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Yesterday, mobile security firm Lookout announced at the Black Hat security conference that it had discovered a seemingly benign wallpaper application for Android that had been downloaded millions of times — and allegedly harvested user data like text ...
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Google's Search Stories campaign is meticulously engineering to be relatable and tug at your heartstrings.
Their latest, "New Baby," portrays the "joys and costs" of parenting perhaps a little too well, heavy on the latter. So you're clueless and you...
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3.Po Bronson: “That’s why academics are so boring” [VIDEO] (techcrunch.com)
There are few more creative writers than the San Francisco-based Po Bronson . The author of four best-selling non-fiction books, two novels, a book of short stories and many articles for Newsweek, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Bronson...
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4.Here Come the Cheap EReaders and Most of Them Will Be Junk (techcrunch.com)
With the announcement of the $99 Ocean Reader Copia Tablet we are entering familiar territory. As you probably remember, netbooks went through the same race to the bottom as ebooks and this Ocean Reader is the first of the lot to hit our shores with an...
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5.Fox News: Apple Is The New Religion And The Pope Is Scared (techcrunch.com)
Jesus. Maybe literally.
Fox News has a long and illustrious history of saying some fairly outrageous things. A story today on FoxNews.com may be one of the best yet -- certainly from a tech perspective.
The post entitled "For Apple Followers, It's a ...
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6.Y Combinator Backed GazeHawk Heatmaps With Web Cams (techcrunch.com)
You've normally got two choices in site heatmapping (figuring out where eyeballs land on your site), you can either buy costly specialized equipment ($40K) or pay a consultant to come into your office and use their own equipment, which costs upwards o...
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Tomorrow, Friday, is our fifth annual yearly blowout party at August Capital - the event I look forward to all year. Tickets to that event are long gone, but a handful are left for the all day conference we hold prior to the party, the Social Currency ...
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8.YouTube Boosts Maximum Upload Limit To 15 Minutes (techcrunch.com)
For years, YouTube has allowed its users to upload however many videos they wanted, but with a catch: unless you were part of one of YouTube's special partner programs, no video could be more than 10 minutes in length. Today, YouTube is changing that:...
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9.Google Introduces Location-Aware Mobile Display Ads (techcrunch.com)
Google's mobile ads are becoming more location-aware. Today, Google is introducing mobile display ads for both the iPhone and Android phones which can be geo-targeted. Advertisers will be able to check a "location extension for display" box and their ...
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TechCrunch reader Saul Lustgarten checks in to tell us he logged on to Facebook this morning and noticed that the list of his friends who are having their birthday today was preceded by a crude message, reading "fuck you bitches".
Yeah right, we thoug...
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11.Alfred Gingold: CHASE HOME FINANCE: RABID WEASEL (www.huffingtonpost.com)
Our mortgage bank says we have to pay our next door neighbor's water bill. Last month, we got a letter from Chase Home Finance...
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12.California State Of Emergency Declared By Schwarzenegger Over $19 Billion Budget Gap (www.huffingtonpost.com)
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency over the state's finances on Wednesday, raising pressure on lawmakers to negotiate a state budget that...
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13.Why Do People Want The Kindle To Be The iPad? They’re Two Different Products For A Reason. (techcrunch.com)
Amazon announced the Kindle 3 last night, and it doesn’t look too shabby at all. The most important part is the inclusion of the next-generation E-Ink display, previously only found in the too-big-for-casual-use Kindle DX. (The low price, $139 for the...
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14.Google’s Mobile Search Market Share: An Estimated, Whopping 98.29% (techcrunch.com)
How's this for absolutely dominating an increasingly lucrative and fast-growing segment?
Google currently boasts a mobile search market share of 98.29%, with it closest competitor Yahoo taking up just over 0.8% of market share and Microsoft's Bing bar...
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15.HuffPost Innovators Series: Shutterstock, Mobius Technologies, KOR Water (www.huffingtonpost.com)
In our latest edition of the HuffPost Innovators series, we're highlighting companies that have some creative solutions to problems big and small. One firm is...
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16.Mike Elk: Too Big Not to Organize: SEIU-International Coalition Try to Unionize the Banks (www.huffingtonpost.com)
Why would SEIU, which has risen to prominence during the last 25 years in part by organizing janitors, be interested in organizing bank workers?
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17.Citigroup to pay $75 million to settle SEC charges (www.reuters.com)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc will pay $75 million to settle charges that it failed to disclose subprime exposure to investors in 2007, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday.
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18.Citigroup Will Pay SEC $75 Million To Settle Subprime Charges (www.huffingtonpost.com)
WASHINGTON — Banking titan Citigroup Inc. is paying $75 million to settle civil charges that it misled investors about its potential losses from subprime mortgages...
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19.Colgate, Glaxo sue over toothpaste "nurdle" (www.reuters.com)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two lawsuits have been filed over a gob of toothpaste.
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20.Inder Sidhu: World's Most Interesting Intern Talks "Doing Both" (www.huffingtonpost.com)
This is a guest post by Greg Justice, the World's Most Interesting Intern. It is cross-posted from Cisco.com: The Platform. "Always read something that will...
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21.MetLife posts Q2 earnings of $1.5 billion (www.reuters.com)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - MetLife Inc , the biggest U.S. life insurance company, posted a second-quarter profit of $1.53 billion, helped by investment gains.
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22.Dan Dorfman: Gold Shines, But Media Sees Rust (www.huffingtonpost.com)
"I get no respect," was the favorite line of the late comedian, Rodney Dangerfield. Media blasts notwithstanding, the bottom line here is that gold, widely thought of as a safe-haven investment, clearly merits respect.
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23.Republicans block small business plan in Senate (www.reuters.com)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans blocked a $30-billion plan to help community banks boost lending to small businesses, dealing a blow to President Barack Obama's election-year battle to reduce unemployment.
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24.Jacob Lew, OMB Nominee, Got $900K Citigroup Bonus After Bailout (www.huffingtonpost.com)
President Obama's choice to be the government's chief budget officer received a bonus of more than $900,000 from Citigroup Inc. last year -- after the...
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25.GOP Filibusters Small Business Bill After Criticizing Dems For Delay (www.huffingtonpost.com)
For several days now, Senate Republicans have ridiculed their Democratic counterparts for prioritizing campaign finance legislation over a bill that would benefit small businesses, arguing...
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