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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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Apple will offer Android switchers gift cards to trade-in rival smartphones for iPhones — Apple is preparing to launch another program to boost iPhone sales in its stores, a stated goal of CEO Tim Cook. — According to sources, Apple will soon introduce a new recycling and trade-in program …
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Pew survey examines changes in American attitudes about online privacy post-Snowden — Americans' Privacy Strategies Post-Snowden — It has been nearly two years since the first disclosures of government surveillance programs by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden …
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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 … | Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
Google is working on an open API to allow any app integrate with Google Now — 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.
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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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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 tool: cards.| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
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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‘Sirius’ Is the Google-Backed Open Source Siri — Sirius, a Google-funded open source program similar to Apple's Siri or Google's Google Now voice recognition application, could finally democratize the virtual assistant. — RIght now, virtual assistants are a game for the big kids of the tech world …
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Authorities Closing In on Hackers Who Stole Data From JPMorgan Chase — It has become a familiar pattern: The computer system of a big American company is breached, the personal information of tens of millions of customers is stolen and a public outcry ensues. Rarely are the thieves caught.| Davey Alba / Wired: |
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; unused data rolls over 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 … Sponsor Posts
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