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Explaining Our Community Standards and Approach to Government Requests — By Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management, and Chris Sonderby, Deputy General Counsel — Every day, people around the world use Facebook to connect with family and friends, share information and express themselves.
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Government Requests For Facebook Data Decrease In U.S. And UK, But Rise In India — Facebook's latest report on government requests shows a decrease in requests from many Western countries in the second half of 2014, but that's offset by increases from India, Turkey and Russia.
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Bill Gurley amps up bubble talk, predicting “dead unicorns” this year and a Facebook revenue hit — Bill Gurley predicts ‘dead unicorns’ in startup-land this year — A crash would affect more than just startups. Bill Gurley, the prominent investor behind Uber and Snapchat …
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| Davey Alba / Wired: |
IDC revises projections for 2015 PC shipments downward, now expects a 5% drop this year — No, Really, the PC Is Dying and It's Not Coming Back — A little while back, we started to hear a few voices speaking up against the drumbeat of doom. No, PCs weren't dead. They were maybe even coming back.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
A competitive landscape, and disgruntled partners and advertisers, challenge YouTube's dominance — YouTube Turns 10: How Competition Crashed the Party — If there could be said to be a poster boy for YouTube, it may well be Freddie Wong. Known online as FreddieW, the 29-year-old is the creator of …
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
YouTube is exploring the prospect of launching its own subscription VOD service, modeled on YouTube Music Key — YouTube may launch subscription video service for a monthly fee — YouTube may soon have a subscription option for its best original content.
Tweets: @tcarmody
| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
Google is working on an open API for Google Now, allowing apps to supply information — A Google Now open API is in the works... and support for theme park ride queue times — Google Now will one day be able to work with information from all of the apps you use.
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Android Central and Engadget
| Michael Wolf / Medium: |
Gigaom's former VP of Research on how venture capital and the growth expectations that come with it contributed to Gigaom's demise — Gigaom: The Life and Death of a Venture Funded Media Startup — As most know, we lost Gigaom last week. It was a sudden passing of a widely beloved tech media company …
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| Andrea Peterson / Washington Post: |
Yahoo demos plug-in for end-to-end email encryption, to launch by end of year; rolls out single-use password via SMS feature — Yahoo's plan to get Mail users to encrypt their e-mail: Make it simple — Keeping your e-mail messages super private can be a pain.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Evolution of the smartwatch, like the smartphone, will be a multi-year, multi-vendor effort, with Apple Watch now contributing app-centric approach and Wi-Fi — Apple's contribution to the smartwatch: An app-centric approach and Wi-Fi — Key differences make Android Wear and Apple Watch two very different platforms.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
How ResearchKit minimizes obstacles to participation, enabling transformative medical research — ResearchKit An “Enormous Opportunity” For Science, Says Breast Cancer Charity — This week Apple bundled a big announcement inside it's long awaited Apple Watch ‘Spring Forward’ event.| John Pavlus / Medium: |
While apps and search made URLs less important, URLs will remain the best way to uniquely label places on the web — Why Won't URLs Die? — The Uniform Resource Locator has been the user-interface lingua franca of the internet for decades. A browser window just wouldn't look right without it up there at the top.Sponsor Posts
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Zoho:
Zoho Sign at Kenya's Digital Trust Forum 2025 organized by Evrotrust and Geda — Kenyan businesses and government services are adapting to digital alternatives to explore opportunities in the nation's newly launched ten-year Digital Master Plan.
Zoho Sign at Kenya's Digital Trust Forum 2025 organized by Evrotrust and Geda — Kenyan businesses and government services are adapting to digital alternatives to explore opportunities in the nation's newly launched ten-year Digital Master Plan.
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