Information Technology
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Twitter’s go-it-alone app strategy boosts costs before IPONov 02, 2013 7:46 am - SAN FRANCISCO -- Twitter’s operating costs are growing faster than its revenue. To understand why, consider how the microblogging service deals with would-be partners. M...
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Google updates photo and video features to rival FBNov 02, 2013 7:34 am - Google Inc. is making it easier to edit and enhance photos and videos on its Google+ social service, stepping up efforts against rival Facebook Inc. The 18 new features,...
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Report: NSA broke into Yahoo, Google data centersNov 02, 2013 7:34 am - WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, the Washing...
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Driver expects to fight Google Glass ticketNov 02, 2013 6:57 am - LOS ANGELES — A Southern California woman cited for wearing Internet-connected eyeglasses while driving plans to contest the citation. Cecilia Abadie was pulled over for...
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Dell laptop buyers make a stink over cat smellNov 02, 2013 6:02 am - NEW YORK — A noxious feline odor has some Dell customers caterwauling. People who own Dell Latitude 6430u laptops are complaining that their pricey new computers are emi...
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Nasdaq shuts options venue for last five hoursNov 01, 2013 3:58 pm - Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. closed the sixth-largest U.S. options exchange more than five hours early because of a technical error, the latest malfunction to disrupt trading t...
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AT&T said to explore Vodafone takeover next yearNov 01, 2013 5:56 am - AT&T Inc. executives are laying the groundwork internally for a potential takeover of Vodafone Group Plc next year, mapping out a strategy for a complex deal with Europe...
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Singapore newspaper blog site hacked by AnonymousNov 01, 2013 5:56 am - SINGAPORE — A purported member of the Internet hacking group Anonymous breached a blog linked to Singapore’s leading newspaper Friday, heightening concerns about cyberse...
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Twitter said to get more than enough demand to sell IPO sharesNov 01, 2013 5:56 am - Twitter Inc. has attracted more than enough demand to sell all of the shares in its initial public offering, people with knowledge of the matter said. Banks managing Twi...
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Lowe, father of IBM personal computer, dies at 72Oct 31, 2013 1:41 pm - William C. Lowe had a bold idea: IBM should develop a personal computer that could be mass marketed, expanding the company’s reach beyond businesses and into people’s ho...