Articles filed under Bloomberg
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Use of facial-recognition tool draws privacy concernsAug 01, 2015 1:00 am - When you are identified in a picture on Facebook, biometric software remembers your face so it can be "tagged" in other photographs. Facebook says this enhances the user...
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Facebook should scrap its real-name ruleJul 31, 2015 11:00 pm - Hamburg data protection supervisor Johannes Caspar is after Facebook again: He wants it to scrap its real-name-only policy. His demand provides an interesting perspectiv...
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Google's Calico to scour Ancestry.com data for longevity genesJul 26, 2015 7:41 am - SAN FRANCISCO - Google's Calico, a biotechnology firm created by the search-engine giant to study aging and related diseases, will delve into the genetic database amasse...
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Closing for-profit colleges could cost taxpayers billionsJul 26, 2015 7:37 am - BOSTON - Cody Roderiques, a college senior, owes the federal government more than $100,000 for his student loans. He may not have to pay taxpayers back. That's because t...
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YouTube signs up everyone but TV for new paid serviceJul 25, 2015 7:35 am - Google's YouTube, which has signed up partners for a new paid video service, may find out by early next year whether its own Internet stars really are as valuable as tho...
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Uber serves the poor by going where taxis don'tJul 25, 2015 7:34 am - People talk about the ride-sharing service as if it's mostly a boon for rich people, who have conspired with the titans of Silicon Valley to take food out of the mouths ...
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2 years after McDonald's described its app, we're still waitingJul 25, 2015 7:33 am - In 2013, McDonald's described a future where customers could order Big Macs on a smartphone. Almost two years later that vision remains far off, even though fast-food ap...
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Why it might be a while before you get your next raiseJul 19, 2015 7:34 am - Small companies in the U.S. see wage growth slowing in coming months after a net 21 percent said in June that they recently boosted worker compensation. A net 11 percent...
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At 20, Amazon continues to defy predictionsJul 18, 2015 7:41 am - You've got to hand it to Steve Ballmer. On Oct. 22, Microsoft's ex-chief executive officer appeared on Charlie Rose and threw some serious shade at Amazon.com, his forme...
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Apple Pay expands to U.K. as first market outside U.S.Jul 18, 2015 7:40 am - Apple Inc. is making the U.K. the first market outside the U.S. for its digital-wallet system as the company fights for a place in the electronic-payments industry. The ...