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Former Yahoo executive settling insider trading charges

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Former Yahoo executive settling insider trading charges Yahoo’s former senior director of business management, Robert W. Kwok, and a former mutual fund manager at Ameriprise Financial have agreed to settle insider trading charges. The Securities and Exchange Commission maintains that Kwok and [...]

Apps Should Respect Users’ Preferences

21 hours ago
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Apps Should Respect Users’ Preferences Facebook’s Open Graph is too tempting for app developers. All they need is the slightest bit of permission from the user, and then they can go nuts posting all kinds of app activity for all that person’s friends to see. Some apps can’t resist the chance to [...]

Europe gives Google one last chance to end antitrust investigation

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Europe gives Google one last chance to end antitrust investigation European Union antitrust regulators launched an investigation into Google’s search practices in November 2010 after rivals accused the company of promoting its own services ahead of theirs. EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin [...]

Motion control could save Windows 8

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Motion control could save Windows 8 You don’t have to be a Minority Report fan to appreciate Leap Motion’s new tracking sensor technology: there’s something tremendously appealing about being able to wave your hands at your computer and conduct the digital world. Motion control has already proved [...]

Is Taylor Kitsch’s Blockbuster Movie Career Already Over’ [Taylor Kitsch]

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Is Taylor Kitsch’s Blockbuster Movie Career Already Over’ [Taylor Kitsch] 2012: The year that Hollywood took a chance on Taylor Kitsch and failed miserably. John Carter cost an estimated $250 in production alone and returned about $72 million domestically since its March 9 release. Battleship [...]

Google Given Weeks to Resolve EU Antitrust Probe

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Google Given Weeks to Resolve EU Antitrust Probe The European Commission said Monday that an investigation has determined that Google may have abused its dominance in the search market, and offered the company a chance to settle the allegations and avoid formal charges.In a letter to Google [...]

Are You a Facebook Power User’ [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Are You a Facebook Power User’ [INFOGRAPHIC] Are you among the 20-30% of the Facebook population that’s considered power users’ If you’ve logged in to the social network already today, there’s a good chance you are one of the addicted elite.This infographic, created by DemandForce, details what it [...]

Security Firm AnchorFree Lands $52 Million From Goldman Sachs

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Security Firm AnchorFree Lands $52 Million From Goldman Sachs If you haven’t heard of AnchorFree, then there’s a pretty good chance you’re just not the type of person who worries about using open Wi-Fi hotspots and the security implications that tend to arise from that.Today they announced that [...]

Security Firm AnchorFree Lands $52 Million From Goldman Sachs

1 day ago
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Security Firm AnchorFree Lands $52 Million From Goldman Sachs If you haven’t heard of AnchorFree, then there’s a pretty good chance you’re just not the type of person who worries about using open Wi-Fi hotspots and the security implications that tend to arise from that.Today they announced that [...]

Will Smith Raps “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” Theme Song

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Will Smith Raps “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” Theme Song If you miss the days when Will Smith would grace your TV screens on “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” here’s your chance to relive some of those amazing moments. Check out the video above. Will Smith was in London the other day to promote [...]
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