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Facebook proposes changes to its terms, data and cookies policies; releases interactive privacy guides; lets users opt out of certain ads on all devices — Updating our Terms and Policies: Helping You Understand How Facebook Works and How to Control Your Information| Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook makes new privacy policy 70% shorter, includes interactive Privacy Basics tutorials — Facebook Gives Its Privacy Policy a Makeover — Facebook simplified and shortened by two-thirds its description of how it uses data, responding to concerns that users didn't understand its policies.
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Fortune's Businessperson of the Year, Google's Larry Page: The most ambitious CEO in the universe — Google's Larry Page: The most ambitious CEO in the universe — There's a joke about Larry Page that's been making the rounds at Google X, the “moon shot” factory where Google …
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Amazon Announces EC2 Container Service For Managing Docker Containers On AWS — At its re:invent developer conference in Las Vegas, Amazon today announced its first Docker-centric product: the EC2 Container Service for managing Docker containers on its cloud computing platform.
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In new agreement with Amazon, Hachette will set prices for its ebooks — Updated: Amazon and Hachette finally reach deal; Hachette will set its ebook prices — Amazon and book publisher Hachette have finally reached a deal in the contentious and public negotiations that have been going on since May … | Dustin Volz / National Journal: |
Harry Reid Moves For Senate Vote on NSA Reform — The Senate Majority Leader is hoping to move the bulk data collection bill before his party returns to the minority. — “That sunset could very easily touch off an ugly intra-party battle among both Democrats and Republicans,” said Harley Geiger …
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Apple's A8X features powerful semi-custom 8-core GPU — Apple A8X's GPU - GXA6850, Even Better Than I Thought — Working on analyzing various Apple SoCs over the years has become a process of delightful frustrating. Apple's SoC development is consistently on the cutting edge … | Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Reddit CEO Yishan Wong resigns, Ellen Pao to be interim CEO, Alexis Ohanian back full time as executive chairman — Reddit Chief Executive Resigns as Company Shuffles Top Ranks — Reddit, the popular online community message board, wants to grow up into a viable business.
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MPAA launches WhereToWatch site, listing legal movie and TV streams in continued fight against piracy — Here's Another Movie and TV Search Site. This One's From Hollywood. — There are so many places to find movies and TV shows. They're on TV! They're on the Internet!| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
AngelList rolls out new “Funds”, which allow institutional investors to back portfolios of startups — A disruptor shakes up angel investing — One recent evening a group of institutional money managers was ushered into a backroom at San Francisco brasserie the Cavalier via … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Search App For Android Gets Material Design Update And New Smarts — The Google app for Android — the app that handles your voice searches, Google Now Updates and more — is getting an update today that brings Google's new Material Design user interface to the app for devices … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Buys Israeli Hybrid Cloud Security Startup Aorato In $200M Deal — Microsoft today confirmed that it has acquired Aorato, an Israel-based maker of security solutions co-founded by veterans of the Israeli defense forces, which only exited from stealth earlier this year.| Myles Udland / Business Insider: |
S&P assigns junk rating to Twitter's debt, as 5% stock slide erases most of Thursday's gains — S&P: Twitter's Credit Is Junk — Twitter shares are down more than 5% in afternoon trade on Thursday, giving up almost all of their gains from yesterday, after the company received a “junk” rating from credit agency S&P.
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Mozilla to serve ads on Firefox's new tab page, uses anonymized browsing history instead of cookies for ad personalization, users can opt out — Mozilla Finally Releases Its Browser Ad Product, Hints At Programmatic In 2015 — Mozilla, which makes the Firefox web browser …
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Nexus 6 review: the best performing Android phone on the market but suffers from poor display calibration and relatively short battery life — The Nexus 6 Review — When consumers think of Google's Nexus devices, they think about the promise of receiving the latest updates for Android essentially as soon as they release.
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