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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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Apple will offer Android switchers gift cards to trade-in rival smartphones for iPhones — Apple is preparing to launch another program to boost iPhone sales in its stores, a stated goal of CEO Tim Cook. — According to sources, Apple will soon introduce a new recycling and trade-in program …
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Pew survey examines changes in American attitudes about online privacy post-Snowden — Americans' Privacy Strategies Post-Snowden — It has been nearly two years since the first disclosures of government surveillance programs by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden …
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Google is working on an open API to allow any app integrate with Google Now — 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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Microsoft launches Office 2016 preview for IT pros and developers, Skype for Business preview to replace Lync — Microsoft launches Office 2016 and Skype for Business previews — A leaked version of Office 2016 gave us an early look at a new colorful theme early today … | Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
YouTube introduces interactive cards to complement annotations - and they work on mobile too — YouTube annotations - often useful uploader addendums, other times annoying distractions. Today though, the video platform is announcing a new and improved tool: cards.| 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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Facebook to announce ad performance measurement tool on its own and third party apps next week — Mobile Ad World Braces for Facebook's Move Into Measurement — Facebook next week is expected to announce a tool to help mobile app developers measure whether an ad caused people to download an app …
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‘Sirius’ Is the Google-Backed Open Source Siri — Sirius, a Google-funded open source program similar to Apple's Siri or Google's Google Now voice recognition application, could finally democratize the virtual assistant. — RIght now, virtual assistants are a game for the big kids of the tech world …
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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.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Lyft forecasts $1.2B revenue in 2015, profitability in 2016 on $2.7B in gross sales, monthly rides to grow from 2.5M to 13M in 2015 — A Look Inside Lyft's Financial Forecast For 2015 And Beyond — Last week on-demand transportation service Lyft announced that it had raised $530 million … | New York Times: |
Authorities Closing In on Hackers Who Stole Data From JPMorgan Chase — It has become a familiar pattern: The computer system of a big American company is breached, the personal information of tens of millions of customers is stolen and a public outcry ensues. Rarely are the thieves caught.| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
T-Mobile extends Data Stash to prepaid customers, includes the same 10GB of free LTE data; unused data rolls over for up to a year — T-Mobile extends 10GB free LTE data to prepaid customers, includes data rollover for up to a year — T-Mobile announced Data Stash back in December … Sponsor Posts
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