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Article | 20/06/2013 Facebook designing network fabric to meet massive performance needs
With more than a billion monthly active users, it's easy to imagine that most of the data travelling over Facebook's networks is delivering photos, st...
Article | 19/06/2013 Twitter buys Spindle to thread in location discovery tools
Twitter has bought Spindle, a search technology company that informs users about what's happening with local businesses and organizations around them.
Article | 19/06/2013 Financial services firm figures out how to do social safely
The freewheeling flow of information on public social media sites may cause many people in conservative, highly regulated industries such as financial...
Article | 14/06/2013 Facebook to announce mysterious new product
Facebook appears to have a new product up its sleeve that it will unveil on Thursday at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Article | 14/06/2013 Does encryption really shield you from government's prying eyes?
If you're thinking about encrypting email in light of revelations about U.S. government spying, you may be wasting your time.
Article | 12/06/2013 What a #copycat: Facebook apes Twitter with hashtags
Hashtags, the popular tool used on Twitter and in an array of other social sites to surface content around specific topics #likeso, are coming to Face...
Article | 10/06/2013 Waze could drive better social tools at Google, experts say
Waze's crowdsourced traffic and navigation app is attractive to Google, which is said to be a serious suitor for the app, because of the wealth of map...
Article | 7/06/2013 Larry Page: US government has no access to information on Google servers
Google has denied involvement in a U.S. government surveillance program called Prism since news broke Thursday that the National Security Agency has b...
Article | 6/06/2013 Facebook aims to simplify advertising for marketers
Facebook is gearing up for a new project to simplify its advertising platform, making it easier for marketers to decide how to place ads across the si...
Article | 6/06/2013 Facebook sets Sept. 12 deadline for moving games to local currencies
Facebook is phasing out its Credits virtual payment system and will be transitioning all games integrated into the social network to a new local payme...
Article | 3/06/2013 Twitter says error in 'routine change' caused brief outage
Twitter was back in working order on Monday afternoon after experiencing multiple technical issues earlier in the day that caused some users' tweet st...
Article | 3/06/2013 Google says 'no' to sexually explicit content on Glass
Google Glass can, in theory, be used for lots of things, but sexually explicit material is one area now off limits to developers.
Article | 31/05/2013 LinkedIn aims to keep hackers out with two-factor login
Add LinkedIn to the list of Internet companies trying to make themselves safer from cyberattacks by adding two-step authentication.
Article | 31/05/2013 US allows export of communication devices, software and services to Iran
The U.S. government has lifted sanctions on the export of a variety of consumer communications devices, software and services including mobile phones ...
Article | 30/05/2013 Ads hit Tumblr desktop feeds as Yahoo takeover looms
Tumblr is now putting ads in users' feeds on the desktop, in what could be the first move toward making sure the social blogging site is a profitable ...