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March 30, 2012, 8:35 PM
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Breach Hits Card Processor Global Payments — Global Payments Inc., which processes credit cards and debit cards for banks and merchants, has been hit by a security breach that has put some 50,000 cardholders at risk, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
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Bloomberg, Global Payments Inc., Pulse2 Technology …, Gartner, Zero Day Blog and Between the Lines Blog. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
MasterCard, VISA Warn of Processor Breach — VISA and MasterCard are alerting banks across the country about a recent major breach at a U.S.-based credit card processor. Sources in the financial sector are calling the breach “massive,” and say it may involve more than 10 million compromised card numbers.
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VentureBeat, eWeek, CNNMoney.com, TechSpot, Computerworld, Gartner, Network World, Gizmodo, Geek.com, Lifehacker, Zero Day Blog, BBC, InfoWorld, Reuters, Z Trek, Forbes, Naked Security, DailyTech, BGR, MarketBeat, The Register, Mashable!, The Raw Story, Ars Technica, SlashGear, SC Magazine, CNET, BetaNews, ZDNet, Wired, The Firewall, SecurityWeek, The Mac Security Blog, internetretailer.com, Forbes, Office of Inadequate Security, Guardian, Techland, WebProNews, Between the Lines Blog, Softpedia News and SeekingAlpha.com
| John Brownlee / Cult of Mac: |
This Creepy App Isn't Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It's A Wake-Up Call About Facebook Privacy — This app is meant to all be in good fun, but it's potentially a weapon in the hands of stalkers. — “Boy, you sure have a lot of apps on your phone.” — “Well, it's my job.”
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| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Foursquare shuts down location API access to creepy Girls Around Me app — As first covered by Cult of Mac, Girls Around Me is an incredibly creepy app that allows anyone to locate nearby girls based on public Foursquare checkins and Facebook data. Now the app has been officially banned … | Bits: |
With Tablet Plan, Google Goes After Apple and Amazon — Google's long-awaited tablet might finally be on the way to becoming a reality. For at least two years, there have been reports that the search giant was working on something that could compete with Apple's iPad.
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Layoffs Set to Begin Next Week, Followed by Restructuring the Week After — Yahoo is preparing to begin layoffs of what could be thousands of employees starting next week, according to multiple sources, and is then expected to announce a new restructuring of the company the week after.
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Search Engine Land, Reuters, SlashGear, Digits, Tech Trader Daily, TechFlash, Tech and China, The Verge and bizjournals
| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Takes Tweetdeck Offline After Apparent Bug Opens Access To Accounts — Twitter has taken Tweetdeck offline after an apparent bug has possibly given some Tweetdeck users access to others' accounts. — A Tweetdeck user in Australia, Geoff Evanson, says he discovered today …
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CNET, Digits, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, CNNMoney.com, The Next Web, The Verge, msnbc.com, Mashable!, Ubergizmo, Lifehacker and LaptopMemo
| Reuters: |
Apple supplier Foxconn cuts working hours, workers ask why — (Reuters) - When Chinese worker Wu Jun heard that her employer, the giant electronics assembly company Foxconn, had given employees landmark concessions her reaction was worry, not elation. — Wu, 23, is one of tens of thousands …
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Wired, New York Times, Fair Labor Association, GigaOM, The Tech Report, Bloomberg, TUAW, Pulse2 Technology …, MacRumors, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, CNET, IntoMobile, iClarified, Gizmodo, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, Know Your Mobile, The Register, iLounge, PhoneArena, MacDailyNews, iPhone and everythingiCafe
| Adi Avidor / Inside Search: |
Graphing on Google.com - Now in 3D — A few months ago we launched a graphing functionality right in search to help students and math lovers plot functions in an easy, simple way. In addition to calculating something simple like dividing up a restaurant bill or graphing more difficult math functions using …
| Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire: |
Confirmed: Netflix buys DVD.com — Netflix buys DVD.com domain name. — [Update: Netflix has confirmed its purchase of DVD.com. A spokesperson tells Domain Name Wire “Netflix cares about keeping DVD healthy, and this is just one small investment in keeping DVD healthy."]| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
SOPA is all fun and games until NBC rips off Apple's artwork — Reality TV is a harsh business. One minute everyone is glued to Jersey Shore, the next you're looking at a canceled series and a backlog of ‘GTL’ shirts cluttering up the company store. One of the perennial favorites …
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Pulse2 Technology …, WebProNews, MacDailyNews and Softpedia News
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Senator Al Franken: ‘privacy is a casualty’ of Google and Facebook's success — Senator Al Franken gave a rousing speech to the American Bar Association's Antitrust Section last night, calling for greater antitrust oversight of large media and tech companies as a way to ensure greater privacy protections for Americans.
