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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Another Airbnb Victim Tells His Story: “There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere” — This last week we've all watched in horror as the story unfolded about an Airbnb user who had her home ransacked a month ago. — Other than the sideshow of us getting dragged into the story, it seemed to be winding down yesterday.
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Robert Scoble / Google+:
What we can learn from AirBNB and #ransackgate
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Laura Bly / USA Today:
Plot thickens in Airbnb vacation rental horror story
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Farewell Flash? Adobe Launches HTML5 Web Animations Tool “Adobe Edge” — Today, Adobe is launching a new tool called Adobe Edge which will allow creative professionals to design animated Web content using Web standards like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Not Flash.
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Xinhua News Agency:
Foxconn to replace workers with 1 million robots in 3 years — Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn will replace some of its workers with 1 million robots in three years to cut rising labor expenses and improve efficiency, said Terry Gou, founder and chairman of the company, late Friday.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Best Buy moves into the connected TV business with Tivo's user interface — Internet connected TVs are becoming a lot more mainstream. The latest sign of that is that Best Buy is announcing its own house label model, dubbed the Insignia Connected TV. — Best Buy, the nation's largest …
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
With the Bing Search Engine, Microsoft Plays the Underdog — MIKE NICHOLS has a poster on his office wall. It shows the young Muhammad Ali glaring down at a fallen Sonny Liston, the bruising heavyweight who had seemed invincible — until Ali beat him, in 1964, in one of the biggest upsets …
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Horace Dediu / asymco:
The end of easy growth in smartphones — At the end of last year I was saying that the smartphone boom was a tide that lifted all boats. That is no longer the case. — But the big story is that there has been a clear non-seasonal counter-cyclical decline in Nokia and RIM's smartphone performance.
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Graham Cluley / Naked Security:
Jake Davis named as suspected hacker Topiary by UK police — British police have tonight named the teenager they arrested in Shetland last week, in relation to the LulzSec and Anonymous hacking groups. — Jake Davis, 18, will appear in court tomorrow. — Davis, reportedly …
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Adam Dachis / Lifehacker:
What You Need to Know About the Internet Snooping Bill (and How You Can Protect Yourself) — On Thursday, the US House of Representatives approved an internet snooping bill that requires internet service providers (ISPs) to keep records of customer activity for a year so police can review them as needed.
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David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Former Bush NSA director calls for ‘digital Blackwater’ — The man who headed the NSA and CIA under President George W. Bush suggested Friday that mercenaries were needed to deal with growing cyber threats. — Gen. Michael Hayden told the Aspen Security Forum that in the near future …
David Gelles / Financial Times:
Inside Match.com — As president and key engineer, Mandy Ginsberg and Amarnath Thombre have taken the world's biggest dating site to a new level — Entering the offices of Match.com is a bit like strutting into a disco. Coloured lights flash from the ceilings, workers lounge on circular banquettes …
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Daniel Rubino / WPCentral.com:
Windows Phone revenue “abysmal”, still better than Android — The Seattle PI has done some sleuthing in Microsoft's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and found out that by subtracting a few figures, you get a rough $600 million dollars in revenue for fiscal year 2011 for Windows Mobile and Windows Phone.
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Louis Gray:
Topify to Go Dark as Twitter Claims Another Dev Victim — Back in 2009, Topify emerged with detailed Twitter follower notifications, which made the service useful at a time when Twitter's own notifications were text only and didn't provide any information about the user.
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