| Tony Romm / Politico: |
Silicon Valley learning the D.C. art of secret money
— Google, Microsoft, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and other digital heavyweights increasingly are borrowing a favorite technique from the world of politics: secret money. — These top tech executives and their companies are embracing stealth …
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Microsoft launches new campaign to show Internet users how to manage their personal data
— Microsoft has launched a new campaign to increase awareness around online privacy issues. The company has long been active in the space, working with a range of players across the industry …
| Wall Street Journal: |
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Microsoft's “Scroogled” Campaign Against Gmail Wins 0.002% Of Users
— It's been a week sine Microsoft went on the attack against Gmail, launching its “Scroogled” campaign portraying Gmail as a privacy monster that reads your emails for ad targeting purposes. How's that been working out?
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Microsoft Attacks Gmail Over Privacy In Latest “Scroogled” Campaign
— If at first you don't succeed, get negative once again, seems to be the game plan at Microsoft. Having attacked Google Shopping with a “Scroogled” campaign last November, Microsoft is back again.
| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Letter From Forty-Four Digital Rights Groups Demands Skype Detail Its Surveillance Practices
— Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer with Skype president Tony Bates at the announcement of Skype's $8.5 billion acquisition. — Skype has long been a quintessential bad actor for the privacy community …
| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Scrutinized by EU Privacy Watchdogs for Policy Changes
— Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s policy changes for its Internet products including Hotmail and Bing are being formally examined by European data protection regulators for potential privacy issues.
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft continues Windows Phone Store expansion with 42 new markets, bringing total to 113
— Microsoft on Friday announced a slew of updates to its Windows Phone Dev Center and Windows Phone Store. The biggest is the expansion of the Windows Phone Store to 42 new markets, bringing the total to 113.
| The Hill: |
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).