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CNET, Marketing Land and Interactioned
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Sega shutting down games, laying off people — Sega said today that it will restructure its Western operations as it deals with the transformation from a maker of retail games to digital distribution. The restructuring will result in an unspecified number of job losses and game cancellations.
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PC Magazine and IntoMobile
| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Violin Memory Raises $50 Million at $800 Million Valuation, May IPO This Year — Violin Memory, the company that builds storage arrays based on flash memory technology, will on Monday announce that it has raised a $50 million Series D round of funding at an implied valuation of $800 million.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Appstore Generates More Revenue Per Daily User Than Google Play — According to new data released today by mobile analytics firm Flurry, Amazon's Appstore for Android is generating more revenue per daily user than the Google Android Market, which was recently rebranded as the Google Play store.
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PC Magazine, MediaPost, VatorNews, BGR, mocoNews, Flurry Blog, PadGadget, MacNN and MacDailyNews
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
Ahead of I.P.O., Mark Zuckerberg's Lawyers Expedite Disclosures — Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, is rushing to clear all his paperwork, ahead of the social network's highly anticipated initial public offering. — The Federal and Trade Commission disclosed in a notice on Friday …
| Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint: |
RIM: We are not withdrawing from consumer market — EXCLUSIVE: RIM speaks to Pocket-lint — RIM has denied reports that it is pulling out of the consumer market following poor q4 financial results on Thursday. — “The claim that RIM has said it will withdraw from the consumer market … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Wikipedia's Next Big Thing: Wikidata, A Machine-Readable, User-Editable Database Funded By Google, Paul Allen And Others — Wikidata, the first new project to emerge from the Wikimedia Foundation since 2006, is now beginning development. The organization, known best for its user-edited encyclopedia …
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Business Insider, CNET, Digits, TechFlash, Wikimedia blog, The Seattle Times and UMBC ebiquity. Thanks:@sparkcatalyst
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple Workers Put Tim Cook Atop List of Most Beloved CEOs — Tim Cook, the man Apple co-founder Steve Jobs hand-picked to be his successor, may never surpass Jobs in panache or vision, but as a leader, he's picking up right where Jobs left off. — Indeed, after just 10 months … | Ari Levy / Bloomberg: |
Groupon Discloses ‘Material Weakness,’ Lower Quarterly Revenue — Groupon Inc. (GRPN), the largest provider of daily deals online, reported a “material weakness” in its financial controls and said fourth-quarter results were worse than previously stated because of higher refunds to merchants.
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Bloomberg Tech Blog, GigaOM, The Tech Trade, AllThingsD, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @evelynrusli
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple named Japan's top consumer brand for the first time — With more than half of all US households reportedly owning at least one of its products, Apple is a company that is continually topping satisfaction surveys in America and the world over. Today, the company has been named …
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CNET, Nikkei.com, The Loop, AllThingsD, App Advice, Macgasm, MacNN, Techie Buzz, iDownloadBlog.com, TechPinions, Tech Trader Daily and VentureBeat
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Zynga's Engineering VP for New Gaming Platform Moves On — Neil Roseman, Zynga's VP of Engineering, has resigned after 15 months at the social games company, AllThingsD.com has confirmed. — Most recently, Roseman (pictured on the right, with Zynga's CEO Mark Pincus on the left) …
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VentureBeat, Business Insider, GeekWire, WebProNews and The Seattle Times
| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Facebook Valued at $102.8 Billion in Last SharesPost Auction — Facebook Inc. (FB)'s implied valued rose 8.9 percent to $102.8 billion in what is expected to be the last auction of its stock on SharesPost Inc.'s exchange before the social-networking company's initial public offering.
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Friending Facebook Blog, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, The Next Web, The Domains and The Next Web. Tweets: @emilychangtv
| Joe Pollicino / Engadget: |
AT&T now accepting Lumia 900 pre-orders, only those seeking cyan or black need apply (update) — Friendly reminder here, folks. As expected, AT&T has opened the pre-order floodgates for the Nokia Lumia 900 today ahead of its April 8th release in the US. Interested parties can secure …
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BGR, The Verge, Windows Phone Blog, Gear Live and WMPoweruser
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