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Ten Years On, Foursquare Is Now Checking In to You - 12 janvier 2020
Way back in 2009, when Barack Obama was president and Little Nas X was 10 years old, one of the most talked-about start-ups in the tech industry was an app called Foursquare. The digital compass that pointed your Uncle Tony to the mayorship of your local Boston Market was the most prominent check-in app at a (...)
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Riot, le moteur de recherche qui espionne votre vie privée - 23 février 2013
« Nous allons maintenant suivre les traces de Nick, l’un de nos employés » C’est sur ce ton à la fois simple et décontracté que débute la démonstration vidéo d’un redoutable logiciel de cybersurveillance, baptisé Riot (Rapid Information Overlay Technology) et mis au point par Raytheon, une société américaine spécialisée dans (...)
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Facebook turns umbrella company via Instagram purchase - 20 avril 2012
Facebook’s much talked about $1bn purchase of photo-sharing app Instagram marks the start of a new chapter for the social network as an umbrella company, writes Emma Barnett.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 28-year old founder and chief, has found himself in a rare and enviable position. Now that his social network has (...)
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Your address book is mine : Many iPhone apps take your data - 20 avril 2012
Path got caught red-handed uploading users’ address books to its servers and had to apologize. But the relatively obscure journaling app is not alone. In fact, Path was crucified for a practice that has become an unspoken industry standard.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, Foodspotting, Yelp, and Gowalla (...)
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Nous faudra-t-il payer pour préserver notre vie privée sur l’internet ? - 20 avril 2012
Dans le business de la publication, les lecteurs sont les produits et les consommateurs sont les publicitaires", affirme Dave Winer, paraphrasant une citation célèbre : "Si vous ne voyez pas le produit, c’est que vous êtes le produit".
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Privacy suit filed against Path, Twitter, Apple, Facebook, others - 18 mars 2012
Address book issue with mobile apps prompts privacy lawsuit against app makers.
Thirteen individuals have filed a lawsuit against more than a dozen mobile app makers—including Path, Twitter, Apple, and Facebook—who were accused of automatically uploading user address books without permission.
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US soldiers warned over Facebook tagging - 10 mars 2012
American soldiers have been warned that posting photos on Facebook could give away their location to the enemy and put their lives at risk.
Military authorities have highlighted the threat from the "geotagging" technology built into many smartphones, which can reveal where a photograph was taken.
"Today, in (...)
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Facebook achète le service de géolocalisation Gowalla - 6 décembre 2011
Les fondateurs du service de l’application de géolocalisation Gowalla ont annoncé, lundi 5 décembre, qu’ils allaient arrêter ce service, alors qu’ils vont rejoindre le site Internet Facebook, qui a racheté l’entreprise. "Nous sommes ravis d’annoncer que nous allons faire le voyage en Californie pour rejoindre Facebook", a (...)
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Facebook unveils New York recruitment expansion plan - 5 décembre 2011
Facebook has announced plans to open a software engineering centre in New York in early 2012.
The firm already employs an advertising team in the city. However, it is the first time the company has created a software base that is not on the US West Coast.
Reports also suggest the social network has bought (...)
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Facebook Unveils a Service to Announce Where Users Are - 19 août 2010
Facebook introduced a long-anticipated service called Places on Wednesday that could help the company tap local and small-business advertisers and sharpen its competition with Google.
Facebook announces a new geo-location service that tells where you are.
Facebook’s Places borrows heavily from location-based (...)
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Foursquare updates privacy settings ahead of Facebook event - 18 août 2010
Facebook expected to launch its own location-based service on the same day that Foursquare has offered users more personalised privacy controls
Foursquare, the location-based social networking site, has introduced new privacy settings on the same day that Facebook is expected to unveil its own location service. (...)
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Why We Check In : The Reasons People Use Location-Based Social Networks - 3 juillet 2010
Services like Foursquare, Gowalla and others make it easy to post your physical location to the Web - but what makes people want to do that at all ?
Fifteen-month-old Foursquare is adding 100,000 new users every week, and Facebook has made it clear that location is a feature it is preparing to offer soon. What’s (...)
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Foursquare, Gowalla and the future of geo-location - 11 mars 2010
The mobile phone in your pocket is now about so much more than mere conversation. Email, the web and maps have become basic parts of any new mobile, and those technologies are starting to come together.
Facebook asks "What’s on your mind ?" and Twitter wants you to tell it "What’s happening ?" but new social (...)
