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Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO - 10 avril 2014
Condoleezza Rice, former United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor has joined the board of cloud file storage and syncing firm Dropbox.
Dropbox is in the news today after launching a number of new products and features at a morning event in San Francisco. The company debuted Carousel, a photo (...)
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Facebook Is Forcing All Users To Download Messenger By Ripping Chat Out Of Its Main Apps - 10 avril 2014
Facebook is taking its standalone app strategy to a new extreme today. It’s starting to notify users they’ll no longer have the option to send and receive messages in Facebook for iOS and Android, and will instead have to download Facebook Messenger to chat on mobile.
Facebook’s main apps have always included a (...)
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How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff (Without Actually Looking At Your Stuff) - 1er avril 2014
Late last night, a tweet was spread far and wide showing that a DMCA notice had blocked a file from being shared on a Dropbox user’s account.
wow. @dropbox DMCA takedown in personal folders . . . this is new to me. http://t.co/fSKxJUrFus"”
darrell whitelaw (@darrellwhitelaw) March 30, 2014
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Confirmed : Snapchat Hack Not A Hoax, 4.6M Usernames And Numbers Published - 3 janvier 2014
A site called SnapchatDB.info has saved usernames and phone numbers for 4.6 million accounts and made the information available for download. In a statement to us, SnapchatDB says that it got the information through a recently identified and patched Snapchat exploit and that it is making the data available in an (...)
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How To Opt Out Of Google’s Weird New Ads That Use Your Face And Name - 14 octobre 2013
Angry that Google is planning on using your face and name for the sake of advertisements ?
Here’s how to make them not.
If there’s any upside, it’s that opting out is, quite seriously, two clicks away. Two clicks that I only discovered because I went out of my way to look and because I checked the depths of Google+ (...)
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Facebook To Build A $1 Billion Data Center In Iowa - 13 août 2013
Facebook is planning to build a $1 billion data center project in Altoona, Iowa, that will cover 1.4 million square feet and serve as what the company says will be "the most advanced data center in the world." [Update 4/23 : Facebook has now officially announced the new Iowa data center. Facebook says "We plan to (...)
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Instagram Will Share User Data With Facebook According To Its New Privacy Policy - 19 décembre 2012
Instagram has just announced an update to its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy which will go into effect starting January 16.
According to the popular photo-sharing service, Instagram has introduced this Privacy Policy update to better collaborate with Facebook, which purchased the app earlier this year. (...)
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Facebook Asks Users If It Can Abolish Their Right To Vote On Future Site Governance Changes - 23 novembre 2012
Today Facebook will send its largest email blast to date, informing all 1 billion users that it’s proposing to modify the site’s governance structure and remove the ability for users to vote on changes. Currently if proposed changes get over 7,000 comments all users may vote on them, and if over 30 percent vote for (...)
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Facebook Now Lets US Users Pay $7 To Promote Posts To The News Feeds Of More Friends - 4 octobre 2012
Facebook is expanding to the U.S. the controversial Promoted Posts feature that lets users pay to get their posts more visibility in the news feed. It will cost $7 per post and Facebook hopes it will be used for garage sales, parties, wedding photos and other important announcements.
Promoted Posts has already (...)
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Facebook Turns Off Facial Recognition In The EU, Gets The All-Clear On Several Points From Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner On Its Review - 22 septembre 2012
The ongoing investigation into Facebook’s transparency on user data and privacy by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner has come to a positive conclusion for the social network. The DPC, whose decisions had wider-ranging implications for all of Facebook’s business in Europe, had made several recommendations earlier (...)
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Amazon Kindle HD Will Allow Users To Opt-Out Of "Special Offers" For $15 - 10 septembre 2012
If you’ve been put off by the (arguably obtrusive) Special Offers on the Kindle Fire HD, Amazon has just announced that they will allow users to pay $15 to opt-out of the ads for the life of the device.
An Amazon spokesperson wrote :
We know from our Kindle reader line that customers love our special offers and (...)
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Startup Claims 80% Of Its Facebook Ad Clicks Are Coming From Bots - 1er août 2012
A lot of people like to complain about their experiences on major web platforms such as Facebook, but most of them stick around as users, feeling that the pros outweigh the cons. But Limited Run, a startup that makes a software platform for musicians and labels to sell physical products like vinyl records, says it (...)
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Rumor : Twitter To Acquire Sense Networks To Better Target Local Ads - 4 juillet 2012
A good source tells me that Twitter is set to make its sixth acquisition of 2012 with NY-based Sense Networks. Terms of the deal are still under wraps but it is expected to go through this month.
Twitter declined to comment.
Sense Networks was founded in 2003 and in 2006 launched MacroSense, which the company (...)
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"˜Find Friends Nearby’ : Facebook’s New Mobile Feature For Finding People Around You - 25 juin 2012
Facebook has created a new feature that lets users find friends and potential friends nearby. Currently Initially called "Friendshake" and also accessible through a URL that is the abbreviation of "find friends nearby" (http://fb.com/ffn), it’s another step in Facebook furthering its reach into mobile, and (...)
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LinkedIn Confirms Hack And Leak Of "Some" User Passwords - 7 juin 2012
Shortly after it was reported that nearly 6.5 million LinkedIn account passwords were leaked onto the net, LinkedIn leapt into action and mounted their own investigation.
Though most of the morning was spent claiming that they could not confirm a security breach, a new announcement on their blog reveals that at (...)
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Face.com Is Definitely Being Acquired By Facebook Say Sources - 30 mai 2012
The purchase of Face.com by Facebook is happening and is a done deal, say multiple TechCrunch sources.
Those familiar with the matter have confirmed the price will be $100m, as per the media speculation in the last few days. So far Face.com itself has declined to comment. CEO Gil Hirsch told us via email today "I (...)
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Pay To "Highlight" Your Facebook Status Updates To More Friends "“ A Reckless New Ads Test - 12 mai 2012
Only 12% of your friends see your average status update, but Facebook is testing an option called "Highlight" that lets you pay a few dollars to have one of your posts appear to more friends. Highlight lets the average user, not Pages or businesses, select an "important post" and "make sure friends see this" , (...)
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Facebook Buys Location-Based Discovery App Glancee - 8 mai 2012
A little under one month after its acquisition of Instagram, Facebook has acquired Highlight competitor and ambient location app Glancee.
The social network has already shut down the developer’s passive location app and all three co-founders, Glancee’s only full-time employees, will join Facebook, which now owns (...)
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Amid Privacy Concerns, Apple Has Started Rejecting Apps That Access UDIDs - 28 mars 2012
Amid extra scrutiny from Congress around privacy issues, Apple this week has started rejecting apps that access UDIDs, or identification numbers that are unique to every iPhone and iPad.
Apple had already given developers a heads-up about the change more than six months ago when it said in some iOS documentation (...)
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SOPA Delayed "“ But Not For Long - 20 décembre 2011
The extremely unpopular SOPA bill was supposed to be the last order of business today as the House Judiciary Committee prepared to break for the holidays, but a parade of objections and amendments (over 50) kept the bill in discussion and at last the committee adjourned without resolving the issues.
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