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Facebook makes new privacy policy 70% shorter, includes interactive Privacy Basics tutorials — Facebook Gives Its Privacy Policy a Makeover — Facebook simplified and shortened by two-thirds its description of how it uses data, responding to concerns that users didn't understand its policies.
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| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Facebook updates privacy policy, but users have little control over how their data is used to sell ads — Facebook Tries to Explain Its Privacy Settings But Advertising Still Rules — The social network will give users simpler explanations and animated tutorials on major privacy features.
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Facebook's New Privacy Rules Clear the Way for Payments Push and Location-Based Ads — Facebook is updating its privacy policies and adding tools that are supposed to make it easier for you to understand them and to opt out of certain kinds of ad targeting. — It's very likely that if you use Facebook, you don't care.| Miguel Helft / Fortune: |
Fortune's Businessperson of the Year, Google's Larry Page: The most ambitious CEO in the universe — Google's Larry Page: The most ambitious CEO in the universe — There's a joke about Larry Page that's been making the rounds at Google X, the “moon shot” factory where Google …
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In new agreement with Amazon, Hachette will set prices for its ebooks — Updated: Amazon and Hachette have officially reached a new contract — Amazon and book publisher Hachette Book Group have finally reached a deal in the negotiations that have been going on since May, the companies announced in a press release Thursday.| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Apple's A8X features powerful semi-custom 8-core GPU — Apple A8X's GPU - GXA6850, Even Better Than I Thought — Working on analyzing various Apple SoCs over the years has become a process of delightful frustrating. Apple's SoC development is consistently on the cutting edge … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Announces EC2 Container Service For Managing Docker Containers On AWS — At its re:invent developer conference in Las Vegas, Amazon today announced its first Docker-centric product: the EC2 Container Service for managing Docker containers on its cloud computing platform.
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MPAA launches WhereToWatch site, listing legal movie and TV streams in continued fight against piracy — Here's Another Movie and TV Search Site. This One's From Hollywood. — There are so many places to find movies and TV shows. They're on TV! They're on the Internet!| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Search App For Android Gets Material Design Update And New Smarts — The Google app for Android — the app that handles your voice searches, Google Now Updates and more — is getting an update today that brings Google's new Material Design user interface to the app for devices … | Dustin Volz / National Journal: |
Harry Reid Moves For Senate Vote on NSA Reform — The Senate Majority Leader is hoping to move the bulk data collection bill before his party returns to the minority. — “That sunset could very easily touch off an ugly intra-party battle among both Democrats and Republicans,” said Harley Geiger … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Big Fish Games to be acquired for $885 million by racetrack operator Churchill Downs — Seattle-based Big Fish Games, one of the largest privately-held tech companies in the Northwest, has agreed to be be acquired by Churchill Downs Inc. for $885 million. Churchill Downs Inc …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Buys Israeli Hybrid Cloud Security Startup Aorato In $200M Deal — Microsoft today confirmed that it has acquired Aorato, an Israel-based maker of security solutions co-founded by veterans of the Israeli defense forces, which only exited from stealth earlier this year.| Brandon Chester / AnandTech: |
Nexus 6 review: the best performing Android phone on the market but suffers from poor display calibration and relatively short battery life — The Nexus 6 Review — When consumers think of Google's Nexus devices, they think about the promise of receiving the latest updates for Android essentially as soon as they release.
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| Jack Dickey / TIME: |
Taylor Swift's label says she earned less than $500K for domestic streaming the past 12 months; Spotify claims it paid her $2M for global streaming — Taylor Swift's Spotify Paycheck Mystery — Spotify and Swift's record label provide new figures to defend themselves in the battle over profits from the streaming music service
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| Emily Steel / New York Times: |
Sony launches PlayStation Vue web-based TV service with all major broadcast and some cable networks, testing in NYC with broad rollout in Q1 2015 — Sony to Introduce Web-Based TV Service — Sony is pressing play on a new web-based television service that represents an attempt to transform …
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