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| César Puerta / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter rolls out photo tagging, ability to share up to four photos in a tweet — Photos just got more social — We're rolling out two new mobile features that make photos on Twitter more social. One is photo tagging, which lets you tag the people in your photo; the other is the ability to include up to four photos in a Tweet.
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| Mark DeCambre / Quartz: |
Spotify is planning an IPO for this fall — Spotify could take itself public some time in the fall of 2014. — The popular music-streaming company has participated in informal chats with some of the investment banks likely to fight for a role in a potential IPO, sources familiar with the process said.
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| Lev Grossman / TIME: |
The Inside Story of How Facebook Got Oculus VR — A 19-year-old hacker set out to invent a gaming headset. He ended up reviving a dead technology and creating an idea worth $2 billion — To understand why Oculus Rift matters, it helps to know who John Carmack is.
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
Fund My Kickstarter Project — but Don't Get Angry if I Sell to Facebook — Only on Kickstarter could a $2 billion acquisition be considered an abject failure. — On Tuesday, Facebook announced it had purchased Oculus, the virtual reality headset maker and darling of Kickstarter.
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| Bob Moczydlowsky / The Twitter Blog: |
ComingSoon: Billboard Twitter Real-Time Chart — Today Billboard is announcing a partnership with us to create the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Chart, which will track the real-time U.S. music conversation, using Twitter data. — Music is one of the most talked about topics on Twitter.
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See also Mediagazer| Daniel Rubino / Windows Phone Central: |
New images reveal an overhauled Store for Windows Phone 8.1, includes automatic app updates and more — The Windows Phone 8.1 core has been finished today, so it seems appropriate to take a look at an area that is need of some improvement: the Windows Phone Store.
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| Hurriyet Daily News: |
Turkey blocks access to YouTube after alleged leak of recordings of key security meeting — Turkey blocks access to YouTube after leak recordings of key security meeting — Less than a week after a notorious ban on Twitter went into effect, the Turkish government blocked access to YouTube on March 27.
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See also Mediagazer| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Apps with millions of Google Play downloads covertly mine cryptocurrency — Researchers said they have uncovered two apps that were downloaded from the official Google Play market more than one million times that use Android devices to mine the Litecoin and Dogecoin cryptocurrencies without explicitly informing end users.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Intel to ditch its Hadoop software and support Cloudera instead — Intel is set to cause a tremor in the big data market tomorrow. — The chip maker will announce tomorrow that it will stop pushing its own distribution of open-source Hadoop software for storing and processing lots … | AFP: |
Russian government officials switch from iPads to Samsung tablets over spying fears — Russian officials dump iPads over spy fears — Moscow — Russian government officials have swapped their iPads for Samsung tablets to ensure tighter security, the telecoms minister told news agencies on Wednesday.
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| Dawn C. Chmielewski / Re/code: |
The Other Facebook News: One Billion Mobile Users — Facebook followers could be forgiven for being fixated by the $2 billion deal to acquire the virtual reality company Oculus. — But another disclosure from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday is also worthy of attention … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Government requests to Google have more than doubled in the past four years — Google released its latest transparency report today, revealing tens of thousands of law enforcement requests from across the world. In the second half of 2013, the report lists more than 27,000 requests …
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| JP Mangalindan / Fortune: |
Klout acquired for $200 million by Lithium Technologies — It's official: the once-controversial social scoring startup has been scooped up. — FORTUNE — Social score startup Klout has been acquired by Lithium Technologies, a provider of social customer experience solutions for the enterprise …
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Thanks:@jpmanga| David Cohen / AllFacebook: |
Pew Report: 30% of US adults get news from Facebook, 10% from YouTube, 8% from Twitter — STUDY: Facebook's Role In Pew Research Center's ‘State Of The News Media 2014’ — Facebook and other social networks continue to become further intertwined with the media, as the State of the News Media 2014 report … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
In Response to Google, Amazon Drops EC2 And RDS Prices by 40%, S3 Storage Costs By 36% To 65% — Amazon today announced a new round of price cuts for a number of services on its cloud platform, including its S3 storage service, EC2 cloud computing platform, ElastiCache … | Eric Thayer / Reuters: |
Judge tosses lawsuit against Facebook over use of minors' photos — (Reuters) - A California federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit against Facebook Inc that had accused the company of misappropriating the names and likenesses of minors who use the social network.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Paid Up To $150M To Buy Wearable Computing IP From The Osterhout Design Group — Earlier this week, Facebook announced that it had acquired Oculus VR for $2 billion, and it turns out that this isn't the only recent piece of M&A in the category of head-mounted wearable computing.| Mark Sweney / Guardian: |
UK ad watchdog clears Microsoft ad campaign attacking Gmail privacy standards — Microsoft wins battle over ads attacking Google privacy standards — Advertising Standards Authority agrees Gmail's scanning of email contents to target ads sets it apart from Outlook.com
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Yahoo Japan buys SoftBank's eAccess for $3.2B to set up new mobile Internet service — Yahoo Japan buys SoftBank's eAccess to set up new mobile Internet service — (Reuters) - Yahoo Japan Corp said on Thursday that it would buy mobile and broadband provider eAccess Ltd from its parent SoftBank Corp … | Gabriele Steinhauser / Wall Street Journal: |
Top EU court says ISPs may have to block copyright infringing websites — Top EU Court Backs Internet Bootlegging Ruling — Decision Could Raise Costs for Internet Service Providers — BRUSSELS—The European Union's highest court said on Thursday that Internet service providers … | Violet Blue / ZDNet: |
Hackonomics: Stolen Twitter accounts ‘more valuable’ than credit cards — Summary: According to a new report, the value of Twitter accounts on the black market for hacked wares has eclipsed the value of stolen credit card data. — Violet Blue — Stolen Twitter accounts now fetch …
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