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Facebook announces Anonymous Login for third-party apps, granular privacy controls for normal Login — f8: Introducing Anonymous Login and an Updated Facebook Login — Today at f8, we announced Anonymous Login, a brand new way to log into apps without sharing any personal information from Facebook …
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Mark Zuckerberg Explains Facebook's Future, From Virtual Reality to Anonymity — No one ever accused Mark Zuckerberg of standing pat. — The Facebook social network has expanded to over 1.2 billion people across the globe, and the company has successfully moved its primary application — “the big blue app” — onto smartphones.| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Anonymous Login isn't anonymous to Facebook, which can now reap more data for ad targeting — Why Facebook's New ‘Anonymous Login’ Matters — Facebook is moving one step closer to becoming your all-access pass to the Internet. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company plans to offer “Anonymous Login.”| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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Sprint Said to Plan T-Mobile Bid After Pushing for Funding — Sprint Corp. (S) plans to push forward with a bid for T-Mobile US Inc. after meeting with banks this month to make debt arrangements for that offer, people with knowledge of the situation said. — Sprint Chief Financial Officer … | Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Hackers Can Mess With Traffic Lights to Jam Roads and Reroute Cars — The hacker in the Italian Job did it spectacularly. So did the fire sale team in Live Free or Die Hard. But can hackers really hijack traffic lights to cause gridlock and redirect cars?| Wall Street Journal: |
AT&T Has Approached DirecTV About Possible Acquisition — AT&T has approached DirecTV about a possible acquisition of the satellite TV firm, say people familiar with the situation, the latest sign of a possible shakeup in the television industry.
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Windows 8 gains natural-language Smart Search, with hints that Cortana could follow — Microsoft said Wednesday that it has added natural-language search to its internal Windows 8 Smart Search. Users can write out queries as sentences or thoughts, rather than try to puzzle out the correct search term.
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Box Inc. delays IPO plans amid drop in cloud company stocks — Online-storage startup Box is delaying its plans for an initial public offering after a sudden weakening in demand for technology stocks.
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Google stops scanning student Gmail accounts for ad targeting, will do the same for Apps for Business and government users — Google Stops Scanning Student Gmail Accounts for Ads — Google said Wednesday that it stopped scanning student Gmail accounts for advertising purposes after the practice … | Ryan Gallagher / First Look Media: |
British Spy Chiefs Secretly Begged to Play in NSA's Data Pools — A secret memo suggests GCHQ's Sir Iain Lobban (pictured) wanted more access to the NSA's PRISM data. PA Wire/AP — Britain's electronic surveillance agency, Government Communications Headquarters, has long presented …
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LinkedIn truncates profiles, pitches upgrades to logged-in visitors, effectively punishing users who register — The absurdity of LinkedIn — This morning I had a call with someone I hadn't met so I Googled their name and, inevitably, clicked through to their LinkedIn profile.| Katherine Rosman / Wall Street Journal: |
LeapFrog launches LeapBand, a $40 wearable activity tracker for kids — Kid Wearables? LeapFrog Debuts Fitness Tracker for Training Wheels Set — The inevitable is happening: Kids and wearable devices are now going hand-in-hand, er, wrist-in-wrist. But will parents jump at the opportunity …
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Tech companies embrace White House Correspondents' Dinner, showing increasing political savvy — Tech embraces D.C.'s ‘nerd prom’ — Silicon Valley might profess a distaste for official Washington — but the tech industry sure is salivating over this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner.| Andrew Grush / Android Authority: |
Google Search 3.4 updated, Parking Location detects where you've parked your car — Google Search now knows where you parked, might sound cooler than it really is — Earlier today, Google kicked off Update Wednesday by bringing separate apps for Docs, Sheets and Slides to the Google Play store.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Version One Ventures Founding Partner Boris Wertz Joins Andreessen Horowitz — One of (if not the) most well-respected fixtures in the Canadian venture capital scene has joined Andreessen Horowitz as a board partner, as Boris Wertz adds the Valley-based firm to his resume.Sponsor Posts
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The 90-day recognition cliff: Why praise programs fade, and what keeps them alive — Recognition programs often start with enthusiasm. Employees participate, managers share shoutouts, and teams have a new way to celebrate achievements.
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