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Google+ offers more restrictive user experience for teens

Posted January 26, 2012 - 1:43 pm

Google+ is now officially welcoming teenagers and tailoring the experience of the social networking site for them by making it more restrictive and potentially safer.
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Rhapsody acquires Napster operations in UK, Germany

Posted January 26, 2012 - 2:56 am

Rhapsody has acquired the Napster service in the U.K. and Germany, following up on its acquisition last year of Napster's U.S. operations from Best Buy.
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Europe's proposed new data laws called a burden on business

Posted January 25, 2012 - 12:19 pm

Europe's proposed new laws on data protection are burdensome and expensive according to industry representatives.
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Internet users to get new rights under EU data protection proposals

Posted January 25, 2012 - 10:15 am

Internet users in the European Union will benefit from greater control over their personal data if new proposals to reform the Data Protection Directive are implemented.
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Google to combine users' data across its services

Posted January 24, 2012 - 6:34 pm

Google will be able to combine data from several Google services when a Google Accounts user is signed in, as part of a rewritten set of privacy policies that the company announced on Tuesday.
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Yahoo continued to struggle with online ad sales in Q4

Posted January 24, 2012 - 5:17 pm

Yahoo struggled selling both display and search advertising in the fourth quarter, as its revenue and net income both dropped year-on-year.
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Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle gets SIIA recognition

Posted January 24, 2012 - 3:47 pm

The creator of the Internet Archive is being awarded for his work and foresight by the Software and Information Industry Association, the association announced Tuesday.
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Twitter acquires antimalware company Dasient

Posted January 23, 2012 - 10:36 pm

Twitter has acquired Internet security firm Dasient, the Sunnyvale, California startup said on its blog on Monday.
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Google+ adds support for pseudonyms -- sort of

Posted January 23, 2012 - 5:27 pm

Google has relaxed somewhat its strict real-names policy on Google+, by letting existing members attach an alternate moniker to their profile name and by letting new members sign up with just a pseudonym, provided it is an "established" identity online or offline.
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FileSonic disables file sharing after MegaUpload arrests

Posted January 23, 2012 - 5:50 am

An online storage service, FileSonic, has disabled file sharing between users following the takedown of the MegaUpload service for alleged copyright infringement violations.
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Google kills more services

Posted January 20, 2012 - 7:24 pm

Google is continuing to weed out its services and on Friday announced it will shut down Picnik, Google Message Continuity and Needlebase and make changes to some other services.
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Google to punish sites with many ads at the top of pages

Posted January 20, 2012 - 12:18 pm

Websites that load the top of their pages with ads, forcing visitors to scroll down to view content, will take a hit on their Google rankings.
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Microsoft Q2 revenue up 5 percent, net income slightly down

Posted January 19, 2012 - 4:46 pm

Microsoft revenue rose in the second fiscal quarter, while its profits dipped a bit.
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SOPA, PIPA opponents celebrate, but say work isn't done

Posted January 19, 2012 - 3:45 pm

A day after an estimated 10,000 websites went dark and more than 7 million people signed a Google.com petition opposing two controversial copyright enforcement bills, opponents of the bills said there's more work to do.
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Twitter acquires social media feed condenser Summify

Posted January 19, 2012 - 1:26 pm

Twitter has acquired Summify, a startup that summarizes content in people's Google, Facebook and Twitter social media feeds and delivers a daily digest via email, on a website or to a user's iPhone.
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10 questions for Skybox Security CFO Lior Barak

Posted January 16, 2012 - 8:09 am

Name: Lior Barak
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10 questions for Palo Alto Networks CFO Michael Lehman

Posted January 9, 2012 - 2:31 pm

Name: Michael Lehman
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Facebook brings back the hack

Posted January 4, 2012 - 7:43 pm

In an effort to challenge programmers worldwide, Facebook has brought back its Hacker Cup contest for a third round, the company announced Wednesday.
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Akamai acquires mobile, cloud traffic optimizer Cotendo

Posted December 22, 2011 - 8:48 am

Akamai Technologies has acquired Cotendo is a bid to become better at speeding up enterprise cloud and mobile traffic, the companies said on Thursday.
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10 questions for Box CFO Dylan Smith

Posted December 19, 2011 - 12:31 pm

-- Name: Dylan Smith, co-founder and CFO
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Sony Ericsson Xperia owners get 50 GB of free online storage

Posted December 15, 2011 - 6:59 am

Sony Ericsson is offering owners of its Xperia smartphones 50GB of free online data storage in partnership with cloud storage company Box, the smartphone maker said on Thursday.
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10 questions for Mimecast CFO Peter Campbell

Posted December 5, 2011 - 2:57 pm

Name: Peter Campbell
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Adobe buys Efficient Frontier to boost its online advertising capabilities

Posted November 30, 2011 - 10:19 am

Adobe Systems has acquired Efficient Frontier in order to boost its abilities to power advertising campaigns that use social networks and search engines to reach consumers, the company said on Wednesday.
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10 questions for Sesame Communications CFO Jon Engman

Posted November 21, 2011 - 11:28 am

-- Name: Jon Engman
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Orange introduces cheap Facebook phones in Europe, Africa

Posted November 16, 2011 - 5:49 am

Orange launched three Alcatel One Touch phones on Wednesday with dedicated Facebook buttons priced below €100 (US$135).
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