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The End of Google as You Know It

Google Privacy Policy: The End of Google as You Know It

By consolidating its privacy policies and altering its core product, Google has separated itself from the reason everyone loved it. Before, it was simply the world's greatest search engine. Now, it's just another search bar. The new privacy policy gives Google the ability to monitor activity across all of its services, and I suspect that Google product will continue to bleed into each other. Prepare for the end of Google as you know it.
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Etsy: Turning Artists into Entrepreneurs, Passion into Possibility

Assuming the power to change the entire world economy is no small feat, but Etsy is doing just that. Created in 2005 by Rob Kalin, a painter, carpenter and photographer who found there was no practical marketplace in which to sell his handiwork, Etsy now boasts over 12 million active members, 1.5 million Twitter followers and $467.8 million in sales through November 2011. Etsy is the classic Little Engine That Could story. After all, Etsy was built not on a mountain, but on a molehill; s...
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Facebook to File for $10-Bln IPO: Is $100-Bln Valuation for the Company Appropriate?

Facebook Inc., the world's largest social networking site, is getting closer to its initial public offering this week as the company is reportedly planning to file papers with the U.S. financial watchdog on Wednesday. Speculation is rife that the social media giant is aiming to raise about $10 billion, which would value the company at between $75 billion and $100 billion.
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iPhone 5 Launch: Will the Killer Feature be Software Related?

The next iPhone 5 has at various times been rumored to include LTE connectivity, larger display, a quad-core processor, new design and much more. However, what has been overlooked is that the important feature for the iPhone 5 may not be hardware-related.
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Twitter Recruitment Video Released: 'The Future is You!' [VIDEO]

More than 218,000 people have already viewed the best/worst Twitter recruitment video the social media company released on Friday. The job recruitment video titled At Twitter, The Future is You! is called by the company a hackweek project: make the best/worst recruiting video of all time. Done.
Convicted Criminals Use Facebook to Taunt Victims' Families

Facebook to File IPO Documents Soon: Report

Facebook plans to file documents as early as Wednesday for a highly anticipated IPO that will value the world's largest social network at between $75 billion and $100 billion, the Wall Street Journal cited unidentified sources as saying on Friday.
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Former Groupon sales reps countersue over tactics

Former Groupon Inc sales representatives sued by that company after leaving for Google Inc have filed a countersuit, claiming their former employer is pursuing sham litigation to keep them from joining rivals.
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RIP Demi Moore: Actress Becomes Victim of Random Twitter Death Hoax

Demi Moore is the victim of a death hoax that began trending on Twitter late Friday, with the topic RIP Demi Moore fueling speculations that the actress has died. But the Twitter rumor is not true, as there has been no official report that the recently hospitalized actress has died.
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February 1 is Change Your Password Day: Why You Should Change Your Passwords

Feb. 1 is change your password day, and you should change your passwords regularly just like changing a lock after a roommate moves out. If you've ever told someone what one of your passwords was, that's a good one to go ahead and change. Of course, if you've ever been a victim of cyber-crime, you already do this, but here's some tips on how and why to change your passwords.
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Facebook to file IPO documents soon as Wednesday: report

Facebook plans to file documents as early as Wednesday for a highly anticipated IPO that will value the world's largest social network at between $75 billion and $100 billion, the Wall Street Journal cited unidentified sources as saying on Friday.
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Facebook Takes on 'Clickjacking' Spammers in Court

Facebook and the state of Washington sued a company on Thursday they accused of a practice called clickjacking that fools users of the world's top social network into visiting advertising sites, divulging personal information and spreading the scam to friends.
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Twitter to restrict user content in some countries

Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in specific countries, renewing questions about how the social media platform will handle issues of free speech as it rapidly expands its global user base.
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Facebook takes on 'clickjacking' spammers in court

Facebook and the state of Washington sued a company on Thursday they accused of a practice called clickjacking that fools users of the world's top social network into visiting advertising sites, divulging personal information and spreading the scam to friends.
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Twitter to Censor Content in Some Countries

Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin censoring Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings.
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Hacked Symantec Security Software Goes Rogue

Symantec security software was hacked back in 2006, and now the anti-virus software maker says it didn't even know the source code for pcAnywhere, a remote access program, was even gone. Symantec knew there was a breach alright, but until a hacker called Yama Tough posted online in January he had the code, the company was unaware of the theft.
Twitter Bows to Big Brother

Twitter Bows to Big Brother

Twitter, the social network many have lauded as the launching pad for several protests around the world, has just changed its privacy policy. Twitter made the announcement the company's official blog: We give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country - while keeping it available in the rest of the world, said the post. We have also built in a way to communicate transparently to users when content is withheld, and why.

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