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| Dave Morin / Path Blog: |
We are sorry. — We made a mistake. Over the last couple of days users brought to light an issue concerning how we handle your personal information on Path, specifically the transmission and storage of your phone contacts. — As our mission is to build the world's first personal network …
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| Dustin Curtis / dcurt.is: |
Stealing Your Address Book — It's not really a secret, per se, but there's a quiet understanding among many iOS app developers that it is acceptable to send a user's entire address book, without their permission, to remote servers and then store it for future reference.
| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Near Launch of Cloud Storage Service — Google Inc. is close to launching a cloud-storage service that would rival one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups, cloud-storage provider Dropbox Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. — Like Dropbox, Google's storage service …
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Thanks:@richardlusk| Joe Mullin / Wired: |
Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free — The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, testified in a courtroom Tuesday for the first time in his life. The web pioneer flew down from Boston, where he teaches at M.I.T., to an eastern Texas federal court to speak to a jury …
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| Joe Mullin / Wired: |
Patent Troll Claims Ownership of Interactive Web - And Might Win — The mother of all patent troll trials unfolds in Texas where Google, Amazon and Adobe are fighting a patent claiming ownership over online video, image rotation and search auto-complete. We explain and start a series.| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
Alleged iPad 3 casing photo appears, sources say coming soon with improved GPU but no quad-core, thicker profile — Today the Apple rumor mill is fixated on a photo doing the rounds which allegedly shows the back housing of the next iPad (the iPad 3, or iPad HD, depending on who you talk to).| Evelyn M. Rusli / New York Times: |
Zuckerberg Takes Control, You Get $100 — Mark Zuckerberg must be one persuasive deal maker. — After eight years, Mr. Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, has an ironclad grip on the social networking giant. He owns 28.4 percent of all class B shares …
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| Groupon, Inc.: |
Groupon Announces Fourth Quarter 2011 Results — Revenue of $506.5 million, up 194% year-over-year Free Cash Flow of $155.1 million, up 258% year-over-year Operating Income of $15.0 million, up from $336.1 million loss Non-GAAP EPS of negative $0.02, including $0.07 of tax from international operations …
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Justice Department Poised to Clear Google-Motorola Deal — WASHINGTON—The U.S. Justice Department is poised to clear Google Inc.'s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, giving Google a powerful armory …
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| TuneCorner Music Blog: |
Apple's iTunes Match (aka iMatch): The First Royalties Are In — The first royalty payments from iMatch are in, and they got me excited - the total amount is over $10,000 for the first two months. — This is magic money that Apple made exist out of thin air for copyright holders. — Let me explain:
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Google letter to standards bodies indicates no improvement whatsoever over Motorola's FRAND litigation tactics — I have just obtained a copy of Google's letter to the IEEE, one of the standard-setting organizations to which Google wrote a letter today as it previously announced. You can find it further below.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
First Windows 8 ‘Consumer Preview’ preinstalled apps revealed — Microsoft's Windows 8 “Consumer Preview” is nearing release and the company is putting the finishing touches on the preinstalled application list. We have learned from sources familiar with Microsoft's plans that the company … | Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog: |
| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Foxconn hacked by group called SwaggSec, here's what they are looking at... Hacker group SwaggSec just released a dump of Foxconn internal information, including a mail server login/password dump and logins to various online procurement sites and Intranets. The hack seems to be a retaliation …
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Why we are buying paidContent — First the news: Yes, the rumors are true. We are indeed buying the assets of ContentNext Media from Guardian News & Media Limited. And no, we are not disclosing the terms of the deal, except that we are buying the entire group of properties — paidContent.org … | Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Why Techmeme now lists events, and how to get your event listed — Events have always played an important role in the tech industry. Knowledge exchange and networking opportunities have long been a key draw, as Apple's history attests. The motivations for meeting have certainly expanded since the 1970s.
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| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Protests against iPhone factory conditions planned Thursday for Apple Stores — Still unhappy with Apple's response to the New York Times' series on labor conditions in Chinese factories that make iPhones and iPads, two organizations are planning a globally coordinated protest on Thursday.
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| Michael Cooper / New York Times: |
If Silicon Valley Costs a Lot Now, Wait Until the Facebook Update — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Imagine looking for a house in San Francisco or one of the nicer parts of Silicon Valley, which are already among the most expensive parts of the country. Now imagine having to bid against a legion of newly minted Facebook millionaires.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Wallet PIN cracked on rooted Android devices — The security of the PIN that protects Google Wallet transactions has been compromised — though most users won't need to worry about the issue for now, as it only applies to users who have rooted their Android smartphone.Sponsor Posts
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