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Graph Search Now Includes Posts and Status Updates — Starting today, Graph Search will include posts and status updates. Now you will be able to search for status updates, photo captions, check-ins and comments to find things shared with you. — Search for the topics you're interested …
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Facebook Starts Rollout Of Graph Search For Posts, Comments, Check-Ins To Reveal The Past And Present — What's everyone saying about Breaking Bad? What about just my friends? What do my old photo comments say about me? A trillion posts full of this info start getting unlocked today … | Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits: |
Facebook Woos TV Networks With More Data — Facebook is laying down a new gauntlet in its battle with Twitter to dominate online conversation around television: more data for broadcasters. — This week, Facebook says it will begin sending weekly reports to America's four largest television networks … | James Ball / Guardian: |
NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show — • Vast amounts of data kept in repository codenamed Marina — • Data retained regardless of whether person is NSA target — • Material used to build ‘pattern-of-life’ profiles of individuals
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Google Launches Web Designer, A Visual Tool For Building Interactive HTML5 Sites And Ads — Google today announced the launch of Web Designer, a new tool for building interactive HTML5 sites and ads. The company first hinted at this launch in June, but had been quiet about it ever since.
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Apple Passes Coca-Cola as Most Valuable Brand — Apple is the new most valuable brand in the world, according to a closely followed annual report. — The report, to be released on Monday, is from Interbrand, a corporate identity and brand consulting company owned by the Omnicom Group …
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| Tracey Kaplan / Mercury News: |
John McAfee teases D-Central, a sub-$100 gadget that creates surveillance-proof local networks — John McAfee reveals details on gadget to thwart NSA — SAN JOSE — John McAfee lived up to his reputation Saturday as tech's most popular wild child, electrifying an audience with new details …
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Kantar: Verizon gains in US, Windows Phone nears 10% share in Europe — Verizon extends smartphone dominance — Verizon has reportedly established a solid lead in US smartphone sales over the previous three months, while Windows Phone devices are nearing 10-percent market share in European markets …
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Settle With Friends? Zynga and Bang With Friends End Trademark Dispute. — Sometimes, even the rockiest of relationships end up parting ways amicably. — Social gaming giant Zynga and the makers of Bang With Friends, the casual sex matchmaking application, have reached a settlement on Monday …
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| Lizette Chapman / Venture Capital Dispatch: |
Justin.tv Spinoff Twitch Raises $20M for Live Video Gaming — Live video gaming platform Twitch has been on a growth tear this past year and has raised $20 million from investors to rip it up some more. … Unlike competitors Ustream, LiveStream, YouTube and others enabling individuals …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Fab.com CEO Signals That Job Cuts May Be Coming as Site Retools — Fab.com Inc., the e-commerce startup valued at more than $1 billion, signaled that job cuts may be coming as the company revamps its approach to selling goods and strives to turn a profit. — As of tomorrow … | Wall Street Journal: |
Aircraft Can Handle Electronic-Device Use, Panel to Tell FAA — Passengers Can Use Their Devices but Not the Internet — A federal advisory committee is set to tell the Federal Aviation Administration that many aircraft flying today are largely ready to handle passengers using …
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How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space Mathematics — To translate one language into another, find the linear transformation that maps one to the other. Simple, say a team of Google engineers — Computer science is changing the nature of the translation … | Seth Rosenblatt / CNET: |
BitTorrent experiments with secure chat — Does the solution to secure instant messaging from prying eyes lie in how torrents work? BitTorrent thinks it might, and is testing out a server-free messaging system. — The aftermath of the NSA spying scandal has people and companies scrambling …
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| Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
AOL to Start Advertising on TV Again, With Commercials for New Subscription Service Gathr — More than nine months after AOL shelved plans for a hip-hop-inspired TV commercial that would have been the first TV ad of CEO Tim Armstrong's tenure, the company has decided to make a return to TV advertising.
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BlackBerry Claims BBM Is Still Coming To Android And iPhone, But Has Given No Timeline — Amid dire financial results and an oddly-timed smartphone launch, BlackBerry's big BBM for iPhone and Android launch seemed lost in a murky grey purgatory with little chance of escape with each passing minute its release was held up.
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