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'Do Not Track' heats up

Source: iAfrica.com, Nov 19 2012, 1:21am CST

A movement by privacy activists to curb tracking of internet users' browsing habits scored a major victory last month when Microsoft launched its new browser with "Do Not Track" as the default, or automatic setting. But some advertis ...

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5 hours ago

Facebook joins Web freedom group

Source: Straits Times  |   May 22 2013, 5:58pm CDT

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Facebook on Wednesday became a full member of the Global Network Initiative (GNI), a non-government organisation promoting Internet freedom and privacy rights. The announcement came one year after the world' ...

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6 hours ago

Microsoft Tracking Xbox One Feedback Carefully, Promising a Huge E3

Source: Complex  |   May 22 2013, 4:58pm CDT

And now we have this report from Xbox LIVE exec Larry Hyrb reassuring gamers that Xbox hasn't forgotten about them and that all would be revealed at E3. Speaking in a Yahoo live chat Hyrb stated, "the hardcore gaming audience has given us ...

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26 weeks ago


Quote:
"I believe in ad-supported media, but the industry is giving us no choice"


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8 hours ago

Xbox One is the always-online, used-game-killing nightmare we feared

Source: Games Radar  |   May 22 2013, 3:26pm CDT

Microsoft's public relations team couldn’t have been looking forward to yesterday's reveal. Sure, the console-maker was likely ecstatic about the event it hosted--exactly one hour of focused, buzzword-filled discussion about Ki ...

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11 hours ago

Billion-Dollar Mistakes

Source: Motley Fool  |   May 22 2013, 12:30pm CDT

Timothy is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited. The big news this week was Yahoo's (NASDAQ: YHOO) $1.1 billion acq ...

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11 hours ago

Facebook joins Web freedom group

Source: PhysOrg.com  |   May 22 2013, 12:29pm CDT

Facebook on Wednesday became a full member of the Global Network Initiative, a non-governmental organization promoting Internet freedom and privacy rights. The announcement came one year after the world's biggest social network gained observer statu ...

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11 hours ago

Let's Talk About Why Yahoo Really Bought Tumblr: Native Advertising

Source: ReadWriteWeb  |   May 22 2013, 12:01pm CDT

If we needed an event to wake people up to the power of native advertising, it's surely Yahoo's $1.1-billion purchase of Tumblr. So what is native advertising? A quick, simple definition: It's an ad whose form and delivery is iden ...

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13 hours ago

What Yahoo and Acer can teach Windows 8 app developers

Source: ZDNet  |   May 22 2013, 10:33am CDT

Summary: A new study that measures app usage on Windows 8 PCs finds that Metro style apps are gaining traction slowly. But a surprising result suggests that app developers who deliberately break Microsoft's design guidelines are m ...

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14 hours ago

The Yahoo-Tumblr Marriage: As Seen By A Not-So-Disgruntled Tumblr User

Source: Social Media Today  |   May 22 2013, 9:16am CDT

Though Mayer promised not to “screw it up,” many Tumblr fans fear Yahoo might start regulating content, throwing out the “anything goes” aspect users have grown to love so much. There’s also a lot of unease from users worried about an ...

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16 hours ago

There's A Huge Flaw In Yahoo's Monetization Plan For Tumblr (YHOO)

Source: Silicon Alley Insider  |   May 22 2013, 7:18am CDT

When we published a leaked copy of Tumblr's ad sales pitch deck on the day Yahoo acquired the social blogging site, you may have noticed some odd language on the last page: The part that says "non-targeted." We aske ...

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