High-risk and dangerous applications targeting users of Google’s Android platform increased from nearly 30,000 in June to almost 175,000 in September, according to Trend Micro’s security roundup report for the third quarter of ...
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Just having logged its one billionth user, Facebook now is looking forward to its biggest money-making strategy: mobile. However, that won't be an easy task for the social networking company. While figuring out how to make money off of ...
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US regulators are likely to conclude a lengthy antitrust probe of Google's dominance of internet searches with a voluntary settlement, news reports say. The Wall Street Journal said Google was likely to agree to a settlement with the ...
Europe's top data privacy agency has launched a formal investigation into Microsoft's privacy policy. Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that it had received a letter from the Article 29 Working Party that it would proceed with a probe.On ...
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In an effort to consolidate its positioning as a leader in the field of web traffic delivery, Singapore-based Innovalist and its subsidiary, getwebsitetraffic.org have acquired long-time industry rival Aetraffic.com, a move that puts the ...
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Paul Coby faces his second Christmas as IT director at department store chain John Lewis. Since joining the retailer in March 2011, after many years as CIO at British Airways, he has embraced what he calls the "retail revolution" brought ...
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SceneChat , a social video advertising startup addressing the needs of brand marketers, researchers and educators, with an innovative interactive video and social sharing solution, today announced the immediate availability of a free trial ...
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A U.K. analytics firm that warned earlier this week of an information leak in Internet Explorer (IE) today rebuked Microsoft for downplaying the bug. Microsoft, however, has announced it is working on a fix, although the nature of the ...
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An application privacy report by Juniper Networks’ Mobile Threat Center (MTC) indicates that permissions and capabilities in apps could expose sensitive and personal data in mobile devices. A wider group of application developers ...
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Instagram has denied that it will start selling its users' photos, and tried to explain its updated privacy policy as it aims to put its disillusioned user base at ease. The website, which has about 100 million users, with roughly a third ...
In late October, Hubshout added another resource to its SEO reseller program--a new video tutorial series for SEO resellers. HubShout CEO, Chad Hill and President, Adam Stetzer Ph.D. produce the Google Hangout videos to summarize SEO trends ...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer appointed another former Google employee as her chief operations officer on Monday, her first day back at work since the birth of her baby. Henrique De Castro, formerly an vice president global media and ...
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YouTube engineers are developing a set of software, called Vitess, that will help open-source MySQL databases work more efficiently in very large-scale production environments. To write the code, they are using Google's programming language ...
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Google Maps' return to the iPhone and iPad this week may not be permanent, an analyst said today. "It would have been out of the question," said Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research, referring to a rejection of ...
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Azul Arc has won four Davey Awards, adding to it's collection for a total of six Davey Awards in the last three years. The Davey Awards is one of the largest and most prestigious awards competitions for small businesses. Sanctioned and ...
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