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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 …
Apr 30, 2013, 8:05 AMIn context
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 …
Apr 22, 2013, 6:30 PMIn context
Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Backs School Privacy Bill Taking Aim at Google   —  Massachusetts lawmakers could soon consider a bill that would restrict the commercial use of data gathered while children use computers at public schools.  —  Its stated purpose is protecting privacy.
Mar 7, 2013, 1:40 AMIn context
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?
Feb 14, 2013, 8:25 PMIn context
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.
Feb 6, 2013, 10:50 PMIn context
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 …
Jan 24, 2013, 11:40 AMIn context
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.
Dec 18, 2012, 7:15 AMIn context
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Rankles Advertisers With Web User-Privacy Plan   —  Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is sticking with a decision to make it harder to track users' online behavior, earning plaudits from privacy groups while drawing fire from the advertisers its money-losing Web unit needs most.
Dec 13, 2012, 10:55 AMIn context
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.
Dec 1, 2012, 6:10 PMIn context
The Hill:
Electronic privacy deserves a bipartisan upgrade   —  Today, if the police want to come into your house and take your personal letters, they need a warrant.  If they want to read those same letters saved on Google or Yahoo they don't.  The Fourth Amendment has eroded online.
Nov 27, 2012, 1:10 AMIn context

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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line  —  Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Cloud Foundry:
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 …
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“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).