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Microsoft says Hotmail case met standard for a court order, adds new safeguards to policy — Strengthening our policies for investigations — Deputy General Counsel & Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft — We believe that Outlook and Hotmail email are and should be private.
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Turkish citizens use Google public DNS to circumvent Twitter ban — Turkish citizens use Google to fight Twitter ban — Turkish citizens have found away to circumvent yesterday's reported block of Twitter: Google DNS. — After being implicated in a corruption scandal through recordings …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Glassdoor: Employees rank LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner as CEO of the year; Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg loses top spot — Career website Glassdoor today released its latest report highlighting 2014′s top 50 Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), and once again the tech world played a big role in the list.| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Marissa Mayer meets with Satya Nadella, still wants out of Microsoft/Yahoo search pact — Field of Search Dreams: If Marissa Mayer Builds It, Will Microsoft Let Yahoo Leave? — Just after he was named CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella got a visit from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.| Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com: |
Netflix & Level 3 Only Telling Half The Story, Won't Detail What Changes They Want To Net Neutrality — Late yesterday, Netflix's CEO published a blog post making the argument that “stronger” net neutrality is needed and that Netflix will “fight for the Internet”.
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See also Mediagazer| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
| The Intercept: |
Inside the NSA's Secret Efforts to Hunt and Hack System Administrators — A secret document reveals how the NSA tracks down system administrators for surveillance. Illustration: Josh Begley. — Across the world, people who work as system administrators keep computer networks in order …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Bitcoin software gets fix for weakness that helped bring down Mt. Gox — The software driving Bitcoin transactions on the Internet has been updated to fix a weakness that contributed to the downfall of Mt. Gox, once one of the biggest exchanges for the digital currency.
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Sprint lays off 330 techs, shutters 55 stores as part of broader cuts — Sprint recently cut a significant chunk of its staff dedicated to repairing and refurbishing phones and shut down its slower-performing stores, part of a broader effort to reduce the company's costs in the face of continued financial struggles.| Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: |
BlackBerry Suffers Blow as White House Tests Samsung, LG Phones — The White House is testing smartphones from Samsung Electronics Corp. and LG Electronics Inc. for internal use, a person familiar with the matter said, threatening one of the last and most high-profile strongholds of BlackBerry Ltd.| Tony Romm / Politico: |
Barack Obama to meet again with tech CEOs about NSA — President Barack Obama will huddle with “tech CEOs” on Friday to “continue his dialogue with them on the issues of privacy, technology, and intelligence,” according to a White House official. — The Obama administration declined …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
LinkedIn plans major Pulse update for Q3, will use your professional info to personalize news — LinkedIn Said to Plan Data Personalization of Pulse App — LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD) is updating its Pulse news-reader application to serve content based on users' professional data …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Pocket's prototype for Android Wear saves articles right from your wrist — Googled unveiled Android Wear this week and encouraged developers to build apps purpose-built for the wrist. Pocket is among the first companies to rise to the challenge, showing off a prototype version …
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| Sophie Knight / Reuters: |
Mt. Gox says it found 200,000 bitcoins in ‘forgotten’ wallet — (Reuters) - Mt. Gox said on Friday it found 200,000 “forgotten” bitcoins on March 7, a week after the Tokyo-based digital currency exchange filed for bankruptcy protection saying it had lost about $500 million worth of bitcoin, nearly all its holdings.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Paypal's in-app ‘Pay at Table’ and ‘Order Ahead’ now available in UK and Australia — PayPal Expands Its In-App Pay At Table And Order Ahead Services In UK — It's still very early days for mobile payments, with the vast majority of consumers still not convinced … | Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
BlackBerry to sell most of its real-estate holdings in Canada to raise cash, lease some back — BlackBerry Reaches Deal to Sell Most of Canadian Property — BlackBerry Ltd. (BBRY) reached an agreement to sell most of its real-estate holdings in Canada, to help the struggling smartphone maker shore up cash for its turnaround plan.
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