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Wall Street Journal:
Facebook in Privacy Breach — Top-Ranked Applications Transmit Personal IDs, a Journal Investigation Finds — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the F8 developer conference this spring. — Many of the most popular applications, or “apps,” on the social-networking site Facebook Inc …
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Facebook Developer Blog:
Using Facebook UIDs — We take user privacy seriously. We are dedicated to protecting private user data while letting users enjoy rich experiences with their friends. This more social Web will only occur if users trust that they are in control of their information.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
LOLApps Back On Facebook After UID Issues
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Determined to Crack the Social Code — Google has been stunningly adept at devising computer algorithms to help people search the Internet. But when it comes to building features for social networking, the company has been much less effective. — And changing that is one of the company's biggest business challenges these days.
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Ars Technica and Stowe Boyd
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Europe's Trademark Office Confirms iPad's New Landscape Design — This week the European Trademarks and Designs Registration Office confirmed that one of Apple's new iPad designs is displaying an extra left side 30 pin connector to allow it to dock in landscape mode under application 001222905-0001.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sprint promises WiMAX in NYC on November 1, LA on December 1, and San Francisco a few weeks later — The fact that Sprint and Clearwire have teamed up to deliver WiMAX to New York, LA, and San Francisco isn't news. In fact, we've already seen the networks light up in operational readiness modes …
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
The Facebook Money Machine — An update to this column: According to the Wall Street Journal, any of Facebook's most popular applications have been transmitting identifying information — in effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' names — to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies.
Dan Tynan / PC World:
Facebook + Bing: The Good, the Bad, the Incontinent — Analysis: Do you really want to rely on the wisdom of your crowd by linking your searches with your Facebook friends? — And so it begins in earnest. The Web has become the Social Web, and these days “social” translates almost literally into Facebook.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel, Microsoft, and the curious case of the iPad — “That tablet thing? Yeah, we'll get back to you on that.” That's a crude but fairly accurate encapsulation of the attitude Microsoft, Intel, and Advanced Micro Devices have toward the iPad and the tablet market in general. — Why the cavalier attitude?
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Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
Even Under New Captain, Yahoo Seems Adrift — SAN FRANCISCO — The board of Yahoo, the ailing Web portal, hired Carol A. Bartz as chief executive to apply a little shock therapy. — Now, nearly two years later, the patient is still suffering from many of the same symptoms: a stagnant business …
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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo to Offer Media Links — Yahoo Inc. plans to mimic a strategy used by rival Facebook Inc. to help drive traffic to its site, people familiar with the matter said. — The Sunnyvale, Calif., company soon will roll out a feature called Y Connect to allow media publishers …
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Boy Genius Report:
Sprint makes BlackBerry Style 9670 official, October 31st release for $99 — Sprint and BlackBerry have finally gone and made the BlackBerry Style 9670 official as of this morning. In case you're forgetting the specifications on the device we first showed to the world, here they are …
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CNET News, Softpedia News, I4U News, MobileCrunch, Electronista and Engadget
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
A Renewed Mark Zuckerberg — If you've seen Mark Zuckerberg speak at some point over the past few weeks, you've probably noticed something different about him. It's not that he's just more charismatic, but for the first time it appears as though he feels comfortable in his own body while speaking on stage.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Mark Zuckerberg On Facebook's Strategy For China (And His Wardrobe)
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why Groupon Is No Ebay — Chicago-based Groupon is certainly one heck of a startup. Like Zynga it sort of came out of nowhere in 2009. Even last December I was sort of only vaguely aware of how fast it was growing. — But it was clear by early 2010 to the whole world that Groupon was on a tear.
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