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| Bob Lord / Twitter Blog: |
Keeping our users secure — As you may have read, there's been a recent uptick in large-scale security attacks aimed at U.S. technology and media companies. Within the last two weeks, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have chronicled breaches of their systems …
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Twitter Hacked, 250,000 User Accounts Potentially Compromised — Twitter disclosed on Friday evening that its systems had been attacked in the past week by an unidentified group of hackers. As a result of the the attack, the hackers may have had access to the usernames …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Sends Out Emails To 250K Users Who ‘May’ Have Been Compromised, Says Hack Was Not Related To Yesterday's Outage — Twitter is sending out emails to 250,000 users it says may have had their accounts compromised in the last week as the site experienced “unusual access patterns that led …
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Path Social Networking App Settles FTC Charges it Deceived Consumers and Improperly Collected Personal Information from Users' Mobile Address Books — Company also Will Pay $800,000 for Allegedly Collecting Kids' Personal Information without their Parents' Consent
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| Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence: |
Exclusive: Eric Schmidt Unloads on China in New Book … Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is brutally clear: China is the most dangerous superpower on Earth. — Corporate Intelligence reviewed preliminary galleys of Schmidt's new book, “The New Digital Age,” (Random House) which debuts in April.
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| Strategy Analytics: |
Apple Becomes Largest Mobile Phone Vendor in United States in Q4 2012 — According to our Wireless Device Strategies (WDS) service, mobile phone shipments grew 4 percent annually to reach 52 million units in the United States during the fourth quarter of 2012.
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Exclusive: Twitter nears $10 billion valuation — Twitter shares now selling for $9.9 billion. — FORTUNE — Twitter isn't done letting early employees sell shares, Fortune has learned. But the stakes have been raised substantially. — Last Friday, the Financial Times reported that BlackRock … | Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Google sidesteps France link-tax, reaching a €60m deal to help publishers move to the digital age instead — After years of disputes around the digitization of out-of-print works with French book publishers and authors, Google recently announced that its legal battles in France were finally over.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
HP closes German site, lays off 850 employees — Summary: The world's number one PC maker by shipments is to close a site in Germany, laying off more than 8 percent of the country's workforce. — Zack Whittaker — Computer manufacturing giant HP will close a site in Germany …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft raises the Windows 8 Pro upgrade price to $200, but ignores loophole that lets you buy it for $15 — Exactly two weeks ago, Microsoft announced that it would be increasing the price of the Windows 8 Pro upgrade to $200, a 400 percent price hike from the previous $40, as of February 1.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mobile Phone Network Truphone Raises $118M Led By Russian Tycoon Roman Abramovich, At $473M Valuation — Truphone, a UK-based mobile network that lets its users make free or low-cost calls to other mobile devices, has today announced a surprise, large funding injection of £75 million …
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