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Facebook ‘dead and buried to teens’, research finds — Comprehensive European research has found that teens are leaving the service in droves - and the biggest deterrent is their parents — Teens are being put off Facebook by friend requests from their parents Getty
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| Om Malik / Gigaom: |
Dear Quartz, maybe it's you that needs new glasses and a map. 2013 was not a lost year for tech — If anything, in 2013 it became even more fashionable for some of our fellow scribes and righteous founders to lament the lack of innovation in Silicon Valley.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
As US fiber buildouts spur competion, benefiting consumers, threats to net neutrality loom — How US Internet service might get better—and worse—in 2014 — 2013, like just about every year before it, was the year nearly all of us complained about our Internet service. — “It's too slow!” we said.| The Weekly Wonk: |
FCC chairman and former cable lobbyist Tom Wheeler appears to waffle on net neutrality — Which Way, Mr. Wheeler? … As the new FCC Chairman, Tom Wheeler has kicked up some dust in the tech community by laying the groundwork for a grand vision for the next generation of networks … | Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag: |
Paul Graham Says Women “Haven't Been Hacking For the Past 10 Years” — The Information just proved that it's worth the $400 price of admission. On display in an interview with Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham is the clearest picture of Silicon Valley's unacknowledged sexism to ever find its way in print.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Behind UPS's Christmas Eve Snafu — Unexpected Surge in Online Orders Overwhelmed Louisville, Ky., Hub. In the earliest hours of Dec. 24, packages poured into United Parcel Service Inc. 's main air hub in Louisville, Ky. And they were piling up. Employees responsible for sorting packages … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Google received 235 million DMCA takedown requests in 2013, discarded 9% — Google Discarded 21,000,000 Takedown Requests in 2013 — Since last year copyright holders have started to increase the number of DMCA takedown requests they send to Google. — In 2011 Google was asked …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Target confirms encrypted debit PIN data was stolen during hack — Target has confirmed that encrypted debit card PIN data was stolen as part of the massive hack carried out against the retailer between late November and early December. The company previously admitted that card numbers …
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| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Google Loses Bid for Wiretap Suit Appeals Court Rehearing — Google Inc. (GOOG) lost a bid for a rehearing before a federal appeals court that said the operator of the world's most-used search engine must face claims that its Street View program violated federal wiretap law.
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat Downplays Phone Number Matching Hack, Says It's Added New Counter-Measures — Following security researchers publishing a way to match Snapchat usernames to phone numbers, Snapchat has published a skimpy statement making the hack sound impractical and noting “We recently added …
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| Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg: |
A New Twist in International Relations: The Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-the-U.S. Clause — By now, we've heard from tech companies such as Facebook, Google and Cisco Systems that the National Security Agency's spying poses a threat to their international business and, in Cisco's case, is already hurting it.| Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times: |
Apple to put Carl Icahn's $50 billion stock buyback plan up for vote at next shareholder meeting, advises to vote against it — Carl Icahn stock proposal on ballot for Apple shareholder meeting — Carl Icahn, shown in 2006, wants Apple to increase its stock buyback program.
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