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Disruptions: Instagram Testimony Doesn't Add Up
Kevin Systrom, chief executive of Instagram, insists his company never received any formal acquisition offers besides Facebook's, but evidence suggests otherwise.
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What’s Facebook’s responsibility when the nation seeks to lynch someone on only a name?
Once police initially identified the suspect of this unspeakable tragedy as 24-year-old Ryan Lanza, the race was on for citizen and professional journalists to scour social networks for photos, Tweets, and status updates from the suspect.
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Scarlett Johansson Nude Photo Hacker Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
Christopher Chaney, who pleaded guilty to hacking into the e-mail accounts of Scarlett Johansson and other celebrities, has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison.
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Southwest Airlines owes passengers 5.8 million free beers
Restaurant and movie reviews, plus music, nightlife, style, television, celebrity gossip, arts, dance and theater coverage and more from Philly.com.
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Instagram hit with proposed class-action lawsuit
Suit claims that Instagram is not only making a 'grab for customer property rights' with proposed tweaks to its terms of service, but is also covering its tail by prohibiting users from seeking legal relief.
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Toyota Agrees To Pay $1.1 Billion To Settle Unintended Acceleration Lawsuits
Numerous safety recalls have been a blackmark on Toyota's stellar reliability reputation over the last few years. The biggest, and most notable recalls, were for unintended acceleration. Now, a settlement has been reached in the case, and Toyota will be paying out a record $1.1 billion to settle.
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John McAfee Tells World How He Fooled Cops and Escaped Belize
On the day after Christmas, McAfee posted a long blog post describing how he gave Belizean authorities the slip and snuck out of the country to avoid questioning (and in his estimation, wrongful prosecution) following the murder of his neighbor, Greg Faull.
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The Guy Who Brought 32 Bags of Weed into a Courtroom
December 14 was a very bad day for 29-year-old Jersey City resident Marquis Diggs.
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Young woman gang-raped in India dies
An Indian woman whose gang-rape aboard a bus in New Delhi spawned mass protests has died, according to a doctor who was treating her at a Singapore hospital.
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Arrest in Newtown charity scam case
Federal authorities arrested a 37-year-old Bronx woman on Thursday after she allegedly concocted a ruse in the wake of the Connecticut mass shooting and posed as a relative of one of the slain children.
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India Rape Death: Six Charged With Murder
Six men could face the death penalty if they are convicted of the murder of a woman who died after being gang raped on a bus.
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Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy
Naomi Wolf: New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent
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Pinterest Sued by Man Claiming Investor Stole His Ideas
Pinterest and one of the company's investors, Brian Cohen, are now embroiled in a lawsuit with Theodore Schroeder, who alleges that Cohen took ideas from a company the two were previously involved in and used them to catapult Pinterest to the top of the social network pile.
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Raped by 42 men in 40 days. Sixteen years later, she awaits justice
In Kerala, her case is known as the Suryanelli rape case, after the village where she lived with her parents. They have moved houses twice since then, driven out they say by jeering neighbours.
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Handcuffed California teen shot while in police custody
A Southern California teenager who was fatally shot while handcuffed by police last Wednesday was armed during the incident, a police spokesperson said Monday.
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Indian Police Charge 5 in New Delhi Gang Rape
Police said they plan to push for the death penalty in the case, as government officials promised new measures to protect women in the nation’s capital.
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Big food companies should start to worry about tobacco-like lawsuits
The first people in America to say smoking was bad for your health were greeted with derision and called quacks.
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Social media casts spotlight on Ohio rape case
The videos, pictures and tweets are chilling. A picture of a girl dangling limply from the arms of two young men.
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Jodi Arias, Accused of Stabbing, Shooting Lover in Jealous Rage, Goes On Trial
A woman charged with stabbing her lover 27 times and shooting him in the head has gone on trial, with attorneys debating whether Jodi Arias planned the attack or fought off Mormon playboy Travis Alexander in self-defense.
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Malala Yousafzai was discharged from a hospital in Birmingham, England, on Thursday
In an attack that propelled her to global recognition, Malala was targeted in Pakistan by Taliban gunmen for speaking out in favor of education for Pakistani girls. She was left with life-threatening head and neck wounds.
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