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| Amaryllis Fox / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter tests place and product pages that feature reviews, pricing, and buy buttons, as well as collections to curate products and places — Testing new ways to make it easier to discover products and places — Every month, millions of people Tweet about what they love: products they buy …
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Google to remove nude or sexually explicit images posted online without consent from its search results when requested — Google to remove “revenge porn” from search results — SAN FRANCISCO —In a significant step to combat “revenge porn,” Google will honor requests to remove …
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
OPM hack employed rare tool also used in last year's Anthem breach, which was tied to Chinese intelligence — U.S. employee data breach tied to Chinese intelligence — The Chinese hacking group suspected of stealing sensitive information about millions of current and former U.S. government employees … | Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
The OPM breach took place in June or July 2014, giving hackers a year to sift through data — Officials: Chinese had access to U.S. security clearance data for one year — A sign stands outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Building, headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in Washington, on Friday, June 5, 2015.
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| Jim Buckmaster / craigslist blog: |
eBay sells back 28.4% stake in Craigslist in a confidential agreement in which both companies agree to end all litigation — Exit, Stage Left — From eBay press release: … From Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene I:
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| Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal: |
FCC votes in favor of giving consumers the right to block robocalls and spam text messages — FCC Moves to Prevent Robocalls and Spam Texts — Under new plan, phone carriers can block robocalls and automated text messages to cellphones and landlines — WASHINGTON—The Federal … | Emily Chang / Bloomberg Business: |
Q&A with Kleiner Perkins' general partners John Doerr and Beth Seidenberg: we felt betrayed by Ellen Pao — Kleiner Perkins Q&A: We Felt ‘Betrayed’ by Ellen Pao — Two general partners at the venture capital firm speak out about the gender-discrimination lawsuit
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| Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
WikiLeaks publishes a cache of 276,394 Sony Pictures documents after releasing 30K in April — WikiLeaks Drops More Sony Documents — Reverberations from a devastating cyber attack continue to rattle Sony Pictures Entertainment. — WikiLeaks has published a second giant cache of documents …
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| Bloomberg Business: |
Leaked letter reveals European Commission told Google to expect fines large enough to act as a deterrent in EU antitrust case — Google Told to Expect Large Fines in EU Antitrust Probe — Photographer: Mark Wilson/Getty Images — The European Union threatened to levy fines on Google Inc …
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Sources: Uber increased amount sought for line of credit to $2B from $1B, after more banks wanted in, and is finalizing the deal — Uber Finalizing $2 Billion Line of Credit — Uber originally only sought a $1 billion facility, but more banks wanted in — Uber Technologies Inc … | Jeremy Horwitz / 9to5Mac: |
Apple quietly pulls original iPad mini, its last non-Retina iOS device, from website and Apple Store — Apple quietly pulls original iPad mini from web site and Apple Store — Last week, above. Today, below. — The original iPad mini has quietly disappeared from Apple's web site …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Tamr, a startup that helps companies unify their enterprise data sources, raises $25.2M Series B from Hewlett Packard Ventures, Thomson Reuters, others — Tamr Snaps Up $25.2M To Unify Enterprise Data Sources — Tamr, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup that helps companies understand …
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