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ORIGINAL NSA WHISTLEBLOWER: I Saw The Order To Wiretap Barack Obama In 2004
Russ Tice worked as an offensive National Security Agency (NSA) agent from 2002 to 2005, before becoming a source for this Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times article exposing NSA domestic...
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Tumblr CEO David Karp Now Partying With Diddy After Selling His Company For...
Tumblr's CEO David Karp is now pretty rich.About a month ago he sold his company to Yahoo for $1.1 billion.The success has helped the young entrepreneur to shed his previously "nerdy" persona and now...
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This Tiny $99 Android Game Console Is Meant To Destroy PS4 And Xbox One...
SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) - Ouya's $99 Android videogame console goes on sale on Tuesday, the latest attempt by a growing crop of niche hardware makers to chip away at a market dominated by Sony Corp,...
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Bang With Friends CEO Colin Hodge Says 200,000 People Have Banged With Friends
Bang With Friends is a self-explanatory app that's racked up 1.1 million users in just five months.Despite its huge growth and success, Bang With Friend's iPhone app was recently kicked out of Apple's...
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These Alternative Ads Might Save Display Advertising
The death of the banner ad may not be imminent, but the rise of programmatic buying and demand for viewability have forever changed the economics of display advertising. As a result, banner inventory...
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What It's Like Inside AppNexus' HQ, The Startup That's Rumored To Be The Next...
One New York tech company that's getting a lot of buzz right now is AppNexus, the online ad platform based in the flatiron district. In January, AppNexus raised a whopping $75 million from Technology...
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'Ungrateful' Unpaid Interns Sue Gawker And Nick Denton
Three former interns are suing Gawker and publisher Nick Denton over their time spent writing, editing and doing things that would otherwise be compensated in cold, hard cash for the New York blog...
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What Normal People Really Think Of LinkedIn
LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, has some 225 million users worldwide, and it is the third most popular social platform after Facebook and Twitter.We set out to find who's really...
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Christie's Will Auction The Original Apple Computer From 1977 And It's...
Christie's auction house will start accepting bids on the Apple 1, the original Apple computer made by the company's co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1977, on June 24.The auction is online...
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Banks Are Hiring A Bunch Of IT Experts, And It's Going To Reshape Wall Street
LONDON (Reuters) - The investment banking industry is heading into a digital revolution that could redraw not only its business model but also the traditional image of its staff.Stuck with dwindling...
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A Yahoo Employee Sent Us This Satirical Letter Mocking Marissa Mayer's...
A displeased Yahoo employee sent us the following.It's satirical employment offer letter, sent to Tumblr CEO David Karp from Yahoo HR boss Jackie Reese.Karp sold Tumblr, a blogging platform, to Yahoo...
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SNOWDEN ON THE RUN: NSA Leaker Flies To Russia, Books Flight To Cuba (But...
The former government contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) documents, has left Hong Kong and flown to Moscow, according to several news reports.Snowden booked a...
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Meet Sarah Harrison, The WikiLeaks Representative Traveling With Edward Snowden
Russia's Interfax news agency reports that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is hanging out at the Russian airport, waiting for a flight to Cuba, and is accompanied by a woman named Sarah...
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These Two Ex-Yahoos Are Making Millions – And Turning Down Much More Because...
Former Yahoo engineers Brian Acton and Jan Koum are making millions of dollars per year.They could make hundreds of millions of dollars – maybe a billion or two.All it would take is a relatively brief...
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Law Professor: Even If NSA Domestic Surveillance Is Legal, It's Unconstitutional
The National Security Agency’s recently revealed surveillance programs undermine the purpose of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was established to prevent this kind of overreach. They...
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This British Pub Accepts Bitcoins
Bitcoin has its first British boozer. The Pembury Tavern in Hackney, east London – as well as its sister pubs in Cambridge, Norwich and Peterborough – are now accepting the virtual currency.It was pub...
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Web Inventor Berners-Lee Warns The Powers That Be Are 'Trying To Take...
Companies and governments “trying to take control of the internet” are undermining the founding principles of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned.The inventor of the World Wide Web said the...
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Bitcoin Foundation Gets Cease-And-Desist Letter From California
The Bitcoin Foundation has received a cease-and-desist letter from the California Department of Financial Institutions, Forbes contributor Jon Matonis reports. Matonis' bio says he himself is on the...
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FTC To Conduct Antitrust Review Of Google Over $1.1 Billion Waze Deal (GOOG)
Google has been contacted by the Federal Trade Commission over their $1.1 billion purchase of mobile mapping app Waze — sparking off an antitrust investigation into whether the deal would have adverse...
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Facebook Has Been Working On A Mobile News Reader For Over A Year
Facebook has been working on a mobile news product for over a year, The Wall Street Journal's Evelyn Rusli reports.The product, which Facebook employees refer to as "Reader," sounds like a Flipboard...
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