's leaving. — According to a farewell post on Bijani's site …
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After Four Years, Twitter Platform Director Ryan Sarver to Depart — Ryan Sarver, Twitter's director of platform who worked closely with the company's partner ecosystem over the past four years, announced on Friday that he plans to leave the company. — “After four incredible … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches iPad comparison site for Windows 8 tablets — Microsoft is launching the second phase of its advertising against Apple's iPad this week. Following an iPad mini commercial parody, a new site aims to convince consumers that Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets are worth buying over the iPad.
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Google says it won't approve any Glass apps with facial recognition until it has protections in place — Today, Google posted a notice to its Google Glass channel on G+ that lays out its plan to prevent abuse of facial recognition on the head-mounted computer. It's solution?
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Mac Pro Retail Supplies Drying Up Ahead of WWDC — Apple's WWDC conference is almost upon us, and with the expectation that the company will unveil new Macs at the event, I decided to do a bit of checking around on retail stock levels. What I found, somewhat to my surprise, was a remarkable shortage of Apple's entry-level Mac Pro.
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DirecTV Said Among 3 Hulu Bidders at $1 Billion or More — DirecTV (DTV), the second-biggest U.S. pay-TV service, and two other bidders are each offering at least $1 billion for Hulu LLC, the online video website, said people with knowledge of the bid. — The other two couldn't be identified immediately.| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
Acer $400 ‘PC’ will run Android, pack Intel's Haswell chip — Acer is about to announce a PC that runs Android, showing that Windows and PC will not necessarily be synonymous in the coming months. — The Acer DA220HQL AIO will be priced just above $400 at most resellers.| Lex Friedman / Macworld: |
Camino browser project discontinued after ten years — Pour one out for Camino. The Mac-only browser, born a decade ago, is no longer under active development. — Camino was a free, open-source browser for the Mac, built on Mozilla's Gecko engine. Unlike other Mozilla-based browsers of its era …
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Ars Technica, CNET, Daring Fireball, caminobrowser.org, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, internetnews.com and Macgasm
| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
Rumor: Apple Is Considering Launching An Ad Exchange — Is Apple planning to launch an ad exchange, the way Facebook and Twitter have done? — That's the rumor. — We heard it from an executive who is one of the biggest players in online advertising. — We can't confirm it.| Steve Rubel / AdAge: |
Why Reddit Is Betting On Original Content — A Move to Reach Marketers in a Tech-Savvy Community — The “80s cliché is that video killed the radio star. Now it's quickly killing other priorities as a growing number of media concerns put greater focus on original programming, all in a quest for higher CPMs.| Jessica Roy / Betabeat: |
Every '90s Tween's Favorite Angst Outlet Xanga Will Shut Down Unless You Pony Up $60K — Xanga, one of the original online diary hubs for tweens too cool for Livejournal but not so cool that they didn't know to eschew blogging altogether, may soon shut down.
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TheXangaTeam's Xanga, Valleywag, Digital Trends and The Verge
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Twitter now lets you edit your profile inline, including drag and drop for header and background photos — Twitter today rolled out a revamp of its profile editing functionality: everything can now be done inline. This includes not only updating the information on your Twitter profile …
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Digital Trends, Engadget, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, WebProNews and Pocket-lint
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CBS acquires TV Guide Digital's TVGuide.com — CBS acquired TV Guide Digital from Lionsgate. The mobile application provides expanded features, such as a watch list that alerts viewers when they can watch a favorite TV show or actor. (TV Guide Digital) — CBS Corp. has acquired TV … Sponsor Posts
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