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Pew Report: Facebook growth slows, but user engagement increases; while Twitter and others grow userbase, not engagement — Social Media Update 2014 — In a new survey conducted in September 2014, the Pew Research Center finds that Facebook remains by far the most popular social media site.
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Twitter plans to sell ads in streams of tweets on other publishers' apps and websites, share revenue — Twitter Planning to Sell Ads on Apps and Sites of Other Companies — Twitter is laying out plans to make money from the millions of people who see tweets all over the Web but don't actually use Twitter.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Lizard Squad's DDoS attack service “Lizard Stresser” runs mostly on thousands of hacked home routers — Lizard Stresser Runs on Hacked Home Routers — The online attack service launched late last year by the same criminals who knocked Sony and Microsoft's gaming networks offline …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Screenshots emerge of Windows 10's new dark theme, taskbar, and Spartan browser UI — This is Windows 10's new browser and dark theme — Microsoft is preparing to unveil a new browser in Windows 10, codenamed Spartan, and leaked images are providing an early glimpse at the Internet Explorer successor.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple planning Apple Pay expansion into Canada as soon as March — Apple is preparing to expand its new Apple Pay payments service internationally with at least the Canadian launch currently scheduled for early 2015, according to sources close to the situation.| Loek Essers / InfoWorld: |
Glitch in OS X Yosemite's Spotlight Search can expose IP address, system details of Apple Mail users to spammers — Glitch in OS X search can expose private details of Apple Mail users — Performing a Spotlight search opens email previews that load external images, even when the Mail client is asked not to do this
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apps from Apple's EU App Store continue to work even after refunds are processed — The fundamental flaw with EU 14-day refunds: you keep the app forever — A week ago, Apple introduced 14-day no-questions-asked refunds in the EU for iTunes Store and App Store content.
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Snowden: NSA should re-prioritize cyber warfare goals and focus more on defensive measures given US's dependence on high-tech — Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare — Cyber warfare used to be the stuff of sci-fi movies and military exercises. But with the advent of the Stuxnet worm …
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| Amrutha Gayathri / Reuters: |
Box seeks to raise up to $162.5M in IPO at $11 to $13 per share at a valuation of up to $1.55B — Data storage company Box expected to be valued at up to $1.55 billion — (Reuters) - Online data storage provider Box Inc (IPO-BOX.N) expects its initial public offering to be priced at $11-$13 per share …
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| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Microsoft plans new OneDrive sync engine that unifies consumer and commercial versions, syncs shared folders such as Dropbox, has selective sync — Microsoft lays out year-long roadmap for unifying OneDrive sync engines — Summary:In a new announcement, the company says it plans to unify …
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OneDrive Blog, PC Advisor, cloudpro.co.uk, FierceCIO News and The Register
| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Nintendo blames taxes as it exits Brazil — Mario isn't afraid to brave the dangers of ice worlds or Bowser's castle, but tariffs have scared him away from Brazil. — The game publisher revealed today that it is ending operations in the South American nation (via UOL Brazil).| Hannah Jane Parkinson / Guardian: |
Google-backed fund donates €250,000 to Charlie Hebdo, Zuckerberg condemns attack, Apple shows solidarity with banner on site — Mark Zuckerberg, Apple and Google respond to Charlie Hebdo attack — Facebook CEO condemns attack while Google donates £195,000 to support satirical magazine … Sponsor Posts
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Zoho:
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