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Explaining Our Community Standards and Approach to Government Requests — By Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management, and Chris Sonderby, Deputy General Counsel — Every day, people around the world use Facebook to connect with family and friends, share information and express themselves.
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Government Requests For Facebook Data Decrease In U.S. And UK, But Rise In India — Facebook's latest report on government requests shows a decrease in requests from many Western countries in the second half of 2014, but that's offset by increases from India, Turkey and Russia.
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Bill Gurley amps up bubble talk, predicting “dead unicorns” this year and a Facebook revenue hit — Bill Gurley predicts ‘dead unicorns’ in startup-land this year — A crash would affect more than just startups. Bill Gurley, the prominent investor behind Uber and Snapchat …
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Google is working on an open API for Google Now, allowing apps to supply information — A Google Now open API is in the works... and support for theme park ride queue times — Google Now will one day be able to work with information from all of the apps you use.| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Facebook to announce ad performance measurement tool on its own and third party apps next week — Mobile Ad World Braces for Facebook's Move Into Measurement — Facebook next week is expected to announce a tool to help mobile app developers measure whether an ad caused people to download an app …
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Xbox head Phil Spencer on Xbox One's future and its unification with PCs through Windows 10 — Phil Spencer's new vision for the Xbox One — The Xbox chief on the change of direction that will help Xbox in its fight against PlayStation. — Things have been looking up for the Xbox One …
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IDC revises projections for 2015 PC shipments downward, now expects a 5% drop this year — No, Really, the PC Is Dying and It's Not Coming Back — A little while back, we started to hear a few voices speaking up against the drumbeat of doom. No, PCs weren't dead. They were maybe even coming back.| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
T-Mobile extends Data Stash to prepaid customers, includes the same 10GB of free LTE data, and unused data rollover for up to a year — T-Mobile extends 10GB free LTE data to prepaid customers, includes data rollover for up to a year — T-Mobile announced Data Stash back in December … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Office 2016 and Skype for Business previews — A leaked version of Office 2016 gave us an early look at a new colorful theme early today, and now Microsoft is ready to let anyone test its upcoming Office client. Starting today, the software maker is launching … | Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Microsoft: malware removal tools have eliminated Superfish adware from 250K Lenovo PCs by March 4 — Joint effort guts Superfish — Microsoft earlier this week said that search-and-destroy work by it, Lenovo and other software makers has reduced the daily number of Lenovo PCs found infected with the Superfish adware to below 1,000.
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YouTube introduces interactive Cards to complement annotations - and they work on mobile too — YouTube annotations - often useful uploader addendums, other times annoying distractions. Today though, the video platform is announcing a new and improved solution: cards.
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