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Instagram furor triggers first class action lawsuit
Facebook's Instagram photo sharing service has been hit with what appears to be the first civil lawsuit to result from changed service terms that prompted howls of protest last week.
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5 Ways to Push Your Company Past the Startup Phase
Launching a startup is tough, but moving past start-up and into phase two can be even tougher.
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What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?
The digital pioneer and visionary behind virtual reality has turned against the very culture he helped create
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Cyberextortionists on porn sites are really, really scary
Watching porn online could lead to something more embarrassing than explaining it to your significant other—your computer might be held hostage.
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Why the Instagram debacle just taught every tech company to be shadier than ever
Last night Instagram announced that it was retracting a controversial terms of service change that was widely and inaccurately interpreted to mean that the company would be selling user photos.
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Flickr is Going Free for Three Months to Entice Instagram Deserters
Wait... it's not free?
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Facebook Rejects German Demand To Allow Fake Names
Facebook will fight a German privacy watchdog's demand to allow users to register with fake names, insisting Tuesday that its current practice fully complies with the law.
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Facebook Poke Hits #1 A Day After Its Release
Poke by Facebook has hit the No. 1 free app spot on Appleās App Store, just a day after being released.
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Julian Assange: WikiLeaks to release 1 million new documents
WikiLeaks is preparing to release more than a million documents next year, the controversial website's founder said Thursday.
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Facebook tests $1 fee for inbox access
The 'small experiment' will let some people pay to have a message routed to the Inbox of someone they're not connected with, rather have it be banished to the Other folder. Read this article by Donna Tam on CNET News.
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Google Executives Acquitted In Bullying Case
The case brings us back to the year 1996, when four students from a school in Turin posted a video on Google Videos, a video search engine owned by Google. The video showed the four students bullying a boy...
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Wikipedia doesn't need your money - so why does it keep pestering you?
Wikipedia claims that the donations are needed to keep the site online. Guilt-tripped journalists including Heather Brooke and Toby Young have contributed to Wikipedia in the belief that donations help fund operating costs. Students, who are already heavily in debt, are urged to donate in case Wikipedia "disappears".
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14 Best Craigslist Ads Of The Apocalypse
"It is highly unlikely the world will end Friday ... but just in case you should experience the pleasure of my massage."
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Behind closed doors at the UN's attempted "takeover of the Internet"
Conflicting visions for the future of the Internet collide in Dubai.
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Will the internet end up controlled by big business and politicians?
Its birth heralded a new age of intellectual freedom. Now the internet is under seige
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Vintage video explaining the internet
Pretty cool looking back at the internet at its infancy.
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"Gangnam Style" vodka is coming for Russia
A company in Russia made its first move to cash in on Psy's 2012 anthem "Gangnam Style" this week.
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An Early Tale of the Internet
An electrical engineer who worked on the forerunner to the Internet recalls a visitor from the government to the laboratory where he worked -- a place that developed many personal computing and networking technologies.
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China tightens up censorship of Internet sites
For years, China's net nannies turned the other cheek to a loophole in their vast online censorship apparatus.
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Samsung looks to address its biggest weakness in 2013
Samsung raked in $6 billion in profit last quarter thanks in large part to huge smartphone numbers. The company also does well in several other areas of its business, but one key aspect of its portfolio is still lacking: services.
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