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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: |
Facebook Audience Network Mobile Ad Network Launches At f8 — Facebook today launched its mobile ad network called Facebook Audience Network so developers can make money without having to sell their own ads, do their own targeting, handle measurement, or route payments. Facebook will take care of it all.
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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 … | 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. — A combination of AT&T with satellite TV firm DirecTV …
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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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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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
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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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.| 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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| Tony Romm / Politico: |
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.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google releases Docs and Sheets apps for iOS and Android — Google is launching standalone mobile apps for the three key tools in its productivity suite: Docs, Sheets, and Slides. The apps will be available on both iOS and Android, with the former two already out today and Slides coming at a later date.| 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.| Mike Hopkins / Hulu Blog: |
Hulu will allow free viewing of select full TV episodes on mobile devices starting this summer — Today at the Hulu Upfront in New York City, joined by Peter Naylor, SVP of Sales, Craig Erwich, SVP Head of Content, and many of our talented stars and creators from Hulu Originals … | 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.Sponsor Posts
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