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Turkey strengthens Twitter ban, institutes IP level block — After Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan banned Twitter in the country late Thursday night, many local users found ways to circumvent the restrictions. But getting around the ban is becoming more difficult …
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The Next Web, Daily Kos, VentureBreak, PandoDaily and Reuters
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Google Refuses Turkey's Requests to Yank YouTube Videos — Move is Latest Sign of Resistance to a Crackdown Against Social Media led by the Prime Minister — Google Inc. has declined Turkish government requests to remove YouTube videos alleging government corruption, people familiar with the matter said …
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| Andrea Peterson / The Switch: |
The White House is ‘deeply concerned’ about Turkey's Twitter ban — White House press secretary Jay Carney (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) — On Thursday night, many Turkish Twitter users found the social media network blocked, just hours after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan decried the platform during a speech.
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Tweets: @statedept and @hillaryclinton
| Mark Ames / PandoDaily: |
Revealed: Apple and Google's wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees … Back in January, I wrote about “The Techtopus” — an illegal agreement between seven tech giants, including Apple, Google, and Intel, to suppress wages for tens of thousands of tech employees.
Tweets: @paulcarr, @saramayeux, @kjhealy, @startupljackson, @ihnatko and @spolsky
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Sources: Credit Card Breach at California DMV — The California Department of Motor Vehicles appears to have suffered a wide-ranging credit card data breach involving online payments for DMV-related services, according to banks in California and elsewhere that received alerts this week …
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Tweets: @briankrebs and @briankrebs
| Spiegel Online: |
NSA infiltrated network at Huawei's headquarters to access email archives, product source code — NSA Spied on Chinese Government and Networking Firm — According to documents viewed by SPIEGEL, America'a NSA intelligence agency put considerable efforts into spying on Chinese politicians and firms.
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Tweets: @mattblaze, @csoghoian, @binarybits and @csoghoian
| Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter: |
Sony buys rights to NYT's profile of security blogger Brian Krebs “Reporting From the Web's Underbelly” — Man Who Exposed Target Security Breach Is Focus of Sony Movie Deal (Exclusive) — Richard Wenk is on board to write the screenplay adapted from the New York Times article “Reporting From the Web's Underbelly.”
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Growing revenues and profits belie the “Haunted Empire” claim that Apple “teeters” — Apple After Jobs: Pretty Much the Same as Ever — You could be forgiven, after reading “Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs,” for concluding that Apple is on the verge of going belly up.
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| Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal: |
Marc Andreessen, “unfazed” by setbacks, plans to invest hundreds of millions more in Bitcoin companies — Marc Andreessen Is Betting on Wide Adoption of Digital Currency Bitcoin — Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen is doubling down on bitcoin amid turbulence in the virtual-currency world …
Tweets: @antonioregalado, @wsjmarkets, @joshuap, @qthrul and @tuurdemeester
| Erica Fink / CNN Money: |
“Snoopy” drone uses phones' WiFi to steal usernames and passwords, credit card information — This drone can steal what's on your phone — The next threat to your privacy could be hovering over head while you walk down the street. — Hackers have developed a drone …
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Daily Mail, Gizmodo, SlashGear, MacDailyNews, Digital Trends, Geek.com and Android Community. Tweets: @youranonnews
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter experimenting with showing how many people saw your tweets — How many people saw your last tweet? A new Twitter experiment is answering that question for some users, adding the number of views a tweet has received underneath every post. Twitter's advertising products …
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PC Magazine, SlashGear, Softpedia News, BuzzFeed, Digital Trends, TechHive, App Advice, Engadget and Marketing Land
Tweets: @digiphile and @anthonyha
| Ed Christman / Billboard: |
Apple explores Spotify-like streaming service, iTunes app for Android as downloads decline — Apple Mulls Launching Spotify Rival, Android App as Downloads Decline (Sources) — The iPhone maker explores multi-pronged strategy to shore up double-digit drops in iTunes downloads, according to IFPI and RIAA data.
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Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, I4U News, T3 News, Digital Trends, SocialTimes, Patently Apple, TUAW, AmongTech, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Phones Review, hypebot, GSMArena Blog, Gigaom, 9to5Mac, MacNN, Android Central, Engadget, Digital Music News, iMore, Cult of Mac, everythingiCafe, Pocketnow, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Good E-Reader, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Business Insider Australia, App Advice, MobileSyrup.com, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBreak, SlashGear and iLounge
Tweets: @markgurman, @stevekovach and @parislemon
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